Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's wife Nita Ambani has been nominated for membership in the International Olympic Committee and will become the first Indian woman to be on the apex sporting body if she gets elected at the IOC Session scheduled from August 2 to 4.
Gurucharan Singh's Dhawan Creative apparently clocked trades 10 times its capital in a few months.
Siddharth Varadarajan, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, announced his resignation from the newspaper on Twitter on Friday, two years after he took over the reins from N Ram as the first professional editor of The Hindu.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com on Priyanka Chopra's appointment as a brand ambassador for India, despite her frankness on intolerant India.
More than the revenue component, the movies gain hugely in terms of visibility and reach, reports T E Narasimhan.
The Indian kabaddi contingent made an impressive start to its campaign at the 18th Asian Games with the women's team mauling Japan and the men's side beating Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in Jakarta on Sunday.
Govt depts, banks prone to information leakage.
On Thursday, Indrani will be obligated to change into the green uniform sari she receives visitors in, as per jail rules, and meet the gentlemen from the income tax department. She may also at some point on Thursday video conference with Delhi in the INX Media-Karti Chidambaram case where she might become an approver.
How Rayna Arya, who became a victim of a hit-and-run at age 12, got back on her feet again.
Will the government now push to move away from what Mr Rajan has been doing in the last few years?
The seven participants due to represent Pakistan at next month's Games have all been given wildcard entries.
Rama Mohana Rao's son became director of 7 companies after he became chief secretary.
Apart from the two Indians, four others have been selected for the award -- Conchita Carpio-Morales of the Philippines, Dompet Dhuafa of Indonesia, Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and 'Vientiane Rescue' of Laos
Formula One has taken over the city streets but for Cuban Olympic boxing champion Robeisy Ramirez, being in Baku is all about the road to Rio.
BJP said if voted to power, it would bring out a 'white paper' on the financial health of the state under the Congress rule.
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Investors will keenly watch out for the Futures & Options expiry for July on Thursday
More and more CSR is being defined by how a company runs its operations and makes its profits; and just firms donating money to charities.
As Venezuelans continue to flee the starvation, crime and the horrific inflation that continues to mark the worst crisis it has ever faced, Radha Biswas looks back at a devastated country she continues to love deeply.
Boston was selected on Thursday as the American candidate city that will bid to host the 2024 Olympics.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
Pakistan's Test stalwart Younis Khan, who led the national team to its only World T20 title in 2009, remained unsold while captain Misbah-ul Haq was snapped up by the Islamabad franchise on the first day of the Players' Draft for the Pakistan Super League, on Monday.
After 800 days, is it a little clearer that Accused No 1 through 4 are responsible for her death?
In India, Twitter has so far focused on cricket alone, given the game's popularity among the masses here.
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The Finance Ministry has filed the offer document with market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India for the Central Public Sector Enterprises ETF, which could fetch the exchequer about Rs 3,000 crore (Rs 30 billion).
The F1s comes with a powerful 16-megapixel (MP) front camera.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
According to Subbarao, the pressure on the currency was inevitable.
The manpower requirement will be met with the officers from FMC (both cadre and deputation) and by new hiring.
Gold funds have returned -5.2 per cent, while the Sensex is down 7 per cent in the past year.
The exchange, say sources, began mock trading from early October and around 250 Indian brokers have said they'd take membership of the international exchange.
Fighting for an Olympic ticket on the unfamiliar legal turf, Sushil Kumar's glorious wrestling career may meet an unceremonious end when the Delhi High Court pronounces its verdict on Monday on who gets to board the flight to Rio between him and Narsingh Yadav. An unfavourable verdict for Sushil may not be the end on the legal front as he can still challenge the ruling in the Supreme Court. But it could well signal the end of the road for perhaps the greatest Indian Olympian, who won two back-to-back medals. With less than two months left for the Olympics, starting August 5, future look bleak for the unassuming grappler from Haryana whose injuries played a part in the entire sequence of events leading up to Monday. The Delhi High Court, in its last hearing on Thursday, gave clear indications that it was likely to give a judgement in favour of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) in the tiff over selection trials in the men's 74kg freestyle category. The Delhi High court had observed that it did not find "any statutory mandate" to hold trials before the Olympics.
Ace shooter Abhinav Bindra refused to react to the personal attack launched against him by Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Abhey Singh Chautala, saying the remarks made by the suspended body's chief do not deserve a rebuttal.
'We have the more difficult reforms to do such as the reduction of subsidy, the insurance and pension sector reform, eliminating bureaucratic red tape and implementing Goods and Services Tax'
This is the first big move in the investigation of the British Virgin Islands list where the I-T department has found a significant amount of tax evasion.
