NRI businessman Anshuman Mishra, who withdrew from the Rajya Sabha race from Jharkhand at the last moment, on Friday claimed to have introduced PAC Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi to senior executives of 2G scam accused companies when the panel was probing the 2G spectrum case, a charge rubbished by the BJP veteran.
This year there are high expectations for lowering home loan interest rates, over the next 12 months and increased interest rate subsidy for loans up to Rs 50 lakh.
A bench comprising justices Altamas Kabir, Cyriac Joseph and S S Nijjar rejected the plea of NRI Thota Venkateswarlu that the trial court in Andhra Pradesh cannot take cognisance of a complaint of harassment, dowry demands and criminal intimidation lodged by his wife, as the couple were living in Botswana.
An impressive 21st century home for students and faculty of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was opened in the US, thanks to $1 million assistance provided by Ambika Paul Foundation headed by NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul.
Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan jointly flagged off the inaugural Air India Express flight, carrying 186 passengers to Abu Dhabi.
Apparently referring to the 2G Spectrum scam and the Commonwealth Games irregularities, Paul in an interaction with PTI on Monday said, "Corruption should be condemned because it has become a national shame.
The announcement came just ahead of the meeting of a ministerial panel, headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, to look into the Cairn-Vedanta deal which was struck in August.
The four-day event, which will conclude on March 11, saw many foreign aircraft companies display their flying machines. Rediff.com's Venkata Sathish gives a preview.
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim remained the richest person in the world with $74 billion in assets, while NRI steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal ranked sixth and Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani is placed ninth in the US magazine Forbes annual list of world's top billionaires.
But actors Vijay and Ramya do a neat job.
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The BofAML report said that five year money can be raised by issuing the 7 to 9 per cent coupon bonds to stabilise markets, just as it was done in 1998 and 2001.
Panic-struck relatives are also sharing the location of their near and dear ones trapped in various places using Google maps.
Sukanya Verma takes a look at some of Bollywood's most playful, popular Gujarati acts in recent times.
The controversial Canadian sprinter, who was stripped off his 100m gold medal during the Seoul Olympics, is in Goa for the past two days with two of his NRI students -- the Tumbar brothers, 18-year old Gurveer and his 17-year-old brother Karamveer. The two will be appearing for trials at reigning I-League champions Salgaocar.
At the annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, organised by the government ostensibly to celebrate the country's connection with the 27-million-strong Indian diaspora living in 150 countries, Mr Ahluwalia said last Sunday that India was reaching out to NRIs not for their money, but because it valued the long, socio-cultural footprint all Indians living in India and abroad shared.
Sukanya Verma looks at the handful of occasions when Bollywood believed sky was the limit.
The RBI has removed Yes Bank from its caution list of monitoring foreign investment following the dip in shareholding by foreign investors below the prescribed limit.
It's important to learn from failure, and just show up the next day, and the next, till you've got it right, says Radhika Ghai, co-founder, ShopClues
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
If the view is that rupee will depreciate, hedge your exposure by using forward cover
Company will also launch a global road show from May 23 for the bond placement.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a sub divisional engineer of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd of Roorkee, Ashok Chaudhary, and four private persons of Faridabad (Haryana) and Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), including an NRI kingpin based in Saudi Arabia, Sayeed Zaidi, for running a racket to cheat BSNL to the tune of several crores of rupees by illegally activating unmentioned ISD facility to local landline numbers.
Some reports said the man was Siddaramaiah's personal assistant staying at his house in Mysuru, but the chief minister's media advisor clarified in a tweet that he was a relative.
The Hinduja brothers, who run the multinational Hinduja Group conglomerate with interests across automotive, real estate and oil, moved up from third position last year to top the UK's billionaire charts this year.
India is now a biz friendly nations, say Arun Jaitley.
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As returns decline, with extent and time horizon uncertain, some of these investors look to shift to safer zones
Indians top the list of buyers in the world's tallest tower having acquired space worth $7.9 million in the first seven months of the skyscrapers opening.
India's external debt at the end of the first quarter of the current fiscal declined by 0.9 per cent on sequential basis to $388.5 billion due to strengthening of the US dollar against rupee. In absolute terms, the decline was of $3.6 billion.
It was high drama at the new terminal 3 of the IGI airport in New Delhi on Thursday as a 37-year-old US national climbed on the wall of the departure ramp and threatened to commit suicide. Redmon Tyrone was disturbed over some personal issues but after about three hours of persuasion, he came down, a senior police official said. He has been taken into custody.
Mining major Vedanta Resources on Thursday said its investment in India would come down by up to $2 billion (nearly Rs 9,000 crore) in the next two years as expansion plans are put on hold after the group has been denied permission to mine bauxite in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills.
NRI billionaire LN Mittal is among the front runners for a committee being set up to improve ethical behaviour of crisis-ridden Goldman Sachs, says a media report.
Sukanya Verma looks at the various baap-beti equations depicted on the screen.
Unlike his The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra's Photograph fails to engross us, feels Ritwik Sharma.
GSR 592(E) states that all NRIs -- including PIO like your son -- are not eligible to open PPF accounts. The accounts opened prior to all these dates are allowed to run up to their maturity but no extension or renewal can be made.
Paul, Chairman of the Caparo Group of industries, said he was delighted to announce that the police "has informed me that after due consideration, it will no longer be proceeding with any investigation or inquiry in relation to my House of Lords expenses."
If the life assured is an Indian national or a person of Indian origin temporarily residing in the country of his present residence, he can get insurance. Even green card holders and foreign nationals of Indian origin can get life insurance in India.
The surprise victory of the Aam Aadmi Party in the recent Delhi assembly elections has brought to the fore the crucial role played by the party's Non Resident Indian supporters across the globe.
Sukanya Verma lists her favourite frames from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam.
India's external debt to GDP ratio and debt service ratios stood at 16.9 per cent and 3.9 per cent, respectively, at end-December 2010.
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