Global investment fund IREO on Thursday said it is developing 13 projects in the country, most of which are going to be residential, with an investment of $1.5 billion.
The report reveals that the inaction of the West Bengal state government, including tacit acceptance of the violent operations of the armed supporters of the CPI-M, resulted in serious human rights abuses, including unlawful killings, abductions, sexual assault of women and forced eviction and displacement of thousands of people in 2007.
Indian jewellery firms are increasingly showing interest in the international market and are planning to venture into luxury lifestyle products.
A Muslim cleric of the Jama Masjid in Bharatpur has been detained for interrogation in connection with the Jaipur serial blasts that killed 66 people, the police said on Monday. Mohamaad Ilyas, the Imam of the Jama Masjid, was detained on Friday and had been taken to Jaipur for further investigations by the Special Investigation Team (SIT), Circle Officer (City) Ratan Lal Bhargava said.
The experts agreed that the lockdown has helped in slowing down spread of the virus but insisted that the situation has not reached a plateau and that there was an urgent need to upgrade healthcare facilities to deal with the crisis.
ICICI Bank has quashed rumours of favouritism, nepotism and quid pro quo. The bank clarified that while Chanda Kochhar was on the credit committee, she was not the chairperson. Videocon Chairman Venugopal Dhoot said there was no impropriety in the deal.
Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the government on the issue of intolerance telling it not to learn the "wrong lessons" from the Pakistan.
The country's largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki India, on Thursday said that "Tata Nano" may have a marginal impact on the sales of its entry level small car Maruti 800 but ruled out cutting its price.
Component makers don't see any recovery yet, but manufacturers believe the end of poor sales is nearing its end.
Just after the brief address of the Governor, MLAs of the BJP raised the demand for a floor test, triggering an uproar. Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Govind Singh raised the issue of coronavirus threat in the country and also mentioned the Central government's advisory.
Former US attorney-general Ramsay Clark slammed the West Bengal government for 'perpetrating atrocities' on the people of Nandigram as part of a globalisation drive to set up industries there.
Terming Satyam's shocking disclosure of about the Rs 8,000-crore (Rs 80 billion) financial fraud as a 'one off case', corporate leaders today expressed confidence and said it will not damage the image of India Inc.
Many or sometimes all the teachers are pulled into administrative and other non-teaching duties, says Anjuli Bhargava.
The India Abroad Person of the Year Awards, held at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City on Friday June 12, honored 14 achievers in seven categories.
The committee, headed by Maruti Udyog CEO R C Bhargava, has already visited some of the IIMs and has completed its deliberations on the matter pertaining to administration and excellence of the institutes. The IIMs have already hiked their fees from this year. IIM-Ahmedabad had announced steepest increase of 175 per cent in the fees of its first year post-graduate programme from Rs 200,000 to Rs 5,50,000. Similarly other IIMs have increased their fees.
Shalini Bhargava shares some simple asanas.
Indian Americans are not just shining in the fields of technology, education and management. You can now spot them every where... in politics, in research, in the movies and even on YouTube, says Ignatius Chithelen.Indian Americans are not just shining in the fields of technology, education and management. You can now spot them every where... in politics, in research, in the movies and even on YouTube, says Ignatius Chithelen.
Reliance Capital AMC gets nod to operate in Malaysia Mumbai, Nov 20 (PTI) Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Capital Asset Management company has been given approval to commence operations in Malaysia, a top official of the Securities Commission, Malaysia, said today.
Mulls ways to improve the bank's earnings, cut bad loans and step up credit recovery efforts
When BJP leaders, including Mr Modi's number two, Amit Shah, use the pandemic to launch an assault on state governments run by opposition parties, or to topple them, they are exploiting a grave crisis in cynical political self-interest, notes Shekhar Gupta.
In a rare order, the Securities Appellate Tribunal on Thursday asked the Securities and Exchange Board of India to bear the costs amounting to Rs 100,000 in a case involving Goldman Sachs. A division bench of Justice N K Sodhi, Arun Bhargava and Utpal Bhattacharya imposed the penalty on the capital market regulator and set aside the adjudication order of September 8, 2006.
Zapak.com and Jump Games, the two gaming divisions of Reliance Entertainment, has signed on cricket ace Ishant Sharma to create and host an online game based around the cricketer while Jump Games would create a mobile game for him.The game allows the player to step into the cricketer's shoes and play as him where he bowls five overs to an opponent batsman. The game is set against the backdrop of a packed international cricket stadium, with the crowd cheering him on.
Industrialists affirm their belief that the adverse effects of demonetisation and the goods and services tax are finally over.
'Many who have experimented with online education will adopt a blended model once things return to normal,' edX CEO and founder Anant Agrawal tells Anjuli Bhargava.
Corporate leaders said a stable government at the Centre will help boost infrastructure spend, address agricultural distress, and encouraging employment.
An alternative to a small car, it is expected to be priced ex-showroom between Rs 260,000 and Rs 300,000, and will offer better mileage (more than 30 km a litre) and less pollution than a car, and will be a convenient alternative to a two-wheeler but at the same operating costs.
The Aditya Birla group's financial services firm, Birla Global, has seen some top level resignations.
E-cigarettes pose a huge health risk to users, who more often than not are adolescents and young adults
The vice-chairman has sent his recommendations separately to the PM.
A group of high-powered individuals led by Anand Mahindra have come together to set up Krea university. The campus is expected to be ready by 2019 and the first batch of 100 to 125 students will commence classes in August next year.
The global heath body had earlier suspended the hydroxychloroquine arm of the clinical trials of experimental COVID-19 drugs over safety concerns.
Neeraj Bhargava, CEO of Mumbai-based business process outsourcing (BPO firm) WNS Global Services, and his team have voluntarily decided to forfeit their bonuses if they are not successful in getting the attrition rates below 30 per cent. This is probably the first such move of its kind in the industry in which attrition has become a critical issue. WNS has over 15,000 employees, and its current attrition rate stands at 43 per cent.
Could the defeat of Vasundhara Raje, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and Raman Singh in last year's polls in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh, respectively, augur a transition in the command structure of these states, where they reigned supreme?
Khattar's place will be taken by Shinzo Nakanishi, who is currently the chairman of MSIL. R C Bhargava, who is a director, has been named the new chairman.
'It was incredibly heart-wrenching to see people waiting to be evacuated -- children, parents and grandparents. Many families did not get to leave together. An order of priority was drawn up, and the first ones to be evacuated were pregnant women, single and/or older women and dialysis patients. Most were happy to be on the plane but also very distressed to have left behind family and friends.'
According to Airbus sources close to the development, "Airbus has already made its presentation to Air India and also to the ministry. Whenever they are ready and instruct us to put in the bid, we will do so." The order could be around $3 billion, based on the list price of the aircraft. But, the negotiated price may vary.
Air India is planning to add more flights connecting India and US. Immediate plans include non-stop flight from Bangalore to San Francisco.
'In the last two months, we have only done 16,000 tests and that is nothing.' 'If coronavirus cases in the community picks up and infection spreads, then we will be in big trouble.'
The Right to Read programme hopes to cover 100,000 schools, covering 15 million students.
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