The duo was called to the CBI headquarters Monday afternoon and questioned for over seven hours.
Concerned over sluggish growth and poor investment climate, Assocham President Rajkumar Dhoot met Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Thursday and demanded the controversial tax proposal GAAR be put in 'cold storage'.
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and senior Congress leader Murli Deora are among the seven candidates from Maharashtra that were on Friday elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha in the biennial polls in Mumbai.
Even as 59 Rajya Sabha seats will be up for re-election in April, at least two industrialists are likely to get re-elected for another six years -- Vijay Mallya and Rajkumar Dhoot.
Diesel should be sold at market-driven prices, which the Indian automobile industry is demanding for long, only for the luxury players.
The G-20 leaders at the ongoing summit in Mexico should refrain from coming out with 'one-size-fits-all' kind of a remedy for the global economy which is facing difficult times, Assocham President Rajkumar Dhoot said on Tuesday.
"The economy is going through a very difficult patch and business confidence has plummeted. New investments have slowed down," Assocham President Rajkumar Dhoot said during his interaction with RBI Governor D Subbarao ahead of the central bank's monetary policy review scheduled on April 17.
Election for the seven Rajya Sabha seats in Maharashtra will be held on March 26.
The government on Monday said it has not shelved the conditional access system and no instance of exploitation by cable operators because of absence of any clear-cut directions on the issue has come to its notice.
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Amid the top 20 states, Kerala is the only state which witnessed a surge in the proposed investments at 10 per cent with two projects worth over Rs 14,200 crore (Rs 142 billion).
Videocon launched an app-powered air conditioner.
Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, who has been banned from flying by several airlines after he assaulted an Air India staffer on March 23, reached Delhi on Wednesday via a chartered flight, according to sources.
Several leading industrialists, including Reliance Industries CMD Mukesh Ambani, Vedanta Resources Limited executive chairman Anil Agarwal, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata, Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra, Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Welspun Group chairman and Assocham president B K Goenka, attended the swearing-in ceremony.
The industry urged the central bank to consider a rate even before the next monetary policy review on July 30.
A latest survey by the Association for Democratic Reforms reveals that 14 criminals and 50 crorepatis will be contesting the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections.
Industry chamber Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry said the Reserve Bank of India should intervene and cut interest rates.
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