Congress stalwart Murli Deora passed away on Monday morning after battling a prolonged illness. He was a politician who shared rapport across the political and corporate spectrum.
'Breaking down silos and ensuring a more integrated governance process is just as important to performance.' 'It has been a major priority in the last six years, especially in national security,' External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar points out when delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture-2020: India and the Post-Covid World.
The Reliance gas pricing issue is likely to find a place in the Aam Aadmi Party's manifesto as the new party has already indicated that it will be among the major issues to target the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress in the Lok Sabha election.
'If the RBI blesses us with a banking licence, we would like to launch a successful bank.'
The four women have a collective wealth of $11.3 billion and account for a little more than three per cent of the total net worth of all on the coveted list whose collective wealth amount to $346 billion.
A group of retired civil servants also called upon the PM to reach out to the families of the victims in Unnao and Kathua and "seek their forgiveness on behalf of all of us".
In an apparent bid to offset BJP candidate Pragya Thakur's controversial statement against slain IPS officer Hemant Karkare, Modi heaped praises on Mumbai police.
Top leaders from India Inc may be busy throughout the year, but they too have a very strong social life beyond work.
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The negative aspect about the Budget is that the capital expenditure has been marginally cut to achieve the fiscal deficit target assumptions, and the onus of sustaining investment demand till private capex revives continues to vest with the public sector enterprises, notes Jyotivardhan Jaipuria.
This makes him corporate India's biggest donor to society.
For the four new players, the spike in wealth is 126 per cent.
'Should a leader with such an impeccable record of public life, struggles, meritorious performance and heroism in politics like Babu Jagjivan Ram be weighed on caste and not reviewed for his real worth?' asks Tarun Vijay.
Besides a great idea, it takes pluck, and some luck, to get going.
Top ten billionaires in India.
Following is the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 73rd Independence Day.
That may have reduced clutter, but it would also have reduced choice.
The stocks Radhakishan Damani enters or exits are closely watched by fund managers, says Joydeep Ghosh.
Capt Gopinath, in a deperate bid to fend off a possible auction of his prime residential property in Bangalore by State Bank of India, which had earlier issued notices to sell his pledged properties to recover as much as Rs 259 crore (Rs 2.59 billion), has struck a deal with Sobha Developers to raise funds.
Ghayal Once Again starts out wobbly but gains substantial momentum till interval point, only to go completely haywire in its latter half, writes Sukanya Verma.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
SAARC countries are facing common challenges and they should cooperate with each other to address them, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, underlining that India is committed to reviving the grouping as a major forum to promote active regional collaboration.
The stories of exclusions illustrate so tragically, the need of the hour is to bolster biometrics and 'smart' technologies with something more old-fashioned - the good old fashioned, compassionate human touch, says Geetanjali Krishna.
With Airtel and RCom already having launched their special offers for post-paid customers, and RJio around the corner, Vodafone makes its move with Red.
- I think it's a 'No' at this point of time, purely based on the whole negative aura that has been generated
Modi's irrigation push in the Budget is aimed at scoring on the political front along with achieving growth targets
SBI, the country's largest lender, had recently issued public auction notices to sell Gopinath's pledged properties
'We are not marketing (the) Modi name but the work and trust that it projects.'
India expects to remain unscathed this time, mainly because it is in a sweet spot as the world's third largest oil consumer, after the US and China, says Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.
One couldn't help feeling a certain melancholy viewing these now vagrant documents and photographs that would never be rightfully cherished. The pictures spoke to you. They offered slices of extinguished lives. They breathed sadness too, for what could have been and will never be. The sweet promises that Life made and insolently, arrogantly never kept.
Mythological and historical shows are lapped up not just by the young, but equally by grown men and women.
It turned out that Indrani, who was wearing the Navratri Day 2 green, was fasting for the festival. That caused the impish CBI prosecutor Badami to ask her police detail, "looking for salvation?".
Cash-and-carry stores try tricks, from playing Bollywood music to customising orders, to retain customers.
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Colonel Anil Athale (retd) recalls how the Battle of Panipat, 258 years ago, changed the history of India for the next century and half.
Instead of enhancing the sum insured of your basic policy, a more cost-effective option is buying a super top-up policy.
If you want his advice on your mutual fund investments, please mail your questions to getahead@rediff.co.in with the subject line, 'Mutual Fund Query', along with your name, and Omkeshwar will offer his unbiased views.
There are too many convoluted wires in this case that need to be straightened out and there are certain questions that need to be answered.
'I am not a Hinduwadi leader, but a nationalist leader. I am a leader of every religion, every caste, every language and every class'
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