Coming from a family that has a 140-year history of growing coffee, Siddhartha, 59, initially dabbled in stock trading and wanted to work as an investment banker in Mumbai after completing his Master's in Economics from Mangalore University.
ICICI Bank said on Friday its follow-on public offer to raise Rs 8,750 crore would open on June 19 and close on June 22. The public issue seeks to mop up Rs 8,750 crore (Rs 87.5 billion).
The two East Bengal footballers were arrested for providing shelter to an alleged anti-social element.
The participation in IPOs is encouraging but rising bank deposits show that the wounds of previous scams are still green.\n\n\n\n
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday.
The Calcutta high court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to file an affidavit by Thursday stating whether the central investigating agency had been handed over investigation by other states into the multi-crore chit fund scam that affected lakhs of investors.
'While the GST is structured to be an all-encompassing tax and to create a vastly expanded digital network of recorded transactions, no one knows how traders long used to avoiding taxes will apply their ingenuity,' says T N Ninan.
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday approved the biggest tax reform since Independence.
It was a case of 'buy on hopes and sell on news' as the Indian market posted only modest gains despite a landslide victory to Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The Calcutta high court on Thursday said it would monitor the Criminal Investigation Department investigation into the Kamduni gangrape and murder case and also questioned the justification of state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's fixing of a time frame for completing the probe.
'I have failed many times before getting the songs that you have been hearing since 2012. Go Go Govinda was my first song. Before that, there was a lot of struggle for eight-nine years. I faced only rejection and failure then. When you fail, you have more willpower and hunger to do good work.' But for now, singer Aman Trikha is riding on a wave of success.
Reform ideas do not occur overnight and evolve over the years.
In a major boost to the party ahead of next year's Assembly polls, the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday scored a landslide victory in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation bagging 114 of the 144 wards, and also won 69 of the 91 civic bodies in districts across West Bengal.
'Ex-servicemen engineers and technicians are true professionals worthy of being 'Make in India' agents. They can be trusted to bring long term dividends -- it is in their character to be long term loyalists!' says Air Marshal P V Athawale (Retd).
'Reality shows don't teach contestants how to deal with the reality of being a singer.'
Vidya Balan gets candid about her films but dodges question on censor board!
Ashok Soota of Happiest Minds shares the secret recipe with us.
Singer Nakash Aziz gets candid about his journey in Bollywood!
'India and China have to make concrete progress with regard to the border issue, addressing the trade deficit, and facilitating people-to-people interactions. This has to happen in the next two, three years.' China expert Tansen Sen tells Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com how India and China can take their relations to the next level.
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