The US-based group has named 70 individuals as its partners and has announced a list of 266 persons to become managing directors with effect from January 1, 2013.
The brief courtroom drama began on Monday when the jury was listening to the testimony of star government witness Goldman Sachs chief executive officer Lloyd Blankfein.
Blankfein, 57 took the witness stand on Tuesday in Gupta's trial, which began in a Manhattan court on May 21.
The 15-page judgment is amazingly lucid, elegant and balanced.
Samant said he has been into R&D for the past 24 years and before joining GlobalLogic, he was president at Ness Technologies and had worked at Hewlett-Packard lab in India and also has worked at IBM labs.
The ugly underbelly of the policies of economic liberalisation followed over the last two decades has been crony capitalism at its worst.
On the fourth day of the trial on Thursday, the jury was shown details of phone conversations from September 2008 in which Rajaratnam brags about getting information on Goldman.
Also to be questioned under oath by lawyers of the SEC and Gupta is Greg Ormond of Exemplar Wealth.
The BRICS Development Bank could become a World Bank in future due to the increasing influence of emerging countries, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management said on Wednesday.
Brokerage houses reacted to the piece of news by reducing the target price assigned to the company.
Gupta, 63, read from a prepared statement for six minutes before being sentenced.
No one knows what Rajat Gupta gained from leaking insider information to Raj Rajaratnam. The irony is that he did not make any money.
A criminal case was filed against Gupta by the United States Attorney's Office on October 26, 2011 for insider trading.
Showing lenience and also appreciation for his humanitarian work, Judge Jed S Rakoff of the Federal District Court in Manhattan handed a two-year prison term to Rajat Gupta, former head of McKinsey and Co and also a former director of Goldman Sachs and Proctor and Gamble for leaking insider information.
But the clear winner between them is yet to emerge.
Education technology, grocery, fashion, food delivery and UPI payments surpassed volumes or revenues of February, in the September-October period.
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York said that briefs by Gupta on his appeal should be filed by January 18 next year while the government's motion should be submitted in court by March 15.
Court is expected to hear Gupta's appeal around April and it could be a year before his request to overturn his conviction is ruled upon.
A US court has agreed to hear next week a bid by India-born former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta to delay his surrender to federal prison and remain free on bail while he challenges his conviction on insider-trading charges.
The prosecution and defense presented their closing arguments in the high-profile insider trading trial of Gupta in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday.
The defence on Monday presented in Manhattan federal court character witnesses, who testified about Gupta's honesty and integrity, before it prepares to wrap its case by Wednesday.
The US government has asked a court in New York to slap a maximum penalty of $15 million on India-born fallen Wall Street titan Rajat Gupta and permanently bar him from serving as director of any publicly-traded firm for his "terrible breach of trust" by indulging in insider trading.
Sixty-three-year-old Gupta's trial, which began in Manhattan federal court on May 21, will resume today after a weekend break with his protege and former McKinsey executive Anil Kumar returning to the witness stand to testify against him.
The FIR also said chairman of New Development Bank K V Kamath, Goldman Sachs India chairman Sonjoy Chatterjee, Standard Chartered Bank CEO Zarin Daruwala, Tata Capital head Rajiv Sabharwal and Tata Capital senior advisor Homi Khusrokhan need to be investigated.
If Gupta had given Raj Rajaratnam information that Goldman Sachs was going to get an investment from Warren Buffet (and suppose, if Rajaratnam had not sold an already long position in Goldman stock based on this material, non-public information), would this have amounted to a criminal offence on Gupta's part?
Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan took charge of India's central bank when the rupee seemed to be in a tailspin while the country was facing runaway inflation.
Moderating economic growth and easing inflation may prompt the Reserve Bank to halt interest rate hike in the upcoming mid-quarterly credit policy review later this month, according to analysts.
The trial of Gupta, one of the most high profile Wall Street executives to be charged with insider trading, began in US District Court, Southern District of New York on Monday amid intense media glare.
Former Indian American Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta is facing trial in one of the most high profile cases of insider trading in the US that will likely see investment guru Warren Buffet and Arcelor Mittal Chairman Lakshmi Mittal as potential witnesses.
Gupta began serving a two-year prison term on insider trading charges
However UBS maintains a buy with a price target of Rs 280.
The rupee has been on northward-ho since July, after hitting a life-time low of 57.13 mid-June. Since the beginning of the year, the local currency has gained over 7 per cent, and still it is down 18 per cent from its pre-August 2011 highs.
Sri Lanka-born billionaire Raj Rajaratnam's defence team on Wednesday told a US jury that his trading in Goldman Sachs was not based on insider information, but a great deal of research and discussion on the investment bank, especially during the financial crisis.
On Monday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer had won the 2019 Nobel Prize for economics "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". The research conducted by them has considerably improved the ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics, which is now a flourishing field of research, said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Here are some interesting facts about the Indian-origin Abhijit Banerjee.
A looming global shortage of diesel in Europe presents India with more than one opportunity to profit from strong margins. A shortage of the fuel, a key contributor to inflation, has been exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine, and western sanctions on Russian fuel supplies. The slowdown in natural gas supply means the West needs diesel to heat their homes this winter.
Indian-American Rajat Gupta, former board member of Goldman Sachs and Proctor and Gamble, has rubbished charges of insider trading against him as "baseless" with his lawyer asserting that his conduct and integrity were "beyond reproach".
The Union Budget for 2011-12 comes at a critical juncture for the economy -- high inflation, tight liquidity, elevated fiscal and current account deficits, and a slowdown in the reform process have taken away the sheen from the India growth story.
Global private equity majors - Standard Chartered Private Equity and London-headquartered 3i - are understood to have shown keen interest to invest in the litigation-prone Rs 4,000 crore (Rs 40 billion) Bangalore-Mysore expressway being developed by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise Limited (NICE).
A support group for Gupta, known as 'Friends of Rajat', has urged his 'friends and well-wishers' to submit letters of support, in which they should write about Gupta's life and work.
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