Pulok Chatterjee has joined the Prime Minister's Office.
Many are testing hybrid models including getting small batches to work, rotating staff every week, introducing shifts and allowing certain functions to operate from office in small numbers.
The Essar group, Jindal Steel and Power, Monnet Ispat, Bhushan Steel and the Avantha group have been asked to close deals by March-end.
With the government looking to divest loss-making steel assets, significant interest from secondary players is most likely this time apart from the anticipated list of large integrated primary steel producers, said industry experts. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL), NMDC Integrated Steel Plant (NISP)-Nagarnar, Ferro Scrap Nigam Ltd and three units of Steel Authority of India (SAIL) - Alloy Steels Plant, Durgapur; Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant, Bhadravati; and Salem Steel Plant, Salem - constitute the divestment list. All the three units of SAIL have been loss-making for more than five years.
Jindal Group chairman O P Jindal, who died in a helicopter crash near Gango in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district on Thursday, was a visionary and a man of rare business acumen.
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A court in Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh) has asked the Bangalore Police to ensure the presence of Kingfisher Airlines chief Vijay Mallya before it on October 31 on a pilot's petition alleging that the company was withholding his dues.
Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Steel today said it may have to shut down its 10 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) Vijayanagar plant in Karnataka due to a continuous shortage of iron ore.
Some of India's biggest employers are testing for antibodies to either comply with regulatory norms or gauge the effectiveness of precautionary measures.
Sajjan Jindal's model of making land-losers stakeholders in his Bengal project appears to be attracting others.
'There are retaliatory incursions, ambushes, captures and killings by Indian forces along the 700 km border; alleged spies are caught on both sides, then mutually traded as pawns; envoys are summoned in both capitals to be routinely given dressing downs.' 'And there is always a handy courier pigeon, like Sajjan Jindal, sent over to test the troubled waters,' says Sunil Sethi.
Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Kulshreshtha sentenced Thakur to life imprisonment for remainder of his natural life.
The Union mines ministry on Wednesday said its profit sharing plans are not focussed on any corporate houses like Tatas and Jindals, but aims at providing compensation to the people displaced by mining projects.
One of the beneficiaries is Jindal Steel and Power, which had earlier been kept out of procurement for rails
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"We should raise a movement like Anna Hazare. Many who have left AAP and others including lawyers, doctors need to unite to form an organisation parallel to political parties," he said, adding, "We will form a big organisation within six months."
Notorious for their diktats prohibiting same 'gotra' marriages, the Khap panchayats or caste councils of Haryana have got support from Congress Member of Parliament from Kurukshetra, Navin Jindal, who has praised them for rendering yeoman service to the society.
Who's the real Abu Jindal aka Zabiuddin Ansari? This is one of the most disturbing questions that the residents of Beed and Gevrai towns, in the dusty cotton bowl of Beed district in Maharashtra, are trying to come to terms with ever since news broke out that intelligence agencies have identified one of the handlers from Pakistan, who spoke to the 26/11 terrorists at the Chabad House, as Syed Zabiuddin Syed Zakiuddin aka Abu Jindal.
Globally, London's Tube and French railway networks are already using this technology in their corrosion-prone areas.
In power, Mamata Banerjee has tried to bury the ghost of the past, but it might still be work-in-progress. Big-ticket and eye-grabbing (in terms of investment size) projects are still few and far between, reports Ishita Ayan Dutt.
Young MPs show interest in joining Territorial Army
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Who's the real Abu Jindal aka Zabiuddin Ansari? This is one of the most disturbing questions that the residents of Beed and Gevrai towns, in the dusty cotton bowl of Beed district in Maharashtra, are trying to come to terms with ever since news broke out that intelligence agencies have identified one of the handlers from Pakistan, who spoke to the 26/11 terrorists at the Chabad House, as Syed Zabiuddin Syed Zakiuddin aka Abu Jindal.
JSW Steel plans to abandon its coal mining project in Mozambique because of higher than expected ash content in the coking coal.
These five stocks, which have lagged the markets over the last two years, have doubled in value since March 23.
'If the Biden-Harris team makes it to the White House, India's headaches will multiply,' observes Aditi Phadnis.
Former Haryana chief minister Bansi Lal's son Surender Singh and industrialist O P Jindal, who died in a chopper crash on Thursday, were cremated with full state honours on Friday.
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his Budget speech on Monday, announced a new dispute resolution mechanism for such companies who are in confrontation with the taxman's action.
Essar Group has bid $150 million for taking over an Australian coal firm, Rocklands Richfields Ltd, bettering an earlier offer from Jindal Steel and Power Ltd.
Power Minister O P Jindal has been identified as one of the victims of the crash.
JSW Energy, the group company of Jindal South West headed by Sajjan Jindal, will launch its initial public offer within two months to raise Rs 3,000 crore (Rs 30 billion) to fund 3,000 Mw of power projects under construction. It aims to become a major power producer with about 11,400 Mw of generation by 2015, besides venturing into power transmission and distribution business and investments in renewables like solar energy.
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The award of more than 200 coal blocks to steel, cement and power companies has been at the centre of the so-called "Coalgate" scandal.
Govt to issue ownership rights of 15 coal mines on Mar 23.
Pearson VUE and Jindal Global Law School introduce scholarships for Indian law students.
Though the ruling Left Front in West Bengal recorded its worst performance in the recent Lok Sabha polls, industrialists appear to be unperturbed by the changing political wind in the state and believe industrialisation will continue.
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