Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday said the government is riding on "mainstay" football to make India a sporting powerhouse and announced the formation of five zonal committees to hunt talent across the country.
If he continues to bat the way he did against the Gujarat Titans at the Wankhede stadium on Monday, March 28, 2022, in coming games, Ayush Badoni could be on his way to IPL stardom.
The UK capital on Wednesday unleashed a major operation to manage the several thousands of people expected to queue over the next few days to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II as she lies in state at Westminster Hall.
Top executives of Matsushita visited Haridwar industrial area on Monday and had talks with Indian partners on the expansion plan. Matsushita and Anchor have floated a joint venture company to expand business.
The three companies, after witnessing the increased presence of international hotel companies over the last few years, are making very little or no fresh investments in building hotels under their own brands.
The move follows anticipation of lower sales in the US market in the wake of the termination of generalised system of preferences, the US incentive that helped domestic jewellers boost exports to that country.
James Taylor, Smith's deputy, has had his job title change from England selector to head scout.
'We will leave no stone unturned'
After tie-ups with various companies such as Dabur, Sanyo, Godrej and Timex, Reliance Retail is talking to some more companies for roping them in as suppliers to its organised retailing initiative that recently took off from Hyderabad.
'Life was a canvas and Pradeep Sarkar painted with full intensity -- be it an ad film or a feature film.'
A high-level team from Infosys Technologies Limited visited Rajarhat in West Bengal on Tuesday to survey land for setting up a development centre in the state.
The National Thermal Power Corporation would shortly undertake work for site selection to set up nuclear power projects in Madhya Pradesh and other states.
The 38-year-old has also been handed the responsibility of talent scouting, infrastructure planning.
Drug maker Dr Reddy's Laboratories on Wednesday said it was looking out for partnerships to expand its presence in Japan.
State-run Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd plans to invest over Rs 13,000 crore to raise the capacity of its Vizag refinery and set up an aromatic plant there.
Nissan also has a car-manufacturing tie-up with its global alliance partner Renault.
A National Security Guard team has collected samples from the site of the blast in Pune that took 11 lives.
Plans to form JV for its data centre business
iEnergizer, a BPO company of the Aptech group, is recruiting Collection Agents, Voice Agents and Web Agents in Noida.
Indian investigators have found answers to many of the questions in the 26/11 attacks case based on the recent briefing with US investigation teams and the new charges filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation against suspected Lashkar terrorist David Headley.
The IHF has decided to find a new foreigner "who understands Indian hockey" to take charge of the national team.
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd is looking for joint ventures and tie-ups with content providers for its newly launched broadband services, Tri Band.
Honda has invested Rs 3,526 crore in its Rajasthan unit.
GramIT, rural business process outsourcing initiative of the Byrraju Foundation, is in talks with various funding agencies 'to expand the scope and presence of its rural BPO services,' said foundation's lead partner Verghese Jacob. Byrraju Foundation is the NGO outfit formed by Satyam Computer Services founder B Ramalinga Raju in his personal capacity.
Die Hard actor Bruce Willis is retiring from his acting career after being diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder that leads to the loss of ability to understand or express speech.
Former Arsenal manager and world governing body FIFA's current chief of global football development, Arsene Wenger will play a role in Indian football's grassroots programmes and talent development.
A group of first time voters who run 10 km everyday to prepare for fauji recruitment rallies, tell Rediff.com's Archana Masih they need two things: quality education and jobs.
International model. Beauty entrepreneur. Investment analyst. Columbia University alumnus. Say hello to Pritika Swarup.
Russia has defaulted on the supply of at least 5 cargoes or shiploads of LNG to India after its retaliatory sanctions hit one of the companies that supply gas to India, sources said. India's largest gas firm GAIL has a long-term deal to import 2.85 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per annum from a Singapore-based unit of Russian gas producer Gazprom. The company has since June defaulted on the supply of 5 cargoes of LNG under that contract citing difficulty in sourcing gas due to sanctions, two sources briefed on the matter said.
England's all-time leading Test wicket takers James Anderson and Stuart Broad have been dropped for the three-Test tour against West Indies.
Mumbai Indians relied not just on international performers like Pollard or Quinton de Kock or Trent Boult, but also on the likes of uncapped duo of Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav as they emerged triumphant in the 13th edition of IPL last year.
RIL promoter Mukesh Ambani, who is currently in the US, has already held meetings with the top brass of Chevron, ExxonMobil and Texmaco.
The government intends to disinvest 5 per cent stake in PFC, while the company would issue fresh shares to the tune of 15 per cent through the follow-on public offer.
With the price of gas from its fields in the Krishna-Godavari basin expected to be higher than rivals, Reliance Industries is targeting automobiles and domestic users because power and fertiliser plants may not be able to afford it.
Grey Global group, a part of the WPP Network, is in talks with interactive media companies in India for acquisitions.
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