Hosted by LSE's India Observatory, the event included release of Rajya Sabha MP and economist N K Singh's book Not by Reason Alone: The Politics of Change by Shobhana Bhartia, chairman of HT Media, and an engaging panel discussion and interaction with students.
Government assured the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that security interests of the country would never be compromised while permitting larger foreign investments.
These women are building billion-dollar brands, calling the shots in the financial markets, and crisscrossing the globe to broker international agreements and provide aid, the magazine noted
K K Birla, noted industrialist and former Rajya Sabha member, died on Saturday morning at his residence in Kolkata after a brief illness. He was 90.Birla was ailing for the last two weeks and the end came at 7.30 am, family members said. His wife Manorama Devi Birla died about a month ago
Shyam Benegal, Shobhana Bhartia and Kapila Vatsayan come in place of Fali S Nariman, Lata Mangeshkar and Cho Ramaswamy.
Hindustan Times is offloading 20 per cent of its equity to Henderson Global Investors, an Australian private equity fund, in the first formal proposal for foreign direct investment in the print media in the news and current affairs sector.
Shahrukh Khan, J N Dixit, R K Laxman, Azim Premji are among the 96 people who have been conferred with this year's Padma awards.
Yet another achievement is added to PeeCee's growing list.
The summit would be held from November 4-6.
Arundhati Bhattacharya, the chairperson of country's largest bank SBI, has been named as the most-powerful woman in business in India by Fortune magazine.
The Harvard alum has known the Yale alum for ages, but hit it off recently.
State Bank of India chief Arundhati Bhattacharya, ICICI bank head Chanda Kochhar, Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and HT Media chair Shobhana Bhartia are among the world's 100 most powerful women.
While inaugurating the leadership summit of the US-India Business Council in Washington, DC, US Vice President Joe Biden said that there was no reason why the two largest democracies in the world should not continue to have a more productive relationship. Aziz Haniffa/ Rediff.com reports.
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