Owing to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman being new to her role, a number of crucial announcements in the Budget bore Garg's imprint, especially the decision to borrow in overseas markets, reduce the fiscal deficit as a percentage of gross domestic product, and resort to off-Budget borrowing to meet that target, says Arup Roychoudury.
The BJP declared Chandra Kumar Bose, grandnephew of Subhash Chandra Bose, its candidate against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the assembly elections.
Former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi on Monday blamed the International Cricket Council and the Board of Control for Cricket in India for scuttling the Indian Cricket League.
The Chief Information Commissioner on Friday directed the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to disclose all its records used by the Justice Mukherjee Commission to probe the alleged disappearance of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in 1945.
'Do not travel to India due to COVID-19. Exercise increased caution in India due to crime and terrorism'
An investigation team on Saturday questioned the principal of a local school which expelled Ruchika Girhotra who was molested by a former top police official of Haryana in 1990.
Kalanithi Maran's Sun Network and Subhash Chandra's Zee Entertainment, the two homegrown media companies, have maintained their number one and two positions, respectively, in the Asia-Pacific pay broadcaster ranks for the second year in a row.
Pakistan cricket board chief Shaharyar Khan was stopped by immigration officials at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata on his arrival from Dhaka for not entering India through approved route.
Rahul was scheduled to visit on Saturday Shabbirpur village, where Dalit houses were torched on May 5.
The Central government should disclose details related to gifts received from foreign countries by the President, Prime Minister, judges and the chiefs of the armed forces, the Central Information Commission has said. Hearing the plea of an Right To Information activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal, information commissioner Annapurna Dixit directed the Ministry of External Affairs to provide information against all categories of political rulers; and in the event when informatio
His margin was just a shade lower than the 6.96 lakh record set by Pritam Munde in October 2014 when she won the by-election to Beed seat in Maharashtra after the untimely death of her father and former Union minister Gopinath Munde.
The highest winning margin was registered by BJP candidate Subhash Chandra Baheria in Bhilwara who defeated Congress candidate Ram Pal Sharma with a margin of 6,12,000 votes.
Over the past few months, Chandra, whose family also owns Essel, a leading packaging company for consumer products, has bought a massage clinic chain, launched an ayurvedic skin and health products brand and rejigged his US TV channel into a health platform.
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan has admitted that the ICC and its member boards are worried.
Operationalising the ban is being fleshed out: it will entail which cryptocurrencies will be banned and how.
Indian television industry is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 13-15 per cent and reach about $11.45 billion by 2014, a top industry official said.
The stalemate still continues over the China-bound United Arab Emirates Air Force aircraft detained at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International airport in Kolkata after arms and ammunition were found on board as the Customs authorities are yet to get green signal from the Ministry of External Affairs.
The XLRI School of Management, Jamshedpur, invites corporates, entrepreneurs, professionals, MBA students and undergraduate students to attend its annual festival, Ensemble 2007.
Trai, consumer groups need to do some homework on the economics of their insistence.
In a surprise decision, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday agreed to lift ban on players associated with the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) if they severed their links with the Subhash Chandra-owned League. BCCI president Shashank Manohar said the decision was taken after some ICL players and their support staff met the Board members and admitted committing mistake by joining the ICL.
The Essel group would invest close to Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) in the next five to seven years to expand operations under its education portfolio to take the number of schools to 300, a top company official said.
HITS is a new cable-distribution platform that is similar to the direct-to-home service. It allows distribution of digital-quality cable channels via satellite to cable operators at one go. For consumers, it means access to quality cable channels via a set-top box at reduced monthly rates, while for the cable industry, it means faster and cost-effective digitalisation.
Demerging print and TV news businesses will allow for separate investment by interested players.
With a whopping Rs 303.15 crore profit they earned in the year 2007-08, the Indian cricket Board (BCCI) tops the SportzPower Money List rankings for being the most influential sports entity. The rankings have been made on the basis of the entities' financial clout and their influences on sporting arena.
The slugfest between BCCI and rival ICL has taken a new twist, with anti-monopoly watchdog MRTPC initiating an investigation against the cricket board.
While police is on the lookout for six people, including local BJP leader Dhirendra Pratap Singh, two have been arrested. Police have detained five others in the case. Besides the eight accused, the first information report also mentions 20-25 unnamed accused of which three people who were later identified as Munna Yadav, Raj Pratap Yadav and Rajan Tewari were arrested on Saturday, Additional SP Sanjay Yadav said.
It has been known for long that The Times Group (Bennett, Coleman and Company) is the largest. While the News Corporation-owned Star Group briefly lay claim to number two spot, it is now clear that Subhash Chandra's Zee is way ahead of its former partner and now arch rival. At Rs 3,732 crore, the Zee Group is India's second-largest media firm.
In what could be termed as a major breakthrough for the 'rebel' Indian Cricket League, the President of the International Cricket Council David Morgan on Thursday agreed to meet ICL representatives and hear their case.
Government on Tuesday said it has no plans to conduct any probe into reports of Amidst a raging controversy over reports of surveillance on family members of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
Rejecting the Prime Minister's Office's refusal to provide a list of classified files relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the Central Information Commission has asked it to make public a list of 29 such files.
Addressing a press conference at the Singhu border protest site, farmer leaders warned of multiple actions if their main demands are not met. They said that only five per cent of the issues raised by them have so far been discussed in meetings with the government.
A great war memorial goes beyond the list of dead, to contemplation of the phenomenon of war. To me as a civilian, it didn't matter that our war memorial stood under India Gate, a creation of the British; it didn't matter that it didn't name all the fallen. The fact that we embraced it and respected it made it an unforgettable war memorial, notes Shyam G Menon.
A JetLite aircraft with 139 people on board suffered damage to its tail while taking off from Mumbai on Wednesday but managed to land safely at the National Subhash Chandra Bose Airport in Kolkata.No one was injured in the incident described by the airline as a 'tail scrape'. In a statement, JetLite claimed that "at no time was the safety of the passengers and crew compromised" in the incident. The tail of the Kolkata-bound Boeing 737 was damaged while taking off from Mumbai.
Back in the BCCI's fold after resigning from the 'rebel' Indian Cricket League, Rohan Gavaskar is now eyeing a comeback to the Bengal Ranji Trophy team, which he once captained.
All top ten candidates belong to the BJP.
A deputy of freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, an 'old friend' of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and a former Indian ambassador, ACN Nambiar, has been described as a Soviet spy.
The rebel tournament of Zee group chief Subhash Chandra, the Indian Cricket League, is set to take birth at Chandigarh's Tau Devi Lal stadium on Friday.
At least half a dozen foreign satellite firms with over 100 C-band transponders have initiated their talks with domestic media firms which are interested in launching headend-in-the-sky cable distribution platform.
Liquor and airline baron Vijay Mallya, auto major Hero Honda and leading telecom company Reliance Communications have started negotiations with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to buy the rights of teams that will play in the Twenty20 tourney, which was announced to counter Subhash Chandra's Indian Cricket League (ICL).
Two of the country's top business houses -- the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group and the Subhash Chandra-controlled Essel Group -- have come together to set up gaming centres across the country. Groundwork for these centres will begin on April 1. Chandra's E-City Media has struck an alliance with Zapak Digital Entertainment to this effect.Globally, gaming is one of the leading entertainment businesses with the industry size pegged at around $35 billion today.
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