Independent directors, who served on the boards of many companies without taking interest and spent insignificant amounts of time in meetings, have turned corporate governance into a 'farce', Madhav Mehra, president of UK-based World Council for Corporate Governance said.
Billionaire L N Mittal, who runs the steel behemoth, is keen to set up a central office in Rajarhat near the city, for which the company has sought land from the state government, Bhattacharjee said in Kolkata, inaugurating the 36th World Congress on Housing Science.
'Americans develop diabetes when the body mass index is 30 and 35. We develop it when the BMI is only 25,' says diabetes expert Dr A Ramachandran.
'We need uranium to fuel our reactors. Our scientists and engineers have been handling uranium safely since 1967. They must not feel disheartened by the activities of well motivated local or foreign agencies.'
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