Tata Sons appoints Nirmalya Kumar as member, Group Executive Council BS...
Nirmalya Kumar Professor of Marketing at the London Business School, will join Tata Sons as member – Group Executive Council, the company said in a statement today. Kumar will report to Tata Sons...
View ArticleAsiana passengers file lawsuit against Boeing AFP/PTI | Chicago
A group of 83 passengers aboard an Asiana Airlines flight which crash-landed in San Francisco has filed a lawsuit seeking millions from the aircraft's manufacturer Boeing, their lawyers said. While a...
View ArticleTatas in expansion mode in Bengal BS Reporters | Kolkata
Cyrus MistryTata group Chairman Cyrus Mistry could be right in saying the Tatas have never left West Bengal, but the fact remains they have not announced new projects in the state since the Singur...
View ArticleFlipkart beefs up to take on Amazon Nivedita Mookerji & Surabhi Agarwal | New...
When e-commerce major Flipkart decided to hold a press conference last week to announce its biggest fund-raising, the event added an additional air of mystery around the company. Co-founders Sachin...
View ArticleJayalalithaa fears New Delhi, Colombo weakening Tamils further
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 23:53 GMT]Citing moves to repeal the 13Th Amendment, public stand of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in this regard and a recent meeting of Basil Rajapaksa with New Delhi,...
View ArticleSeized N Korean ship: Cuban weapons on board
The ship was seized by authorities in Panama after military cargo was found hidden in a shipment of sugarCuba has admitted being behind a stash of weapons found on board a North Korean ship seized in...
View ArticleWoman sues Japan Yamaguchi-gumi crime boss Shinoda
Kenichi Shinoda has spent time in jail for killing a rival with a samurai swordA woman is suing the head of Japan's largest organised crime group, local media reports say.The Nagoya woman, who has not...
View ArticleSchool meal kills 22 in India's Bihar state
Dozens of children have been admitted to hospital At least 22 children have died and dozens more have fallen ill after eating lunch at a school in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.The poisoning...
View ArticleViolent protests in India over school meal deaths
Emily Buchanan reports: ''Local grief has turned to fury outside the hospital''There have been violent protests in the Indian state of Bihar after 22 children died and dozens more fell sick after...
View ArticleIndia eases foreign investment rules to boost growth
Foreign investment is seen as key to boosting growth in India's slowing economyIndia has further eased rules on foreign direct investment in a range of industries in an attempt to support the sliding...
View ArticleBy listening to its employees, Accenture India ensures that they stay engaged...
Accenture India has more than 90,000 employees.Bhavana Rao, Vice President of Analytics, BPO, Accenture India Bhavana Rao has been at Accenture for a decade, and leads analytics delivery for BPO. A...
View ArticleBihar government cries conspiracy, says mid-day meal was poisoned PTI
Bihar Education Minister PK Shahi.Under attack from the opposition over the death of 22 school children after consumption of mid-day meal at Saran, the Bihar government today said it suspected a...
View ArticleBangladesh war crimes: Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid to be executed
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid (L) went into hiding immediately after independenceA leading Islamist politician in Bangladesh has been sentenced to death over war crimes committed during the 1971 war of...
View ArticleGlaxoSmithKline finance head banned from leaving China
GlaxoSmithKline says it is co-operating with Chinese authorities in the inquiryChinese authorities looking into alleged bribery by GlaxoSmithKline have banned the UK drugmaker's British head of...
View ArticleWadia Sr takes back realty in own hands Dev Chatterjee & K Raghavendra Kamath...
After making management changes at the top in Britannia, Wadia Group chairman Nusli Wadia (Grandson of Jinnah - Founder of Pakistan ) is now looking hard at day-to-day operations of Bombay Realty,...
View ArticleMan who took $ 4 m for two govt. bigwigs threatened – UNP
Krrish Towers deal: UNP calls for high level probeJuly 17, 2013, 12:00 pm By Zacki JabbarThe UNP yesterday called for a high level investigation into a complaint by an official that his life was under...
View ArticleKachchateevu Island: India will reclaim it very soon warns UNP
July 17, 2013, 10:41 pm by Zacki JabbarWhile the government has locked horns with India over amending the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, the latter would very soon reclaim the Kachchateevu...
View ArticleThreat of cannabis
July 17, 2013, 7:05 pmGanja, known as cannabis and marijuana in the West, has many names such as weed, pot, dagga, grass, reefer and boom. You find these names in western movies and novels that refer...
View ArticleO. M. R. - Brilliant Technology Guru
July 17, 2013, 7:08 pmI have been fortunate to meet some outstanding people. O. M. R. Sirisena is one of them. O. M. R. as we used to call him was a Royalist who spent his formative years (1943-1951)...
View ArticleWomen’s education, the ‘Arab Spring’ and ‘sectarian strife’
July 17, 2013, 7:15 pmUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, listens as Malala Yousafzai, right, addresses the ‘Malala Day’ Youth Assembly, Friday, July 12, 2013 at United Nations...
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