L&T to buy 51 pc in Future Generali for Rs 560 cr BT Online Bureau New Delhi
Future Group on Tuesday confirmed that Larsen & Toubro will buy 51 per cent stake in its general insurance joint venture with Italy's Generali. The three companies have signed a non-binding term...
View ArticleKala Vijayaraghavan,ET Bureau Hindustan Unilever Ltd forays into digital...
In FY13, HUL is expected to triple ad spends in online and digital space, taking their share to 7% of its total ad spendSometime in mid 2011, Nitin Paranjpe, CEO of the Rs 22,000-crore Hindustan...
View ArticleFiat to venture into SUVs, sports cars segment in India as part of revamp...
Fiat, one of the first Western carmakers to enter India but now the worst performing, opens a new, fully-owned 57-dealer network on April 1. MUMBAI/MILAN: Go specialist and go alone. That's Fiat...
View ArticleIndia’s role in Sri Lanka
Domestic challenges complicating the issueby G Parthasarathy( March 27, 2013, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) With a population of barely 20 million, people in Sri Lanka have, in recent years, shed...
View ArticleBlack July and reply to Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
| by Sebastian Rasalingam( March 17, 2013, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) Please permit me to add a few words in reply to Dr. Rajasingham Narendran (RN),...
View ArticleJet to hire 100 more expat pilots despite DGCA deadline
10inShareShare on TumblrLike this story, share it with millions of investors on M3Jet to hire 100 more expat pilots despite DGCA deadlineJet Airways is planning to hire around 100 foreign pilots for...
View ArticleGlobal communication links in India to be hit for two weeks Disruptions may...
All the affected cable systems have Bharti Airtel as part of the consortium. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint Updated: Fri, Mar 29 2013. 12 42 AM ISTNew Delhi: Communication services, especially data...
View ArticleTaj Palace Hotel licence renewed for 25 years Taj had originally entered...
The Taj group had originally entered an agreement for the construction and licence of the hotel with DDA for 30 years from 1 April 1983. Photo: Hindustan Times Updated: Thu, Mar 28 2013. 10 19 PM...
View ArticleIndia is poised to become one of the four largest military powers in the...
UNLIKE many other Asian countries—and in stark contrast to neighbouring Pakistan—India has never been run by its generals. The upper ranks of the powerful civil service of the colonial Raj were largely...
View ArticleChina's first ladies Taking centre stage
CHINA may have a new president in Xi Jinping, but it is China’s new first lady, Peng Liyuan, who has been making the headlines this week. It certainly helps that Ms Peng, 50, was already a celebrity....
View ArticleApple in China Unparalleled arrogance, undisclosed agenda
APPLE and China seem a perfect fit. Both are secretive autocracies that have produced spectacular economic results and technological marvels—but only for those willing to abide by the strict rules...
View ArticleA nation divided A flawed tribunal opens old wounds and threatens...
IT WAS supposed to help Bangladesh come to terms with the horrors that accompanied its birth as a nation in 1971. But the “International Crimes Tribunal” has provoked the worst political violence the...
View ArticleSocial entrepreneurs in India Water for all
NEARLY three-fourths of all diseases caused in India are due to water contaminants. Despite that, one in eight Indians still lacks access to clean drinking water. The poor now realise that paying for...
View ArticleHow good is your heart, doc? By Dr Vijay Surase
Studies prove that the life of a doctor is six to eight years shorter than that of the average population.Dr Vijay Surase When in trouble, everyone expects the doctor to pick up the call, give the...
View Article'Buddhists should be determined to teach Muslim extremists a lesson '
( March 28, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) It is apparent that the majority of Muslim community has not supported the hartal organized by Muslim Rights Organisation, with the leadership of...
View ArticleSpooked by King Rajasinghe's ghost?
| by Upul Joseph Fernando( March 27, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Madurai Nayaks dynasty was of a very strong pedigree in the bygone days. The last King of Sri Lanka, King Sri Wickrema...
View ArticleAmbassador Blake cannot reverse Tamil genocide: Prof. Boyle
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 00:43 GMT]Responding to the statements made during the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Robert Blake's, interview with the BBC, where Blake appears...
View ArticleSL Navy appropriates lands of Muslims in Pulmoaddai
[TamilNet, Thursday, 28 March 2013, 11:40 GMT]The occupying Sri Lanka Navy in Trincomalee district has appropriated lands belonging to Muslim villagers in Ma'nki'ndimalai, Ponmalai-kudaa,...
View ArticleSL military steps up militarisation of Batticaloa, new camp at Tsunami...
[TamilNet, Thursday, 28 March 2013, 07:59 GMT]The occupying Sri Lanka Army is constructing a new army camp in Ma'nmunai-North DS division of Batticaloa district, at a site where Tsunami affected people...
View ArticleSinhala military takes over UN demining following Geneva resolution
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 07:10 GMT]One of the immediate results of the US-resolution at Geneva “welcoming and acknowledging the progress” of genocidal Sri Lanka in various avenues,...
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