In the run up to the Budget, CNN-IBN's Axe the Tax campaign looks at how does one save for their retirement and family. But the question is whether the government is encouraging the Indian citizens to put away enough. ...
09:24 AM, Feb 18, 2013
Bharatpur: Corporate social responsibility is becoming more than a buzz word. A pharma company's CSR initiative is aiming to make Bharatpur in Rajasthan, India's first poverty free district in the next few years. Lupin Foundation, the pharma company, is helping employ thousands of villagers. Shyam Kishore, 30, is a poultry farmer. In five years, his life has changed, and all for the better. Starting with 300 chicks in a small...
01:27 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Violence at the Manesar factory of India's largest car maker Maruti last week had left one of its senior employees dead and 90 others injured. But what exactly happened on that fateful day? A senior Maruti official recounted the horror to CNN-IBN. On the day, he was busy negotiating with the workers before the violence broke out. On July 18, the day began as usual at Maruti Suzuki's...
06:49 AM, Jul 28, 2012
Manesar: Villagers at Manesar have blamed migrant workers for the violent incident at the Maruti plant. They also want an increase in local employees at the plant and say it will prevent such violent incidents. At a mahapanchayat of about 300 people, the residents of the villages around Manssar laid the blame for the recent violence at the plant squarely on to the workers, who hail from other states. "Migrant...
10:13 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Gurgaon: The fire which scorched the Maruti's Manesar plant has been burning for some time now. It started with increasing demand for diesel cars that led to higher bookings. Production at the assembly line was stepped up to keep pace leading to discontent. There have been three crippling strikes last year due to labour unrest. Chief among the issues were pay differences between permanent and casual workers, demand for better...
07:21 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Gurgaon: Baby Mahi could not be saved despite a massive effort launched by army and district administration, despite the fact that borewells are banned in Haryana on paper at least. The baby died the most painful death, struggling and gasping for air for over six hours inside a borewell. And shockingly, Mahi won't be the last. CNN-IBN travelled to villages adjoining Delhi to find rampant flouting of norms to extract...
11:10 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: Meet a soldier who took four bullets in his arm in a pitched battle with insurgents and saved the life of two critically injured children in Manipur. Eighteen years since the incident, Colonel DPK Pillay still shares a close bond with the people of the Manipuri village. Colonel Pillay recalls that fateful day in Longdaipabram village, which is 22 kms from the district Headquarters Tamelong in Manipur. "The...
09:30 AM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal's pet project Aakash tablets is in a mess. Six months after the launch of the world's cheapest tablet computer Aakash, not a single tablet has been delivered so far. The Rs 2,250 tablet remains a distant dream for students. "There are milestones in life when we feel we have really achieved something great. This is one of those milestones," Kapil Sibal had...
09:39 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: From July 1, it will become mandatory for all TV viewers across the four metros to get digital set top boxes. But even as the process of mandatory conversion of analog cable signals to digital continues across the metros, industry experts have flagged off the need for introducing and implementing some critical steps to ensure the revival of the television industry, which has come under steep financial strain despite...
08:58 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: India's Chief Economic Advisor Dr Kaushik Basu's statements on policy paralysis led to the BJP accusing the government of being in a coma and the government blaming the Opposition for the situation. Boardroom corners, industry chambers, policy-makers - everwhere - this was a hushed up conversation. And now its official - an admission coming from none other than Basu. "Reforms are unlikely before the 2014 elections. Bureaucracy doesn't...
10:31 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Regularisation and development work in the unauthorised colonies of Delhi is a contentious issue on which political parties fight their local-body elections. As Delhi aspires to be a world-class city, its underbelly, the 1,600 unauthorised colonies showcase a civic mess. Pul Pehladpur is one of the designated unauthorised colonies in South Delhi. As the election tempo for 2,72 Delhi Municipal Corporation seats picks up, local politicians are once...
08:50 AM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: Money does not grow on a tree nor does it fall from the sky. But most of our hard earned money goes in paying taxes. America's founding father Benjamin Franklin once said, "Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes". And high taxes certainly choke us every day. Brinda Mathur runs a PR firm. It's the start of a brand new week for her and she does...
08:44 AM, Mar 15, 2012
All nationalised banks are shut, with employees hoisting banners at their offices. Bus services, however, is reported normal. ...
10:16 AM, Feb 28, 2012
UN Industrial Development Organization's Director General Dr Kandeh K Yumkella says slowdown in the western economies has thrown open opportunities for India to attract investments into the country. ...
04:35 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: The fast deteriorating value of the Indian rupee is spelling good news for some and bad news for others. With industrial growth at an all-time low, the fall in the rupee could not have come at a worse time. Student Sanjana Prakash has been preparing for studies abroad for one year. But now she is having second thoughts. Sanjana is worried that her dream of acquiring a foreign...
09:18 AM, Dec 14, 2011
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