Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is setting up its data centre at Manesar in Haryana and this captive 'Green Data Centre' would be built as per global standards. While stating this on Sunday, an official spokesman said that this data centre would be one of the biggest data centres in the country. ...
03:21 AM, Jan 07, 2013
It wasn't just Haryana where Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra went on a land buying spree between 2008 and 2011. At least 20 plots measuring over 770 hectares were picked up by Vadra's firms in Bikaner, months after the Ashok Gehlot government assumed power in the state. According to property agents in Bikaner, the land was barren and worth precious little at the time Vadra purchased it. However, ...
03:41 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Chandigarh: Haryana Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Surjewala on Monday claimed that the India Against Corruption (IAC) workers who protested outside the Delhi residence of Lok Sabha MP Deepender Hooda were "mostly workers dismissed by Maruti Udyog" following the recent violence at Manesar. "The action of the protesters breaking police barriers and indulging in violence is undemocratic and deeply condemnable," the minister said in an official statement. The protesters were mostly...
10:50 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Chandigarh: IAS officers in Haryana are turning against each other in the wake of the Robert Vadra-DLF deal revelations. Town and Country Planning head TC Gupta has defended the deal and said action should be taken against transferred IAS officer Ashok Khemka, the former Director General of Land Consolidation. Gupta has written against Khemka's observations. Khemka had in his order dated October 11 cancelled the mutation of the sale deed...
09:22 AM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra is now in a fix to explain the overdraft in his balance sheet. Sources close to Vadra now say no loan was taken from the Corporation Bank, so there was no question of any overdraft. Sources add it is a standard practice to issue cheques of higher values than what's there in an account, if there is possibility of that amount...
09:18 AM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India on Tuesday said it expects the Manesar plant to reach to full production within next 2-3 days with the commencement of second shift operations. The company will also increase the workers strength at the plant by around 700 people to 4,500 employees by December. Besides, 622 permanent workers of the plant have signed the three-year wage settlement agreement. "Yesterday we started the second shift at...
06:50 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday dismissed as "baseless" charges that a senior Haryana IAS officer was transferred in the wake of his decision to probe alleged undervaluation of properties dealt with by Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi. "The allegations are baseless. There is no witch hunt. We do not question the integrity of the officer. It is prerogative of the government to transfer any bureaucrat. The...
02:44 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the violence at the Manesar plant of Maruti Suzuki said that the violence was not triggered from outside, the automobile major denied having receiving any such detail or report from the Gurgaon police. When asked about the SIT report, the company said that it would not comment on the "basis of newspaper reports". The Special Investigation Team probing the violence...
01:35 PM, Oct 16, 2012
A Mahapanchayat is meeting in Manesar to discuss the implications of the cancellation of the mutation of transfer of property between Robert Vadra and DLF. The locals here claim that the plot of land, right on the side of the Jaipur Highway at Manesar-Shikohpur, was sold off at nominal prices. An inquiry has, meanwhile, been ordered in four other districts of Haryana where land is owned by Robert Vadra. ...
12:58 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Special Investigation Team probing the violence that occurred at the Maruti plant in Manesar on July 18, 2012, has said that the violence was not instigated from outside. The SIT report says the violence resulted from internal issues between the company management and workers. The Haryana police has framed charges against 145 people after questioning 300 witnesses. A senior manager had died after workers had gone on...
08:28 AM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: The violence at Maruti Suzuki India's Manesar plant in July was not instigated from outside, but was due to internal issues between management and workers, according to the chargesheet filed by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed to probe the incident. Charges against 145 persons have been framed after interviewing 300 witnesses by the Haryana Police. "The chargesheet was filed last week. It was found that the violence...
10:22 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Wednesday said it expects to have full employee strength at its troubled Manesar plant by the end of September with the completion of fresh recruitments. "The regularisation of contract workers and new recruitments are going on and this will be over in the next 10 days. By the last week of September, our total manpower will be in place at Manesar plant," MSI...
01:32 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargava was perplexed at the company's shareholders' meeting on 28 August. He said he could not understand the rage behind the ...
07:59 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Chairman of Japan's Suzuki Motor Corporation, Osamu Suzuki is scheduled to meet Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday. The duo will be discussing the violence that killed a senior executive at the Maruti factory in Manesar last month. A senior executive was killed and around a hundred workers were injured in the incident. ...
10:56 AM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Suzuki Motor Corp Chairman Osamu Suzuki on Sunday said the Japanese car maker is committed to its investments in India even as he expressed concern over the time being taken to find the cause for violence at the Manesar plant of its subsidiary Maruti Suzuki. "In any case Japan's Suzuki has no plans to withdraw from India nor to stop production at Manesar. We are here for the...
12:38 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: Japan's Suzuki Motor Corporation Chairman Osamu Suzuki will meet Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday. The meeting assumes significance in the backdrop of violence at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant last month. Suzuki, who is on a week-long visit to India to attend the annual general meeting of SMC's Indian arm Maruti Suzuki on August 28, is expected to be accompanied by the top management of the...
12:39 AM, Aug 26, 2012
Chandigarh: Despite the recent violence and the complete shutdown at its Manesar unit, automobile giant Maruti-Suzuki will invest Rs 1,700 crore in a new plant of the Manesar unit, a Haryana minister said on Friday. State Industries Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala told the assembly that Maruti-Suzuki will invest Rs 1,700 crore for setting up the C-plant in its Manesar unit near Gurgaon, 45 km from New Delhi. He said that...
01:25 AM, Aug 25, 2012
Ahmedabad: Maruti Suzuki Chairman and Chief Executive Osamu Suzuki will be meeting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. Suzuki is on a two-day visit to the state and will be in Hansalpur in Ahmedabad to check out the site for the proposed 4,000 crore plant. The company is expected to begin work on the project, its first outside Haryana, very soon. Country's largest car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki India (MSI)...
10:01 AM, Aug 24, 2012
Mumbai: Shares of Maruti Suzuki India on Tuesday settled about one per cent higher after the company resumed production at its Manesar plant amid heavy security, a month after a lockout was declared due to violence. The scrip closed 0.68 per cent up at Rs 1,185.10 on the BSE. Intra-day, the stock gained 1.55 per cent to Rs 1,195.3. At the NSE, the stock ended 0.96 per cent higher at...
06:38 PM, Aug 21, 2012
In an exclusive interview to CNBC TV18's Shereen Bhan, Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargva said it would not be surprising to see the unions taking the matter to court. ...
05:08 PM, Aug 21, 2012
