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Sainsbury's boss to replace Ecclestone as F1 chief?

Bernie Ecclestone has neither admitted nor denied that Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King is in the running to succeed him as the Formula One boss, 'The Guardian' reported on Sunday. ...  

Rs 252 crore excise duty evasion notice to Cadbury India

A show cause notice raising a demand of Rs 252 crore has been served on confectionery major Cadbury India Limited for alleged excise duty evasion. The notice, seeking recovery, was issued on Monday by Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence after its investigation found that the firm has wrongfully claimed 'area-based exemption' for its new unit at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh, official sources said. ...  

'Cadbury used non-existent factory to avoid $46 million in taxes'

Cadbury Plc, now part of Mondelez International Inc, used a nonexistent factory in India to avoid about $46 million in taxes, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a report by the Indian tax authorities. ...  

Khadivi's The Walking is remarkable piece of work

Laleh Khadivi is candid and gives a terrific voice to her characters and their emotions. ...  

Pakistan: Man buries pet dog near graveyard, arrested

Pakistani police arrested a man in the garrison city of Rawalpindi for trying to bury his dog near a graveyard, according to a media report on Sunday. The man, who was not identified, was arrested under a provision of the Pakistan Penal Code related to trespassing burial places even though he had not entered the cemetery. ...  

Govt gets tough on taxation of transfers within MNCs

India is aggressively pursuing tax claims against multinational firms operating in the country as the government seeks to rein in its budget deficit, taking particular aim at IT and back-office functions, tax officials say. It has targeted several multinational companies in recent years for tax audits on transfer-pricing, but over the past 12 months has widened the scope of the investigations, officials added. ...  

City of Devi leaves the reader breathless

'The City of Devi' all you want is to feel the city and hope that the characters' lives are sorted. A must read this season. ...  

Cadbury to launch temperature-tolerant chocolates

New 'temperature-tolerant chocolates' that don't melt even at 40 degree Celsius have been developed by confectionery giant Cadbury, which will soon be available in hot-weather countries like India. Scientists at Cadbury's research and development plant in Bourneville, in the UK said the new chocolate bars stay completely solid even when exposed to temperatures of 40 degree Celsius for more than three hours. ...  

'Swimming Home' is a worhty Man Booker nominee

I am normally not a fan of Booker Long List of Short List nominations. I tend to find them boring to get by and honestly do not see the fuss made around them sometimes. However, when I started reading one of this year's shortlisted books, I began to see the light, at least for that book. 'Swimming Home' by Deborah Levy is an outstanding nominee for this year's much awaited...  

Bhupathi-Bopanna advance to pre-quarterfinals

London: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna staved off stiff resistance from Max Mirnyi and Alexander Bury before advancing to the men's doubles pre-quarterfinals at the London Olympics. The seventh seed Indian pair, who were in news for challenging AITA diktat, recorded a hard-earned 7-6 (4) 6-7 (4) 8-6 win over the Belarusian pair in the marathon first round match, which lasted for two hours and 26 minutes. They will now...  

AP: Smuggler tries to bury officer in sand

Vijayawada: In continued attacks by sand mafia against revenue staff despite slapping of police cases against the culprits, the driver of a tractor carrying sand illegally tried to bury a village revenue officer (VRO) under a heap of sand at Nimmagadda village in Challapalli mandal in Krishna district on Sunday morning. According to Challapalli VRO, the victim, GV Ramana, went to Nadakuduru to stop sand smuggling after receiving a phone...  

Bosnians to bury 520 Srebrenica genocide victims

Sarajevo: On the 17th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, Muslims in Bosnia are heading to Srebrenica to attend a funeral for 520 newly identified victims. The remains of those Muslim men and boys slaughtered at Srebrenica around July 11, 1995, will be laid to rest on Wednesday in the town whose name is now synonymous with genocide. The coffins are already at the memorial center and...  

Rajasthan couple tries to bury new born girl alive

Jaipur: Police are looking for the parents of a new-born girl who was rescued by some villagers in Rajasthan's Dausa district minutes before she was to be buried alive, officials said on Tuesday. According to police, some villagers on Monday heard the wailing of a baby coming from a farm land near Todarwas village in Dausa district, some 100 km from Jaipur. "They reached the spot and saw a couple...  

Britons cash in as ATM pays out double

London: Any time double money! An ATM in London started paying twice the amount asked for, due to a human error, and hordes of people benefited from the unexpected windfall till it lasted. There was a run on a cash machine in central London when it started paying out double money after an employee accidentally loaded the 10 tray with 20 notes. Long queues formed outside the Sainsbury's ATM in...  

Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury dies at 91

Los Angeles: Ray Bradbury, the science fiction-fantasy master who transformed his childhood dreams and Cold War fears into telepathic Martians, lovesick sea monsters, and, in uncanny detail, the high-tech, book-burning future of 'Fahrenheit 451', has died. He was 91. He died on Tuesday night, his daughter said on Wednesday. Alexandra Bradbury did not have additional details. Although slowed in recent years by a stroke that meant he had to use...  

Musician Fatboy Slim to perform in India

New Delhi: British Musician Norman Quentin Cook, known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is all set to enthrall Indian music lovers for the very first time with his performances. He says India has always been a dream destination. He has two shows lined up - he will first perform May 5 in Gurgaon and the next day in Bangalore. The 48-year-old created magic at global festivals like Glastonbury Festival,...  

'Tata Steel India's most admired company'

New Delhi: Tata Steel has topped a list of India's 50 most admired companies, while four other companies from the steel-to-software conglomerate Tata group have also made to the first such rankings. However, the first such list for India, compiled by business magazine Fortune and global management consultancy Hay Group, has nearly half of the total 50 positions being occupied by the Indian units of the foreign companies. Tata Steel...  

The Ice Candy Man and how he built Coldex

You know, there is no easy way to say this, says Gaurav Jain, the 39-year-old managing director of Swastik Roadlines and explains. His father had started Swastik in partnership with two friends. Jain joined the company in 1999 when it was doing very well. It had 23 trucks. None of the founders realised what was around the corner. Ever since its inception in 1997, the company had grown on the...  

Nooyi 2nd most powerful woman in US business

Washington: After five years on top, PepsiCo's Indian American chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi has been pushed to the second spot as most powerful woman in US business by Kraft's CEO, Irene Rosenfeld. Nooyi was the only woman in the top 10 most powerful to be among the top 10 highest paid, coming in at No 9 after earning $14 million last year, according to the 14th annual ranking by...  

Bloomsbury venture to bring books 'back from dead'

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, home to the Harry Potter books in Britain, launched its first purely digital imprint on Wednesday which it said would bring out-of-print titles "back from the dead". Bloomsbury Reader has signed up a string of authors including Monica Dickens, great grand-daughter of Charles, politicians Alan Clark and Ted Heath, crime writer HRF Keating and novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett. The publisher is focusing on books which are out of...