The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has given approval to Rs 10,000 crore investment proposal of Swedish furniture major, IKEA. The company will now be able to sell all its products and set up cafeterias at its retail stores. ...
08:45 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has won his appeal for wrongful dismissal in Sunday's league win at Arsenal, prompting a sigh of relief from defenders across England who feared for the future of the tackle. ...
10:05 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Seven persons were killed and 40 others injured after a commuter-van from a mine company exploded in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The mishap occurred on Friday in Shuangyashan City of the district of Lingdong, officials said. ...
08:33 AM, Jan 12, 2013
The digitisation change in the Indian TV landscape brings to fore Darwin's theory of natural evolution by natural selection. Natural selection is a gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. ...
12:34 PM, Jan 11, 2013
A 56-year-old Indian man, who had called himself a "terrorist", has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for threatening to bomb a Connecticut-based company. Shaneel Jain of Rhode Island was sentenced on Friday by US District Judge Robert Chatigny in Hartford to six months of imprisonment, one year of supervised release and three months of home confinement for threatening to bomb the facilities of Z-Medica Corporation, US Attorney for the...
04:40 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Wipro Ltd, India's No 3 software services provider, will acquire LD Waxson Group, a Singapore-based consumer goods company, in an all-cash deal worth about $144 million, the company said in a statement. ...
12:29 AM, Dec 10, 2012
The Department of Prisons has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ayurvedic major Himalaya Drug Company to utilise services of inmates of open prisons to cultivate herbs. ...
10:06 AM, Dec 05, 2012
Raja has also sung in films like 'Pardesi Babu', 'Company' and 'Toonpur Ka Superhero'. ...
04:46 PM, Nov 27, 2012
A special CBI court in Hyderabad on Monday dismissed the bail plea of mining baron and former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, an accused in the illegal mining case involving his Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC). This was the sixth bail petition of Gali Janardhan Reddy since his arrest in the OMC scam in September last year, which was again dismissed on Monday. ...
04:43 AM, Nov 27, 2012
New Delhi: Facing stiff opposition, the government on Thursday put on hold the Rs 26.50 increase in price of cooking gas cylinders that consumers buy beyond their quota of six subsidised bottles. "The price hike has been put on hold," a top oil company official said declining to give a reason for the same. The latest increase in non-subsidised cooking gas has been reversed and it will be available at...
11:22 PM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: In a major breather for Nitin Gadkari, his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has unanimously backed him as the party president, saying there's no question of him quitting over allegations of dubious land deals. The decision was taken at a late-night party meeting on Friday. From the time Gadkari arrived in Delhi, speculation started doing the rounds about his fate. His first stop in the capital was...
07:38 AM, Oct 27, 2012
BJP president Nitin Gadkari's driver, accountant and another employee fully own three companies, formed on the same day. ...
09:16 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Milan: An Italian court on Friday sentenced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to four years in jail for tax fraud in connection with the purchase of broadcasting rights by his Mediaset television company. Berlusconi has the right to appeal the ruling two more times before the sentence becomes definitive and will not be jailed unless the final appeal is upheld. Prosecutors had asked for a jail sentence of three years...
08:44 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi resident Balwant Singh Tokas has filed a police complaint after getting Income Tax notices over Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari's firms. A complaint has been filed against against five investor firms that used Tokas's address. Tokas, a resident of Munirka in Delhi, got I-T notices as five investor firms showed his address. This comes amidst allegations against Gadkari's firms being run as shell companies with...
01:38 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: The list of questions for BJP president Nitin Gadkari seems to be endless. A CNN-IBN investigation has revealed more cases of financial impropriety. Ideal energy, a promoter of a company that had business links with Gadkari is built on land owned by the BJP chief's Purti group. Nitin Gadkari's business links with IRB Infra Development Ltd, the company that received contracts worth several crores during his tenure as...
07:40 AM, Oct 25, 2012
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed details of yet another shell company associated with BJP president Nitin Gadkari. Four companies were reportedly found registered to an address in Andheri, Mumbai, that does not exist. The companies, called Leverage Fintrade, Jasika Mercantile, Strelight Fincom and Regency Equifin were registered to a certain 'Salarsa Society' in Andheri. However, locals said there is no such address. The directors in these companies include Gadkari's accountant...
06:20 PM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: More details have emerged on Wednesday on shell companies of BJP president Nitin Gadkari's Purti group. Its not just drivers and accountants, now an astrologer has emerged as a director in a Purti investor company which itself seems to be a shell company. The documents show Ashwami Sales and Marketing Ltd, which owns equity in Purti, is non existent. When CNN-IBN inquired after one of its directors, Hanumant...
02:38 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Visakhapatnam: A pharmaceutical company unit was gutted when fire broke out at Ramky pharma city in Paradava mandal of the district, fire officials said. The equipment and chemicals of the Aputus Pharma company were completely gutted in the blaze which occurred late last night in a three-storeyed building, they said. Four fire tenders were pressed into service that took around five hours to control the flames. The mishap apparently occurred...
04:32 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines Company Secretary Bharath Raghavan resigned on Thursday even as the company management met with striking employees on Thursday in Gurgaon but failed to end the empasse. The crisis-ridden airline is in a state of lock-out with its flights grounded and employees not paid their salaries for the past several months. The Kingfisher Airlines management met with striking employees in Gurgaon but there was more confusion after...
05:35 PM, Oct 04, 2012
In this episode, Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar reviewed the all new BMW 3 Series F30. ...
07:42 PM, Sep 30, 2012
