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
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07:42 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A Kerala company is preparing to launch what could be India's largest directory of blood donors. Muthoot Pappachan Group (MPG) said the directory will help those seeking blood in emergency situations. MPG, which has varied interests including banking, has a staff of more than 20,000 employees. Thomas John Muthoot, chairman and managing director of MPG, told IANS that the data base will be prepared from a record two million...
01:15 PM, Sep 28, 2012
New York: So look, here's the thing: This. Is. Not. A. Children's. Book. If you're looking for what made Harry Potter magical - Wizards! Spells! Flying Broomsticks! - you're not going to find it. If you're looking for what makes JK Rowling magical - emotion, heart - you will. Vacancy is the first novel written for adults from Rowling, the successful-beyond-belief author behind the "Harry Potter" series about the young...
08:39 AM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: At the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Tuesday, party president Sonia Gandhi adopted an aggressive stance and sent a strong message while backing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent economic policy decisions that allowed 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, apart from putting a cap on subsidised LPG cylinders and hiking diesel price to narrow down India's gaping fiscal deficit. A combative Sonia said that...
02:23 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: The principal Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in no mood to back down after the Congress Working Committee, that met on Tuesday morning, endorsed the recent economic policy decisions taken by the government and also slammed the Opposition for playing "negative politics". BJP leader Rajnath Singh said that it was their party that was standing guard over the country's treasure as the Congress tried to turn the...
12:48 PM, Sep 25, 2012
We take you down the memory lane to meet a family who has been in love with the BMW 3 Series for two decades. ...
11:38 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Bhopal: In a major setback for Bhopal, a German company has pulled out of the project to clean 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union Carbide Plant, saying it is too hazardous. The plant was the site of the world's worst disaster in which 15,000 people were killed in 1984. India was going to pay the German government firm GIZ $ 4.5 million for the job. The company has...
09:16 AM, Sep 18, 2012
BMW automobiles, services, technologies and all about BMW's sheer driving pleasure. ...
05:27 PM, Sep 16, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (MAHAGENCO) has invited online applications for the post of junior engineer and sub-engineers. The details of the vacancies are as follows. Number of junior engineer vacancies: 444 Pay scale: Rs 15,285 " 36,965 Age Limit: Maximum 33 years Educational qualifications: Interested candidates must have completed the Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (BE) in Electrical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering/Electronics/Instrumentation from a recognised university Number of sub-engineer...
04:31 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Florida: A Florida company said on Monday that its files - not an FBI agent's laptop - were hacked by a renegade group that released Apple product identification data it claimed to have obtained through a breach of the nation's top law enforcement agency. "We want to apologize, announce what happened and set the record straight," said Paul DeHart, chief executive officer of software company BlueToad Inc, told Reuters. FBI...
10:54 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Set in Delhi's Nizamuddin area, Nilanjana Roy's book 'Wildings' revolves around a pack of telepathic stray cats, a kitten named Mara and the incidents that followed. Goes without saying, the novel is a very imaginative narrative and builds high level of curiosity in the reader. The debutante author spoke with IBNLive about her book and more. Here are excerpts from the conversation. Q: How did the idea of...
05:36 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Mumbai: Ram Gopal Varma says that recreating the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, which claimed 166 lives, for his film was terrifying. "Just shot the Taj massacre of 26/11. Merely recreating it felt terrifying. Can't even imagine what the victims would have undergone," Varma tweeted Monday. The movie, being made at a budget of Rs 40 crore, went on floors in March. It aims to bring forth every aspect of the dreadful...
02:21 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Melbourne: Can't afford the luxury of a private jet? Don't worry, as a US aeronautical company has developed a flying car that transforms into a plane in just 20 seconds. Funded by the US Department of Defense, the 'Transition' is a four-wheel vehicle, licensed for the road, which transforms into a plane in about 20 seconds and can then fly up to 500 miles. The starting price of the car...
06:11 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New York: Apple is the world's most valuable company, ever. On Monday, its surging stock propelled the company's value to $624 billion, beating the previous record for market capitalization set by Microsoft Corp. in the heady days of the Internet boom. After a four-month dip, Apple's stock hit new highs recently because of optimism around what is believed to be the impending launch of the iPhone 5, and possibly a...
02:28 PM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: Drug major Cipla on Tuesday said it has launched 'Qvir', a four-drug kit priced at Rs 158 per kit to be used for treating HIV/AIDS. The kit consists of two tablets packaged together in one strip which represents a single day's treatment, Cipla said in a statement. Commenting on the introduction Cipla Chairman and Managing Director YK Hamied said: "While we are committed to making drugs affordable and...
05:37 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Chennai: A 28-year-old software engineer was arrested on Monday for cheating as many as 18 candidates promising them jobs in a popular software company and cheating them to the tune of Rs 36 lakh. The sleuths of Central Crime Branch arrested the engineer following complaints that he had taken Rs 2 lakh cash from each candidate and had mailed them fake appointment orders. He had allured them with an online...
02:35 PM, Aug 08, 2012
