
New Delhi: Rejecting the contention that the Opposition was obstructing passage of the Companies Bill, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said the government came up with a new version of the legislation which would be re-examined by the Parliamentary Standing Committee at its meeting on January 24. Sinha argued that the Bill which was placed in the Lok Sabha for consideration and passage was completely different from the original one that...

03:35 PM, Jan 15, 2012

"There comes a tide in the affairs of men," Shakespeare cautioned. Tsunami warnings are now ringing about the global economy. The global financial system is under stress. Economic growth is stumbling. Confidence in governments is decreasing everywhere. Multilateral institutions like the WTO (World Trade Organization) and IMF (International Monetary Fund), created to promote global integration and stability, are ineffective. Communism was declared dead with the fall of the Berlin Wall....

11:14 AM, Nov 18, 2011

Name: Tata Steel Why they won: For operating with a higher organisational purpose beyond just maximising profits. For aligning the interests of multiple stakeholders - customers, employees, partners, investors, the community and the environment. For successfully balancing doing well with doing good. It was the early 1990s and Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao had invited the countrys top industrialists to Delhi for an informal chat. The Tata group was represented...

11:20 AM, Nov 02, 2011

Business leaders who are going beyond wealth, solving social problems. ...

12:24 PM, Nov 23, 2009

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01:39 PM, Feb 24, 2009

London: England wicketkeeper Matt Prior said he felt "stupid" for smashing a dressing-room window during the Lord's Test against Sri Lanka but dismissed it as a "freak" incident. Prior was angry on being run out on the final day of the second Test and returned to the dressing room, where he said a bat slipped out of his hand and resulted in a window in the dressing room being shattered,...

11:50 PM, Feb 02, 2008