New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Bihar government's stand on a plea for a CBI probe into the police firing on a group of villagers in Forbesganj in June that left five persons dead. A bench of justices RM Lodha and JS Khehar issued notice to the state government, seeking its response to the plea for CBI probe into the incident. The plea was made by a...
01:13 PM, Oct 10, 2011
A few weeks ago, I was being photographed by one of todays hot shot lensmen. The new breed. The guys in designer gear who arrive with an entourage of more than eight assistants and demand star treatment from magazine editors who hire them. At the end of the impersonal, brisk shoot with hardly a single meaningful exchange of words between the moody, scruffy photographer and moi, I turned to the...
12:19 PM, Sep 27, 2011
New York: Bill Gates tops this year's Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans with a net worth calculated at $ 59 billion. Forbes says the Microsoft co-founder saw his wealth increase by $ 5 billion from last year. Investor Warren Buffett ranks second with a fortune of $ 39 billion, though Forbes says the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chief executive's wealth shrank by $ 6 billion from a year ago....
08:37 AM, Sep 22, 2011
October 21, 2011 will be a red letter day for us. A galaxy of India's best known entrepreneurs and CEOs will vie for the first Forbes India Leadership Awards that evening at The Trident in Mumbai. We've instituted these distinctive annual awards to recognise transformational leadership across the entire entrepreneurial firmament, from start-ups, mid-sized firms to the more mature organisations of global scale. We've also picked a few categories that...
10:04 AM, Sep 10, 2011
Forbesganj: RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Monday held Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy SK Modi responsible for the police firing at Bhajanpura in Bihar's Araria district in June. Prasad, who led a march organised by his party from Patna to Forbesganj, said the firing "could have been averted" had the chief minister and his deputy taken preventive steps. He said his party would launch a state-wide campaign...
09:13 PM, Sep 05, 2011
An Active Judiciary Is A Peoples Right The hallmark of a great nation is its institutions. The stronger the ability of these institutions to uphold and preserve fundamental values, the greater the nation would be. When Indias founding fathers wrote the Constitution, they created three arms " Parliament, Executive and the Judiciary " of the state that together were to be the keepers of the ideals of the nation as...
11:06 AM, Sep 02, 2011
Washington: Congress party president Sonia Gandhi figures as the seventh most powerful woman of the world in the Forbes list which is topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Sonia Gandhi, 64, who is recouping from unspecified surgery in a US hospital, is ranked seventh just ahead of US First Lady Michelle Obama in a list of 100 most powerful women of the world...
09:47 AM, Aug 25, 2011
New York: German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped the Forbes list of the world's most powerful women, which is dominated by politicians, businesswomen and leaders in media and entertainment. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who came close to defeating President Obama when he sought the Democratic nomination in 2008, was second, followed by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. "Our list reflects the diverse and dynamic paths to power for women today,...
08:32 AM, Aug 25, 2011
New York: American author and entertainment mogul James Patterson has topped a Forbes magazine list of the world's highest paid authors, earning more than twice that of No 2 Danielle Steel. Patterson, 64, the dominant mass market fiction author who has published more than 80 books at a prolific rate with the help of collaborators, earned $84 million for the past year, according to the survey based on sales from...
01:53 PM, Aug 18, 2011
The process of economic reform that India embarked upon 20 years ago was expected to produce immense churning. Most of India's citizens are too young to even remember the India before reforms. State control was pervasive. Growth, even when it took place, was not sustained for significant periods. The spectre of mass poverty was overwhelming, and till the mid-90s it was still plausible to question the viability of the Indian...
10:54 AM, Aug 17, 2011
Vijay Mahajan Age: 56 years Title: Chairman of microfinance company BASIX Education: BTech, IIT Delhi, MBA, IIM Ahmedabad and Masters in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University Career: Started at Philips, founded NGO Pradan, started BASIX in 1996 Interests: Poetry, art and theatre. He also enjoys nature walks How serious is the crisis at BASIX? Some media reports say the company is on the verge of...
09:51 AM, Aug 13, 2011
Last year, when we released our Independence Day Special edition, India was in a different state of mind. In keeping with our growing global aspirations, our special edition, brought out in collaboration with ICRIER, the leading New Delhi-based think tank, focussed on India and its expanding relationship with the rest of the world on a host of strategic issues like energy, water, access to markets and technology, international terrorism and...
09:39 AM, Aug 13, 2011
Forbesganj: Extending a "healing touch", Rahul Gandhi on Friday met the families of victims of Forbesganj police firing in Bihar's Araria district and assured them justice. The Congress General Secretary , who went to the house of a boy, Md Rashid Ansari who was injured in the firing, said that all assistance would be provided to the victims. He also spoke to Ansari's mother Phulia Khatoon. Rahul directed state Congress...
05:25 PM, Jul 01, 2011
Araria: AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit Forbesganj in Araria district of Bihar on Friday to know the circumstances leading to the police firing that killed four Muslims on June 3. Gandhi would land at IAF airbase in Purnia from New Delhi and leave for Forbesganj in Araria district, District Magistrate in-charge Shashi Bhushan Prasad told PTI. Meanwhile, party sources claimed in Patna that Gandhi would meet the affected...
06:08 PM, Jun 30, 2011
In 1983, if someone had told coffee baron VG Siddhartha that one day he would own an impressive multi-storied office on Vittal Mallya Road, Bangalores tony residential and shopping address, he would have called them crazy. Siddhartha was then just a rookie analyst at JM Financial and Investment Consultancy. Today Coffee Day Square, his Groups headquarters, a glitzy glass-fronted building, stands right across UB City from where Vittal Mallya laid...
05:23 PM, Jun 30, 2011
With South Sudan voting for independence from the North, it is set to become the worlds youngest country on July 9. Here are some of the most recent additions to the world map Kosovo When Yugoslavia disintegrated, new countries were sprouting and borders were being drawn. When Kosovo tried to follow the rest and separate from Serbia, a war broke out. Even when it all ended and Kosovo declared independence...
05:19 PM, Jun 30, 2011
College students around the world know the meaning of the acronym 'BYOB'. Often accompanying party invitations, it tells the person being invited to 'Bring Your Own Booze'. Indian mobile operators have been practicing a variant with their customers, BYOH, or 'Bring Your Own Handset'. Indian operators have mostly remained wary of subsidising and bundling handsets since the spectacular failure (following what appeared to be a spectacular success) of Reliance Infocom's...
12:34 PM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission today said it will send a team for conducting an on-the-spot inquiry into alleged police firing and killing of four persons in Forbesganj in Bihar on June 3. The rights panel has asked its Director General (Investigation) to depute a team to the area in Araria district of the state. Four persons, including a woman and a baby, were killed in police firing...
06:53 PM, Jun 20, 2011
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Bihar, in a new, resurgent India, is often presented as a case study of what a positive politics of development and inclusive growth can yield. ...
06:48 PM, Jun 20, 2011
