Washington: In the end, it came down to an educated guess as to which Bavarian city located on the Danube River was a legislative seat of the Holy Roman Empire from 1663 to 1806. Answer: The German city of Regensburg. And with that, 14-year-old Rahul Nagvekar took the top prize on Thursday at the National Geographic Bee. It was a close victory. He and runner-up Vansh Jain had finished the...
08:05 AM, May 25, 2012
Sources confirm that Ilayathalapathy Vijay and AL Vijay are coming together for a project. However, the project has now been titled 'Thalaivan' and will go on the floors by the end of this year. It will be produced by Chandra Prakash Jain. 'Thalaivan' is touted to have the usual technicians of AL Vijay and is predicted to be a commercial entertainer that will have music by GV Prakash. However, buzz...
11:22 AM, May 10, 2012
Indian Literature is under-rated. I have always believed that most Indian writers (great ones at that) are often not spoken about or mentioned at all. Some great books are never discussed. That's a sad situation for a country that is so rich in literature - considering the number of languages stories are weaved in and then translated for the English reader's (like me) benefit, only not to be praised. One...
04:14 PM, May 02, 2012
All Ajay Jain wanted was for people to buy his photographs. Though he was an engineer and an MBA and had worked in various industries ranging from IT to media, his passion lay in travel and photography. But he was not able to sell enough of his pictures through exhibitions. So he started a gallery and started marketing it online. Yet, nothing really worked. That's when the 41-year-old decided to...
10:48 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Dipak C Jain Age: 54 Profile: Dean, INSEAD and INSEAD Chaired Professor of Marketing. Independent director, Reliance Industries Career: Was a former dean at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University Education: BSc Statistics (Hons.) in 1976 from Darrang College and Masters in Statistics from Gauhati University. Interests: Teaching Jainism. Q. After spending 13 years as dean of the Kellogg School of Management you moved over to INSEAD. What was...
04:40 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday put an interim stay on criminal proceedings against film producer Madhur Bhandarkar in the Preeti Jain rape case. In July 2004, aspiring actor Preeti Jain had lodged a complaint alleging that Bhandarkar had raped her several times between 1999 and 2004 under the pretext of marrying her and casting her as actress in his movies. A Mumbai metropolitan court had, in September, 2011,...
02:13 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday rejected the application of filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar to stay the process against him in a Mumbai metropolitan court in the Preeti Jain rape case. "Justice R.C. Chavan today (Thursday) refused to stay the trial against Bhandarkar, stating that he will now have to face criminal trial," Jain's lawyer S. Kunjuraman told IANS. "Bhandarkar has tried his level best to buy time by approaching...
12:02 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Frankfurt: Deutsche Bank's co-chief executive designate Anshu Jain saw his total pay drop 18 per cent last year to almost 10 million euros, less than some of his peers and top earners in the car industry. Jain earned 9.77 million euros in 2011, when the lender missed its ambitious full-year profit targets, compared with 11.9 million a year earlier, Germany's flagship bank said in its annual report on Tuesday. Jain's...
10:44 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Jalgaon (Maha): Local Shiv Sena MLA and former Maharashtra minister Suresh Jain has been arrested in connection with 2006 Gharkul Housing Scheme scam. Jain, who was a Minister for Housing during the Shiv Sena-BJP rule in the 1990s, has been arrested for allegedly favouring a builder and indulging in irregularities to the tune of Rs 29 crore, poilce said on Sunday. He was arrested at around midnight at Dharangaon in...
07:59 PM, Mar 11, 2012
In February, an international water summit in Bangalore that discussed private sector participation in water delivery ended on a dry note when a show-closing Water Walkathon was abandoned after anti-privatisation activists stormed the streets. One of the protestors, Kshitij Urs of Action Aid, says the event was an "ominous sign of a slow takeover" by private players. People are not fully aware of the benefits of leveraging private expertise, counters...
11:38 AM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: Former ADG of Rajasthan Police AK Jain, wanted by the CBI for his alleged role in the fake encounter of a local liquor smuggler, was sent to one-day judicial custody on Monday. Jain earlier in the day surrendered before a special court in Rajasthan. 59-year-old Jain had gone absconding after the CBI filed a chargesheet against him in June 2011 accusing him of masterminding the fake encounter of...
05:52 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New York: Addressing the much-talked about succession plan at Berkshire Hathaway, legendary investor Warren Buffett on Saturday said the sprawling conglomerate has identified his successor. Without disclosing the name of his successor, the octogenarian billionaire in his annual letter to shareholders said the conglomerate's board has had a "great deal of exposure" to the chosen person. A couple of names including India-origin Ajit Jain, who manages the multi-billion dollar Berkshire...
07:12 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Jodhpur: A three-year-old boy is struggling for life at a government hospital in Rajasthan after his alcoholic stepfather put burning cigarettes on his face, beat him up and clawed him in a drunken condition, police said Friday. Sanyam Jain, a resident of Vishala village near Sanchore in Jalore district, was Thursday admitted to the intensive care unit of Ummed Hospital in Jodhpur, some 400 km from state capital Jaipur. He...
03:40 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Bimal Jalan is one of India's well-known economists. He was Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1997 to 2003. He has held several top positions in the ministries of finance and industry and in the Planning Commission. He was also Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and represented India on the boards of the IMF and the World Bank. His book 'Emerging India' was...
11:35 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood's planned strike on February 23 to protest against the imposition of a service tax on the film industry has been called off after a meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, industry officials said Tuesday. "This strike has been called off. We had a meeting with the finance minister and he has asked us to wait till the budget," producer Ratan Jain told IANS. "He understood our problem and...
11:29 AM, Feb 22, 2012
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