
Mumbai: Former Tata Steel MD JJ Irani has praised Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata's surprise decision to appoint 43-year-old Director of Tata Sons and Tata Elxsi (India) Cyrus Mistry as his successor. This is the second time that the group will have a non-Tata at the helm of affairs in its 143-year history. Giving a thumbs up to Mistry, JJ Irani said, "He is very open, he is correct, he...

06:10 AM, Nov 24, 2011

Mumbai: Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata has appointed 43-year-old Director of Tata Sons and Tata Elxsi (India) Cyrus Mistry his successor. Mistry will work with Ratan Tata over the next year and take over from him when Tata retires in December 2012. The Board of Directors of Tata Sons at its meeting on Wednesday appointed Cyrus P Mistry as Deputy Chairman. Endorsing the appointment, Ratan Tata said, "The appointment of...

06:22 PM, Nov 23, 2011

Dharamsala: Indicating a long innings, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Saturday said he would decide at 90 whether or not he should have a successor. He also warned that any candidate chosen for political ends by anyone, including China, should not be recognised or accepted. "When I am about 90, I will consult the high lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions, the Tibetan public, and other people concerned...

07:42 PM, Sep 24, 2011

New Delhi: A day after chief minister BS Yeddyurappa gave in to the high command's diktat to step down, the search for his successor has begun. Senior national leaders Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh will head to Bangalore on today but sources say Yeddyurappa wants a person of his choice to succeed him. "We will talk to everyone including BS Yeddyurappa. The candidate will be decide through consensus. We are...

07:05 AM, Jul 29, 2011

Cairo: al Qaeda has selected its longtime No 2 to succeed Osama bin Laden following last month's US commando raid that killed the terror leader, according to a statement posted on Thursday on a website affiliated with the network. Ayman al-Zawahri, who will turn 60 next week, is the son of an upper middle class Egyptian family of doctors and scholars. His father was a pharmacology professor at Cairo University's...

12:27 PM, Jun 16, 2011

Andhra Cabinet wants YSR's son to take over as the state's Chief Minister. ...

03:18 AM, Sep 04, 2009

35 countries on the board to identify the leading contenders. ...

03:29 PM, Jun 09, 2009

Ahmedabad: India avenged their and their fans' defeat of the 2003 World Cup final as Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina wiped those tears with their heart-warming approach and played like brothers-in-arms to give the millions of Indians a lump in their throat and a moment they will hold tight to their heart for times immemorial. The Australians, who broke the Indian hearts in 2003, had theirs in two pieces on...

06:33 PM, Jan 06, 2008
Melbourne: The current Australian team is heading the West Indies way given their continuous slump and the cricket board will have to make some tough decisions to save the national side from collapsing completely, feels former wicketkeeper Steve Rixon. Australia lost both their warm-up games - against India and South Africa - ahead of the World Cup starting on February 19 and Rixon felt the Aussies are fast becoming the...

04:41 PM, Dec 16, 2007

New Delhi: Indian skipper MS Dhoni got himself entangled in the International Cricket Council's ambush marketing clause and was reprimanded by the apex body on Tuesday for its violation, sources told CNN-IBN. The game's governing body has taken a strong exception to Dhoni promoting Sony and Aircel ads and has asked the Indian wicketkeeper batsman to remove the posters promoting non-World Cup sponsors. Dhoni's manager, however, claims that the campaign...

01:35 AM, Dec 15, 2007

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has appointed Lt. General Tariq Majid to head the key Rawalpindi Corps. ...

03:12 PM, Oct 05, 2006

Annan called on the Member States to move quickly to select his successor who will take over on January 1 next. ...

01:27 PM, Sep 14, 2006