Union minister MK Alagiri on Friday said that the DMK was not a mutt (stupid person) to appoint a successor to the party chief. ...
04:41 AM, Jan 06, 2013
Hinting that younger son MK Stalin will be his heir, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Thursday perhaps laid to rest speculation on who will win the battle between the two brothers - Stalin and MK Alagiri - to lead the party after him. ...
03:22 PM, Jan 03, 2013
RBI Governor D Subbarao will now be directly in-charge of the monetary policy department which was under Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn who has retired. The Monetary Policy Department looks after policy issues, including interest rate. ...
08:17 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Venezuela's opposition mocked President Hugo Chavez's chosen successor Nicolas Maduro on Friday as a 'poor copy' of his boss who should be promoting national unity rather than insulting opponents during a delicate time for the South American nation. ...
02:18 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Mumbai: Be your own man, Ratan Tata has advised Cyrus Mistry, who will succeed him at the helm of the $100 billion Tata group two weeks from now. "I don't think it is right to have a ghost to shadow over somebody," said Tata, dismissing any notion that his larger-than-life persona would linger even after he retires on December 28 when he turns 75. The Tata patriarch has told Mistry,...
12:48 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Caracas: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez returned to Cuba on Sunday for more surgery after a recurrence of cancer led him to name a successor for the first time in a sign the disease may force an end to his 14-year rule. Supporters prepared to gather in city squares across the South American country, shocked and saddened by the news from the 58-year-old socialist leader, who made the announcement in a...
06:49 PM, Dec 09, 2012
Mumbai: Tata group chief Ratan Tata on Tuesday stepped down as Chairman of Tata Global Beverages with immediate effect, making way for successor Cyrus Mistry, who has also been inducted into the board of Indian Hotels Company. In two separate filings to the BSE, the two firms said the respective meetings of the Board of Directors decided the changes as per Tata's retirement plans in December 2012. "Effective November 20,...
06:34 PM, Nov 20, 2012
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
