Eight get Priyadarshni Foundation’s global awards
September 19th, 2012 - 3:06 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Sep 19 (IANS) Industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, actress Deepika Padukone and member of European Parliament Nirj Deva were among achievers who were conferred the global awards instituted by NGO ... Read more...
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Kohli, Dhoni carry India to victory (Lead)
September 3rd, 2012 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Sep 3 (IANS) India survived some anxious moments following a middle-order slump to beat a brave New Zealand by five wickets and complete a 2-0 sweep in the ... Read more...
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India set for series sweep (Preview)
August 30th, 2012 - 3:30 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Aug 30 (IANS) After a lapse of 17 years, New Zealand face India at the Mangalam Chinnaswamy Stadium here looking to score their only third cricket Test win ... Read more...
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Final decision on 3G roaming after meeting operators: DoT
November 28th, 2011 - 10:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) The telecom ministry will soon be meeting the telecom operators on the 3G Intra Circle Roaming (ICR) issue and will thereafter take the final decision, ... Read more...
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Return 3G license fees if roaming pact illegal: Telecom biggies
November 22nd, 2011 - 9:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Leading telecom service providers Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular Tuesday sought the prime minister's intervention in the 3G Intra Circle Roaming (ICR) issue ... Read more...
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‘Kumar Mangalam will take charge of Kesoram when required’
July 5th, 2011 - 8:31 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 5 (IANS) Kesoram Industries director Manjushree Khaitan Tuesday said Aditya Birla Group chief Kumar Mangalam Birla will take charge of the company when required."He (Kumar Mangalam) will take charge ... Read more...
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Malaysia’s ‘Mother Mangalam’ turns 85
May 17th, 2011 - 12:35 pm ICT by IANS
Kuala Lumpur, May 17 (IANS) Malaysian Indian social worker A. Mangalam, who turned 85 Tuesday, is a self-confessed worry-wart who never stops worrying about her 'children'."That is my defect. I ... Read more...
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Phillips Carbon Black to persist with Evonik bid
January 31st, 2011 - 6:10 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) RPG Group company Phillips Carbon Black Ltd (PCBL) will persist with its bid to acquire Germany-based Evonik Industry, world's second largest carbon black maker, its top executive said ... Read more...
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Almost 8,000 MoUs worth $462 bn signed in Vibrant Gujarat: Modi
January 13th, 2011 - 10:04 pm ICT by IANS
Gandhinagar, Jan 13 (IANS) Chief Minister Narendra Modi announced investment promises of Rs.20,83,000 crore ($462 billion) through 7,936 memoranda of understanding (MOUs), expected to generate employment opportunities for 5.2 million people ... Read more...
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Parimarjan Negi is National Premier Chess Champion
December 22nd, 2010 - 8:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Second seed and local favourite Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi of PSPB clinched the coveted National title with nine and a half points after settling for a draw against ... Read more...
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Four of 61 missing trucks found, but no explosives (Lead)
August 14th, 2010 - 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Aug 14 (IANS) Four of the 61 trucks loaded with about 300 tonnes of explosives, which went missing in transit, were found empty and abandoned in Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh district Saturday, ... Read more...
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Madhya Pradesh cops yet clueless about missing explosives
August 14th, 2010 - 1:47 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Aug 14 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Police Saturday failed to achieve a breakthrough in the ticklish case of 61 trucks carrying about 300 tonnes of explosives going missing on way to the ... Read more...
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Madhya Pradesh police hunt for 60 explosives-laden trucks
August 11th, 2010 - 10:50 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Aug 11 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Police are investigating the mysterious disappearance of at least 60 trucks loaded with explosives between April-June while these were on way to the state from neighbouring ... Read more...
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BK Birla to continue as chairman of the group
July 1st, 2010 - 4:31 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) Basant Kumar Birla Thursday confirmed that he would continue to be the chairman of the B.K. Birla Group of companies and all the businesses would go to his ... Read more...
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Mangalam Timber offers merger with Mangalam Cement
May 3rd, 2010 - 6:26 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, May 3 (IANS) Mangalam Timber Products Ltd (MTPL), a B.K. Birla company, has offered to merge itself with another group firm, Mangalam Cement.
In a regulatory filing to the Bombay ... Read more...
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Kumar Mangalam Birla has no plans to join Kesoram board
February 18th, 2010 - 9:42 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) Kumar Mangalam Birla, the chairman of the $29.2 billion (Rs.1.4 trillion) Aditya Birla Group Thursday said he has no plans to join the board of B.K. Birla group's ... Read more...
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Nursery admissions: Some smile, others mope
February 1st, 2010 - 8:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) It was the D-day that parents of 3-4-year olds were anxiously waiting for months tiogether. And when schools Monday put up the list of children who had ... Read more...
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Ansari to inaugurate M.C. Varghese Memorial Lecture series
January 26th, 2010 - 6:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) Vice President Hamid Ansari will Thursday inaugurate the M.C. Varghese Memorial Lecture series, being organised in the memory of the founder editor of Kerala's Mangalam group of ... Read more...
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Former Mr. Delhi arrested for schoolboy’s murder (Lead)
July 30th, 2009 - 8:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Four people, including a former 'Mr. Delhi' title winner, were arrested Thursday for their alleged involvement in the murder of 16-year-old schoolboy Ribhu Chawla, who was ... Read more...
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Four arrested in Delhi schoolboy kidnap and murder case
July 30th, 2009 - 2:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Four people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old schoolboy Ribhu Chawla, police said Thursday. The four were known ... Read more...
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Delhi boy kidnapped, murdered for Rs.2 mn ransom (Lead)
July 29th, 2009 - 9:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) In a shocking crime, a 16-year-old boy from Delhi, who was kidnapped Tuesday for a ransom of Rs.2 million, was found murdered Wednesday while his ... Read more...
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Kesoram plans to invest Rs.2,000 crore in 15 months (Lead)
June 26th, 2009 - 8:17 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 26 (IANS) Kesoram Industries plans to invest Rs.2,000 crore on capacity augmentation of its cement and tyre plants over the next 15 months, a top company official said here Friday.
"Out ... Read more...
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Kumar Mangalam to head Kesoram after B.K. Birla
June 26th, 2009 - 4:19 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 26 (IANS) Kumar Mangalam Birla will succeed his grandfather Basant Kumar Birla as chairman of Kesoram Industries.
The 88-year old B.K. Birla made the disclosure while addressing shareholders at the 90th ... Read more...
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Timeline of events surrounding Satyam Computer
April 13th, 2009 - 8:00 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, April 13 (IANS) The following is the timeline of events surrounding Satyam Computer Services since its founder B. Ramalinga Raju made an abortive bid to make the company acquire two ... Read more...
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Satyam director went by ‘conscience’ to quit board
December 26th, 2008 - 8:26 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Dec 26 (IANS) Mangalam Srinivasan, who resigned as an independent director on the board of the beleaguered Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Friday said she went by conscience to call it quits."I ... Read more...
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New TV channel to be launched in Kerala
August 17th, 2008 - 7:29 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 17 (IANS) K. Muraleedharan, the state unit president of the Nationalist Congress Party and son of former Kerala chief minister K. Karunakaran, Sunday announced the launch of a new television ... Read more...
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Classrooms more disciplined than Lok Sabha, says students
July 23rd, 2008 - 11:05 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) School and college students, watching the raucous two-day debate in parliament on a trust motion sought by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, were stunned to see MPs springing ... Read more...
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Indian firms, Clinton Foundation sign deal on malaria drugs
July 18th, 2008 - 3:56 pm ICT by IANS
New York, July 18 (IANS) Four Indian and two Chinese companies will cut the price of a key malaria drug and control rates of a vital ingredient following a pact signed Thursday ... Read more...
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School children appreciate South Korean film at Osian’s
July 14th, 2008 - 6:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) School children "simply loved" the South Korean film "The Friends" during a special screening at the ongoing 10th Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival here Monday. The film is about ... Read more...
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B.K. Birla to continue as Kesoram chairman
June 26th, 2008 - 6:54 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 26 (IANS): The diversified Kesoram Industries Ltd will not be split for the time being, company chairman Basant Kumar Birla said Thursday. "The whole company will remain one," Birla said ... Read more...
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Two killed in Madhya Pradesh jail gang war
April 25th, 2008 - 12:49 pm ICT by admin
Bhopal, April 25 (IANS) Two undertrials were killed and six inmates injured in clashes between two rival groups inside a jail in Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat town, police said Friday. The trouble began ... Read more...
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Indian national in Malaysia dies in tiff with housemate
March 17th, 2008 - 3:37 pm ICT by admin
Kuala Lumpur, Mar.17 (ANI): An Indian national, M.Mangalam, has died after engaging in an argument with two other housemates.
Mangalam was stabbed to death in his 13th floor apartment in Damansara on ... Read more...
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Slain Maoist rebel’s husband vows to kill top cops
March 3rd, 2008 - 4:15 pm ICT by admin
Bhopal, March 3 (IANS) Maoist rebels in Madhya Pradesh have reportedly vowed to kill top police officials to avenge the death of their slain commander Sunanda Bai. The state police were informed ... Read more...
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