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Vikram Pandit’s ouster from Citi a ‘boardroom coup’
26 Oct 2012
Citigroup chairman Michael O'Neill had worked for months on his ouster, despite the fact that Pandit had successfully steered the group out of the financial crisis and back to profitability, a New York Times report said
Branson interested in railways, not Indian aviation
26 Oct 2012
Virgin Group chairman Sir Richard Branson, in India for launching new flights connecting India with the UK and the US, says the time is not right for investing in Indian aviation, despite the recent liberalisation
I-T dept probing Gadkari’s ‘shell’ firms: report
25 Oct 2012
Satirist Jaspal Bhatti dies in road accident
25 Oct 2012
Rajat Gupta gets 2-year sentence for insider trading
25 Oct 2012
Rajat Gupta, the former Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co board member accused of insider trading, was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison and a $5 million fine
Digvijay Singh sharpens attack against Kejriwal
20 Oct 2012
Vikram Pandit quits Citigroup; Michael Corbat appointed new CEO
16 Oct 2012
The development comes a day after Citigroup reported an 88 per cent plunge in its net profit in the July-September quarter
US researchers Roth, Shapely get economics Nobel
16 Oct 2012
The 2012 Nobel Prize for economics has been awarded to Alvin Roth of Harvard University in Boston and Lloyd Shapley, professor emeritus at the University of California Los Angeles
Richard Rekhy appointed KPMG's new CEO in India
15 Oct 2012
Rajat Gupta gets Gates, Anan backing for light sentence
13 Oct 2012
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan were among 200 important people asking for a light sentence for Rajat Gupta, accused of insider trading
Rajat Gupta gets Gates, Anan backing for light sentence
13 Oct 2012
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan were among 200 important people asking for a light sentence for Rajat Gupta, accused of insider trading
Hyderabad court issues non-bailable warrant against Vijay Mallya
12 Oct 2012
A Hyderabad court has issued a non-bailable warrant against beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines's owner Vijay Mallya on charges of bouncing cheques.
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