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Trivedi resigns; to attend party meet
19 Mar 2012
West Bengal chief minister and Tiranmool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee arrived in Delhi last night after ensuring that railway minister Dinesh Trivedi had resigned
Trivedi gets railwaymen’s backing
17 Mar 2012
Union railway minister’s exit imminent: sources
17 Mar 2012
Akhilesh Yadav sworn in as UP chief minister
15 Mar 2012
Trivedi attends house; says he is still rail minister
15 Mar 2012
Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamta banerjee today confirmed that she had written to the prime minister seeking Trivedi's replacement with Mukul Roy
Vijay Amritraj quits Kingfisher board
14 Mar 2012
Vijay Amritraj quits Kingfisher board
14 Mar 2012
Vijay Amritraj quits Kingfisher board
14 Mar 2012
Nobel laureate F Sherwood Rowland, 84, ozone study pioneer dies
14 Mar 2012
F Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the earth’s ozone layer, has passed away at the age 84
Akhilesh Yadav anointed as UP chief minister
10 Mar 2012
Widely considered to have outsmarted Rahul Gandhi in 'youth' politics, Akhilesh Yadav, son of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was today officially anointed by the party as the next chief minister of UP
Citibank's Vikram Pandit gets $14.86 mn payout
09 Mar 2012
Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit has finally reached his payday, with the third biggest US bank paying him $14.86 million in 2011, as against $1 in 2010
Yeddyurappa gets breather from court in land grab case
06 Mar 2012
The court had issued the non-bailable warrants yesterday after the accused failed to appear for the trial
Analjit Singh exits EIH in favour of RIL
03 Mar 2012
Padma Bhushan A M Naik, L&T chief, is new IIM-A chairman
29 Feb 2012
Naik, who has previously served on the board of IIM for seven years, will take over from Raymond’s chairman emeritus Vijaypat Singhania, whose five-year term ends on 28 March
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