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Famed actor, ‘Gandhi’ director Richard Attenborough dies at 90
By By Jagdeep Worah | 25 Aug 2014
In India, Attenborough is best known as the director of the 1982 movie ‘Gandhi’ - a film that was 20 years in the planning and won eight Oscars. By Jagdeep Worah
Arvind Subramanian set to be India’s next chief economic adviser
22 Aug 2014
Arvind Subramanian will be the second economist of international repute to be appointed to a key position after former IMF chief economist Raghuram Rajan was made governor of the RBI
K V Thomas takes over as new PAC chairman
20 Aug 2014
Dr Sandeep Chennakeshu to lead BlackBerry’s innovative technology unit
19 Aug 2014
Sandeep Chennakeshu was earlier president of Ericsson Mobile Platform and CTO of Sony-Ericsson
Rajan repeats crash warning, says West’s money bubble could burst
12 Aug 2014
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan on Monday stuck to his warning of another imminent financial market crash on the lines of the 2008 global financial crisis, once the monetary bubble that is being created in the developed markets bursts
Bickson quits as Indian Hotels chief, Hyatt's Sarna to take over
08 Aug 2014
Born in Hawaii, Ramond Bickson was handpicked in January 2003 by the Tata Group’s then chairman Ratan Tata and given the mandate to take the Taj brand abroad
Ratan Tata may buy stake in e-tailer Snapdeal: report
07 Aug 2014
The online marketing business in India is projected to reach $9 billion in the next two years
Sonia didn’t become PM at Rahul's opposition: Natwar
31 Jul 2014
The former minister says his claims cannot be dismissed as outpouring of a man sacked from Congress
SC allows Subrata Roy to negotiate sale of overseas assets; no bail yet
22 Jul 2014
The court declined to alter the conditions of bail or grant Roy parole as sought by the Sahara group
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The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
By Cygnus | 28 Dec 2024
On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)
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