Yechury said more time is being given to this company to siphon off its assets and relocate them.

GJM panel to meet BJP leaders in Delhi, plans dharna at Jantar Mantar.

Chit funds and other such schemes are clearly a concern and all regulators should be more vigilant.

The state governments must have the full freedom to set up and run Lokayuktas, said Derek O''Brien.

While the first home will accommodate 100 elderly sex workers , the second one, for their daughters, will house 50 girls.

Suman has since skipped party programmes, even when Mamata Banerjee met party MPs to finalise a blueprint to accelerate development work before the Lok Sabha elections.

Bodies of six persons of a family a couple and their four daughters aged 1, 5, 8 and 10 were recovered from a guesthouse room at Tarapith in Birbhum on Thursday.

An alleged conman was arrested late Sunday for having put up in at least three luxury hotels in Kolkata for days impersonating as a senior company executive.

The police have already arrested seven persons in connection with the gangrape.

Apart from sexual misconduct, note also details his foreign trip, arbitration assignment.

Soon after sending a police team with a cheque of Rs 1 lakh for the family of the girl who was gangraped twice and died after she was allegedly set on fire by two of the accused, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Thursday promised to rehabilitate the family in Bihar if they chose to do so.

The family of the 16-year-old Madhyagram gangrape victim will meet President Pranab Mukherjee on January 7 and are likely to demand a CBI probe.

The father of the 16-year-old gangrape victim, who died of burn injuries after she was allegedly set ablaze, filed a petition before the Calcutta High Court on Monday seeking CBI investigation into the incident.

The report, however, has no mention of the investigation by the West Bengal Police.

Even as Finance Minister pulls out all the stops to narrow high fiscal deficit, the subsidy bill will overshoot the target of Rs 1.79 lakh crore in this financial year due to higher crude oil prices

Traditional retailers are giving strong competition to organised retailers and the decision to permit foreign retailers to open stores in the country will not affect small players in India, the government said today.

The Economic Survey for 2012-13 released on Wednesday said that with moderation in inflation and expected fiscal consolidation there is room for further rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

At a time when a number of public private partnership (PPP) projects are in trouble, the ministry of finance has pitched for allowing flexibility so that a contract can be withdrawn and put up for rebid when a private party underperforms

Economic Survey growth figures as a "warning bell" as these came down from 9 to 5%, said Arun Jaitley

The Survey clearly indicates fiscal consolidation will be on the back of reduced oil subsidies

UP''s sugar mills may not be in the red as they had claimed, says an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court

There is a shortage of food across the world and experts are trying to come up with ways in which the shortfall in supplies can be made up.

A vegetable vendor with an IIM degree under his belt - that''s 26-year-old Kaushalendra Prasad of Bihar who would rather...

While average rainfall figure for Uttarakhand between June and Sept stood at 1,199 mm, Doon valley received 2,240 mm

Come litchi season this summer, the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would be ready with the customary packets of the fruit...

Despite the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee giving its nod to the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal last week....

It prided itself for being the land of orchards. This year, however, many in Karnikhera village in the border district of Ferozepur in Punjab...

Since the seeds were first sown in their lands four years ago, farmers of Katpur village in Amravati district have been patiently waiting each season for wonders to happen.

Patiasa village in Muzaffarpur district is a hive of activity where Anita Kumari keeps as busy as a bee as she spearheads a revolution of sorts.

The air is cool and dry in the hills of Himachal Pradesh.

Fighting climate change, state''s new mantra is diversification plum, kiwi, cherry, apricot, peach, pomegranate and strawberry being grown in the upper hills while citrus fruits and mangoes are options for the lower hills

Successful installation of a solar pumpset in Nitish Kumar''s village shows way to farmers to look for cost-effective irrigation

Traditionally a hub of wheat and paddy crops, the state is now exporting baby corn to the UK and other European countries in a big way

Orissa plans to raise per-hectare harvest from about 8 tonnes to 33 tonnes in the next decade; to plant Grand Naine banana rhizomes over 1,500 hectares

In malnourished belt, a cooperative rescues farmers by procuring uncommon veggies.

Quick, easy returns with less investment, less space and less time. That is the crux of rabbit farming as two 'rabbit farmers'' in Punjab show how to make big bucks from this new venture,

Experts say while the decision is positive, it may not make any significant contribution

The banks together claimed over Rs 230 crore from the company, along with interest and other charges

(This story originally appeared in MumbaiMirror on May 9, 2020)

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