When we aspire for certain things and work hard towards securing them, we feel happy only briefly at our success. Then, there is a mental reset. What has been achieved becomes the benchmark. What is still elusive becomes the next quest or cause for restlessness. This is true of most humans. We adopt a similar…
MUMBAI: Zee Entertainment Enterprises and Sony Pictures Networks India have agreed to settle their disputes regarding their aborted $10 billion merger deal including withdrawing all complaints and claims from Singapore and India courts. Under the settlement terms, both will have no outstanding obligations and liabilities to each other. In other words, both will drop their…
MUMBAI: NSE, India’s largest stock exchange in terms of turnover and revenues, on Tuesday restarted its process to get listed, something that the bourse has been trying for over eight years now but has been delayed due to various regulatory hurdles.On Tuesday, NSE’s board gave its management the go ahead to approach Sebi for its…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of discussions on rate rationalisation by the GST Council, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that even states were cautious on moving ahead with rate cuts.“I am not blaming them…they want revenue without burdening the people…when they sit there, they know their job is not to please anyone but protect revenue,”…
MUMBAI: In much of rural India, families continue to light their kitchen fires with wood, dung and coal – a practice that exposes them to harmful smoke.Switching these families to exclusive use of LPG, a relatively clean energy, would save more than 1,50,000 lives a year due to reductions in both indoor and outdoor pollution,…
BENGALURU: Apple has named Indian-origin executive Kevan Parekh as chief financial officer as part of a planned succession plan. He succeeds Luca Maestri, who will transition from his role effective January 1, next year.Parekh, who is currently VP (financial planning and analysis), will become CFO & join the executive team, Apple said. Parekh has emerged…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday initiated a money laundering probe against Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Hospital, and others for alleged bribery and irregularities at the govt hospital since 2021.Ghosh has already undergone polygraph test in CBI custody in connection with the rape and murder of a doctor in the medical college…
KOLKATA: The streets of Kolkata and Howrah turned into a battleground for protesters and police Tuesday, leaving scores wounded in a shower of water cannons, tear gas, stones and bricks as the administration tried to cordon off the planned student-led march to Nabanna, the Bengal secretariat, over the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case.Police said at…
NEW DELHI: The entry of Champai Soren into BJP is likely to help it counter Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren‘s attempt to polarise tribals against the party in the coming assembly polls.Although BJP boasts of two former tribal CMs Babulal Marandi and Arjun Munda in its ranks, they never got much traction in the ST-dominated Kolhan…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday demanded a CBI inquiry into the alleged land allotment scam in the High Tech Defence Aerospace Park in Bengaluru and urged Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to resign, along with his son Priyank from his ministerial position in the Karnataka govt.“Mallikarjun Kharge and his family are involved in a scandal involving…
