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Mallya to quit as chairman of Bayer CropScience
22 Jun 2016
'Yogi' Deveshwar to step down as ITC chief in February
22 Jun 2016
Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, who led tobacco company ITC Ltd to a diversified group with interests in farming to hotels and information technology over a 20-year period - the longest in Indian corporate history - is finally stepping down
'Yogi' Deveshwar to step down as ITC chief in February
22 Jun 2016
Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, who led tobacco company ITC Ltd to a diversified group with interests in farming to hotels and information technology over a 20-year period - the longest in Indian corporate history - is finally stepping down
'Yogi' Deveshwar to step down as ITC chief in February
22 Jun 2016
Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, who led tobacco company ITC Ltd to a diversified group with interests in farming to hotels and information technology over a 20-year period - the longest in Indian corporate history - is finally stepping down
Nikesh Arora to step down as SoftBank COO, assume advisory role
21 Jun 2016
SoftBank president and chief operating officer Nikesh Arora, who was tipped to become its next CEO, will step down tomorrow over differences with current CEO of the group Masayoshi Son
Indian, world business disappointed as Rajan calls it a day
20 Jun 2016
Announcing that he would return to academia after his term as RBI governor ends in September, Raghuram Rajan strongly hinted that he was leaving an unfinished agenda as the government was not keen to give him a second term
Visium’s Sanjay Valvani charged with insider trading
16 Jun 2016
Manhattan attorney Preet Bharara has charged Sanjay Vasvani of Visium Asset Management with trading on confidential tips about generic drug approvals by the FDA
Clinton clinches nomination, talks with Sanders
15 Jun 2016
The two agree on raising wages for working families, eliminating undisclosed money in politics and reducing the cost of college for students and their families, and on defeating Donald Trump
AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes receives Overseas Citizenship of India
14 Jun 2016
OCI confers the same privileges that are enjoyed by non-resident Indians
AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes receives Overseas Citizenship of India
14 Jun 2016
OCI confers the same privileges that are enjoyed by non-resident Indians
Blow to Mallya as special PMLA court declares him proclaimed offender
14 Jun 2016
A person can be termed a proclaimed offender in a criminal case if the court has reasons to believe that the accused against whom a warrant of arrest has been issued has absconded or is concealing himself so as to avoid arrest
Steve Jobs did not create iPhone, US government did, says Nancy Pelosi
13 Jun 2016
US government deserves more credit for the iPhone as most of its features were based on federal investment, research and breakthroughs, says the lawmaker
No legal basis for attaching properties, says Mallya
13 Jun 2016
Mallya, a former Rajya Sabha member and chairman of United Breweries Group, said the ED’s move seems to have motives and that it would make it difficult to raise money to repay loans to banks
No legal basis for attaching properties, says Mallya
13 Jun 2016
Mallya, a former Rajya Sabha member and chairman of United Breweries Group, said the ED’s move seems to have motives and that it would make it difficult to raise money to repay loans to banks
Ratan Tata invests in e-ticketing firm Kyazoonga
11 Jun 2016
Patriarch of Silicon Valley Thomas J Perkins dead
11 Jun 2016
The founder of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers virtually invented venture capitalism as we know it now, putting relatively small amounts of money into, and then mentoring, promising start-ups, including Amazon and Google
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