Posts Tagged ‘ Mumbai ’

Underworld goes underground 

January 8, 2011
Underworld goes underground 

  Interpol red alert subject found safe haven in Vietnam for five years   Bunty Pandey (right) was arrested in Vietnam last October. Police said Pandey had been living in Vietnam under a false identity — Vijay Subhash Sharma, 40, labor contractor—- while running his operations in India Smuggling, kidnapping, extortion and murders galore – [...]

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India pays homage to Mumbai attacks victims, martyrs

November 28, 2009
India pays homage to Mumbai attacks victims, martyrs

For Mumbai, the day is a tribute to all those martyrs who gave up their lives to ensure others could live to tell their tales. Indians take part in a candle light vigil to commemorate victims of last year’s Mumbai carnage on the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks in Kolkata, capital of eastern Indian [...]

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Indians to refine business skills at ‘finishing schools’

August 11, 2009
Indians to refine business skills at ‘finishing schools’

British training firm Speak First instructor Steve Bavister (L) conducts a class at the Indian School of Integrated Learning in Mumbai on August 5. The traditional image of finishing schools is of the Swiss Alps, where elegant young ladies from well-to-do families learn to walk, talk and make conversation before entering polite society. Now India [...]

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World’s cheapest car hits Indian streets

July 18, 2009
World’s cheapest car hits Indian streets

Customers look over a Tata Motors Ltd. Nano car sitting on display at a dealership in New Delhi, India The world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano, hits the streets Friday, as the first customer gets the keys to a vehicle that its makers hope will transform travel for millions of Indians. The head of Tata [...]

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India minister says deficit a ‘risk worth taking’ for growth

July 8, 2009

India’s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told industry leaders that the widest budget deficit in 16 years will be a “risk worth taking” to stimulate economic growth. “The basic approach of the budget was to support growth because the global recession is set to continue this year,” Mukherjee said in New Delhi Tuesday.Stocks rose after tumbling [...]

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India looks to cut out middlemen on gold

July 6, 2009
India looks to cut out middlemen on gold

A woman admires gold jewelry on display in Mumbai. Gold has long had a special attraction for Indians. Loaded with cultural and religious significance, it is considered an auspicious metal and a visible sign of wealth and prosperity. But trading in the sought-after commodity is now changing, as one company looks to secure a better [...]

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Mumbai bridge raises hopes for new Indian infrastructure

June 30, 2009
Mumbai bridge raises hopes for new Indian infrastructure

Workers clean the cable-stayed bridge on the Bandra Worli Sea Link in Mumbai After years of delays and legal wrangling, India’s first “sea bridge” opens to traffic this week, aiming to ease chronic congestion on Mumbai’s notoriously choked roads. It is hoped that the 16.5 billion rupee (US$340 million) eight-lane freeway will help cut the [...]

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Tech Mahindra outbids Larsen for control of Satyam

April 14, 2009
Tech Mahindra outbids Larsen for control of Satyam

Tech Mahindra Ltd. has wrested control of Satyam Computer Services Ltd., which is currently at the center of India’s biggest corporate-fraud inquiry. The company outbid competitors, including Larsen & Toubro Ltd., to acquire control of Satyam.Tech Mahindra needs to “act fast and successfully integrate Satyam in the next four or five weeks” to benefit from [...]

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BRIC real estate may lead Europe, US in recovery

March 30, 2009

Real estate markets in Brazil, Russia, India and China may recover faster than those in Europe and the US, helped by faster economic growth, said Colin Dyer, chief executive officer of Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. Among the four so-called BRIC nations, India and China will lead the way, the chief executive of the Chicago-based commercial [...]

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Oscar gold for ‘Slumdog’

February 24, 2009
Oscar gold for ‘Slumdog’

Neighbors of Azharuddin Ismail, who acted in ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ react as they watch the 81 st Academy Awards presentation on television outside their homes in Mumbai Rags-to-riches romance “Slumdog Millionaire” won eight Oscars Sunday, including the prize for best picture in a climactic triumph for a movie that almost failed to get released. The feel-good [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...