Asian News International Unitech Corporate Parks (UCP), the London listed Unitech group firm, on Wednesday said the company has completed a deal to sell its stakes in six IT-SEZ projects in India to Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management for 188.9 million pounds (about Rs 1,850 crore).
However, the total sale proceeds are lower than the amount agreed initially in June at Rs 2,050 crore.
A new government body in the place of the old centralised model of Planning Commission will likely to be formed by the year end, as per media reports.
The PM had promised on August 15 to announce “a new institution with a new spirit” soon.
The new body will lead the country based on creative thinking, public-private partnership, optimum utilisation of resources, utilisation of youth power of the nation, to promote the aspirations of state governments seeking development, to empower the state governments and to empower the federal structure, he had said.
Indian girls are becoming more forthright than ever about their marital choices. It’s evident from a survey which shows they prefer to meet a prospective groom before his family.
The survey, by online matrimony platform www.shaadi.com, was conducted on a total of 5,800 respondents in the age group of 24 to 35 years, to understand if singles — both men and women — believe that there is ‘Someone for Everyone’.
Suspended Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has said that he is ready to test his remodeled bowling action and warned opponents that he will come back as strong as ever.
Ajmal, 37, leaves for Britain next week to undergo tests on his new action, having been suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in September following a biomechanical test carried out in Brisbane, Australia.
Sport24 quoted him, as saying here that he had applied for a visa to go to the United Kingdom, and that he was supremely confident of making a strong comeback to the national team.
An Australian intelligence agency has warned that cyber-criminals will target the upcoming G20 summit in Brisbane, saying they could include state-sanctioned hackers, trade spies or activists.
As world leaders prepare to visit the Queensland state capital for the high-powered November 15-16 meeting, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has reportedly been briefing industry about the threat.
Offering an opportunity to over 5,000 students to secure employment, Delhi University conducted a job fair for the students graduating in 2015.
“Three companies came to hire around 100 students during the first placement drive of the session. 35 students have successfully secured jobs for themselves,” JM Khurana, Dean Students’ Welfare, DU said.
The job profiles offered to these students include content writing, business development, nutritionist, customer care executive and academic coordinators. The average package offered to them is Rs 4.8 Lakh per annum, he added.
A day after the Republicans gained full control of both chambers of the US Congress, the party leadership outlined their agenda centered around job creation and economy.
In an op-ed the House of Representative Speaker John Boehner and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that they would move towards repealing Obamacare – the signature legislative achievement of US President Barack Obama – arguing that this is have an adverse impact on jobs.
The top Republican in Congress today said it was time to address US immigration reform but warned President Barack Obama would ‘poison the well’ if he acts unilaterally after the Republicans’ election victory.
Speaking a day after his Democrats suffered a crushing defeat and lost their majority in the Senate, Obama said yesterday he was ready to work with Republicans but struck a defiant tone on immigration, threatening to take executive action on the divisive issue by year end.
The Goa health authorities have advised people “not to play with monkeys and baboons” for fear of contracting the Ebola virus.
The Goa government has already formed a core committee to monitor the preparedness of the state to keep the dreaded West African Ebola disease at bay, a statement said.
The committee comprises top health officials, police, immigration officials in the state and will be chaired by the health secretary.
Among other precautions which have been advised are regular washing of your hands with soap and always consume properly cooked food.
The number of extreme climate events has risen tremendously over the past 100 years and will increase due to climate change, the Centre for Science and Environment said Thursday.
Figures presented by CSE deputy director general Chandra Bhushan revealed that the number of extreme weather events recorded between 1900-09 was 2.5, which increased to 350.4 in 2000-09.
Government is targeting doubling coal production to a billion tonnes in the next five years to meet rising energy demands in the country, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said here today.
Referring to coal as “an essential input for power”, the Minister also called for an increasing private sector role in coal production and expressed interest in new gas discoveries and ways to get gas plants back on stream.
As it attempts to unearth black money stashed abroad, India today said the Grouping of 20 major economies(G20) of which it is a member is committed to a global response to deal with cross border tax avoidance and evasion.
Tax evasion will be a key issue at G20’s upcoming summit in Brisbane which is expected to deliberate on a timeline for implementing the common reporting standards for automatic exchange of tax information by 2017. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be among other world leaders to attend the two-day summit starting on November 15.
Actress Keira Knightley, who portrayed the role of Elizabeth Swan in first three films of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, doesn’t see herself reprising the role.
The 29-year-old actress, who teamed up with Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom for the films, feels it was a great moment in her life, but she would not do it again, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Asked in an interview, whether she wishes to return to the role of Elizabeth, she said: “No, I don’t think so.
US-led air strikes in Syria hit Al-Qaeda-linked militants and an Islamist rebel brigade in a rare expansion of weeks-long raids targeting the Islamic State group, a monitor said today.
American media reported that 24-year-old French bombmaker David Drugeon, a Muslim convert who joined an Al-Qaeda offshoot, the Khorasan group, was killed in the overnight strikes.
The raids hit Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front for only the second time since the US-led coalition began bombings in the war-torn country on September 23, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay has found himself in a controversy after photographs emerged that garbage was littered on a sidewalk in posh Lodhi Road locality before he along with former AAP leader Shazia Ilmi cleaned it as part of a Swachh Bharat initiative.
The photographs showed that sanitation workers from civic agency brought garbage on trolley and littered the pavement outside the India Islamic Centre allegedly sometime before Upadhyay, Ilmi and some others cleaned the site with brooms yesterday.
Six political parties of the ‘Janata parivar’ (family) came together to present a united front against the Government in the Winter Session of Parliament and have not ruled out the possibility of a merger in the future to take on a resurgent BJP.
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav hosted a lunch for leaders of five political parties—JD(U), JD(S), INLD, SJP and RJD—at his residence here.
JD(U) leaders Sharad Yadav and Nitish Kumar, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, JD(S) leader H D Deve Gowda, INLD’s Dushyant Chautala and SJP’s Kamal Morarka attended the lunch.
Bringing together authors and translators across languages and borders, the Samanvay festival began in the national capital Thursday.
For the first time, the festival will this year host writers from Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
The fourth edition of the Samanvay – IHC Indian Languages Festival 2014 – will continue until Nov 9, featuring more than 90 speakers and performers on 20 languages and dialects.
In a major security lapse, a man claiming to be a BJP activist managed to gain entry into the swearing-in ceremony of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis here without possessing a valid pass and even reached the dais where Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sitting.
The grand swearing-in ceremony was organised inside Wankhede Stadium in South Mumbai on October 31. The man, identified as Anil Mishra, was spotted on the dais where Modi and other dignitaries were sitting, and police are now investigating how he managed to get there.
Former Trinamool Congress functionary Asif Khan, who fell out with the party after he alleged complicity of the top leadership in the Saradha chit fund scam, was late Thursday night arrested in connection with an alleged case of cheating.
Khan, a city based businessman, was nabbed from the Tiljala area in south east Kolkata by personnel of the Bidhannagar police Commissionerate and taken to the New Town police station, police said.
He will be presented in court on Friday.
Legal counsel of a multinational company was allegedly assaulted and threatened with a knife by three men outside the Supreme Court.
The three accused, identified as Anoop Das (22), Nitin (22) and Ajay (26), have been arrested, police said today.
The incident took place on Monday afternoon when the lawyer after a court hearing was about to leave in his car along with a female colleague when the trio forcibly opened the vehicle’s door and started thrashing him.
A man was today arrested for allegedly extorting money posing as an Indian Revenue Services officer also maps, photographs and video of army training camps have been recovered from him, police said.
Ashutosh Tripathi was being interrogated by the officials of Military intelligence, Air Force intelligence and Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), after some maps, photographs and video of army camps were found in his possession, raising suspicion of him being associated with some terror cell, said Kanpur SSP K Emanuel.
A car, with an army number plate, in which he was travelling has also been seized.
The government plans to set up centres for Hindi studies across the country with a view to promote the language, HRD Minister Smriti Irani said today.
“There is a need for expansion and popularisation of Hindi and for this, new centres will be set up,” she said at a function at the Central Hindi Institute here.
The minister said those contributing to the promotion of Hindi will also be given recognition.
–PTI
An Air India flight en route to Mumbai from Bangkok made an emergency landing at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here this evening, after the pilot reported an on-board medical emergency, airport sources said.
The pilot first contacted the Air Traffic Control (ATC) shortly after 9 PM and informed that a passenger had fallen sick and he would be making an emergency landing, the sources said.
Responding favourably to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ initiative, his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh that his country is keen to take advantage of the move.
Netanyahu said that Israel is ready and willing to discuss transfer and development of technologies with India.
“Israeli industries, including the defence industries, could ‘make in India’ and thereby reduce costs of manufacturing products and systems developed by Israel”, the Israeli Premier said.
Before his visit to Myanmar on November 11, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to reshuffle his cabinet by bringing in new faces.
According to sources, at least a dozen other ministers will also be inducted in the Modi government and the biggest speculation is around Goa’s CM Manohar Parrikar’s name who is supposed to take charge as country new Defence Minister thus easing the workload of Arun Jaitley who will concentrate only on the finance ministry.