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When you have spent decades in the truck-making business, you have a sense of what is coming around the corner. For that reason alone perhaps it is instructive to listen to Managing Director R. Seshasayee's troubles in running a new factory in Pantnagar, Uttarakhand.
Set up around 11 months ago, the commercial vehicle maker had spent close to Rs 1,300 crore on the latest technology and a world- class industrial architecture at a plant sprawled over nearly 200 acres and of 75,000 vehicles capacity a year. Pride-swollen chests gave way to severe headaches by December, though. The roads connecting the plant were choked. "We had ramped up our production but soon faced serious challenges. We could not get our supplies in nor could we move out the fully built chassis," says Seshasayee, which...
... Pranab Mukherjee presents the 2011-12 Union Budget in Parliament on February 28, there will be...Party President Sonia Gandhi's call to her senior leaders and party workers to ...
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At about this time, V. S. Vijayan, a scientist at the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), sent a telegram to the Union power ministry, pleading that it hold off from clearing the project until his agency's ecological report was completed.
... is getting polluted like any other Indian landscape, with its verdant greenery being consume...Menon wrote to then prime minister Indira Gandhi seeking her help in protecting the rainforests. Al...
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...Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister in 1991, even though it is ... 30 European nations including all European Union member states. At the end of 2006, the EPO had 6,5...
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...Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister in 1991, even though it is ... 30 European nations including all European Union member states. At the end of 2006, the EPO had 6,5...
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... has alleged that former PM Rajiv Gandhi led the massacre of Sikhs in Delhi in the aftermat..., Rajiv Gandhi was responsible for allowing Union Carbide chief Warren Andersen to flee from the cou...
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... reverence the last consignment of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes were immersed in the Arabian sea. At 10.58...Union minister for home affairs Shivraj Patil, deputy ch...
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Champakam Dorairajan Vs State of Madras 1951
Well before Arjun Singh, this case concerning admissions of backward classes to educational institutions led B.R. Ambedkar, then the law minister, to pilot the first-ever amendment to the Constitution.
...Madhav Jiwaji Rao Scindia Vs Union of India 1970. The Supreme Court rejected a 1970 p...Indira Gandhi Vs Raj Narain 1975. Indira Gandhi declared Emergen...
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It happens only in India. One Mamata Banerjee, 40,000 furious protesters and a coalition of unnatural allies shut down a highway, hold a state to ransom and drive out an iconic investor like Ratan Tata and investments worth Rs 1,500 crore.
It didn't matter to the politicians that this also meant loss of 10,000 jobs that would have been created. Ranging from the Jamat-e- Islami to Samajwadi Party to CPI-ML and activists like Medha Patkar, many have forged a common cause in questioning the allotment of farm land to Tatas.
West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi has met Trinamool Congress representatives thrice ... price of land in the area shoots up," says Union Commerce Secretary Gopal Pillai. Singur farmers we...
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Sonia Gandhi goes to Kerala only to discover that Sharad Pawar, the Agriculture Minister in the Manmohan Singh Cabinet, is campaigning for the other side. There is no shortage of surprises in Elections 2006.
RICH AND RICHER
..., Trinamool leader and brother of former Union minister Ajit Panja, died of a heart attack. And l...
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...Patil, with Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by her side, and... make way only for select CMs, veterans from Union cabinet, and women leaders - Ambika Soni, Jayanthi...