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17 May 2019

The allocation of stocks that account for 1.15 per cent of the company’s equity shares will be made over a period of seven years, based on challenging performance criteria, including revenue growth and shareholder returns

13 May 2019

Deveshwar, who transformed the tobacco company to a diversified consumer goods company, also saw ITC group’s revenues grow ten-fold from Rs5,200 cr to over Rs51,500 crore over a 20-year period, while also ensuring compounded annual shareholder returns of 23.3 per cent

06 May 2019

06 May 2019

02 May 2019

Naruhito, like his father Akihito, has warned of the need to remember World War II "correctly," without downplaying Japan's early 20th-century militarism as also of the need to modernise the royal family

30 Apr 2019

Riyas Aboobacker, who was arrested from Kerala’s Palakkad district has admitted to plotting a similar attack in India after closely following the Sri Lankan terror mastermind Zaharan Hashim

26 Apr 2019

25 Apr 2019

Ghosn’s lawyers say prosecutors have been bringing up new charges against him, the latest being the siphoning off $5 million of cash from Nissan to a dealership in Oman

24 Apr 2019

18 Apr 2019

While multiple quick counts showed Widodo leading at 55 to 45 per cent, rival presidential candidate Prabowo said his team had evidence of cheating and claimed to have won 62 per cent of the popular vote based on internal polling

12 Apr 2019

Besides the 'Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle' of the Russian Federation, Prime Minister Modi has received a string of awards, including the UAE’s Zayed Medal, the Seoul Peace Prize from the South Korean government, the UN’s Champions of the Earth Award and the Philip Kotler Presidential Award

11 Apr 2019

Assange, who was holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for nearly seven years, was today arrested by the London police and taken out of the building

10 Apr 2019

Netanyahu had pledged to annex Jewish settlements in West Bank if re-elected, which is likely to further hinder Israel-Palestine peace talks that have been stalled since 2014

08 Apr 2019

08 Apr 2019

08 Apr 2019

I-T officials from Delhi escorted by CRPF personnel carried out the searches, while reports said the raids had some connection with the Rs3,600-crore AgustaWestland case

05 Apr 2019

04 Apr 2019

UAE honoured Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the country’s highest civilian decoration, the Order of Zayed, for reinforcing historical and comprehensive strategic ties between the two countries

26 Mar 2019

Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the CBI’s interrogation of the then Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in the Sardha Chit Fund case has brought out some “very very serious facts” and that the Supreme Court cannot “close its eyes” to such findings

25 Mar 2019

Attorney General William Barr said the investigation by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller into the alleged Russian meddling in US elections failed to prove any Russian connection to Trump and that there was insufficient evidence that Trump had attempted to obstruct justice

20 Mar 2019

Modi allegedly cheated Punjab National Bank through fraudulent issuance of Letters of Undertakings and Foreign Letters of Credit, thereby siphoning off funds worth Rs6,498.20 from PNB's Brady House branch in Mumbai while his uncle and aide Mehul Choksi has been accused of swindling Rs7,080.86 crore, also from PNB

20 Mar 2019

President Ram Nath Kovind also on Tuesday announced an eight-member Lokpal team selected from top judges and experienced bureaucrats

20 Mar 2019

19 Mar 2019

19 Mar 2019

Since the coalition partners of the Parrikar-led government had allied with BJP on condition that the government is headed by Manohar Parrikar, the then defence minister of India, the BJP, therefore, has no allies as of now