3 months ago
Britain anoints India a superpower on Republic Day
London, Jan 27 - India is already a superpower, says Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
'My thoughts on the 60th anniversary of the Indian Constitution is that in one particular way India is a superpower already,' Miliband told a massive gathering of the Indian diaspora here Tuesday.
'India is a superpower in its soft power, a superpower in the soft force of its democracy, and superpow ...
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1 year ago
Sukumar is Mint's new editor
New Delhi, Dec 28 - Managing editor R. Sukumar is to be the new editor of The Mint, the business newspaper of the Hindustan Times group. He succeeds Raju Narisetti, who is stepping down.
Narisetti launched the paper in February 2007 after quitting as editor of the Wall Street Journal's European edition. According to the Mint, he will remain an advisory editorial director.
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1 year ago
K.K. Birla: a titan of Indian industry
New Delhi, Aug 30 - Legendary industrialist Krishna Kumar Birla was a man of many facets, with an equal passion for not just expanding his well-known, and much respected, business empire founded by his father, but also towards philanthropy and education.
Birla was for long considered the force behind the Indian sugar industry, which he joined as a 22-year-old. Besides media and sugar, his empire ...
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New York
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2 years ago
Indian blogger wins Bastiat prize for journalism
New York, Oct 26 - A Mumbai-based blogger and columnist won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism here for his regular weekly column in an Indian business daily.Amit Varma won the award Wednesday for his weekly column 'Thinking it through' in Mint business daily from the Hindustan Times group. He has also been blogging for the last three years.The Bastiat Prize for Journalism, instituted six years ago, ...
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New Delhi
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3 years ago
Vir Sanghvi joins Mukerjea's INX Media
New Delhi, March 14 - Noted journalist Vir Sanghvi, editorial director with the Hindustan Times group, is joining the INX Media group that has planned a bouquet of news and entertainment channels in different languages.Sanghvi will be the chief executive of the new company and editorial head of the news channels, promoted by Indrani Mukerjea, the chairperson of the venture and the wife of former c ...
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New Delhi
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3 years ago
Govt has no hand in Prachanda's Delhi visit
New Delhi, Nov 6 - India has conveyed to Nepal that it was not involved with a plan to invite the controversial Maoist leader Prachanda here for a conference organised by a leading media house.'We have conveyed to the government of Nepal that the government of India has no role in the organising of this summit and that this is a private event,' external affairs ministry spokesperson Navtej Sarna t ...
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New Delhi
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3 years ago
Times group picks up stake in Gujarati daily
New Delhi, Oct 10 - Close on the heels of signing a joint venture with the Hindustan Times group for launching a new daily in the Indian capital, the Times of India group has picked up a stake in Sandesh, a leading Gujarati daily.The Times of India group has picked up 12 percent preferential equity of the Ahmedabad-based Sandesh Ltd, a company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange -. This is fresh e ...
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New Delhi
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3 years ago
WSJ enters publishing pact with Hindustan Times
New Delhi, Aug 25 - The Wall Street Journal Friday said its branded pages on news and information will be published in the new business newspaper of the Hindustan Times group that is being launched in India soon.Under the pact with India's HT Media, the new business paper of the Hindustan Times group will contain news and information from the Journal, The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com and ...
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Agra
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3 years ago
A media war in the offing in Agra
Agra, July 16 - The launch of a new newspaper, Dainik Hindustan, is set to intensify the war in Agra's Hindi print media where Amar Ujala and Dainik Jagran are the major players and Dainik Aaj fights for mind space.For journalists who switched loyalty, it's a quantum jump in salaries and perks, but the mainstay of any daily newspaper - the tribe of vendors - are in a fix as rival groups are offeri ...
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