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The New Indian special correspondent Alok Singh, who was in Gujarat’s Anand district for the assembly election coverage, caught up with Amul Dairy managing director Amit Vyas for a quick chat. Edited excerpts: Alok Singh: Welcome to The New Indian, Mr Vyas. To begin with, please tell us about the origin of the brand name […]

In the wake of Adani Group taking over NDTV, Senior Executive Editor Ravish Kumar resigned from the television channel. NDTV president Suparna Singh reportedly sent an email to the channel’s employees informing them of Ravish’s resignation on Wednesday, November 30 and that the company has accepted it. This comes a day after NDTV founders Prannoy Roy […]

In more proof of growing warmth between Shivpal Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav, the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party-Lohia founder Shivpal Singh Yadav founder on Wednesday asked people to call the Samajwadi Party chief as Chhote Netaji as they used to call party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav as Netaji. Addressing an election rally in Jaswant Nagar in Mainpuri […]

Jailed Trinamool Congress strongman Anubrata Mondal on Wednesday approached the Calcutta High Court, seeking bail in the multi-crore cattle smuggling case. Mondal, the TMC president of Birbhum, is being investigated by two central agencies – the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED). While the CBI is probing his role in cattle […]

Gautam Adani-run Adani Group won the government tender for Dharavi redevelopment project for Rs 5,069 crore, beating DLF Group that submitted a bid of 2,025 crore, on Tuesday. The Maharashtra government authorities, on November 29, opened the financial bids for the redevelopment of Dharavi, the largest slum cluster in Asia. The winner was selected on […]