New Delhi, The Parikh family, founder and promoter of ZCL Chemicals Limited (ZCL), announced on Thursday that it has sold the entire stake in the company to Advent International, one of the largest private equity investors, for an equity value of Rs 2,000 crore.

Pusuant to the signing of definitive agreements

Chennai,  With the conciliation meeting between bank unions and the Central government failing, about 10 lakh bank employees will strike work for two continuous days - March 15 and 16 - protesting against the government decision to privatise public sector banks, the All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) sai

New Delhi,  K.A. Rauf Sherif, the national general secretary of the Campus Front of India (PFI), the student wing of Popular Front of India (PFI), received more than Rs 1.36 crore from the members of the group residing abroad, an Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation has revealed.

The ED charge shee

Chennai,  The supporters of AIADMK MLA Amman Arjunan staged protests and blocked roads in Coimbatore after the party allocated the seat to its ally, the BJP.

Mahila Morcha national president Vanathi Srinivasan is likely to be the BJP candidate from the South Coimbatore seat.

AIADMK ward un

Kolkata,  Injured West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday vowed to get back to canvassing for the upcoming Assembly elections within the next couple of days.

Releasing a video clip from her hospital bed at SSKM where she was rushed to late Wednesday, the Trinamool Congress supremo said: &q

New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off a 'Padyatra' (March) from Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat on Friday and launch various initiatives planned under 'Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav' to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of India's Independence.

The padyatra will be jo

Lucknow,  Dinesh Patel, a resident of Rajmalpur village of Jaunpur district and a Computer Science teacher at Kendriya Vidyalaya at IIT Bombay, has developed a robot named 'Shalu' which speaks nine local languages and 38 foreign languages.

Inspired by the Bollywood movie 'Rob

Lucknow, A number of former bureaucrats in Uttar Pradesh have now appealed to the protesting farmers to end their agitation as the new farm laws are in their interest.

This comes a day after some former bureaucrats had announced their support to the farmers' agitation.

In a signed statement

Patna,  Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday attacked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying that 'the real liquor mafia of Bihar was the chief minister himself'.

While interacting with media personnel here at a press conference, Tejashwi also levelled serious allega

Amaravati, Telugu Desam Party General Secretary Nara Lokesh on Thursday condemned the arrest of party leader Kollu Ravindra and hit out at the YSR Congress government over its "oppression".

Accusing state Information and Public Relations Minister Perni Venkatramaiah of being behind the episode, he said: