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SpiceJet plans to raise Rs 2,000 crore by August, increase capacity: SinghSpiceJet aims to raise Rs 2,000 crore by August for capacity expansion via aircraft leasing, with plans for another round of fundraising af...
High-flying SpiceJet investor Preeti Mahapatra once gave Kapil Sibal the jittersPreeti hit the news in 2016 when she contested as an independent candidate in the Rajya Sabha election against Congress leader Kapil Sibal ...
Mumbai-based business couple Harihara and Preeti Mahapatra to invest Rs 1,100 crore in SpiceJetThe airline said it will use the aforementioned Rs 2,241.5 crore to pay statutory obligations such as Tax Deducted at Source (TDS), Goods a...
Top corporate honchos put their money in Super Fight LeagueThe franchise owners will pay an annual fee of Rs 1.5 crore to SFL and can spend up to Rs 50 lakh on players.
Congress expels 6 UP MLAs for cross voting in Rajya Sabha pollsAICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi announced the decision in presence of senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad who was the party's authorised...
Rebellion hits Congress in Haryana, RK Anand losesSenior Congress leaders Oscar Fernandes and Jairam Ramesh were elected from Karnataka where cross-voting by rebel JD(S) MLAs enabled ruling...
SP wins 7 RS seats in UP, BSP 2, BJP and Congress 1 eachAlthough Sibal got through, the 29-MLA Congress suffered a jolt with Sibal getting only 25 first preference votes despite 8-member RLD comm...
Everything you need to know about the Rajya Sabha pollsPolling is under way today in the crucial election to 27 Rajya Sabha seats in seven states, with a keen contest on cards in Uttar Pradesh, ...
Voting for 27 Rajya Sabha seats starts todayPolling is being held today in the crucial election to 27 Rajya Sabha seats in seven states, with a keen contest on cards in UP, Karnataka ...
BJP going all out for winning Rajya Sabha seats; hoping to lure MLAs of rivalsThe party is hoping on the fragile unity of opposition JMM and Congress in Jharkhand to make good of its additional official candidate.
Cross voting a high probability in UP Rajya Sabha polls tomorrowRashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), which has eight MLAs, has promised to transfer its votes to Samajwadi Party and Congress.
Why seven contests in Saturday’s Rajya Sabha elections promise to be photo-finishesThe dramatic entry of BJP-sponsored Preeti Mahapatra as an independent candidate has made the fight for the eleventh seat interesting in UP.
Congress-BSP tactical axis a major threat to BJP in Rajya Sabha pollsThe BJP’s hope of winning Rajya Sabha seat in Uttarakhand will collapse just as its earlier plan to topple the Rawat government crumbled.
Rajya Sabha, Vidhan Parishad polls: Stage set for contest in Uttar PradeshCongress has accused Preeti Mahapatra of being a candidate who could encourage horse-trading as her entry might queer the pitch of former U...
Rajya Sabha polls: Stage set for contest in five statesSeveral BJP MLAs and members of smaller parties besides some Independents have signed Preeti's nominations, raising the possibility of cros...
Piyush Goyal, Chidambaram, Suresh Prabhu, Sharad Yadav elected to Rajya SabhaJethmalani, a former BJP MP and law minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, was elected to Rajya Sabha from RJD.
Cross-voting a fait accompli in Uttar Pradesh for Rajya Sabha electionsThe ruling Samajwadi Party has fielded seven candidates for the RS, but the seventh candidate of the party is short of nine first-preferenc...
Entry of HNIs raises political stakes for elections to Rajya Sabha; Congress, opposition candidates sweatIn most of the cases, it is BJP, which has lent its tacit support to contestants to queer the pitch of its opponents.
Nominations for Rajya Sabha polls close, contest on cards in Uttar Pradesh, HaryanaIn 403-member UP Assembly ruling SP has 229 MLAs, BSP 80, BJP 41, Congress 29, besides some smaller parties and Independents. Each candidat...
- 10-20% of CEOs fail trust vote
India Inc is not quite as fortunate as the government, with a disturbing 10% to 20% or more of its top leadership losing the trust vote for...