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...Our holiday reading was self-selected or else dictated by the contents of musty book-cupboards in hotels: creaky memoirs by former British officers, Raj-era cookbooks, the Indian author Ruskin Bond’s popular...
...Noting the resultant risk of everything from birth defects to cancer, Pandey said the presence of the toxic metals was “a health concern directly to human beings”....
...“If elections are not held,” says Mr Pandey, “we are going to enter a very deep, dark tunnel.”...
...Nishchal Pandey, director of the Centre for South Asian Studies, said voters had sent a message that they wanted the NC and the CPN (UML), the two main parties, to work together....
...Kamal Ahmed, a Morgan Stanley investment banker whose name surfaced during the trial of Raj Rajaratnam, was fired for violating the firm’s policies on confidential information, the bank said....
...two most senior executives, Lloyd Blankfein and David Viniar, chief executive and chief financial officer respectively, are among the high-profile names on a witness list for the insider trading trial of Raj...
...Prosecutors are investigating a banker at Morgan Stanley for allegedly leaking information about a merger deal to Raj Rajaratnam, founder of Galleon, the WSJ reports....
...Kamal Ahmed, a Morgan Stanley banker, was also named, and identified in court papers as a banker who allegedly tipped former Galleon employee Adam Smith about a merger....
...After the announcement, he testified, Mr Rajaratnam told him that “Kamal was a good contact and I should stay in touch with him”....
...Mr Smith also said that Rengan sought to have Mr Smith agree that if someone mentioned ‘Kamal’, it was in reference to an investment banking analyst, not Kamal Ahmed, a Morgan Stanley investment banker,...
...Mr Smith testified he first learnt about the deal talks from his friend Kamal Ahmed, a Morgan Stanley banker, in February 2005....
...Kamal Ahmed, a Morgan Stanley banker, was also named....
...A lawyer for the banker, Kamal Ahmed, said his client is co-operating with Morgan Stanley’s investigation and he expects his client will be fully exonerated....
...After his re-election last year, Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, asked Kamal Nath, the well-known former trade minister, to accelerate the building of roads....
...Mr Nepal’s hard line is likely to fuel tensions with the Maoists, who have been agitating for their leader Puspa Kamal Dahal, otherwise known as Prachanda, to return as prime minister....
...In the middle is Puspa Kamal Dahal – a former teacher better known by his nom de guerre, Prachanda – the man making an aggressive bid to become Nepal’s next prime minister....
...Lok Raj Baral, a political analyst in Kathmandu, said: “Seeing the type of people and the parties in the coalition, I doubt they can work in tandem for long.”...
...RURAL DEVELOPMENT – Rahul Gandhi is tipped for this because it’s his subject – combine it with Panchayat Raj – or Mani Shankar Aiyar....
...The night before Mr Paulson had a taste of the new Raj, holding talks with India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh at his heavily guarded residence, then sitting down for dinner with Kamal Nath, India’s trade...
...However, Lok Raj Baral, Nepal’s former ambassador to India, says relations would not change....
...It earned most of its money in stodgy domestic industries dependent on the centrally planned “licence raj”....
...India has successfully raised production of its main cereal crops from 42m tonnes just after independence from the British Raj to four to five times that level....
...The government last Friday arrested five former ministers, among them ex-home minister Kamal Thapa, foreign minister Ramesh Nath Pandey, and former minister of state for information and communications, Shrish...
...INDIA Fireproof By Raj Kamal Jha Picador £12.99, 400 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 The new novel from author of the internationally acclaimed The Blue Bedspread focuses on the 2002 riots in Ahmedabad...
...The most headline-catching announcement last week came from Kamal Nath, the minister of commerce and industry, who promised a new law to be tabled in parliament shortly on special economic zones, where tough...
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