Pantaloon or Pantaloons. During the French Revolution (1789-1799), the male citizens of France adopted a working-class costume including ankle-length trousers, or pantaloons from a Commedia dell'Arte character named Pantalone. The English novelist Bruce Chatwin gave the legendary note book brand Moleskine its name.        Kalashnikov, the Russian manufacturer of the assault rifle AK47. Norway. It introduced it in 1912. Bloatware TRESemme, the hair care product now owned by Unilever. Coca-Cola. Both of them have sub brands called Elements. Recently Amazon launched its Elements brand of diapers.  Harvard Business Review The Japanese company Takata Corporation. Established in 1933, it considers itself a company that is in the business of protecting human life. Recently, it faced a major crisis when it had to recall its safety air bags that are used by almost 20 per cent of car brands around the world.There was no correct entry for quiz No. 387.

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Connect the first American woman to fly as a passenger in an airplane, a French fashion designer whose contributions to his field have been likened to Picasso's legacy in 20th-century art and the description of the distinctive packaging of a global brand that set its apart from its many imitators. What do you arrive at.  Which brand shot in to prominence and became all the more popular after Marlon Brando was dressed in it for the movies  The Wild One and A Streetcar Named Desire and Marilyn Monroe for the movie The Misfits? The CEO of which company has been quoted as follows: "It was in the ____store in 1979, a French press of Sumatra changed my life, I still have a French press 3-4 times a day"? Fill in the blank too. In the early 1800s the owner of a failing vineyard in Reims, France, was felled by typhoid. His wife who was 27 then invested her own inheritance in her husband's business and took over. Though the product they were selling was not yet widely popular in France, she sh

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The right-wing believes preventing conversions will complement the Prime Minister's development agenda and consolidate political gains

Conversion: Fuelled by faith, love, politics

Alleges that cancellation of plot, houses allotted under DQ done in haste

Cabinet decision not to stand legal test, says BJP

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Centre had asked Odisha government to re-submit the proposal for PL over notified area of the lease

Centre to convene meet soon to discuss PL grant to Posco

Steel industries operating without iron ore leases or firm linkages at last have a reason to cheer. The units have been allotted 4.2 million tonne of iron ore by the end of this fiscal to run their units starved of the raw material.The allotment is for the January-March quarter of the current fiscal.The allotment of iron ore is being done as per the December 5, 2012 resolution of the state government. Through this resolution, the government sought to make it mandatory for mine lessees without end-use plants, to sell at least 50 per cent of their extracted iron ore to state based consuming industries. Its implementation got delayed as the matter was locked up in litigations until the Odisha High Court finally gave its ruling in favour of the government in April this year."This is a major victory for all the state based steel industries. After two years of the resolution, it has been finally implemented. We have been fighting for this cause and at last our hopes have been realised", said

Steel units to get 4.2 mnt iron ore from private miners

On a backfoot following the arrest of minister Madan Mitra in Saradha chit fund scam, senior Trinamool Congress leader and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee today questioned why the CBI is not arresting CPI(M) leaders during whose rule such companies mushroomed in the state.Those involved in mushrooming of chit fund business in Bengal were now taking out rallies and shedding crocodile tears, Chatterjee said without naming the CPI(M).After meeting Governor K N Tripathi, he said, "The Supreme Court has asked the CBI to investigate the scam. But in the name of investigation, the CBI is arresting only TMC leaders. If they feel that TMC leaders are culprits let them chargesheet them. But the CBI is being used to crush our prestige.""We have said that money should be returned to all people who have lost their deposits since 1980s in chit funds."Why the people under whose rule chit fund business started in state were not arrested?"Chatterjee who was accompanied by other state m

TMC wonders why no CPI(M) leader not arrested in Saradha scam

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Tata Chemicals, the 75-year-old company, is planning to expand its consumer and agro business. In the consumer segment, the company is eyeing a four-fold rise in revenues in the next three to four years. The expansion, however, will be at the cost of its fertilizer and soda ash businesses, the core businesses for the company. TCL is the second largest producer of soda ash with footprint in Europe and Africa.TCL is going through a restructuring programme to prune its debt. "The petrol-based plants in the UK and Kenya have been closed down and replaced by a steam turbine as part of the restructuring exercise which will help us to pare debts, " said P K Ghose, executive director and CFO, Tata Chemicals Limited." We are increasing our consumer products business and aim to increase our turnover to Rs 4,000 crore in next four years," said Ghose on the sidelines of the launch of "Salt of the Earth: The Story of Tata Chemicals". The company, at present, earns revenues of Rs 1,000 crore from th

Tata Chemicals to target FMCG market

Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy today said that construction of the Phase-I of Smart City Kochi will be completed by March,2015.Chandy said that the Phase-I would be officially launched on June 1, 2015, which will provide employment to 6,000 IT professional. Construction of the Phase-II of the project will commence next year itself, he said.

Phase-I of Smart City Kochi by next March

TUV SUD South Asia, a testing and certification services company, has launched its second environmental testing laboratory in Chennai to offer testing services to organisations to comply with legal norms concerning environmental regulations.The lab is expected to offer a comprehensive range of services in all environmental matrices, including, air, water, sediment, soil, solid waste, waste water and petroleum products. With the launch of the lab, the company ha also shifted its existing office to the new facility.

TUV SUD South Asia sets up lab in Chennai

The power generation (gensets) business of Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited (KOEL) has been changed to KOEL Green. According to KOEL, the new brand identity reflects its commitment to serve the market with energy efficient and smart products.Speaking to mediapersons today, KOEL vice-president and business head Sanjeev M Nimkar said the market prospects for organised gensets manufacturers had improved with the introduction of benchmark European standard pollution norms for genset manufacturers in the country."The influx of Chinese-made gensets in the domestic market had fallen to a record level with the adoption of latest industry norms. This is a breathing period for the gensets industry. However, we see Chinese returning the Indian market with the benchmark products in another six months to one year," Nimkar said.With an improvement in the overall economic condition in the country, he expects the company to clock a 15 per cent growth in turnover this financial year. Last fiscal, it had c

Kirloskar Green is now KOEL Green

The Andhra Pradesh government has constituted a committee with the state's special representative in Delhi, Kambhampati Ramamohan Rao, special chief secretary (planning) SP Tucker and principal secretary (energy) Ajay Jain to pursue Japanese investments.Chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu asked the committee to identify the sectors that the Japanese companies are interested to invest in and also work with the administration in securing speedy clearances for their investment proposals.Japanese ambassador Takeshi Yagi, who met the AP chief minister today, informed that his country had identified a separate investment task force for AP. The task force will look for prospective investors, coordinate their visits and work closely with the state government, according to the chief minister's office.Ambassador Yagi also evinced interest in joining AP in concept master-planning of the capital city, the chief minister's office said.

AP forms panel for Japanese investments

Company will market the product in the US market

Dr Reddy's closes acquisition of Habitrol brand

BS REPORTER Hyderabad, 19 December National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has approved a Rs 18.3-crore loan to Hyderabad-based talent and skill development firm Skillpro.The proposal to provide funding to Skillpro to help augment its capacity and train 500,000 individuals with employability skills in the next two to three years was among the 160 such proposals cleared by the board of NSDC as part of its mandate to improve youth employability.  The NSDC funding, which comes in three to four 4 tranches, coupled with another Rs 7 crore from its own sources, would help Skillpro create 220 skilling centres in the country in the next three years. Skillpro currently runs more than 50 skill centres across 16 states."NSDC supports funding any sustainable programme, which skills at least 50,000 over a period of 10 years. We have so far cleared Rs 630 crore to support industry players take forward the employability programmes," Dilip HM Chenoy, managing director and chief executive officer

NSDC to provide Rs 18.3-crore loan to Skillpro

BS ReporterHyderabad, 19 December: Suven Life Sciences chairman and CEO Venkat Jasti along with his family members have transferred the entire 59.44 per cent equity held by the promoters group to his father Subba Rao Jasti , according to a disclosure filed with both the stock exchanges by the company on Friday.  The move is a first step towards the creation of a family trust that would take care of the promoter group's holding in the company as was done by other Hyderabad-based companies as a part of the succession plan.  When contacted, Venkat Jasti said they expect to complete the process by March next year. The entire volume of 75.65 million shares of face value of Rs 1 have been acquired by Subba Rao, also a member of the promoters group, by way of gift, the company said in its filing. Prior to the acquisition Rao had held just 7,576 shares ( 0.001 per cent of the total equity). Venkat, a post graduate in pharmacy from St. John University, New York, specialising in industrial pharm

Venkat transfers promoters' equity to father, to set up a family trust at Suven

On his first official tour of Tamil Nadu after taking over as party chief, BJP President Amit Shah will arrive in Chennai Saturday on a two-day visit on which the party has set its sights for making inroads ahead of the 2016 assembly elections. Shah is scheduled to address a public rally at Maraimalainagar near the city and meet BJP workers on Sunday, party sources said.

Amit Shah to arrive in TN today

Flaying the AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu over Karnataka's move to build a check dam across river Cauvery, DMK president M Karunanidhi today charged it with being 'unconcerned' about the issue.He alleged that Karnataka was in the 'forefront' of acting against the interests of people of Tamil Nadu in the inter-state river issue. "While opposing this, I also condemn the government of the day in Tamil Nadu which is not concerned about this," he told reporters here when asked about the issue.Protests have erupted in Tamil Nadu, especially in the Cauvery delta districts, over Karnataka's decision to construct check dam across the river at Mekedatu.

Karunanidhi targets K'taka

The heart of a brain dead child was airlifted from HAL Airport in Bengaluru to Chennai for transplantation after police created a "green corridor" to enable its unhindered transportation. The heart of the 2 years 10 months old brain dead child was taken from Manipal Hospital here to a Chennai hospital to transplant it to a child aged two years and eight months. City traffic police said they created a "green corridor" to facilitate unhindered transportation of the donor's heart from Manipal Hospital to HAL Airport- about 2.2 kms. The child was declared brain dead last night and after taking consent from the patient's family, hospitals in the neighbouring states were alerted, Manipal Hospital officials said.Following this, representatives from Chennai hospital arrived at Manipal hospital and after completing all the medical procedures the heart was carried to HAL Airport in an ambulance and from there it was flown to Chennai, they said. Father of the donor child said, "The doctor told us

Heart airlifted to Chennai

'About 22,000 of 54,000 of malnourished children are in North Karnataka'

Committed to North Karnataka's devt: CM

Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy would be organizing Konkani Sahitya Sammelan here tomorrow. Veteran writer and Nrupatunga award winner Veerabhadrappa would inaugurate the Sammelan, Konkani Sahitya Academy president Roy Castelino said in a statement here.Renowned Konkani writer Edwin Netto would preside. Associate Professor in Karnataka University, Shobha Neelavar, MLA J R Lobo, MLC Ivan D'Souza and others would take part in the inaugural, he said. Various achievers in the language would be honoured during the programme. A mega novel, 'Unya Bhavadthache' by Edwin J F D'Souza and 'Ayeraso Book' and a collection of poems by Andrew L D Cunha would be released on the occasion. A colourful cultural procession would be taken out to mark the valedictory function at 4 pm on the same day, Castelino said

Konkani Sammelan on Dec 20

Karnataka Legislative Council today passed Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Science University (amendment) Bill 2014, The Karnataka Municipalities and Certain Other Law (Amendment) Bill 2014 and The Karnataka Court Fees And Suits Valuation (Amendment) Bill 2014. The Indian Succession (Karnataka Amendment) Bill 2014 and The Karnataka Essential Services Maintenance Bill 2013 were also passed. The Assembly passed all these bills earlier. Members of main opposition BJP were in the well of the House when the bills were introduced and passed without debate.BJP was protesting against not being allowed to debate on three Karnataka ministers, whom it called "tainted" over corruption and land grab charges.

Council passes Bills amid protest

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