Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Scindia


Related Topics

In the News (Tue 1 Dec 09)

  
  Scindia Steam navigation v. De Los Santos (1981)
Scindia also submits that even if the vessel learns of the hazard, it has no duty to correct it and is entitled as a matter of law to rely on the stevedore to protect his employees from injury.
This is true, Scindia argues, even though the hazard is an obviously [451 U.S. 156, 168] defective ship's winch being used by the stevedore and his longshoremen employees,14 and even if the winch was defective when the stevedore came aboard and the vessel is charged with knowledge of the condition.
Scindia contended in any event that the winch was not defective but concedes that for present purposes the case should be judged on the assumption that it was.
www.admiraltylawguide.com /supct/Scindia.htm   (6392 words)

  
 Doon Online - Mayo Sanawar Doon - A few old scores still need to be settled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Scindia, who was 81 when she died on Jan. 25, denied him her share in the family's fabulous wealth — rumored in the billions of dollars by her closest adviser — and, most shockingly, declared that he had "rendered himself unfit even to the right to cremate his mother's dead body."
Scindia was suffering from severe memory loss in the last years of her life and question her competence to draft a new will.
Scindia derided her son's wife as a "greedy and ambitious woman" who had caused the rift between mother and son, and defended her allegiance to Mr.
www.doononline.com /pages/info_features/pressroom/press26.htm   (1333 words)

  
 The Hindu : Madhavrao Scindia, 1945-2001
TO SAY THAT the death of Madhavrao Scindia is a loss to the Congress is to understate the overwhelming tragedy of his sudden unforeseen departure.
Scindia's death is a loss to the polity itself - a fact that is accentuated in these distressing times when a dismal mixture of mediocrity and manipulativeness seems essential for political success.
Narasimha Rao, one of Scindia's main ambitions was to establish himself as a meritocrat.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/2001/10/02/stories/05022511.htm   (650 words)

  
 Madhavrao Scindia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born on March 26, 1945, Madhavrao Scindia was the son of the last ruling Maharaja of Gwalior, Jiyajirao Scindia.
Scindia's political role and influence within the Congress party grew rapidly and he was seen as a potential prime ministerial candidate.
Scindia died in a plane crash in 2001 [1].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madhavrao_Scindia   (685 words)

  
 Daulatrao Scindia - BluWiki
Maharaj Daulat Rao Shinde was a great Maratha worrior and alongwith this, he was equally good in his Nature.
Naib-vaqil i- Mutlaq Maharaj Daulatrao Shinde [Scindia] was son of Meharban Srimant Anandrao and-Sahiba Mainabai Sarkar Shinde.
Scindia took the Mughal Emperor under his protection and was then joined by all these forces of the Delhi Empire, added to his own Maratha cavalry and Telegu battalions (under Ramru the Telegu commandant), and now by a new adventurer—Le borgne de Boigne.
www.bluwiki.org /go/Daulatrao_Scindia   (3136 words)

  
 Online edition of Daily News - Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Minister of State for Railways he was universally credited with the outstanding success of modernizing the Railway system of India by the computerization of all its operations and the acquisition of new and faster trains.
His untimely death was undoubtedly a loss to the Congress; but it was very much more than that - Scindia's death was a loss to the polity itself, especially in these distressing times when a dismal mixture of mediocrity and manipulative dexterity seems essential for political success.
Scindia represented a rapidly vanishing face of South-Asian politics.
www.dailynews.lk /2004/06/29/fea01.html   (3439 words)

  
 Scindia keeps the heat on Pawar
Scindia chose Panchkandeel area of Shirur tehsil of Pune district to blast Pawar for virtually stabbing the party in the back.
Continuing his frontal attack on Pawar, Scindia said, though he was a defence minister, he did not think it fit to visit Kargil to understand the vows of the soldiers fighting for the cause of the nation.
On the national scenario, Scindia said in the event of Congress is not elected to power, then the picture will be very bleak.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990724/ipo24043.html   (476 words)

  
 Scindia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Scindia, also spelled Sindhia, Sindia, or Shinde, are a prominent Maratha family in India.
The dynasty was founded by Ranoji Rao Scindia, Meharban Srimant Ranoji Rao Shinde was the founder of Gwalior Dominious.
She was first a member of the Congress Party, and later became an influential member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scindia   (591 words)

  
 Scindia killed in air crash -DAWN - Top Stories; October 1, 2001
Scindia, the Congress party’s deputy leader in parliament, was killed after his plane left the Indian capital for the northern city of Kanpur where he had a speaking engagement, senior Congress official Ambica Soni said.
Scindia was travelling to Kanpur to address a public meeting, which was abruptly cancelled after news of the crash.
Scindia, a refined Oxford graduate and member of a former royal family, had often been viewed as an heir to Sonia Gandhi.
www.dawn.com /2001/10/01/top13.htm   (316 words)

  
 BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Madhav Rao Scindia: Princely politician
A scion of one of India's most well-known princely families, he was first elected to the lower house of the parliament in 1971 from Guna, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
Scindia's association with the Congress Party was also the beginning of his problems with his mother, Vijeraje Scindia.
Impeccably dressed and softly spoken, Madhav Rao Scindia maintained his reputation as one of India's most sophisticated politicians until his untimely death at the age of 56 in a plane crash.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1572857.stm   (371 words)

  
 rediff.com: Ramesh Menon on Madhavrao Scindia's legacy
adhavrao Scindia's tragic death on Sunday signals the end of an era for the Scindias, one of the most influential royal families in India.
The only son of Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia, who died when he was 16, Madhavrao was seen as a forward-looking politician.
Scindia was never defeated in 9 general elections
www.rediff.com /news/2001/sep/30spec1.htm   (1110 words)

  
 Excelsior... Nation
Scindia was also critical of Lakshman endorsing the highly generalised and hazy stand of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in stating that the talks with militant groups would be held within the parametres of "Insaniyat".
Referring to the economic resolution, Scindia said the contradictions between the private and public agenda of the party has become so glaring that "it cannot be swept under the carpet any more and is ultimately leading to a sharp division within the party line".
Scindia said the lifting of Quantitative Restrictions (QRs) on imports of 714 products is threatening many small scale sectors as well as agriculture, even as a serious attempt is deliberately being made to mislead the nation by onpassing the blame for this on the previous Congress regimes.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /00sep01/national.htm   (1940 words)

  
 No question of BJP forming govt: Scindia
Scindia, on a two-day tour in Maharashtra, told reporters that the BJP's act was not only anti-democratic but also dangerous for the polity of entire country.
Scindia alleged that the BJP, which had engineered defection in UP, was now involved in rumour mongering about a possible split in the Congress with a sole intention of diverting public attention.
Scindia, who is in charge of Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Orissa, disclosed that he was approached by at least 10 BJP legislators during the recently held Rajya Sabha elections there.
www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19971109/31355203.html   (535 words)

  
 Scindia, Journalists and Phoolan Devi
The death of four journalists along with Madhavrao Scindia is being mourned by the media.
On September 30 2001, Scindia (who was carelessly described by most television and newspaper reporters as Maharaja though this monarchic-feudal institution has been scrapped) was flying to Kanpur for a Congress rally.
Besides mourning the death of Scindia, he was equally pained by the death of "Ranjon" who, he told us, used to come to him (Dasmunshi) and Scindia every morning for dope.
www.ambedkar.org /News/ScindJournalist.htm   (618 words)

  
 gwalior   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Madhavrao Scindia, received a British public school education, but returned to serve his country and the people of Gwalior for the rest of his life.
A rectangular saffron flag with a diagonal red band (from the bottom-hoist to upper-fly), with a golden sun in splendour (with 8-straight and 8-wavy rays, outside of a red circle), with a face of white eyes, fl pupils, eyebrows and nose markings, red lips and tilak and chin markings, all between two white cobras.
The Gwalior Medal: instituted by Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia in 1907.
www.4dw.net /royalark/India/gwalior.htm   (1052 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | CRICKET  | Scindia killed in crash
Scindia, also a senior figure in India's main opposition party, died with seven others when their private plane crashed in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, state officials said.
The aircraft carrying Scindia crashed in Mainpuri district, some 250 km (155 miles) southeast of New Delhi, said Rajendra Bhonwal, divisional commissioner of Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur region.
Scindia, 57, was heir to the former princely state of Gwalior in central India and a former federal minister.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/cricket/1572191.stm   (264 words)

  
 [No title]
Scindia was elected to Parliament in 1971 as an Independent candidate and joined the Congress during the Emergency.
Vijayaraje Scindia was in her eighties when she died after a long illness but she had the satisfaction of seeing the BJP — a party she had nurtured since its inception as Jan Sangh — entrenched in the seat of power.
The founder of the Scindia family, Ranoji, was a Maratha sardar, born in an ordinary Maratha family, which served as the hereditary slipper bearers of the raja of Satara, who served two Peshwas, (Baji Rao I and Balaji Baji Rao) in the 18th century.
www.telegraphindia.com /1011001/national.htm   (4947 words)

  
 Daily Excelsior....News Page
Scindia, a veteran parliamentarian and rated as a Congress Prime Ministerial candidate before the 1999 Lok Sabha elections in the aftermath of controversy over Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin, was on his way to address a rally in Kanpur.
Scindia, the suave oxonian who began his political career in 1971 when he won the Guna Parliamentary seat in Madhya Pradesh as an independent backed by Jan Sangh, is survived by wife Madhavi Raje, son Jyotiraditya and a daughter.
Scindia was an avid follower of cricket and administrator of the game at the highest level — president of the Cricket Board.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /01oct01/news.htm   (7064 words)

  
 Jyotiraditya Scindia
Jyotiraditya Scindia is among the youngest in the Parliament of India.
Jyotiraditya was a natural choice for the seat not because of any dynastic claim – but for the fact that he knew his constituency well, having managed his father’s election campaigns and also having travelled with him extensively within the realms of his constituency.
Madhavrao Scindia, the erstwhile ruler of Gwalior was a nine-times elected Parliamentarian.
www.the-south-asian.com /March2002/Jyotiraditya_Scindia.htm   (410 words)

  
 CNN.com - Senior Indian politician dies in plane crash - September 30, 2001
Scindia was one of eight people -- including a senior Indian bureaucrat and several journalists -- aboard the C90 Cessna plane, flying from New Delhi to the northern city of Kanpur.
Scindia, 56, deputy head of the Congress Party, was India's former civil aviation and rail minister.
Scindia had been due to address a public meeting in Kanpur.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/09/30/india.crash   (201 words)

  
 Invader goes for the kill, rattles Scindia throne
Madhavrao Scindia is candid enough to admit the existence of the forces of change that have been sweeping across the region.
Interestingly, the Congress, as symbolised by Scindia in this part of MP, is now for the first time under the two-pronged attack of the BSP and the BJP.
Scindia's victory is almost pucca, so what's the point in staging a losing fight.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990911/ipo11058.html   (755 words)

  
 Congress mourns loss of another young face -DAWN - International; October 2, 2001
NEW DELHI, Oct 1: Thousands of Indians on Monday mourned Madhav Rao Scindia, a former maharaja and a key leader of the Congress, whose death in a plane crash at the weekend has dealt the 115-year-old party a serious blow.
Scindia, 56, Congress’ deputy leader in parliament, is the party’s second younger-generation politician to meet an untimely death within 18 months.
Scindia and seven others, including four journalists, were killed Sunday after his private plane left the Indian capital in heavy rain for the northern city of Kanpur, where he was to address a political rally.
www.dawn.com /2001/10/02/int9.htm   (330 words)

  
 Scindias, the royalty of dystopia - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Ironically, despite backing the Scindias who were influential figures in their respective parties, for several years now, not much development has come to this constituency.
The Scindias, who ruled this region for over 200 years from their capital at Gwalior, about 200 kms from here, are held in awe and reverence.
The junior Scindia won in the bypolls held in February 2002 with a staggering margin of 3.36 lakh votes.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/apr292004/iv9.asp   (851 words)

  
 Vijayaraje Scindia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Vijayaraje Scindia was born in 1919 at Sagar in present-day Madhya Pradesh, the eldest child of Thakur Mahendra Singh, a government officer, by his first wife Chuda Deveshwari.
In 1941, at the age of 22, Lekha was married to Jiyajirao Scindia, Maharaja of Gwalior, one of the largest, richest and highest-ranking 21-gun-salute princely states in India.
The fact that Lekha belonged to one of the hoariest Rajput families in the sub-continent, (albeit to an impoverished cadet branch of such), undoubtedly lent special weight, in the eyes of her husband's family, to the suit that was pressed on Lekha's behalf by her uncles.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Vijayaraje_Scindia   (1091 words)

  
 Gordonstoun School
Scindia, near the town of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh and about 250 miles south of Delhi, is an all boys 100% boarding school of 600 students aged between 10 and 18.
Scindia has been a member of the Round Square group of schools since 1982 and Dr Sharma is in charge of Round Square activities at the school.
In 1987 Scindia's Headmaster attended a Round Square Conference at Gordonstoun, returning to Scindia with a very good report on the school.
www.gordonstoun.org.uk /grdnstn/news/2002/scindia.htm   (318 words)

  
 Gwalior
The Scindia family was alloted an area surrounding the town of Gwalior.
Mahadji Scindia was rescued from the bodies left on the battlefield of Panipat by a Pathan water carrier named Rane Khan.
Daulat Rao Scindia was very inexperienced and was unable to continue the marvelous path of his predecessor, he was defeated by the British due to his French general Perron proving traitor.
www.maharaja.freeserve.co.uk /gwalior.html   (350 words)

  
 Le Roi de Lahore - Synopsis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Scindia, the King's minister, arrives to ask that one of the women of the temple, Sita, be released from her vows; Timour replies that only the king can make such a request.
Scindia tells him that he has heard that a man has been visiting her within the temple itself; they go off to visit her together.
He stops Scindia, about to enter the palace to see Sita; the people are confused to see a man with the features and voice of the dead king.
opera.stanford.edu /Massenet/RoiDeLahore/synopsis.html   (473 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.