ArcelorMittal CEO Lakshmi Mittal with his wife Usha Mittal pose for photos as they arrive for the wedding ceremony of industrialist Mukesh Ambani's son Akash Ambani with Shloka Meh...
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Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal Lakshmi Mittal, left, speaks with French President Emmanuel Macron prior to a meeting as part of the second edition of the "Choose France" summit,...
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Lakshmi Mittal, left, CEO of ArcelorMittal, speaks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels.
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Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with Sajjan Jindal, Lakshmi Mittal, Mukesh Ambani and other business leaders during the Bengal Global Business Summit in Kolkata.
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Laxmi Mittal (left) greets Mukesh Ambani (right) as Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee looks on during the Bengal Global Business Summit in Kolkata.
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Steel baron Lakshmi Narayan Mittal holds the ribbon as his wife Usha Mittal(R) and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee jointly cut the ribbon to inaugurate St. Xaviers Unive...
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Forbes Top 10 Richest Indians.
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Prince Charles with London-based Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal with wife Usha Mittal at Buckingham Palace in London.
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Manmohan at an India Inc meet, with Mukesh Ambani, Sunil Mittal
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Boys' Own Steel
They have crunched numbers and drawn up graphs as malleable and supple as iron in a foundry. But, at their convocation, IIM Ahmedabad students kept their gl...
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Top of the heap Lakshmi Mittal, one of the world’s richest men and a Marwari, with son Aditya at their London home
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First families Mittal, Premji, Birla, Mallya, India Inc big guns at a global investors meet
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Running That Last Heat
There’s a flame that burns within Lakshmi Mittal (the Olympic fire won’t reach ArcelorMittal Orbit though, but he’s steeled him against that). His t...
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February 13, 2006 Asia ed
Industrialist Lakshmi Mittal with wife Usha visits Golden Temple in Amritsar.
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Men Of Industry
Sure, ArcelorMittal chairman Lakshmi Mittal and the Hinduja brothers had reason to break into grins. They’d had an easy go of it, only sticking around for the ...
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WHO Steel magnate
WHAT Britain’s richest man is
presently building a £30-million green
home in Surrey, which, along with
the sprawling 340 acres it will sit on,
will have ...
Azim Premji pledged to donate $2 billion for improving school education in India by transferring 213 million equity shares of Wipro Ltd, held by a few entities controlled by him, t...
The case is related to the running of a coking plant in the northeastern town of Lukavac, which Pramod Mittal has co-managed since 2003 and has been suspected of fraud and abuse of power.
France backs the idea of "national champions" – rejecting Mittal. But then embracing the Russians whose energy is increasingly important for European economies. Being "true European" is apparently one of the reasons for partnership.
It is time to ask: Have any of the fast globalising Indian corporates faced the sort of problems that Mittal is now experiencing in his unsolicited bid for Arcelor?
Lakshmi Mittal. And the 'cartoon controversy'. These two events last week -- seemingly unrelated -- were emblematic of how clueless the one-time colonisers are in the flashing reality of the new world order.