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2G scam: Raja took bribes via hawala deals, ED tells SC
15 Mar 2011
The multi-crore rupee foreign transactions relating to the 2G-spectrum scam have been traced to at least six countries
Bangalore bans thin film polythene bags
15 Mar 2011
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Fukushima: Lack of transparency worries experts
15 Mar 2011
With the nuclear crisis gaining momentum by the hour questions are now being asked as to how transparent the Japanese authorities are in disseminating information?
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Fukushima: Burning spent fuel rods spiked radiation levels
15 Mar 2011
Burning spent fuel rods, which are radioactive and still lying in a pool adjoining a nuclear reactor, may have been responsible for a spike in radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear park.
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Japan’s nuclear crisis worsens with third explosion
15 Mar 2011
Japan's nuclear crisis worsened with a third explosion at the Fukushima nuclear park and officials acknowledging that radioactive fuel inside one of the damaged reactors was in jeopardy of melting down.
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Buffett's Berkshire buys Lubrizol for $9.7 billion
14 Mar 2011
The transaction, which values Lubrizol at approximately $9.7 billion, including around $0.7 billion in net debt, makes it one of the largest acquisitions by Berkshire Hathaway
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Mobile devices increasingly impacting information environment in US: Pew Study
14 Mar 2011
Subscribers of mobile local news are younger adults who come from households that boast of higher incomes, live in non-rural areas and mostly have minor children
Realty, telecom the most corrupt sectors: survey
14 Mar 2011
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France Telecom-Orange JV to buy 44 per cent in Iraq's Korek Telecom
14 Mar 2011
France Telecom-Orange will have the option to increase its indirect stake in Korek Telecom to 27 per cent by 2014 and up to 51 per cent by 2016
Mining experts in short supply, says CII study
14 Mar 2011
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Radiation normal, situation under control at Fukushima: IAEA
14 Mar 2011
Allaying fears of a nuclear meltdown, the IAEA has said that radiation levels at the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear park in Japan, hit by a second hydrogen explosion, are "normal."
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Second hydrogen explosion at Japan n-plant
14 Mar 2011
A second hydrogen explosion in three days has rocked Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant with no report on the extent, if at all, of radiation released through the explosion.
Kenersys opens its Baramati plant
12 Mar 2011
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Failed pumping system, not reactor, caused nuclear plant blast
12 Mar 2011
The explosion at an earthquake-damaged nuclear plant at Fukushima was not caused by damage to the nuclear reactor but by a failed pumping system.
At 80 Murdoch looks to take over BSkyB
12 Mar 2011
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Explosion at Japan's nuclear plant
12 Mar 2011
Raising spectres of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, one of Japan’s quake affected nuclear reactors has suffered an explosion, which has blown the roof off the building that houses it.
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