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Koutons in expansion mode; to upgrade 100 stores
26 Nov 2009
Russia sources gas turbines from Japan
26 Nov 2009
Karnataka hikes power tariffs across the board
26 Nov 2009
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France Telecom, TDC merge Swiss businesses for $2.3 billion
26 Nov 2009
Through the deal, France Telecom’s subsidiary, Orange Switzerland and TDC’s Sunrise will combine to form the second-largest telecom operator in Switzerland
Obama gives India the 'nuclear power' tag
25 Nov 2009
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India commissions 18th nuclear reactor with RAPS-5
25 Nov 2009
The fifth nuclear reactor of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS-5) attained criticality on Tuesday making it the 18th nuclear power reactor to be commissioned in the country.
Magazines on the decline in India, says readership survey
24 Nov 2009
Indian newspaper readership keeps growing even as periodicals stumble, according to the latest IRS data. Jagdeep Worah reports
McNally Bharat eyes nuclear deal with Areva
24 Nov 2009
JSW Energy to launch Rs2700 crore IPO next month
24 Nov 2009
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Heritage Oil to sell its Ugandan oil blocks to Eni for $1.5 billion
24 Nov 2009
Commercial production from the oil blocks being sold will start in 2014, where analysts have forecasted a production of more than 50,000 barrels a day from 2016
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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