Telecom
American Tower may buy Essar unit for $400 million
11 Dec 2009
The transaction would give the wireless tower company a controlling stake in Essar Telecom.
Nasscom event showcases start up innovations
By By Vivek Dev | 10 Dec 2009
BSNL cool to Zain acquisition: Goyal
03 Dec 2009
DoT wants 11-digit cellphone numbers by January
02 Dec 2009
The new numbering will make it possible to raise the limit for allocating new connections to 10 billion, up from the 1 billion at present
Nokia India launches new Nokia concept store
02 Dec 2009
Nokia sells Venyon stake to Giesecke & Devrient
01 Dec 2009
BSNL, MTNL expanding distribution channels
30 Nov 2009
Security experts cry foul as iPhone worm developer lands job with smartphone app development firm
30 Nov 2009
Illegal mobile phones may no longer ring
30 Nov 2009
Mobile tariff war shifts to roaming, STD charges
30 Nov 2009
Having more or less exhausted the possibilities of per-second billing, telecom operators are now turning to roaming and text message rates as the new battlefront
Telecom tariff war enters new frontiers as RCOM cuts charges to 1 paise/SMS
28 Nov 2009
RCOM subscribers, both GSM and CDMA users as well as prepaid and postpaid customers, can now send message at 1 paise per SMS
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
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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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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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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