Telecom
DoT to conduct special audit of telcos: Kamat
16 Jul 2009
MTNL seeks franchisees to market its 3G services
16 Jul 2009
India's telecom subscriber base reaches 429.72 million; revenue tops Rs40,000 crore: TRAI
15 Jul 2009
BSNL launches on-ground activation
14 Jul 2009
Telcos gross revenues of over Rs40,000 crore
14 Jul 2009
Indian telecom firms registered healthy growth in the quarter ended 31 March, grossing revenues in excess of Rs40,000 crore
Government forms ministers’ panel to resolve 3G, wi-max issues
14 Jul 2009
The Indian government has constituted an empowered group of ministers (e-GoM) yesterday that will look into the issues related to auctioning of 3G (third generation) spectrum
Public offer not mandatory in Bharti-MTN deal: SEBI
08 Jul 2009
SEBI says that South African telecom service provider MTN and its shareholders can buy 36 per cent in Bharti via GDRs without making a mandatory open offer
TerreStar-1, world’s largest commercial satellite, launched
03 Jul 2009
The world’s largest commercial satellite ever, meant for cellphones, was successfully launched Thursday, by Arianespace.
Retailers growl as Maharashtra triples VAT on mobile phones
02 Jul 2009
Retailers say that the 12.5-per cent VAT will result in a thriving gray market in the state, as cheaper handsets from states with 4-per cent VAT flooding Maharashtra
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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