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Mukesh Ambani to invest $2 bn in cable TV space
08 Mar 2016
Mukesh Ambani is muscling into the country’s cable TV sector as part of a media and telecoms offensive that pits him against his once-estranged younger brother Anil and threatens to shake up both industries
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Oil nears $40-a-barrel on demand hopes, tighter supplies
07 Mar 2016
Crude prices gained from a combination of factors, including brightening of global demand outlook, tightening supplies and covering of short positions by traders amidst bets on rising prices
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Whistleblower Dinesh Thakur takes pharma regulators to court
07 Mar 2016
Dinesh Thakur exposed how India's then largest drugmaker and his former employer, Ranbaxy Laboratories, failed to conduct proper safety and quality tests on drugs and lied to regulators about its procedures
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Drug firms ripping off patients with fixed doses?
04 Mar 2016
The US federal Medicare programme and private health insurers waste nearly $3 billion every year buying cancer medicines that are thrown out because many drug makers distribute the drugs only in vials that hold too much for most patients, a group of cancer researchers has found
Smartphones to comprise around 98 per cent of handset sales by 2020: Market research firm, iGR
04 Mar 2016
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Charges will be filed in Aircel-Maxis case: Jaitley
03 Mar 2016
Finance minister Arun Jaitley said that the Enforcement Directorate and the investigative wing of the Income Tax Department, during recent searches in connection with the Aircel-Maxis deal, have recovered several “incriminating” documents which are being scrutinised
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Thwarted by HC, Telcos move SC against call drop penalty
03 Mar 2016
Mobile operators today challenged in the Supreme Court a Delhi High Court order which upheld the call drop penalty imposed on them by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
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India ranks 90th in terms of energy security
03 Mar 2016
A WEF report says that while India is facing an array of challenges in the power sector, electrification has progressed by 4 percentage points in the last six years to 79 per cent
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HC upholds Trai’s Re1 compensation for call drops
01 Mar 2016
The Delhi High Court has ruled that regulator Trai had the power to levy a penalty on call drops, and had done so keeping in mind consumers’ interests
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Vedanta wins India’s first gold mine auction
27 Feb 2016
The Baghmara mine, at Sonakhan in Balodabazar-Bhatapara district of Chhattisgarh, about 130 km northeast of Raipur, has an estimated reserve of 2,700 kg of gold
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