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Coalgate: SC stays trial court summons to Manmohan Singh, others
01 Apr 2015
The stay also applies to the summons issued to Hindalco chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, former coal secretary PC Parakh and three other accused, including Hindalco and its officials Shubhendu Amitabh and D Bhattacharya
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Anti-tobacco activist Tomar writes to PM from death-bed
01 Apr 2015
“You have started to take people along in your `Mann Ki Baat’ where you recently talked about de-addiction. I hope you will also take up the cause of tobacco,” She wrote
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China plans massive space power station
31 Mar 2015
The futuristic power station would convert the generated electricity to microwaves or lasers and transmit it to a collector on earth
Federal officials considering ending FTC’s legal prohibition on regulating internet providers
31 Mar 2015
Bankrupt RadioShack looks to sell customer data
31 Mar 2015
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UnitedHealth to buy pharmacy benefit firm Catamaran for $12.8 bn
31 Mar 2015
US health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc yesterday struck a $12.8-billion all-cash deal to buy Catamaran Corp that would see the merger of the third and fourth-largest pharmacy benefit companies in the US
Delhi Govt bans chewable tobacco
30 Mar 2015
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Switzerland's Dufry to buy majority stake in World Duty Free for $3.8 bn
30 Mar 2015
Switzerland's duty-free shop operator Dufry AG has agreed to buy a 50.1 per cent majority stake in smaller Italian rival World Duty Free S.p.A, controlled by the Benetton family, aiming to create the world’s biggest travel retailer
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IAEA slams India's lax nuclear safety regulations
27 Mar 2015
The UN nuclear watchdog wanted India to promulgate a national policy and strategy for nuclear safety, and radioactive waste management, even as it noted that India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board lacked independence and internal emergency arrangements
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Govt to invest $10 bn in semiconductor units in Gujarat, UP
27 Mar 2015
Jaiprakash Associates and Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing have teamed up with the likes of IBM, TowerJazz and STMicroelectronics to set up electronic chip manufacturing units in Greater Noida in UP and Gandhinagar in Gujarat
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India to make unusual 9% cut in gas prices from 1 April
27 Mar 2015
Meant to reflect falling global prices, the move to cut LNG prices would benefit power producers and domestic consumers, but may hurt upstream producers like ONGC
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