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Telefonica outlines strategy; expects €5 billion revenue by 2015
06 Jul 2012
Telefonica believes that it can leverage the billing relationship it has with its mobile customers to increase sales of digital goods and services
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Fukushima a ‘preventable’ disaster: Japanese commission
06 Jul 2012
The commission also charged that the government, Tepco and nuclear regulators failed to implement measures despite being aware of the risks of earthquakes and tsunamis
Gamesa expanding wind energy business to Myanmar
05 Jul 2012
ED to speed up probe into Adarsh: reports
05 Jul 2012
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Power ministry seeks higher duty on imported power gear
05 Jul 2012
The plan to levy higher duty on overseas equipment seeks to provide a level-playing field for domestic manufacturers such as BHEL and L&T against cheap Chinese imports
Cabinet refers one-time spectrum issue to EGoM
05 Jul 2012
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Serum Institute buys Netherlands's Bilthoven Biologicals for $40 million
04 Jul 2012
The first overseas acquisition by the Poonawalla Group, Bilthoven Biologicals provides Serum Institute access to technology for making injectable polio vaccine and expands its global market
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2G scam: ED claims evidence of payoffs to Karunanidhi family
04 Jul 2012
The Enforcement Directorate told the Joint Parliamentary Committee yesterday that it had evidence of separate payoffs of Rs223 crore and Rs550 crore received by the kin of DMK chief M Karunanidhi in the spectrum scam.
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Government to set up fund for pharma R&D
04 Jul 2012
To spur research and development in the pharmaceutical sector, the government is mulling a venture capital fund with a corpus of around Rs2,000 crore.
Domestic tourism growing in double digits
03 Jul 2012
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Sharad Pawar quits as head of ministers' group on telecom
02 Jul 2012
Pawar wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh citing earlier attempts to drag him into the controversy surrounding the allocation of 2G spectrum to recuse himself from heading the EGoM
SBI chief calls for listing of discoms
02 Jul 2012
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