Industry
Pfizer, Ranbaxy sued over Lipitor price fixing in the US
10 Nov 2011
Pfizer and Ranbaxy have been sued for holding back a generic version of Pfizer’s cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor in the US and then fixing its price.
Lavasa gets conditional approval from environment ministry
09 Nov 2011
The environment ministry today granted a conditional clearance to the first phase of the multi-crore Lavasa hill city project, subject to “strict compliance” of terms and conditions
Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL join hands to share ad space
09 Nov 2011
Yahoo Inc, Microsoft Corp and AOL Inc have announced a partnership to pool unsold display ad space in a bid to combat the online advertising dominance of Google Inc and Facebook
US opens new areas for offshore drilling
09 Nov 2011
India wins top tourist destination award
09 Nov 2011
India has won two prestigious awards at the World Travel Market — the ‘World’s Leading Destination’ award and the ‘World’s Leading Tourist Board,’ prize, instituted by World Travel Awards in London.
Kudankulum: Centre pins hopes on talks today
08 Nov 2011
Protests over safety and environmental concerns have stalled work on the Rs13,700-crore project for over a month now.
Land scam: high court frees Yeddyurappa on bail
08 Nov 2011
2G: lid to come off Raja-Chidambaram correspondence
08 Nov 2011
Special judge O P Saini has accepted petitioner Subramaniam Swamy’s plea that he should have access to the relevant correspondence between P Chidambaram, A Raja when the spectrum and licences were awarded in 2008.
Daewoo Shipbuilding eyes German wind turbine maker Bard Engineering
07 Nov 2011
Bard Engineering is developing the Bard Offshore 1 project, a 400-megawatt park about 90 km northwest of Borkum island in Germany
TRAI proposes to relax M&A guidelines
07 Nov 2011
Kalam declares Kudankulam nuclear plant as totally safe
07 Nov 2011
The third generation nuclear reactor is totally safe and the nuclear plant is built at a correct height to ward off any threat of tsunami, according to Kalam.
Sibal expects 4G launch in 2012
05 Nov 2011
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