Industry
Nokia may drop MeeGo as alliance sours
10 Feb 2011
2G scam: CBI report to SC due today, but probe far from over
10 Feb 2011
The Central Bureau of Investigation is due to give its status report on investigations into the 2G spectrum scam to the Supreme Court today
Government abetting safety violations by junk food majors through puppet panels: SC
10 Feb 2011
A bench comprising justices Dalveer Bhandari and A K Ganguly told the government that the inclusion of company representatives on supposedly independent panels was a clear breach of the mandate under Section 13(1) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
JSW Energy in race for Australia’s Hancock Coal
09 Feb 2011
USA’s Sprint unveils dual touchscreen phone Echo
09 Feb 2011
Telcos jittery as TRAI moots six-fold hike in spectrum prices
09 Feb 2011
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India today proposed to the government large increases in the price of second-generation (2G) spectrum that service providers use for mobile telephony
Cairn-Vedanta deal may collapse over ONGC concerns
09 Feb 2011
Petroleum minister Jaipal Reddy has ramped up the pressure on Cairn Energy, saying he would not approve the sale of a controlling stake in its Indian unit to Vedanta Resources unless the concerns of its local partner ONGC were addressed
Pune land scam over-shadows Adarsh, says high court
08 Feb 2011
In the continuing saga of scams, yet another one has surfaced, this time involving lakhs of sq metres of land in Pune, valued at a minimum of Rs3 billion.
Navy, Coast Guard capture 28 Somali pirates
07 Feb 2011
Rashtriya Ispat on major drive to up capacity
07 Feb 2011
Talks on Cairn-Vedanta deal make little headway
07 Feb 2011
The petroleum and natural gas ministry's first meeting with a joint team of top executives from UK-based Cairn Energy Plc and Vedanta Resources on Sunday failed to break the deadlock over conditions for clearing Vedanta’s proposed $9.6 billion deal for acquiring Cairn India
2G scam: Karunanidhi serves libel notice on Swamy
07 Feb 2011
Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi on Sunday served a legal notice on Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy to publicly retract his statement seeking to implicate him in the 2G scam or face a civil and criminal defamation suit
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