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CBI says Raja threatened officials to favour Swan
10 Jun 2011
The CBI says former telecom minister A Raja and his staff threatened and coerced officials in giving preference to Swan Telecom and Unitech over Tata Group
Direct solar steam generation and storage for solar thermal power plants
10 Jun 2011
DLR and Endesa test direct solar steam generation and storage in a power plant for the first time
Oil surges as OPEC fails to agree on output hike
08 Jun 2011
2G scam: Kanimozhi must stay in jail, rules HC
08 Jun 2011
Kanimozhi, a Rajya Sabha MP and daughter of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, is accused of accepting a Rs214-crore bribe as a quid pro quo for out-of-turn allotment of radio spectrum
China’s ForMe enters mobile handset market
08 Jun 2011
Maran, Raja to depose before JPC
07 Jun 2011
CBI director AP Singh appears before JPC
07 Jun 2011
Statoil to sell Gassled stake to foreign funds for $3.2 billion
06 Jun 2011
Statoil will sell its 24.1 per cent direct and indirect stake to Solveig Gas Norway AS, a holding company of the funds, and retain a 5 per cent stake in Gassled.
Belgium's 3,200-km-long rail tunnel to host unique solar power project
06 Jun 2011
The tunnel top will generate an estimated 3,300 MW of electricity per year, enough to meet the average annual electricity consumption of approximately 950 families.
Trouble for Maran as CBI grills Aircel ex-owner Sivasankaran
06 Jun 2011
Sivasankaran has been alleging recently that Maran had forced him to sell his stake in the company to Maxis Communications Berhad of Malaysia in 2006, when he was the telecom minister.
NMDC to develop Minemakers' Wonarah phosphate deposit
06 Jun 2011
The Wonarah Rock Phosphate project is Australia's largest undeveloped phosphate deposit with an estimated 1.25 billion tonnes of the key raw material needed by the fertiliser industry
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