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Raja No 2 in Time magazine's power abusers list
16 May 2011
The 2G scam takes the No 2 spot in the list of scandals and scams in the all-time Top 10 'Abuses of Power'.
Petrol price goes up Rs5 per litre from midnight
14 May 2011
An empowered group of ministers, which will meet next week, is widely expected to announce a hike in price of diesel by as much as Rs4 a litre.
US to tap Alaskan oil reserves, reopen Gulf of Mexico
14 May 2011
Rising international prices of crude oil has dwarfed the huge cost of drilling for oil and gas in the Alaskan National Petroleum Reserve.
Kanimozhi’s fate continues to hang fire
14 May 2011
The court is taking its time to decide on Kanimozhi’s bail plea in 2G case
US nuclear power generators fail during tests
13 May 2011
Back-up generators have failed in 33 nuclear power plants across the United States over the past eight years, in cases similar to the failure of the Fukushima plant in Japan.
Hindustan National Glass buys Germany’s Agenda
13 May 2011
Oil retailers get Rs20,000cr subsidy relief from govt
13 May 2011
The government’s total outgo in subsidy to oil firms has doubled to Rs40,912 crore for 2010-11
High prices to slow oil demand growth: IEA
12 May 2011
Facebook's smear campaign against Google ends up in fiasco
12 May 2011
Facebook allegedly hired a top PR agency, Burson-Marsteller, to plant anti-Google stories in newspapers and blogs to bash Google's Social Circle over supposed privacy concerns.
Kavveri Telecom looking to buy European firm
12 May 2011
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