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Japan’s nuclear crisis worsens with third explosion
15 Mar 2011
Japan's nuclear crisis worsened with a third explosion at the Fukushima nuclear park and officials acknowledging that radioactive fuel inside one of the damaged reactors was in jeopardy of melting down.
Buffett's Berkshire buys Lubrizol for $9.7 billion
14 Mar 2011
The transaction, which values Lubrizol at approximately $9.7 billion, including around $0.7 billion in net debt, makes it one of the largest acquisitions by Berkshire Hathaway
Mobile devices increasingly impacting information environment in US: Pew Study
14 Mar 2011
Subscribers of mobile local news are younger adults who come from households that boast of higher incomes, live in non-rural areas and mostly have minor children
Realty, telecom the most corrupt sectors: survey
14 Mar 2011
France Telecom-Orange JV to buy 44 per cent in Iraq's Korek Telecom
14 Mar 2011
France Telecom-Orange will have the option to increase its indirect stake in Korek Telecom to 27 per cent by 2014 and up to 51 per cent by 2016
Mining experts in short supply, says CII study
14 Mar 2011
Radiation normal, situation under control at Fukushima: IAEA
14 Mar 2011
Allaying fears of a nuclear meltdown, the IAEA has said that radiation levels at the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear park in Japan, hit by a second hydrogen explosion, are "normal."
Second hydrogen explosion at Japan n-plant
14 Mar 2011
A second hydrogen explosion in three days has rocked Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant with no report on the extent, if at all, of radiation released through the explosion.
Kenersys opens its Baramati plant
12 Mar 2011
Failed pumping system, not reactor, caused nuclear plant blast
12 Mar 2011
The explosion at an earthquake-damaged nuclear plant at Fukushima was not caused by damage to the nuclear reactor but by a failed pumping system.
At 80 Murdoch looks to take over BSkyB
12 Mar 2011
Explosion at Japan's nuclear plant
12 Mar 2011
Raising spectres of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, one of Japan’s quake affected nuclear reactors has suffered an explosion, which has blown the roof off the building that houses it.
Canada approves $16-bn Mackenzie gas pipeline
12 Mar 2011
Controlling ‘blogosphere’ amounts to blatant censorship
12 Mar 2011
Overzealous attempts to regulate internet blog contents must not reach levels of censorship or impinge on the basic right of speech and expression, says Probir Roy
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