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Fashion e-retailers Inkfruit and Zovi merge
01 Feb 2013
US govt to block Anheuser-Busch InBev's $20.1-bn Grupo Modelo bid
01 Feb 2013
The US Justice Department (DoJ) yesterday filed a suit to block Anheuser-Busch InBev’s $20.1-billion deal to acquire the remaining half that it does not already own in Mexican Corona beer maker Grupo Modelo
Sinochem to buy stake in Pioneer Natural Resources' Texas shale gas field for $1.7 bn
31 Jan 2013
Sinochem is paying a huge premium for the purchase, primarily to gain knowledge on the drilling techinques of shale gas
Monsanto acquires Agradis and its microbe assets
30 Jan 2013
Air India to divest ground handling, MRO subsidiaries
30 Jan 2013
Operationalising the two subsidiaries would bring down the aircraft-employee ratio in Air India to global standards.
Bids for Hostess Brands now total $440 million
29 Jan 2013
Kazakh oil project partners approve ONGC's acquisition of ConocoPhillips' stake
By By Ravi Kunder | 29 Jan 2013
In November 2012, ONGC’s overseas arm ONGC Videsh had struck a deal to buy ConocoPhillips' 8.4-per cent stake in the Kashagan oilfield inKazakhstan for approximately $5 billion. Ravi Kunder reports
Goldman Sachs sells stake in China’s ICBC for $1 bn
29 Jan 2013
Goldman Sachs, which acquired a 4.9-per cent stake in the Chinese bank for around $2.6 billion in 2006, has so far gained approximately $8.6 billion from its gradual divestment
Compuware rejects Elliott Management's $2.3-bn takeover offer; to spin-off software unit Covisint
28 Jan 2013
Compuware said that it would restructure the company by cutting $60 million over three years in a bid to improve profitability
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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