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Combined wealth of 100 richest Indians drops
27 Oct 2011
Rajat Gupta arrested, released on $10-mn bond
27 Oct 2011
Gupta, 62, entered his not guilty plea at a US district court today and was released after he furnished a $10-million bond
Titanium scam haunts Chandy again
25 Oct 2011
Special court grills Jayalalithaa for second day
21 Oct 2011
No bail yet for Satyam’s Raju brothers
21 Oct 2011
Jayalalithaa appears in Bangalore special court
20 Oct 2011
After hospital discharge, Yeddyurappa lands in lock-up
19 Oct 2011
After desperately avoiding being locked up in jail, former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, finally landed in a cell in a central prison in Bangalore on Wednesday, as even state hospitals denied he had any serious medical ailments.
Yeddyurappa's bail hearing deferred
18 Oct 2011
Ratan Tata conferred Swiss leadership award
17 Oct 2011
Switzerland's ambassador to India, Philippe Welti conferred the award on Tata at a ceremony at the Swiss embassy in New Delhi today
Yeddyurappa surrenders, sent to judicial custody for a week
15 Oct 2011
Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa surrendered before a Lokayukta court on Saturday evening and was sent to judicial custody for a week.
Former Galleon chief, Raj Rajaratnam gets 11 years prison sentence
14 Oct 2011
Fallen hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam was awarded the longest prison sentence ever for insider trading yesterday, following an aggressive government campaign
Union Bank's M V Nair appointed CIBIL chairman
12 Oct 2011
Three women share Nobel Peace Prize for 2011
07 Oct 2011
Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's Tawakkul Karman who stood up to the authoritarian regime during the `Arab Spring' share this year's Nobel Prize for Peace.
Apple loses its icon
By By Nithin Rao | 07 Oct 2011
The legendary founder of Apple, iconic inventor and entrepreneur, Steve Jobs, who transformed the way we create, consume and communicate with each other, is no more. By Nithin Rao
Dan Shechtman wins chemistry Nobel for 'mosaic of atoms'
05 Oct 2011
Shechtman's finding of a form of crystal whose patterns are regular but never repeat has shattered scientists' belief that all crystals consist of recurring patterns.
Physics Nobel for 3 for discovery of accelerating expansion of universe
04 Oct 2011
If the expansion continues to speed up, the Universe will end in ice, according to the scientists.
Tim Cook to take over as Apple new chief today
04 Oct 2011
Three scientists share Nobel Prize for medicine
03 Oct 2011
Dr Steinman, who used his own discoveries to fight cancer, however, died on 30 September, three days before the news could reach him.
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