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Movers Shakers Mar 15 (14 March 03:05) |
| ● Aviva Investors has hired Jiten Joshi as head of knowledge services. Mr Joshi, who used to be director for special situations investing at Pali Capital, will lead a team of credit analys... |
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Cultural cornucopia (13 March 06:25) |
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Mystery Shopper Kurtis and cattle in Mumbai (13 March 06:15) |
| Anxiety set in as my aircraft taxied down the runway of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai. Although my four-day business conference offered many "optional" activities in an... |
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Two shows that further our love of India (13 March 03:35) |
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India tells Putin of Afghan fears (13 March 02:20) |
| India is calling on Russia to reach out to Afghanistan's neighbours to start preparing a strategy for when Nato forces pull out to prevent extremist forces destabilising central Asia and sou... |
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Politics puts fast spin on Indian cricket (13 March 01:40) |
| It was yet another high-profile international commercial deal for the Indian Premier League. |
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Matthew Vincent Dont play the percentage game - and lose (13 March 12:10) |
| Is anyone a fan of playing the percentage game? When was the last time you ever found yourself saying, "What a marvellous display of cautious pragmatism"? |
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India and Russian to intensify Afghan talks (12 March 09:40) |
| India on Friday said it had agreed to "intensify" negotiations with Russia over the future of a post-Nato Afghanistan. |
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Putin in New Delhi arms sale talks (12 March 05:00) |
| Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, will be fighting to maintain his country's supremacy as India's largest arms supplier as he arrives for talks in New Delhi on Friday. |
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Bosch locks out staff amid India unrest (12 March 04:30) |
| Bosch, the German car parts supplier, is facing escalating industrial unrest in India, leading it to declare a lock-out at one of its factories this week. |
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Soviet diplomacy (12 March 01:40) |
| Russia is trying to rekindle an old flame. Vladimir Putin, the ultra-powerful prime minister, visited India this week - a country that, for decades, was a close ally of the USSR. In his gift... |
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Indias ONGC and Russia in energy pact talks (12 March 01:20) |
| India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp is in talks with Gazprom and Rosneft over taking equity stakes in oil and gas projects in Russia to help cement an energy partnership between New Delhi and M... |
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TPG sells Asia healthcare stake for $685m (11 March 05:30) |
| TPG has sold its minority stake in one of Asia's biggest listed healthcare groups for $685m to an Indian corporate buyer, in another lucrative exit in the region for the global private equit... |
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CME and Eurex in cross-listing deals (11 March 06:35) |
| Two of the world's biggest derivatives exchanges in the US and Europe announced cross-listing agreements with their Asian counterparts on Wednesday in a sign that cross-listing represents an... |
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Putin seeks to bolster links with New Delhi (11 March 04:45) |
| Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, is embarking on a bold initiative to resuscitate his country's flagging relationship with India by offering an expansion of nuclear power, military t... |
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Shell halts supplies to Iran (11 March 04:45) |
| Royal Dutch Shell on Wednesday said it has stopped selling refined petroleum to Iran, joining a growing list of oil companies and traders which have halted supplies for Tehran. |
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Daimler says goodbye Tata - and hello to competition (11 March 12:10) |
| It is not often that the parting of ways with a valued old partner is a cause for optimism. But for Tata Motors TTM, Daimler's sale of a 5.3 per cent stake this week is a sign that the share... |
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Dalai Lama voices support for Uighurs (10 March 10:25) |
| The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, expressed solidarity and support for Muslim Uighurs on Wednesday, raising the spectre for Beijing of closer co-ordination between opponents of Chin... |
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Brazilian property not such a nutty idea (10 March 07:30) |
| "We're not a bunch of ex-bankers who fancy a bit of property. Most of them didn't have a clue." So says James Morse, chief executive of Squarestone Brasil. The Brazilian shopping centre spec... |
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Indian harvest hopes sink sugar prices (10 March 05:20) |
| Sugar prices tumbled on Wednesday, extending the slide to a second session following reports on Tuesday suggesting a better-than-expected outlook for India's production this season. |
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Tata Motors hit by Daimler stake sale (10 March 05:05) |
| Shares in Tata Motors TTM fell almost 6 per cent on Tuesday after Daimler said that it had sold its 5.34 per cent stake in India's largest carmaker to the group's founders and other investo... |
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Sugar suffers as India raises output estimate (10 March 03:55) |
| Sugar prices endured another pounding on Tuesday after estimates for India's production this season were revised higher. |
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Intelenet looks to UK for growth (10 March 12:45) |
| India's Intelenet Global Services, controlled by US private equity group Blackstone, has acquired the back-office operations of FirstGroup, the UK transport company. |
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New Delhi boost for women MPs (10 March 12:25) |
| India, the world's largest democracy, has taken a big step towards the introduction of legislation to boost the representation of women in parliament. |
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Indias tribes in land fight with business (09 March 11:55) |
| First, the land surveyors came. Then the rumours spread through the villages: Tata, one of India's biggest conglomerates, would build a steel mill in the district. |
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UN turns to emerging nations (09 March 11:05) |
| International development agencies faced a "diminishing market" unless they partnered large emerging economies to bring development to the world's poorest countries, Helen Clark, the head of... |
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TCS outlines its Asian ambitions (09 March 03:30) |
| Tata Consultancy Services, India's leading IT and outsourcing group, hopes to quadruple its market share in Asia outside India within five to seven years, according to its top executive for... |
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Satyam case tests foreign investors rights (09 March 06:25) |
| A legal case brought in New York against Satyam Computer Services SAY will test the ability of overseas shareholders in Indian companies to seek damages through class-action lawsuits. |
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Hiring on hold in jobless recovery (09 March 05:35) |
| Britain faces a "jobless recovery" as employers postpone recruiting plansuntil they see sustainable demand re-emerging, according to international research published on Tuesday. |
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Dino Lalvani Binatone (09 March 04:55) |
| Binatone, the global consumer electronics company, was set up by the father and uncle of its current chief executive, Dino Lalvani, in 1958 after they moved to London from India. Mr Lalvani ... |
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BHP moves coking coal to short terms (08 March 11:30) |
| BHP Billiton BHP, the world's largest miner, said on Monday that it had moved a "significant portion" of its coking coal sales for 2010 to "shorter term market based pricing", breaking away ... |
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Essar seeks listing (08 March 07:00) |
| With the tail wind of an accelerating economy and rising stock market behind it, corporate India is once again setting new records. Essar, one of the country's biggest conglomerates, is cons... |
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Giving women a voice and vision (08 March 08:40) |
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India renews vow to stay in Afghanistan (07 March 11:55) |
| Neither violence nor diplomatic pressure will dissuade India from its goal of deeper involvement in Afghanistan, the Indian government has vowed. |
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India races to match Chinas double digit (07 March 11:25) |
| Pranab Mukherjee, India's septuagenarian finance minister, is confident he has put his country on track for 10 per cent growth - placing India on a level-pegging with China as the world's fa... |
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Some like it hot (06 March 09:40) |
| Strangely, mine's a dhansak. By and large, when I order a curry, that's my order. The younger members of the family tend to go for the butter chicken, chicken korma or the dreaded chicken ti... |
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Trendspotter Fuel cells for the home (06 March 05:00) |
| After scanning their fuel bills, homeowners could be forgiven for concluding that energy is more expensive than ever. Carbon dioxide emissions are another worry for many. But what are the al... |
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Kathryn Williams The Quickening (06 March 04:55) |
| Kathryn WilliamsThe QuickeningOne Little Indian |
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Asias first Master of Wine (06 March 04:20) |
| What wine would do justice to the explosive taste of fried chilli prawns? How about beef satay, or chicken in a spicy coconut sauce? Now imagine you are in Singapore or Malaysia and that all... |
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Reliance to look elsewhere if bid fails (05 March 11:05) |
| Reliance Industries will immediately resume its hunt for large global acquisitions if LyondellBasell, the bankrupt global fuels, chemicals and plastics maker, next week spurns the Indian gro... |
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Essar to buy Trinity for up to $600m (05 March 03:55) |
| Essar Group, one of India's biggest conglomerates, has agreed to buy Trinity Coal of the US for $550m-$600m in a deal signalling the return of the country's industrial groups to the global a... |
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Lloyds hits at difficult India (05 March 03:05) |
| India is among the most protectionist countries in the insurance industry in the fast-growing Asian region, the chairman of Lloyd's of London said, in a forthright criticism of the country's... |
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New Silk Route smoothes passage back into India (05 March 01:35) |
| In a little-noticed deal that was sealed last week, New Silk Route, a New York-based growth capital firm, paid about $50m for a nearly 30 per cent interest in Nectar Lifesciences, an Indian ... |
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ANZ to rebuild Indian network (05 March 01:05) |
| Australia & New Zealand Banking Group is making a return to India after a decade's absence. |
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FT Interview Pranab Mukherjee (04 March 11:40) |
| David Pilling, the FT's Asia editor, James Lamont, south Asia bureau chief, and Amy Kazmin, the south Asia correspondent, interviewed Pranab Mukherjee, India's finance minister, in New Delhi... |
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India confident of reaching 10 growth target (04 March 12:50) |
| India can reach its goal of 10 per cent annual economic growth even if its Congress party-led government fails to implement pressing structural reform, the country's finance minister has sai... |
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Subsidy reform can help India spend better (04 March 12:45) |
| India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or NREGA, seemed unpromising from its inception. Not only did it have an ugly acronym that sounded like a Panamanian dictator in search of tw... |
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Standard Chartered (03 March 03:35) |
| It is fitting that Standard Chartered should be the last of the big UK banks to report full-year numbers. This slightly doddery but consistently profitable lender - with returns on equity ab... |
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Indian strength powers StanChart (03 March 03:25) |
| Standard Chartered has for the first time made an annual operating profit of more than $1bn from the Indian market, an achievement that helped the Asia-focused bank increase its pre-tax prof... |
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UAE camel racers defy ban on child jockeys (03 March 07:35) |
| Camel racers in the United Arab Emirates are still using 10-year-old boys as jockeys in defiance of a law designed to stamp out the practice, an international campaign group has said. |
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