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India raises key rate to help fight inflation (19 March 10:35) |
| Joe Leahy in Mumbai |
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FTSE erases gains after Indian rate hike (19 March 09:05) |
| London's equities erased early gains on Friday after India's central bank unexpectedly raised interest rates, prompting a global shift away from riskier assets. |
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Gulfsands set to reject takeover approach (19 March 09:30) |
| Gulfsands Petroleum will on Friday reject a takeover approach that would value the Syria-focused oil explorer at more than £400m ($610m). |
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DQ causes stir in Mumbai indifference in London (19 March 06:00) |
| The smaller companies on Aim can only look with envy at the liquidity provided by retail investors in other markets. |
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Chicago man admits Mumbai terror charges (19 March 02:15) |
| A Chicago man on Thursday pleaded guilty to charges that he helped plan the November 2008 attack on Mumbai that left 166 people dead and plotted to attack a Danish newspaper that published c... |
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The personal touch Old strategy takes on a new meaning (18 March 10:40) |
| A côterie of top jewellers including Steinmetz, David Morris, Moussaeiff, Harry Winston and Tiffany and others - who prefer not to be named - are taking business very personally indeed. |
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West End Watch Where colonial classics of the Raj keep their cachet (18 March 10:40) |
| Selling products to the British Raj in India was a colourful affair. Zam-Buk, a healing ointment for minor cuts and bruises, relied on stirring endorsements from sportsmen, travellers, surge... |
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Montblanc Perils of blundering into Indias cultural minefield (18 March 10:40) |
| Montblanc's Rs.1.1m, 18-carat gold-and-silver Mahatma Gandhi fountain pen was conceived as a way to raise the brand's connection to India as the country's fast-growing luxury market expands. |
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Asias inflation genie leaps out of the bottle (18 March 01:35) |
| Haritha Reddy wants to know why the price of tomatoes rose 200 per cent in three days in the markets of central Uttar Pradesh recently. Aditya Rao thinks it's "downright ridiculous" that tra... |
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Oil groups urge India to set up wealth fund (18 March 04:35) |
| India is facing demands from the local state-owned oil industry to create the country's first sovereign wealth fund to compete with China in the race to secure global energy assets, accordin... |
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Facebooks growing list of friends (18 March 03:35) |
| There is something apt about a social networking website winning a popularity contest. According to industry data, Facebook overtook Google GOOG among US internet users last week, with more ... |
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Qualcomm to bid for Indian wireless spectrum (17 March 11:30) |
| Qualcomm QCOM, the US mobile phone chipmaker, plans to bid in India's upcoming wireless spectrum auction and, if successful, will help build a wireless broadband network with an Indian partn... |
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Indias sovereign wealth fund (17 March 05:00) |
| Once again New Delhi is toying with the idea of setting up a sovereign wealth fund. The temptation is obvious. India is the only BRIC country without such a fund, de rigueur among up and com... |
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Ireland increases UK board seats (17 March 09:05) |
| Ireland now provides almost a fifth of non-British directors on company boards, according to figures from Companies House. |
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KKR in $200m Indian coffee shops deal (17 March 06:40) |
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Rant sparks legal threat against Indias CNBC (17 March 04:20) |
| The Indian affiliate of Bloomberg Television is threatening to sue an anchorman at CNBC's local partner for Rs5bn ($110m) for defamation in a row showing the cut-throat nature of the world's... |
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Competition helps India tune in to TV ratings spats (17 March 01:40) |
| The news in India's business television market is that competition is getting tougher. |
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Transcript Interview with Yusuf Raza Gilani (17 March 12:20) |
| James Lamont, the FT's south Asia bureau chief, and Farhan Bokhari, Pakistan correspondent, interviewed Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan's prime minister, in Islamabad on March 16 2010. This is a... |
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Nomura (16 March 11:20) |
| Well, there's a surprise. Barely has Nomura finished bedding down the non-US assets of Lehman Brothers than executives at the Japanese bank are running for the exit. There can be few integra... |
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DaimlerRenault (16 March 10:10) |
| The auto industry faces a conundrum. It must tie up less capital to improve its currently poor investment returns. Meanwhile, it must develop ever more capital-intensive green technology. Th... |
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Daimler Renault (16 March 09:35) |
| The auto industry faces a conundrum. It must tie up less capital to improve its currently poor investment returns. Meanwhile, it must develop ever more capital-intensive green technology. Th... |
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India balks at curb on nuclear liability (16 March 05:00) |
| India's Congress party-led administration has balked at tabling controversial legislation limiting the liability of foreign nuclear reactor suppliers in case of a nuclear accident. Angry opp... |
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Vedanta revives bid battle for Asarco (16 March 03:15) |
| Vedanta, the UK-listed Indian miner, has revived a $2bn (£1.3bn) takeover battle for Asarco, the bankrupt US copper producer, by appealing against the court decision that handed Asarco to a... |
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Ford expects more buyers to shun Japanese cars (15 March 03:00) |
| Alan Mulally, Ford Motor F's chief executive, expects to pick up more market share in the US as the carmaker focuses on quality and freshening up its product range while rival Toyota TM grap... |
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Dinesh Verma Distance learning needs special discipline (15 March 05:45) |
| The Physio Asia Therapy Centre - situated in the International Building at the heart of Singapore's premier shopping district - looks nondescript compared with the swanky shops lining the st... |
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Emerging market deals surge (15 March 04:30) |
| The extent to which emerging economies have broken clear of recession far quicker than their developed economy counterparts is highlighted by a study of cross-border deal activity. |
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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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