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DoT may miss portability call (07 November 08:41) |
| PAWAN BALI
New Delhi
Nov. 6: India is likely to miss the December 31 deadline for starting the mobile number portability (MNP) scheme.
The MNP gives a custo-mer the freedom to change tele... |
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IPI gas talks to resume on 16th (07 November 08:41) |
| Age Correspondent
New Delhi
Nov. 6: A final agreement on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline is being held up due to differences on the delivery point of the gas.
"They (Iran) hav... |
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MCX-SE for delivery system (07 November 08:39) |
| Olga Tellis
Mumbai
Nov. 6: The MCX stock exchange (MCX-SE) which is awaiting Sebi's nod for equity trading, will introduce a delivery-based system in the derivatives market.
This will be ... |
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Gold funds beat ETFs in returns (07 November 08:36) |
| YOGESH MEHENDALE
Mumbai
Nov. 6: Though, the gold ETF’s have given returns of 43 per cent in the past one year, the investors who preferred the world gold funds that invest in the stocks ... |
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BSNL to talk to Zain directly (07 November 08:36) |
| New Delhi, Nov 6: The state-owned BSNL on Friday said that it may directly talk to Zain Telecom to acquire a controlling stake after the exclusive talks period between the consortium Vavasi ... |
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S Tel set to launch tele services (07 November 08:35) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
Chennai
Nov. 6: S Tel Pvt Ltd, a new telecom operator in the GSM space promoted by the $3-billion Siva group and Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), has achieve... |
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US names ISB director in scam (07 November 08:35) |
| New York, Nov. 6: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has charged 14 people, including two Indians and the Wall Street professionals, in the $53 million insider trading scam, the large... |
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The world at your fingertips (07 November 08:32) |
| Age Correspondent
Mysore
Nov. 6: The blue-eyed boy who stole the show at TED India conference, was und-oubtedly, Mr Pranav Mistry, who wowed the audience with a demo of SixthSense, an inex... |
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Gayatri to tap power sector (07 November 08:32) |
| Age Correspondent
Hyderabad
Nov. 6: Hyderabad-based Gayatri Projects Ltd plans to operationalise its Rs 7,900-crore Krishnapatnam power plant in middle of 2013.
"We have got land and... |
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Pagaria to set up plant in MP (07 November 08:31) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
Mumbai
Nov. 6: The R.S. Pagaria Group has signed an MoU with the Madhya Pradesh government for setting up a thermal power plant in Sahdol district. The proposed plant has... |
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No-bribe biz worth $1 trillion (07 November 08:31) |
| Sangeetha Chengappa
Mysore
Nov. 6: As aspiring entrepreneurs continue to scour the business world for new opportunities to start a scalable business venture, 38-year-old Shaffi Mather has ... |
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NMDC EIL to hit bourses (06 November 09:29) |
| New Delhi, Nov. 5: Over half a dozen listed central public sector enterprises, including the mining major NMDC and the oil engineering firm EIL will have to hit the capital market again in o... |
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Mukesh told to reapply for SEZ (06 November 09:25) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Nov. 5: The Centre has asked Mukesh Ambani’s Mumbai SEZ Ltd to put up a fresh proposal for setting up a multi-product special economic zone at Raigad in Mahar... |
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Centre to remove 11 cap on CEOs salary (06 November 09:25) |
| Age Correspondent
Hyderabad
Nov. 5: The Union minister for corporate affairs, Mr Salman Khurshid, said that the existing 11 per cent cap on salaries of top management officials has been re... |
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Wipro buys Yardleys Asia Africa business (06 November 09:24) |
| Age Correspondent
Bengaluru
Nov. 5: Wipro on Thursday said it is acquiring heritage personal care brand Yardley's business in the growth markets of tomorrow, a buy that would help the firm... |
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Banks need to align with NSE BSE Sebi (06 November 09:23) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
Chennai
Nov. 5: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will take more initiatives to protect and educate small investors.
"The ban of entry load on mutua... |
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Insurers to hike group policy price (06 November 09:21) |
| YOGESH MEHENDALE
Mumbai
Nov. 5: If you are a beneficiary of a group health insurance policy, then be prepared for a 35 to 40 per cent hike in your premium.
Observing that the group health... |
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FM may modify tax code (06 November 09:20) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Nov. 5: The Union finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, said that the Centre will look into the concerns raised by the taxpayers and the corporate sector inclu... |
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Food inflation up 13 (06 November 09:20) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Nov. 5: The food inflation rose to 13.39 per cent for the week ending on October 24 due to shortage in the agriculture commodities supply caused by a deficient ... |
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Centre may get tough with pilots (06 November 09:20) |
| Age Correspondent
New Delhi
Nov. 5: The civil aviation ministry said on Thursday a strike by Air India’s pilots would not solve the problems faced by the airline.
Ministry sources said ... |
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Bank audits flawed CBI (06 November 09:18) |
| Panaji, Nov. 5: Public sector undertakings, especially nationalised banks, often ignore financial crimes in their internal audits and sometimes even delay the prosecution of their accused em... |
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Gold down Rs 20 off record level (06 November 09:17) |
| Mumbai, Nov. 5: Gold prices reacted marginally from its overnight record highs on the bullion market in Mumbai on Thursday due to reduced demand from stockists and retailers at higher levels... |
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The example from Europe (06 November 09:17) |
| K Subramanya
Clean and renewable energy is rightly on the agenda of the 10th India-EU Summit taking place in Delhi this week wherein an agreement will be signed between India and the Europe... |
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Education pedigree matters to MNCs (06 November 09:17) |
| Chiranjit Banerjee
Mckinsey, the global powerhouse in strategic management consulting, have set up a captive knowledge centre in India some time back.
As I learnt from one of their former ... |
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Sudha to fund VC Murthy (06 November 09:13) |
| DC Correspondent
Bengaluru
Nov. 5: She’s the original VC. In 1981, Sudha Murthy sold her jewellery to give her husband N.R. Narayana Murthy Rs. 10,000, seed money to start Infosys. The r... |
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MS to cut 800 jobs globally (06 November 09:13) |
| New Delhi, Nov. 5: Global software major Microsoft will slash hundreds of jobs globally as part of its effort to realign business activities.
The layoffs are expected to be across different... |
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Shift of power can result in WWIII (06 November 09:13) |
| Sangeetha Chengappa
Mysore
Nov. 5: A speaker at the TED India conference on Thursday warned that the world may be heading towards World War III with the gradual shift of power to Asian eco... |
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GE Edison-spotting (06 November 09:13) |
| S. Raghotham
Bengaluru
Nov. 5: When a chirpy 20-something Punjabi girl in pink tees and blue jeans begins to animatedly talk to you about how she’s trying to produce electricity using lo... |
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Crude production to touch all-time high (05 November 08:37) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Nov. 4: The Union petroleum minister, Mr Murli Deora, said on Wednesday that the country’s crude oil production is likely to jump by 11 per cent in the curren... |
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Judges quit RIL cases (05 November 08:34) |
| Mumbai, Nov. 4: Two Supreme Court judges have recused themselves from two different cases pertaining to Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), citing conflict of interest.
Justice R.V. Raveendran, ... |
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Centre to lay 20 km roads a day (05 November 08:28) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Nov. 4: The road transport and highways minister, Mr Kamal Nath, said on Wed-nesday that his ministry’s plan to construct 20 kilometres of road per day has th... |
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Sensex jumps 507 pts (05 November 08:27) |
| Age Correspondent
Mumbai
Nov. 4: The Indian stock markets soared on heavy short covering as those who had gone short on Tuesday expecting the market to fall further, rushed to cover their ... |
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Gold glitters on Indias IMF buy rises Rs 390 (05 November 08:27) |
| Mumbai, Nov. 4: Gold continued its record-making spree and conquered yet another peak on the bullion market here on Wednesday, driven by aggressive buying from stockists and traders followin... |
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Will Sibal face CBIs probe (05 November 08:27) |
| New Delhi, Nov. 4: Accusing Mr V.K. Sibal of having a "nexus" with private parties when he was chief of the upstream oil regulator, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has de... |
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SMEs may get easy listing (05 November 08:24) |
| Age Correspondent
New Delhi
Nov. 4: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is meeting on November 9 to finalise the listing standards for the small and medium enterprises (SMEs)... |
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States value is used for tax computation (05 November 08:24) |
| Kamal Rathi
I had purchased a plot in May 1997 for Rs 30,677 and spent Rs 16,000 for its development.
When I started negotiating the sale in January 2009, the stamp valuation authority (SV... |
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PFRDA bill likely on Nov 19 (05 November 08:24) |
| New Delhi, Nov. 4: Aiming to take second generation reforms forward, the government is planning to table four financial sector bills, including the ones on pension reform and SBI legislation... |
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Car makers look up to tap reverse brain drain (05 November 08:23) |
| Rebecca Rassendren
Bengaluru
Nov. 4: Carmakers in India are looking to tap talent outside India — primarily NRIs — to bridge the domestic skills gap.
It is a good time to hire since q... |
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Coming soon The IBM Telecom Web (05 November 08:22) |
| Goutam Das
Bengaluru
Nov. 4: For a less privileged person who cannot read or write, there is a parallel Web in the works. After the World Wide Web, it may be the ‘Telco Web’s’ turn t... |
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Yahoo! teams with OneRiot (05 November 08:22) |
| San Francisco, Nov. 4: Yahoo Inc, looking to match rivals in providing up-to-the-minute Internet search results, is running tests with several real-time search partners, sources familiar wit... |
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Men get metrotextual (05 November 08:21) |
| London, Nov. 4: Men have become so openly affectionate with each other using mobile technology they’ve taken to signing off text messages to male friends with a kiss (x), giving rise to a ... |
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REC likely to come up with FPO in Feb (05 November 08:21) |
| New Delhi, Nov. 4: The Follow-on public offer (FPO) by the Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) is likely to hit the capital markets by February next year and the company will approach th... |
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Oil fertiliser sops may dip (04 November 09:46) |
| Age Correspondent
With Agency Inputs
New Delhi
Nov. 3: The Centre on Tuesday said that it is planning to cut the subsidy on fertiliser and oil to cut non-plan expenditure and contain fisc... |
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Exports plunge 13 in Sept (04 November 09:45) |
| New Delhi, Nov. 3: India’s exports remained downhill for 12 months in a row, declining by 13.8 per cent to $13.6 billion in September, but the damage to exports inflicted by the recession ... |
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RBI buys 200 tonnes of gold (04 November 09:39) |
| Mumbai/Washington, Nov. 4: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sold 200 tonnes of gold to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for $6.7 billion, quietly executing half of a long-planned bul... |
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Recovery doubts hit global market (04 November 09:33) |
| Bangkok, Nov. 4: World stock markets were lower on Tuesday despite improvement in the US manufacturing as doubts lingered about the durability of a rebound in the world’s largest economy.
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Officers to visit Swiss next week (04 November 09:32) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Nov. 3: The finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, said on Tuesday that a team from India will go to Switzerland next week to sought out the issue of black mone... |
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UK unions to discuss JLR (04 November 09:23) |
| Dipankar De Sarkar
London
Nov. 3: British union leaders are to meet lawmakers from a key manufacturing belt on Wednesday in what has been dubbed an ‘MPs’ summit’ to discuss the fate ... |
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IPO system needs to be democratised (04 November 09:22) |
| Olga Tellis
With several IPO’s in the pipeline and many of them from government companies, it is time that the Securities and Exchange Board of India ushers in a more transparent, equal a... |
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Fake note detector to check currency woes (04 November 09:21) |
| AGE CORRESPONDENT
Mumbai
Nov. 3: The threat of fake currency would recede with the advent of new counterfeit currency detectors, claims a top official of Kores India.
Several bank ATMs ha... |
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