| Pakistan-born US nationals' visas to be cleared by New Delhi | 13-NOV-09 |
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| India has tightened visa approval norms for Pakistan-born US citizens by making it mandatory for such applications to be cleared by New Delhi and is also mulling similar action on American nationals born in China, Afghanistan and Iran.The step comes in the wake of the FBI foiling an LeT plot to use Chicago resident David Coleman Headley to target Indian facilities. |
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| 'LeT placed priority on new attack in India, not Denmark' | 08-NOV-09 |
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| The defendants charged in separate criminal complaints unsealed today in US District Court in Chicago are David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, also known as Tahawar Rana. Headley, a US citizen who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 and resides primarily in Chicago, was arrested on October 3, 2009, by the Chicago FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force at O’Hare International Airport before boarding a flight to Philadelphia, intending to travel on to Pakistan. |
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| BCCL: From zero to Rs 1,000-cr debt | 28-AUG-09 |
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| Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL), the company owning the largest-selling English newspaper in the world, is India’s most profitable media company, with what it claims is a 47 per cent market share of English dailies in the urban markets. |
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| Economist's circulation surges in India | 15-JUL-09 |
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| In the midst of the economic downturn, UK’s widely circulated business magazine, The Economist, has grown at an average weekly rate of 30 per cent in India. In May 2009 over May 2008, its circulation saw a 42 per cent jump, said Suprio Guha Thakurta, managing director, The Economist India, quoting Audit Bureau of Circulation numbers. |
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| Business brigade | 30-JUN-09 |
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| The Times Group's new business channel, ET NOW, leverages on the combined resources of the channel and its print sibling, The Economic Times. |
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| Gujarat NRE Coke allots 40 lakh Convertible Warrants to M/s. Bennett, Coleman & Co. | 18-MAY-09 |
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| M/s. Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., has subscribed 40,00,000 Convertible Warrants of M/s. Gujarat NRE Coke Ltd (the company) on 15th May, 2009. These warrants were allotted on 15th May 2009 by the Management Committee of Board of Directors of the Company on Preferential/Private Placement basis in accordance with the approval accorded by its shareholders through Postal Ballot. These warrants carry an option to its holder to apply for and obtain 1 Equity Share of the Company in lieu of each warrant within a period of 18 months at a price of Rs. 50 per Equity Share. |
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| BCCL buys 40 lakh convertible warrants in Gujarat NRE | 18-MAY-09 |
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| These warrants were allotted by the management committee of Board of Directors of BCCL last Friday on preferential/private placement basis in accordance with the approval accorded by its shareholders through postal ballot. These warrants carry an option to its holder to apply for and obtain one equity share of the company in lieu of each warrant within a period of 18 months at a price of Rs 50 per equity share. |
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| Videocon to raise Rs 200 cr via warrants to BCCL | 07-APR-09 |
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| Consumer electronics company Videocon Industries today said it will raise over Rs 200 crore through issue of warrants on preferential basis to media conglomerate Bennett, Coleman & Company Ltd (BCCL). |
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| BCCL to up stake in Videocon, invest Rs 200 cr | 06-APR-09 |
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| Consumer electronics company Videocon Industries today said it will raise over Rs 200 crore through issue of warrants on preferential basis to media conglomerate Bennett, Coleman & Company (BCCL). |
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| UTV hunts for strategic partner for UTVi | 19-MAR-09 |
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| Within a year of the launch of its English business news channel UTVi, the UTV group has decided to rope in a strategic partner with a "significant stake". According to investment banking sources, the company is looking at raising between Rs 100 crore and Rs 125 crore from the strategic partner on a valuation of about Rs 200 crore. |
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| Planet M to double revenues, up store count | 19-FEB-09 |
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| Planet M, the entertainment and lifestyle chain of the Videocon Group, plans to double its revenues by the next financial year even as lifestyle retailing is witnessing a slowdown in the country as shoppers defer discretionary spending. Planet M has over 300 stores now. |
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| Mutually beneficial | 02-JAN-09 |
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| The private treaties business, or ad-for-equity swaps, pioneered in India by Bennett, Coleman & Co, has now morphed into a full-fledged business model. |
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