| Lalgarh shows why Naxalism is growing | 21-NOV-09 |
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| The road to Lalgarh, in the heart of West Bengal’s Naxal badlands, is now secure. But it is still a distance too far for many of the districts' administrators to travel. |
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| Belgian PM is named as EU's new president | 21-NOV-09 |
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| More than eight years after the idea was first mooted, Europe has finally got a President. Leaders of the 27 members of the European Union (EU) picked Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian prime minister, as their choice for the post, late on Thursday evening. Baroness Catherine Ashton, currently the EU’s trade commissioner, was nominated High Representative for Foreign Policy, another new charge. |
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| Ruchi Soya amalgamates associate firm | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd, the country’s largest edible oil producer, has amalgamated Mac Oil Palm Ltd, a promoter group company, with itself to expand its presence in palm oil plantation in India. |
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| Glenmark settles patent dispute with Medicis | 16-NOV-09 |
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| Pharma firm Glenmark today said it has settled all pending patent disputes with US-based Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp over a skin disease drug, besides signing a licensing agreement for new drug delivery system (NDDS). |
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| Pranab Mukherjee says operations at Lalgarh to continue | 12-NOV-09 |
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| Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's reservations over anti-Naxalite operations in Paschim Medinipur district notwithstanding, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the drive to flush out Naxalites will continue till the situation was brought under control. |
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| State aims to revive IT sector with event | 11-NOV-09 |
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| The twelfth edition of Asia’s premier ICT event, Bangalore IT.Biz 2009 is all set to begin here tomorrow. Union Minister of State for Information Technology and Communications Gurudas Kamat would inaugurate the three-day event, which will be presided over by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa. |
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| LG sets up first Shoppe | 10-NOV-09 |
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| Consumer electronics major LG Electronics India Limited on Monday opened the first LG Shoppe in Orissa here to offer the entire bouquet of its products in a single outlet. |
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| Buddha happy with Lalgarh development process | 09-NOV-09 |
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| West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said he was happy with development work undertaken in the Naxalite-affected Lalgarh area, but felt the pace should be accelerated. |
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| Rosy Blue rules the world of glitter | 08-NOV-09 |
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| Cycling around Surat in the mid-1960s, Dilip Mehta, a gangly teenager learning the ropes of the diamond trade, had little inkling of the globe-trotting road that the stones would take him on. It would be a fairy-tale-like journey that would see this college drop-out from Mumbai appointed a Baron by the king of a faraway country called Belgium. But this was no fairy tale. |
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| CHESS #612 | 07-NOV-09 |
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| Koneru humpy Vs DV Sundar continues to gather momentum with the Chess Players Association of India has also published an open letter supporting the world no:2 and urging “positive and open dialogue” between Humpy and the All India Chess Federation. |
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| Handset players jostle for market share | 05-NOV-09 |
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| There’s a mad scramble for mindshare in the Indian telecom handset market with about 30 handset makers battling it out in the estimated Rs 20,000 crore (annual) cellphone market. |
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| Cool your heels | 31-OCT-09 |
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| Triple buckles, square toes, crocodile skin and bohemian fringes are just a few elements you may not have predicted coming back into fashion anytime soon, and yet here they are. No, we are not talking clothes, but shoes that should find place in your wardrobe this winter. |
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| Colgate-Palmolive, Guj NRE, P&G Hygiene & BGR Energy Q2 result | 30-OCT-09 |
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| Colgate-Palmolive (India) posted a standalone net profit of Rs 89.7 crore compared with Rs 63.5 crore in the same period last year — a rise of around 41 per cent for its third quarter ended September 30. Revenue grew by 16.8 per cent to Rs 502.8 crore from Rs 430 crore for the same period. |
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