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| Coming up Ace(r)s | 24-NOV-09 |
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| Long dismissed as a price warrior, Acer is repositioning itself as a brand for the youth. |
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| Priceless wisdom | 24-NOV-09 |
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| While addressing a conference hosted by The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), its director general RK Pachauri said that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh would give Teri Rs 1 crore for a campaign to spread awareness about protecting the environment. He then said, “I now request Mr Ramesh to share his wisdom with all of us.” To which , Ramesh replied, “I can only share my wisdom but cannot give you Rs 1 crore.” Before Ramesh could say anything further, Pachauri remarked, “This means now we’ll get Rs 2 crore from the minister. |
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| Dish TV announces pricing of GDR offering | 23-NOV-09 |
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| Dish TV’s board of directors, at its meeting held today, approved the pricing of the Global Depository Receipt (GDR) issue. The issue price of $854.50 per GDR, representing 1,000 underlying company shares of Re 1 each. |
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| Letters: Blame it on NREGS | 23-NOV-09 |
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| At last, there is an official admission that there is double-digit inflation in food articles, even according to the Wholesale Price Index. Till about a few weeks ago, this was downplayed on the ground that the total index showed a low inflation level; there was even a fear about deflation setting in! There was a standard, perhaps funny, explanation that the high inflation rate was due to the low base effect. One hears this nonsensical explanation only in India. One would not find it in any article on the subject in an internationally-recognised professional journal. This is an arithmetical and not an economic or technical explanation of the problem. |
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| Sugarcane issue stalls Parliament on second day | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Parliament was rocked for the second day today over the new sugarcane pricing policy with a united opposition mounting further pressure on the government to withdraw the controversial ordinance that saw massive farmers’ protests yesterday. |
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| Govt not to import rice as of now, says Sharma | 21-NOV-09 |
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| India will not import rice as it has adequate stocks of the grain, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said today after a meeting of the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on food. |
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| Dealers in Ganjam demand parity in cement prices | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Faced with loss of business due to the disparities in cement prices in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, the cement dealers in south Orissa's Ganjam district have urged the cement manufacturing companies to fix a uniform price of cement. |
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