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With China expected to reopen several hundred bulk drug units after the Olympics, prices of some key bulk drugs, including penicillin and paracetamol, have crashed in the Indian market.
Today, the Sensex crossed the 19,000-mark again and hit new heights on the back of brisk buying by funds, after Sebi cleared its stand on P-notes.
Ticket Design, an industrial design and product design consultancy firm in Pune, won a silver at the 20th International Excellence in Design Awards 2007 given away by Appliance Design magazine.
Only one out of every 175 students who take the Common Admission Test will make it to the Indian Institutes of Management this year. The logic, note experts, is simple. Around 300,000 students are slated to appear for CAT this November. Despite such slim chances, industry players believe more students will try to crack CAT as the job situation is not at its best. The increase in the number of students taking the CAT exam this year will be around 20 per cent.
The broader NSE Nifty, after shuttling between 10,600.25 and 10,491.45 points, ended the last session of Samvat 2074 with a rise of 6 points, or 0.06 per cent, to end at 10,530.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday dedicated to the nation the 182-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the tallest in the world, and said it will be a reminder about the courage of a man who thwarted efforts to disintegrate India.
The UPA government is likely to close this financial year with around a billion dollars (around Rs 4,100 crore) as receipts from divestment of minority shareholdings in four public sector undertakings.
The officials said they would need around Rs 4,500 crore to buy nearly 12 lakh additional electronic voting machines and an equal number voter-verifiable paper audit trail machines.
In the past one week alone, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh have issued orders to take over private hospitals in some districts. Sohini Das, Vinay Umarji and Gireesh Babu report.
A gaming summit is being organised by IAMAI in Mumbai today.
Students seek transparency! Want to know the real reason for the revision in the results of the final ICAI-conducted CA exam.
The government had received several proposals to provide better infrastructure facilities at Kochi, the state's comemrcial capital. Though the chief minister did not mention any particular project, Sky City and Metro railway proposals are among those pending before the government.
S A Batcha was allowed to meet his ailing mother.
Geologists say that the ongoing lava outbreak from the Kilauea volcano would "continue for some more days and could go on for weeks".
The government issued a public notice inviting suggestions from the common man on ways to improve the collegium system to appoint judges to the Supreme Court and the high courts.
Defending champions Egypt beat Cameroon 4-2 while Zambia had a one-sided 3-0 triumph over Sudan in Group C's opening encounters of the African Nations Cup.
The meeting of the group of ministers on fuel prices scheduled for Saturday has been put off, even as the core group of UPA alliance is likely to meet on Monday morning and may discuss the issue. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who heads the GoM on fuel prices, had on January 17 indicated a meeting at 1700 hours today for re-convening the inconclusive GoM meet of that day.
Anil Ambani Group firm Reliance Power's IPO on Thursday generated a record demand, with bids pouring in for shares worth Rs 2,34,000 crore ($ 60 billion) an amount that is over three times the money ploughed in by FIIs and mutual funds in the stock market in 2007.
The company will raise Rs 844 crore through a rights offer for equity shareholders, while it will mop up Rs 900-1,080 crore through a similar offer for unsecured convertible debenture-holders.
Coal India would be second company to hit the markets under the government's disinvestment programme.
The 36-year-old actor is currently undergoing Angiography.
Brazil's Bruno Soares, fuelled by numerous cups of coffee, produced a doubles double on Sunday when he and Russian partner Elena Vesnina won the Australian Open mixed doubles title on Rod Laver Arena.
In the seven months between April and October this year, the Chevy Spark has managed to sell less than 12,000 units, or an average of 1,700 units a month, while its peers Alto and WagonR (Maruti Suzuki) , Indica (Tata Motors) and Santro (Hyundai) have had average monthly sales of 10,000-18,000 units.
'It is a political failure, and not a medical failure.'
The two page e-mail was received by a private TV channel, which forwarded it to the Kolkata Police at around 1700 hours on Monday, Commissioner of Police Goutam Mohan Chakraborty told PTI after a high level meeting at the city police headquarters.
Among the killed were the CRPF Assistant Commandant Vikas Chandra and constable J N Chetia of 43 batallion of the central force.
Tata Consultancy Services has acquired the remaining 49 per cent stake in its Brazilian joint venture for $33.4 million, giving the company 100 per cent ownership.
Former Australia fast bowler Brett Lee backed Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan to shine with the bat in the upcoming Asia Cup saying the two openers will hold key to India's game-plan in absence of regular skipper Virat Kohli.
At the heart of the bidding war is the firm's edible oil refining capacity
High or low, back and forth, Mukesh Ambani seems to gain from any which way the market moves as his wealth grew by over Rs 2,600 crore (Rs 26 billion) after the initial setback saw the Sensex tanking over 1,700 points and the top five richest Indians losing about Rs 1 trillion.
Champions Manchester City will expect to get back to winning ways at home to Newcastle United in a match which pits Pep Guardiola against his fellow Spaniard Rafa Benitez.
Vidisha seat fell vacant following the resignation of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan while Bharatiya Jan Shakti founder-president and former chief minister Uma Bharti put in her papers from Malehra.
Rewind five years and Liverpool hosted Chelsea with three games remaining, knowing victory would have left them six points clear and a first league title since 1990 almost secure.
The People's Liberation Army Rocket (Missile) Force tested the new missile in the Bohai Sea.
Foxconn, the Taiwan-based contract manufacturer of mobile phone parts, will suspend its operations at the facility near Chennai from December 24, following a change in manufacturing requirements of clients in the country.
Banks have played a critical role in infrastructure financing.
But there have been no changes in the hostel fee structure for BPL students who avail scholarships and for non-BPL students, the varsity said.
The Panasonic 49-inch EX600 and SC-UA7 bundle is a good thing to own if you're a film buff and don't want to compromise on sound, says Abhik Sen.
Women's Tennis Association Chief Executive Steve Simon has defended the wildcard entry awarded to former world number one Maria Sharapova.
