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TRAI proposes non-refundable licence fees
27 Mar 2012
PM to stress India’s record at Seoul Nuclear Summit
24 Mar 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today left for a four-day visit to South Korea where he will attend the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul along with 57 other world leaders.
Govt finalising plan to auction coal blocks: Jaiswal
24 Mar 2012
The government has begun the process of hiring a consultant to come out with a methodology for fixing the minimum price for blocks on offer
India to continue Iranian oil imports
24 Mar 2012
Pipeline draws Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan closer
24 Mar 2012
Pakistani leaders across the political divide have urged the government to drop the pipeline project under US pressure
FedEx cuts forecast for economic growth
24 Mar 2012
GSM subscriber base swells to 656.86 million in February
24 Mar 2012
GSM mobile phone operators add 8.44 million new users in February, the highest in the past eight months
CAG clarifies on alleged coal-block losses
22 Mar 2012
CAG has taken exception to a newspaper report that cited a CAG draft as saying that the country had lost around Rs10,70,000 crore by not auctioning coal blocks
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