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Make drugs affordable, delink prices from R&D costs: UN panel
16 Sep 2016
The report calls for human rights to be placed over intellectual property laws and all countries must freely be able to use flexibilities granted under TRIPS to access affordable medicines
Telecom spat cools down: Vodafone to hike PoIs for Jio
16 Sep 2016
Vodafone is the third incumbent operator, after Idea Cellular and Airtel, to have agreed to increase interconnection points for Reliance Jio, paving the way for easy exchange of calls between subscribers of the two networks
Telecom spat cools down: Vodafone to hike PoIs for Jio
16 Sep 2016
Vodafone is the third incumbent operator, after Idea Cellular and Airtel, to have agreed to increase interconnection points for Reliance Jio, paving the way for easy exchange of calls between subscribers of the two networks
Anadarko to buy Freeport McMoRan’s Gulf of Mexico assets for $2 bn
14 Sep 2016
Anadarko said the deal will more than double its acreage in the Lucius development to approximately 49 per cent and add approximately 80,000 net barrels of oil equivalent per day, more than 80 per cent of which is oil
India, Russia explore feasibility of gas pipeline
14 Sep 2016
An industry level working group led by Gazprom, biggest Russian gas company, and a consortium of Indian oil and gas companies is studying the feasibility of a gas pipelines for direct gas delivery from Russia to India
Japanese chipmaker Renesas to buy Intersil of US for $3.22 bn
13 Sep 2016
A combination of Renesas’ market-proven microcontroller and system-on-chip products and technologies and Intersil’s leading power management and precision analog capability will make Renesas a leader in key areas such as automotive, industrial, cloud computing, healthcare, and the Internet of Things
German industrial-gas giant Linde ends merger talks with US rival Praxair
13 Sep 2016
Linde, based in Munich, opted out of merger talks as it wanted to have certain operations to be based at its Munich headquarters for effective management control
German industrial-gas giant Linde ends merger talks with US rival Praxair
13 Sep 2016
Linde, based in Munich, opted out of merger talks as it wanted to have certain operations to be based at its Munich headquarters for effective management control
Crude prices drop 1.5% as US rig count increases
12 Sep 2016
The successive price falls support the idea that oil will continue to bounce off the $50 per barrel mark and effectively proves "the dynamic of shale oil"
Patanjali plans to go global with 'swadeshi' products
12 Sep 2016
Patanjali is also planning to enter the fashion and apparel market with the launch of Indianised jeans to cash in on the young consumer
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