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Watson Pharmaceuticals to buy Swiss rival Actavis for $5.60 billion
26 Apr 2012
The proposed acquisition will catapult Watson, the fifth-largest US pharma company, into the world’s third-biggest generic drugmaker with expected 2012 revenue of $8 billion.
SC extends spectrum auction deadline by 3 months
25 Apr 2012
Government proposes deregulation of diesel prices
24 Apr 2012
Even under deregulation, diesel prices will continue to be modulated in order to insulate the common man, according to the government
SC extends deadline for 2G spectrum auction to 31 August
24 Apr 2012
The SC also allowed all telecom service providers with cancelled licences to operate till 7 September 2012
TRAI proposes Rs3,622 crore reserve price for 2G spectrum auction
23 Apr 2012
TRAI today proposed a reserve price of Rs3,622 crore for auction of 2G spectrum, much higher than the price operators paid for the radio waves during the previous allocation.
KCI to acquire Switzerland based APAG Group
23 Apr 2012
Mamata mulls newspaper, TV channel to fight trial by media
21 Apr 2012
Stung by media criticism over the functioning of the West Bengal government, chief minister Mamata Banerjee today said her government is weighing plans to have its own newspaper and TV channel
Baxter to set up $1-bn plant for plasma-based therapies
21 Apr 2012
The capital investment for the plant is expected to exceed $1 billion over the next five years and create more than 2000 jobs across the US
Govt does volte face on release of Italian ‘killer’ ship
21 Apr 2012
The centre told the Supreme Court on Friday that the Kerala police had no authority to detain the Italian ship from where Italian marines shot two fishermen but hours later sought to distance itself from this stand
Plane carrying 127 people crashes near Islamabad
20 Apr 2012
CEC orders CBI probe into mining leases to Yeddyurappa's relatives
20 Apr 2012
The CEC said there were gross irregularities in the allotment of mining leases to companies owned by relatives of the former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa
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