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AngloGold looks to sell mines in the US, Mali to reduce debt
02 Apr 2015
The world’s third-biggest gold producer, S Africa’s AngloGold Ashanti Ltd, has put on the block its three gold mines to raise capital to reduce its debt
ED attaches Rs740-cr Maran bros assets in telecom case
02 Apr 2015
The Enforcement Directorate action comes as the CBI alleges that former telecom minister Dayanadhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi took kickbacks to facilitate the Aircel-Maxis telecom deal in 2006
RBI approves merger of ING Vysya with Kotak Mahindra
01 Apr 2015
The merged entity, with 1,214 branches, a wide-spread pan-India network and a combined employee strength of nearly 40,000, is now the country’s fourth largest private sector lender
Teva Pharmaceutical to buy US neurology drug firm Auspex $3.5 bn
31 Mar 2015
Auspex is a biopharmaceutical company specialising in applying deuterium chemistry to known molecules to create novel therapies with improved safety and efficacy profiles
Bankrupt RadioShack looks to sell customer data
31 Mar 2015
UnitedHealth to buy pharmacy benefit firm Catamaran for $12.8 bn
31 Mar 2015
US health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc yesterday struck a $12.8-billion all-cash deal to buy Catamaran Corp that would see the merger of the third and fourth-largest pharmacy benefit companies in the US
Holcim shareholders reject revised terms of merger with Lafarge
30 Mar 2015
Russian businessman Filaret Galchev, Holcim's second-largest shareholder, has rejected the revised merger terms as too low, and objected to the move to remove Lafarge boss Bruno Lafont as CEO of the combined group
Hinduja Global Solutions acquires Colibrium
30 Mar 2015
Switzerland's Dufry to buy majority stake in World Duty Free for $3.8 bn
30 Mar 2015
Switzerland's duty-free shop operator Dufry AG has agreed to buy a 50.1 per cent majority stake in smaller Italian rival World Duty Free S.p.A, controlled by the Benetton family, aiming to create the world’s biggest travel retailer
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