Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday laid the foundation stone for the expansion of the public sector Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL), popularly known as the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), in this port city.
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 | Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said he had urged London-based steel baron Lakshmi Mittal to return to his homeland and help build the Indian steel industry.
Addressing the foundation the stone-laying ceremony for the the expansion of the... More |
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 | The Indian government Saturday announced a Rs.47 billion ($1.03 billion) package to revive its tea industry that has been hit by falling prices and a slump in exports.
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Ratan Chand Burman, patriarch of the Rs.15 billion ($340 million) Dabur India group, died here late Friday after a long illness, family sources said Saturday.
The 81-year-old Burman was the grandson of the group's founder S.K. Burman and was its... More |
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Language courses, street parties, security plans - the quarters hosting the 32 World Cup participants in Germany are getting ready for the football stars and the flood of fans from around the world.
"For our city, this is an opportunity of... More |
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Maoists have appealed to people not to provide land to investors in Jharkhand where an investment drive in the past two years has yielded agreements worth Rs.1.91 trillion with various companies.
"Jharkhand land is gold and it will not be lost... More |
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New Zealander Shane Torrance, 42, whose right leg was amputated because of diabetes, is trying to sell it to raise money for his daughter who has inherited the disease, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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The GMR group, that has taken over the operations and modernisation of Delhi airport, has targeted to handle 35 million passengers - more than three times the current capacity - by 2010 as part of a master plan under preparation that includes a... More |
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 | India's key share market index went into a tailspin early Thursday, wiping off the gains of the previous two sessions, as institutional investors - mainly foreign funds - dumped heavyweight equities.
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 | Mittal Steel, the world's largest steel maker, Thursday officially opened its hostile takeover bid for Luxembourg-based Arcelor, the second-largest, in order to create a company with an annual capacity of around 100 million tonnes.
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