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Hi-tech, Big Data offer hope to battered US oil industryThe tech geeks are coming to the oil industry's rescue.
30 Mar, 2015, 04.51 PM IST
Hepatitis C drug in India to cost 49 lakh less than in USThe voluntary licencing deal promises to make the drug cheap in India as well as up to 91 countries where the Indian firms are allowed to s...
16 Sep, 2014, 12.19 PM IST
Is excellence possible in India?The outcome of the vandalism and violence in Presidency University earlier this week has had a significant outcome.
13 Apr, 2013, 11.13 AM IST
WB Governor M K Narayanan apologizes to Presidency University students for violenceWB Governor M K Narayanan today apologised to the students and teachers of the Presidency University for the recent violence on its campus.
12 Apr, 2013, 08.12 PM IST
- Mamata calls up Presidency University VC to assure her help to run the institute smoothly
Mamata is still in a hospital and undergoing treatment and she had taken the trouble of calling up the VC to assure her all sorts of help f...
12 Apr, 2013, 08.06 PM IST
- West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan to visit Presidency university today
The Governor, also the Chancellor, would visit the university in the afternoon, Raj Bhavan sources said.
12 Apr, 2013, 02.23 PM IST
- SFI claims none of its activists involved in heckling incident
SFI General Secy Ritabrata Banerjee said that several organisations along with SFI were protesting in front of the Planning Commission offi...
11 Apr, 2013, 07.11 PM IST
- Attack on Mamata: Sinking feeling in Bengal
Mamata Banerjee, Bengal’s chief minister, flew back to Kolkata on Wednesday, cutting short her visit to Delhi.
11 Apr, 2013, 04.04 AM IST
- Avantor to acquire RFCL Ltd from ICICI Venture
Avantor Performance Materials Holdings SA has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire RFCL Limited from ICICI Venture Funds Manageme...
04 Nov, 2010, 10.58 PM IST
As layoffs persist, some good jobs go beggingWith unemployment nearing 10%, some cos can't find qualified people for good-paying jobs.
07 Oct, 2009, 10.13 AM IST
- Ranbaxy Fine likely to scrap US buyout plan
Ranbaxy Fine Chemical’s (RFCL) plans to acquire the US-based speciality chemicals maker Mallinckrodt Baker is facing delays because of valu...
24 Nov, 2008, 12.08 AM IST
- Ranbaxy Fine buys US co Mallinckrodt Baker for $340 mn
ICICI Venture-controlled RFCL has succeeded in its bid to acquire the US-based Mallinckrodt Baker in a deal estimated at $340 mn.
02 Sep, 2008, 01.28 AM IST
- ICICI Venture closes in on US buy
ICICI Venture-controlled RFCL (formerly Ranbaxy Fine Chemicals) has emerged as a strong contender to buy the speciality chemicals business ...
25 Aug, 2008, 12.26 AM IST
- Infected wheat: BJP wants minister to go
Stepping up its campaign against the import of red wheat, BJP on Monday demanded resignation of Maharashtra food and civil supplies ministe...
24 Jun, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- Wheat unfit for consumption, but suitable to make bread?
Unfit for rotis but fit enough to be converted into bread. That’s what the state government thinks about tonnes of wheat declared ‘unfit’ f...
14 May, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- BJP rakes up wheat import issue yet again
The Maharashtra BJP, which was busy with Gujarat elections, has revived its pet peeve - the wheat import controversy.
31 Dec, 2007, 12.46 AM IST