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TRAI flexes muscles, directs channels to reign in ads. Broadcasters cry foul.

TRAI flexes muscles, directs channels to reign in ads. Broadcasters cry foul.

Have you been irritated by the ceaseless advertisements on Indian TV? Have you suffered through a movie where the ads take up almost an equal amount of time as the movie’s content? Or through cricket matches interrupted by endlessly encroaching ads between overs? Apparently, so has someone at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, and…

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Herbalife – buying opportunity or falling knife?

Herbalife – buying opportunity or falling knife?

As the S&P 500 index flirts with the 1400 mark, we can see plenty of our holdings reach 52-week highs. Some of them have even breached multi-year highs. Intel (INTC), Verizon (VZ), General Electric (GE), Microsoft (MSFT), Qualcomm (QCOM) are all our portfolio holdings. As…

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A Paribartan denied in Bengal..

Mamata Banerjee has been quite prominent in the news this past year. Her Trinamool Congress (TMC) party gained a landslide victory in West Bengal in the 2011 state assembly elections and she became the state’s first woman Chief Minister. Since gaining power and becoming the…

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Who’s Got the Power

Who’s Got the Power

Energy market The overtures in energy market and increase of gas prices have been all over the news. Oil embargo by Iran added to the fire. So what are the…

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Hero Cycles to sell in WalMart stores worldwide

Hero Cycles to sell in WalMart stores worldwide

Hero Cycles, India’s largest manufacturer of bicycles and member of the Hero Group of Companies is set to sell it’s bicycles in WalMart stores worldwide. Hero cycles are already exported…

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IDFC to buy stake in Sahyadri Hostpitals

IDFC’s investment arm is set to acquire a stake in Pune based Sahyadri Hostpitals. The Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) will buy out ICICI-Venture’s stake in the hospital chain. This marks a very…

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