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OFFHAND
Academics vs activists
CAN academics be activists and vice-versa, or are they poles apart? Someone called Anonymous (who has plenty of quotable quotes attributed to him in every anthology of quotations) has said that academics build ...
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FINANCIAL SCAN
Oil uncertainty hits markets
THINGS are gradually getting worse. There has been spate of terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil producer and also custodian of the largest reserves. The violence in Iraq is unabating, where the Americans seem to have ...
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REFLECTIONS
Watering hole with a history
By some healthy convention, drinks at the Club are the cheapest in Mumbai and the bills can wait to be paid some other day, as newsmen cannot afford to be prompt about payment.
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TECH-SCAN
Low-cost remedies to remove arsenic
A STAINLESS steel filter device has been found effective in the removal of arsenic from contaminated drinking water and in making it safe for human consumption. Interestingly, the filter medium itself is a processed ...
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EAR TO THE GROUND
Zooms on merger talk
Rumours of a possible merger with Hindalco propelled the stock of Bihar Caustic and Chemicals on the BSE on Tuesday. According to the market grapevine, with Hindalco's views on restructuring and the fact that it already has a majority holding ...
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ON THE HEDGE
NIIT: Outlook positive, buy June futures
THE following strategies are based on Tuesday's trading in the spot and the derivatives segments on the NSE: Tata Power: The stock closed at Rs 265 in the spot market. It has declined from a high of Rs 430 to a low of Rs 235 in recent ...
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SENSOR
Auto sector stocks in demand
STOCK prices rebounded after five successive days of losses with the Sensex registering a gain of 1.6 per cent. The bounceback gained strength in early trade as Sensex rose to a level that was a hair's breadth away from 5,000 ...
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