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OFFHAND
Ig-Nobel record
LEAVING aside the Peace prize, as per the information available up to 2000, 631 Nobel prizes have been awarded, of which the US (242) has been the largest recipient with one prize for a million population, followed by ...
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FINANCIAL SCAN
Planning Commission controversy — Left misses historic chance!
To kill it, the Government decided to disband all the Commission's consultative committees, which comprised a mix of desi economists of the Left variety, executives of the World Bank and representatives of international consulting firms ...
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DOWN TO EARTH
For whom is the research anyway?
On one side there is an imposing network of laboratories and research establishments with panoply of academic achievement and recognition. On the other, mass suicides of farmers are happening that signals gross system failure of which the grand empir e of agricultural institutions cannot be entirely innocent. This is the bane of research in the socialist world where there was no incentive to be inventive.
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PLANTATION PANORAMA
Tea trade, industry spat over mandatory sales
EVEN as the Tea Board has said it will introduce e-auctions at all the six auction centres in the country by December at a cost of Rs 23 crore, the industry and trade are divided on the very use of auctions as the principal mode of selling teas. ...
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EAR TO THE GROUND
On dividend hopes
SOME market players are accumulating the shares of Balaji Telefilms over the last few days. Talk is that accumulation is mainly on expectation of huge dividend payout. Dealers said the company is expected to announce a dividend of around Rs ...
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ON THE HEDGE
Tata Power: Initiate long position after price breakout
THE following strategies are based on Tuesday's trading in the spot and the derivatives segment on the NSE: Tata Power: The stock closed at Rs 316 in the spot market. The outlook appears positive, but the uptrend will be speedy if ...
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SENSOR
Sensex declines further as bearish trend continues
CONTINUING the bearish trend witnessed on Monday, the benchmark indices declined further during Tuesday's trading. After opening on a firm note, both BSE Sensex and S&P CNX Nifty ended the day in the negative territory. The Sensex opened at ...
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