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The Business Blog
How to get telcos to pipe down: revenue share auctions
By R Jagannathan What are India’s mobile biggies really complaining about? And why are they giving out contradictory estimates on what higher spectrum means for consumer tariffs? Look at the numbers being spewed out. A few days ago, they said the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai’s) base prices for spectrum would result #Bharti #Idea #Spectrum War #TRAI #Vodafone
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Mid-wicket Tales
Close encounters on the cricket field
By S. Giridhar and V J Raghunath Two uniquely thrilling visuals of test cricket have not changed with time. One, the first morning of the first day of a test match, new ball, fresh wicket, three slips and a gully and a leg gully, alert and ready as the fast bowler #Cricket #Eknath Solkar #Fielding #Slip #TheLongView
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Kiran Khalap
‘Satyamev Jayate will become India’s new Sunday habit’
1. Shailja Arora, fashion designer in Benaras, mother of two, uses Sunday mornings for a sumptuous massage and catching up on gossip at Assi Ghat over cups of milky tea, as the mighty Ganga flows towards infinity. On Sunday the 6th, she has an appointment with another craftsman. Yes, she has #Aamir Khan #InMyOpinion #Satyameva Jayate
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Sourav Majumdar
Indian tech enterprise is thriving; LinkedIn told us why
Naren Gupta, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of leading venture capital firm Nexus Venture Partners, believes some of the greatest technology companies of the future will come out of India. Gupta should know, having helped some Indian ventures scale up and sell out to some of the largest names in #DealStream #LinkedIn #SlideShare #Tech M&As
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Gautam Viswanathan
Fernando Torres and the thrill of a comeback
“Now, Fernando Torres, he's on a hat-trick, Fernando Torres! Five-nil Chelsea! And Fernando Torres exorcises some demons! A sensational week for Chelsea, a sensational week for their number nine! A hat-trick for Torres, delight for Abramovich, that is why they spent the money. Five-nil to Chelsea!” This what what the commentator #Chelsea F.C. #David Villa #Fernando Torres #KickingAround #Liverpool
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George Albert
Sensex, rupee at crucial levels; is it break or bounce?
The Sensex and the rupee are at critical breakdown levels after the stock market fell on Friday and the rupee was retesting its previous lows against the US dollar. The drop in the US equity markets on Friday might provide another downward nudge to Indian equities and the dollar rally #Chart View #nifty #rupee-dollar #Sensex
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Seema Sirohi
Osama letters: Getting into the dark mind of ‘the Sheikh’
Washington: So Osama bin Laden and his association of terrorists didn’t think much of Fox News and Vice-President Joseph Biden. Ouch. Journalists are poring over the 17 documents released by the US government’s Combating Terrorism Centre to look for hidden clues and connections. Perhaps a new detail missed by trained counter-terrorism officers #Al-Qaeda #Barack Obama #Joe Biden #Osama bin Laden #United States #WhyNow
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Tristan Stewart-Robertson
Team Anna: Anti-corruption, Pro-secrecy?
Once you start campaigning on principles, you may find it's difficult to escape their gravitational pull. Team Anna has discovered that very problem with what I'm going to call 'principled physics' in the whole controversy surrounding the expulsion of core team member Shameem Kazmi for "allegedly secretly recording the proceedings of #Arvind Kejriwal #ConnectTheDots #Corruption #News of the World #Principled Physics #Team Anna #Transparency
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Tom Alter
Gavaskar, my hero, now adorns a sideshow
Sitting in the Jet Lounge at New Delhi airport – fatigue and fantasy fill my mind and soul. Suddenly, my eye is caught by the sight of a short, sturdy man being brought into a television studio by a scantily clad young lady – as the band blared and the #IPL 5 #IPL Expert #Sports #Sunil Gavaskar
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The Business Blog
O, Brother! Topless UTI will chop its marketing head, too
By R Jagannathan If it ain’t going to be my brother, a plague on your house. This seems to be the underlying message coming through from the finance ministry, which has managed to keep UTI Mutual Fund, once upon a time the biggest fund in the country, headless and clueless for all #Behind The Veil #Jitesh Khosla #Omita Paul #SEBI Act #Securities and Exchange Board of India #UK Sinha #UTI Mutual Fund
