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Anil Ambani must breathe a sigh of relief as SEBI passes a consent order for RNRL,Reliance Infra and it’s Directors in a probe involving misuse of ECB funds

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Anil Ambani may well feel blessed on this auspicious day of Makar Sankrant….he and his companies have been let off lightly by SEBI today…his kites should fly higher from now…that’s my take on today’s SEBI Consent Order passed In a Consent Order each of his two companies Reliance Infrastructure (earlier Reliance Energy) and RNRL (since merged with […]

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BOC delisting process initiated…Floor Price remains at Rs 225.29…Offer opens Jan 24 and closes Jan 31…unlikely to succeed

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Avid Blog Readers like Joseph Rodrigues has requested I comment on the BOC Delisting as I had blogged on this Opportunity twice earlier and since then BOC has surged over 50% from Rs 218 levels to current Rs 330 levels…check out my two earlier blogs on BOC in 2010 BOC Flares up over 20% on

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Coldest Day in Mumbai in Three Years…needed a Heater !…NDTV 24*7 Big Fight Debate on ‘Bofors and After’ more than warmed me !

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Its dipped to 12 degrees in Mumbai…effect of the Cold Wave up North….needed something to warm me up so I picked up the Remote on this Sunday Morning and thought maybe Katrina’s belly dance moves in ‘Sheela ki Jawani’ was pouring out from some channel…but was delighted and warmed by something even more Hot !…….The

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Markets Grumble and Rumble….and then Tumble !……what did you expect !

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It took just a week to rub off the New Year sheen Sensex grumbled and tumbled 493 points today to close at 19692…lost nearly 900 points this week….Nifty too rumbled and tumbled 144 points to close at 5905 as we closed the first week in the new year 2011 What did you expect ! Just

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Citibank US Top Brass at HQ named in Indian FIR by Top Investor Sanjay Aggarwal of Helion Funds in the Gurgaon Branch Wealth Management Fraud…stirs angry memories of this Bank

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This Wealth Managment Fraud of over Rs 300 Crs, claimed to be the ingenuity of a relationship manager of Citibank at it’s Gurgaon Branch in Delhi is now being widened in investigation scope to include even the role of the World Head, Mr Vikram Pandit and Chairman,Mr William Rhodes and ten other Bank Officers in New

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105 Scribes killed on job this year…..this figure would change radically…even if notionally… if Financial journalism is covered !

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Interesting press piece in today’s DNA…. 105 scribes killed on job this year…. Media Watchdog Press Emblem Campaign released this figure describing the killing of reporters as an “epidemic with no cure”…in 2009,the figure was higher at 122 and in 2008 there were 91 journalists killed…Over five years ,529 journalists have been killed with over

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