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Emerging-market telecoms: Emerging-market telecoms are in hot demand – so much so that the valuation attributed to Kuwait-based operator Zain Telecom by a consortium of Asian investors seems, well, zany.

Telecom users cross 500-mn mark before targeted date
The total telecom subscriber base in India crossed 500 million at the end of September, taking the overall teledensity to 43.5 per cent. India is the second-biggest and fastest market for wireless services, behind China, which has over 600 million users.

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The latest calendar from the rural development ministry has a picture of the minister and two ministers of state. The third minister of state was upset enough to call up the minister, CP Joshi, to protest. The minister has now ordered that the calendars not be circulated — a fresh calendar will soon be sent around.
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Granules Q1 net up 129% at Rs 6 cr

Granules India Limited (GIL), a Hyderabad-based active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and pharmaceutical formulations intermediates, reported a net profit of Rs 6.19 crore for the quarter ended June 2009, as compared with Rs 2.7 crore in the corresponding quarter last year, reflecting an increase of 129.25 per cent. - Govt hints nexus between private, state-owned vaccine units - Fakes make up 20-25% of Rs 85,000 cr pharma sales - Dr Reddy"s Q1 net zooms 120% at Rs 244 cr - Ranbaxy gets nod to sell Ran-Simvastatin tablets in Canada - Zandu Pharma Q1 profit doubles at Rs 11.12 cr - Ranbaxy gets Canada"s nod to mkt anti-hypertension drug Net sales grew 41.58 per cent to Rs 87.36 crore, as against Rs 61.70 crore during the same period a year ago, attributed to its focus on international markets. "The growth was driven primarily by the API growth of 42 per cent in the quarter, as well as the introduction and commercialisation of our finished dosage business, which has achieved Rs 13 crore in net sales since inception, including Rs 5.5 crore for this quarter alone. We expect increased utilisation of our finished dosage facility to drive our growth further in the second half of the year," said C Krishna Prasad, managing director of Granules India. The scrip of Granules India is currently trading at Rs 72.50 on the BSE, up 13.28 per cent as against the previous close of Rs 64.


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