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Bharat Biotech to test swine flu vaccine in 2 months
Hyderabad-based vaccines and biotherapeutics manufacturer Bharat Biotech, which is getting ready with an indigenous H1N1 swine flu candidate vaccine, would go for clinical trials in two months, according to its chairman and managing director Krishna M Ella.

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The BJP has often rubbished its critics who said reciting Vande Mataram was a non-secular act. Ironical then, that at a recent function organised by the BJP, the emcee was the only one who got the stanzas mixed up. All chartered accountants at the function on the direct taxes code organised by the BJP managed to sing the song in the correct order. After the first stanza, however, the emcee jumped to the last stanza while the audience continued to sing it in the correct order.

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Intel to pay AMD $1.25 bn, settle all disputes
Intel Corp agreed to pay Advanced Micro Devices Inc $1.25 billion as part of a legal settlement that ends a four-year dispute between the world’s two largest computer-processor makers. AMD stock rose as much as 27 per cent.
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Sensex firm; Hindalco up 5%

The Sensex is exhibiting firmness and is now at 17,708, up 149 points. The NSE Nifty is at 5,280, up 48 points. The Midcap and the small cap indices have added 1% each at 6,905 and 8,589, respectively. Negative view on state-run oil cos: Fitch Jan cement sales in high double-digit Hindalco has soared 5% to Rs 171. Jaiprakash Associates has advanced 3% to Rs 159. Grasim Industries, Sterlite, Tata Steel, Mahindra & Mahindra and DLF has added 2% each at Rs 2,608, Rs 894, Rs 648, Rs 1,152 and Rs 372, respectively. Reliance Communications, Tata Power, HDFC and ICICI Bank were the other prominent gainers, up 1% each. The market breadth is positive, out of 2,646 shares traded, 1,938 have advanced and 628 have declined so far on the BSE.


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