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Macquarie Buys RWE's Thames Water for $8.9 Billion Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Macquarie Bank Ltd., Australia's largest securities firm, led a group that agreed to buy RWE AG's Thames Water unit for 4.8 billion pounds ($8.9 billion), the third acquisition of a U.K. water utility this month...

Popolare Verona to Acquire BPI for EU8.2 Billion Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Banco Popolare di Verona e Novara Scrl agreed to buy Banca Popolare Italiana Scrl for 8.2 billion euros ($10.3 billion) to create Italy's fifth-biggest bank, with more than 2,100 branches extending from Milan to Sicily...

Toooo Goood dude..especially the one above :pound: :pound:

E.ON Raises Endesa Bid as Rival Investor's Stake Threatens Deal By Kristian Rix and Joao Lima Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- E.ON AG, Europe's largest utility, raised its hostile bid for Endesa SA, Spain's biggest power company, by 38 percent to counter an effort by a Spanish construction company...

Acciona May Increase Endesa Stake, Threaten E.ON Bid Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Acciona SA, the Spanish builder that yesterday bought 10 percent of Endesa SA, said it has financing to double the stake, threatening E.ON AG's 26.9 billion-euro ($34 billion) bid for the nation's largest power...

http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/sep/25iim.htm Happy not to be at IIM-A Whether the country's populace was aware of the turnaround in the Indian Railways' fortunes under Lalu Prasad is an open question, but now thanks to the efforts of Prof. G Raghuram at the Indian Institute of Management...

UCB to Buy Germany's Schwarz Pharma for EU4.4 Billion Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- UCB SA, the Belgian maker of the allergy drug Zyrtec, agreed to buy Schwarz Pharma AG for 4.4 billion euros ($5.6 billion) in cash and stock to gain new medicines for Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and bladder...

India's Singh, Seeking $150 Billion, Courts, Snubs Investors Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's plan to attract $150 billion for roads, ports and power supply systems may flounder because the government won't allow overseas investors in on the terms they want. Fifteen years after Singh...

Enigmatic - obscure, puzzling................................

Few wrong decisions are always part of the game. It cant be used as an excuse. If Dhoni was adjudged out wrongly then what about others? What excuse do they have about not performing?

Though I dont knw abt identity theft on orkut, the only disadvantage of Orkut that I have found is that it is a very public site. So you have to be extra careful abt what u are scrapping whom. Coz everyone in d world can read what u have written. But yes its gr8 that MP is also there...n MOI...

Re: WORST CASE SOME ONE!!! I feel that the writer is wrong in saying that there is no excess demand in thee country. The simple fact is that in the last five years India's growth has been tremendous. The most important factor for this is domestic demand. Domestic demand has grown in leaps n...

I cant blame anyone individually. It was the team as a whole which lost the match, especially the batsmen, who failed to apply themselves

emissary - agent, messenger.......................................................

Just make sure u read this b4 having ur next sip !! Side effects of alcohol ----------------------- 1. Symptom: Cold and humid feet. Cause: Glass is being held at incorrect angle (You are pouring the drink on ur feet). Cure: Maneuver glass until open end is facing upward 2. Symptom: The wall...

The way Indians played, they deserved to lose. Indians won a single match and that too just becoz WI did not play well. A truly pathetic performance

Laggard - slow, sluggish.........................................

ONGC, Sinopec bag Colombian co for $850 mn TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2006 12:29:28 AM] NEW DELHI: The Indo-China joint effort is beginning to bear fruit. Oil biggie ONGC’s overseas investment arm, ONGC-VL, and Chinese oil and petrochem major Sinopec’s subsidiary, Sinopec...

Merck takes control of biotech giant Serono Source ::: AFP frankfurt • German pharmaceuticals company Merck KGaA yesterday took a majority stake in Switzerland’s Serono SA and was aiming at a full takeover worth 16.6 billion Swiss francs (10.46 billion euros, $13.32 billion). The offer...

Re: Thailand In Transition Though this bloodless coup has got Thailand and the Thai people respite frm the corrupt Thaskin, it is essential the democracy is soon restored so that no one takes undue advantage of the current crisis to bring in monarchy or some other autocratic form of governance.