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#2 Sunil Arora: May 22, 2009 08:15:37

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#10 Vir Sanghvi: May 22, 2009 13:03:19

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#12 Vir Sanghvi: May 22, 2009 13:27:07

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#18 Barkha Dutt: May 22, 2009 18:09:16

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#19 Shankkar Aiyar: May 22, 2009 18:44:49
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#20 Barkha Dutt: May 22, 2009 19:23:57

'Then the Leader [Karunanidhi] said then you [Maran] join the Congress'
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#22 Kanimozhi: May 22, 2009 20:04:19

'He’s [Maran] trying to get somebody from the congress say things against Raja to dad'
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#23 Garima: May 22, 2009 21:49:10
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#24 Vir Sanghvi: May 22, 2009 22:16:23

'We made a very reasonable offer, we’ve lot of regards for Karunanidhi, we would like to deal with him. We have no regard for Maran'
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#25 Kanimozhi: May 22, 2009 22:41:16
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#26 Vir Sanghvi: May 22, 2009 22:50:11
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#27 Kanimozhi: May 23, 2009 09:59:02

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#28 K. Raja: May 23, 2009 11:29:54
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#30 A Raja: May 23, 2009 14:29:41

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#31 Vir Sanghvi: May 23, 2009 22:26:42

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'I would imagine that share holders are gonna have a view: Why should you start, are you a fool to spend 7 billion dollars to give it for free to your brother?'
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#66 Manish, Bangalore Office: Jun 16, 2009 14:56:27
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#67 Vir Sanghvi: Jun 16, 2009 15:13:48
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#68 Sunil Jain?: Jun 16, 2009 15:42:43

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#69 Shalini Singh, Tata Group: Jun 16, 2009 15:46:46
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#70 Rohit Khanna, Vaishnavi: Jun 16, 2009 15:54:06

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#71 Jehangir Pocha?: Jun 16, 2009 17:49:16

'It’s not written by a judge. You can tell that from way it has been written'
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#72 K. Venugopal: Jun 16, 2009 19:51:37

'K. Venugopal: How is Anil more influential on the High Court side? Niira Radia: Vanavati'
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#73 K. Venugopal: Jun 16, 2009 20:05:15
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#74 Manoj Warrier: Jun 16, 2009 20:20:53
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#75 G. Ganapathy Subramaniam, ET: Jun 16, 2009 22:16:44

'There is some fuss about the government coming out with some ordinance on the gas price issue'
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#76 G. Ganapathy Subramaniam, ET: Jun 18, 2009 17:58:51

'There is information going around that Reliance is pulling out of the Haryana SEZ... that Jhajjar... that there are difficulties'
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#77 Unknown?: Jun 19, 2009 19:37:35
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#78 Menon?: Jun 19, 2009 22:59:09

SC Caveat
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#79 M.K. Venu: Jun 20, 2009 10:16:52
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#80 Vir Sanghvi: Jun 20, 2009 12:09:59

'What kind of story do you want? Because this will go as Counterpoint, so it will be like most-most read, but it can’t seem too slanted, yet it is an ideal opportunity to get all the points across'
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#81 Sunil Arora: Jun 20, 2009 14:12:13

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#82 Prabhu Chawla: Jun 20, 2009 14:32:07

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#83 Upender?: Jun 20, 2009 20:27:32

AI disinvestment -- asset stripping
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#84 Manoj Warrier: Jun 20, 2009 22:53:23

On Vir's article
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#85 M.K. Venu: Jun 22, 2009 08:13:58

'Vir Sanghvi actually pre-empted me a little (Laughs) There was a line I was going to take ... In critical resources there should be, uh, national policy... You are not a Banana Republic...'
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#86 Manoj Warrier: Jun 22, 2009 10:21:04

"Sunil Jain's article -- so stupid! I think we shouldn't (respond) but a letter to the editor..."
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#87 Jehangir Pocha?: Jun 25, 2009 12:29:53

Fixing a meeting between MDA abd RNT
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#88 G. Ganapathy Subramaniam, ET: Jun 28, 2009 21:52:04

'Empowered Group of Ministers on KG gas, it seems to be… is going to be reconstituted'
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#89 G. Ganapathy Subramaniam, ET: Jun 29, 2009 22:36:01

'Whoever is giving you this input is really giving you the wrong perspective. ... I know for a fact because I’ve had someone speak to the PMO myself.'
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#90 G. Ganapathy Subramaniam, ET: Jun 30, 2009 21:54:45

'You know... we had this Bhardwaj [as law minister] .. [who] used to deal with [Raja] differently. But now ... with Moily … he will just not.. take any chances…. And they ...want the prime minister to pull him up'
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#91 G. Ganapathy Subramaniam, ET: Jun 30, 2009 22:05:48
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#92 Channu?: Jul 02, 2009 14:03:53
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#93 Daljeet?: Jul 03, 2009 13:21:53

"Ma'm there is some action going to happen at Bombay High Court"
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#94 Sanjay?: Jul 04, 2009 11:55:30
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#95 Tarun Das: Jul 04, 2009 20:21:52

'I want to stay away from this gas issue. You want me to write about it'
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#96 G. Ganapathy Subramaniam, ET: Jul 05, 2009 10:11:50

Pressure on ET when the RNRL news was not carried
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#97 Some guy who stammers?: Jul 05, 2009 10:24:37
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#98 "Some Sir": Jul 05, 2009 12:57:52

"I have twisted the article in Pratap Narayan’s name – I have only twisted the article because I can’t write an article on an issue which is before the Supreme Court"
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#99 Daljeet?: Jul 05, 2009 15:55:17
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#100 Rohit? Rohan? Dorai?: Jul 06, 2009 10:18:28
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#101 Channu?: Jul 06, 2009 10:40:41
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#102 Daljeet?: Jul 06, 2009 11:05:22
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#103 S. Padmanabhan: Jul 06, 2009 12:02:12

Director, Tata Power, and then someone else
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#104 Some MP?: Jul 06, 2009 18:53:37

Please help identify this (possibly) member of Parliament
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#105 Manoj Warrier: Jul 06, 2009 20:22:01

80(1) D benefit -- one sided with MDA
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#106 Manoj Warrier: Jul 06, 2009 21:26:05

'The finance ministry has told ET that there is no benefit for RIL. This will be only applicable for future NELP blocks'
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#107 Mukesh Ambani: Jul 06, 2009 21:55:33
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#108 Bittu? Baiju? Biju?: Jul 07, 2009 09:56:35

ICICI, AT&T
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#109 Ganpathy?: Jul 07, 2009 10:33:20
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#110 Ratan Tata: Jul 07, 2009 11:47:02

'I understand that Maran is going hammer and tongs for Raja. And I hope Raja doesn’t trip or slip' '...the chief justice has issued a statement that no minister called the high court judge.'
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#111 PMS? Mr Prasad?: Jul 07, 2009 12:28:26

"I heard Mahesh Agarwal saying government is not a respondent in this case." " How can they lie! Such liars! I will just have a word with all the channels, sir"
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#112 PMS? Mr Prasad?: Jul 07, 2009 12:37:10

Mahesh Agarwal's ticker removed
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#113 Suhel Seth: Jul 07, 2009 16:14:07

'If the older fellow has so much of an influence, how come the younger brother is able to do so much?'
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#114 Rajdeep Sardesai: Jul 07, 2009 16:25:52

'I want Manoj to meet Sameer Manchanda because Sameer and Manoj had a long chat in between on the cable thing'
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#115 S. Padmanabhan: Jul 07, 2009 17:11:10
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#116 Rakesh Hari Pathak, Economic Bureau Chief, PTI: Jul 07, 2009 18:51:51
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#117 Ratan Tata: Jul 07, 2009 20:29:07

'I met Raja today. I went to see him today and he is alright. He is a happy man. The Chief Justice has given his clearance on him and he’s happy. He’s really happy with that'
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#118 Jaideep Bose, TOI: Jul 07, 2009 20:44:12

Praful Patel's made 15,000 crores
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#119 G. Ganapathy Subramaniam, ET: Jul 07, 2009 22:41:20
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#120 Manoj Warrier?: Jul 07, 2009 23:08:47
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#121 Sunil Arora: Jul 08, 2009 08:44:32

"They’ve approached Ratan to become the chairman of that advisory committee"
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#122 Tarun Das?: Jul 08, 2009 08:53:21
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#123 Manoj Warrier: Jul 08, 2009 09:25:54

Anil Ambani itinerary
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#124 Sunil Arora: Jul 08, 2009 09:27:26

Asking Sunil Arora to send pointers for Tarun Das who's meeting the PM on how Naresh Goyal and Vijay Mallya have connived with the minister to destroy Air India
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#125 G. Ganapathy Subramaniam, ET: Jul 08, 2009 09:39:16

ET finally did not carry the story. "We’ll just handle it with CNBC and with Mint and HT"
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#126 Surajeet Dasgupta: Jul 08, 2009 09:46:37

Praful Patel 'screwed up the airline'
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#127 Madhav?: Jul 08, 2009 10:55:09

"He will use the subscriber’s argument and will going to Vahanvati and Vahanvati will give some silly opinion and again we will be stuck."
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#128 S. Padmanabhan: Jul 08, 2009 11:12:57

Tata writing to Power Ministry
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#129 M.K. Venu, then with ET: Jul 08, 2009 21:10:16
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#130 Unknown?: Jul 08, 2009 21:28:21

arranging Baijal TATA meeting
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#131 Manoj Warrier: Jul 08, 2009 22:42:11
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#132 M.K. Venu: Jul 09, 2009 08:47:33
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#133 Tarun Das?: Jul 09, 2009 09:15:44

"Raja is not doing anything but he is still guiding Anil and Anil is trying to use him to go to Azhagiri and get the Fertiliser sector to be compromised on this gas issue"
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#134 N.K. Singh: Jul 09, 2009 09:31:49

'Arun Shourie is speaking as a listed speaker in the Rajya Sabha for the BJP but fortunately we have managed to make him the second speaker but made Venkaiah [Naidu] the first'
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#135 Barkha Dutt & Manoj Modi: Jul 09, 2009 16:14:11

'It was very helpful, Manoj'
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#136 Tarun Das?: Jul 09, 2009 17:49:39

Sunil Mittal wants to build bridges with Ratan
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#137 Manoj Warrier: Jul 09, 2009 21:01:26

Sukukumar, Mint
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#138 Daljeet?: Jul 09, 2009 21:09:22

Tony has destructive strategy'
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#139 Manoj Warrier: Jul 09, 2009 21:23:56
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#140 G. Ganapathy Subramaniam, ET: Jul 09, 2009 22:36:31

'Maybe maybe I should speak to you on some other phone number or something' 'Why, you think they are monitoring my number?'

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