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The Greek prime minister's announcement "surprised all of Europe, Nicolas Sarkozy said.

CNBC-TV18 PRIME HD will be broadcast on India's leading DTH platforms in HD quality.

The company said that the charges relate to events that occurred a year prior to Etisalat's investment in Swan.

The benchmark Nikkei rose 2.0 per cent to 8,776.16 its highest since September 16.

Tata Motors maintained its top position on the buying list with a surge of 7.4 per cent on BSE.

Sensex shed 302.31 points to close at 16,151.45 and Nifty fell 93.75 points to end at 4,849.50.

The group's telecom arm, RCom, saw its shares plunge by 8.11 per cent to a low of Rs 71.35 in morning trade.

Since last month, the Sun TV Network scrip, has lost about 14.5 percent and a whopping 100 percent compared to last year's levels.

European markets slipped in opening trade. France's CAC, Germany's DAX and Britain's FTSE fell 0.7 per cent each.

Japanese shares managed to rise despite the market losing support from dividend-related buying.

Tokyo's Nikkei rose 1.6 per cent, coming off its lowest close in more than two years.

Manmohan Singh said in the last few decades tens of millions of people have been lifted out of abject poverty.

The strike began 3 weeks ago after workers refused to to sign a 'good conduct' bond following allegations of sabota

Tokyo's Nikkei fell 1.2 percent, while MSCI's broadest measure of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan was off 1.1 percent.

Some of the demands included bringing in black money disclosure scheme for investment.

Deven Sharma would be replaced by Douglas Peterson, chief operating officer of Citibank.