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New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Tuesday said some cases of suicides by farmers due to personal reasons were also attributed to crop failure and other farming related reasons.

Following are selected comments from speakers at the 2009 Reuters India Investment Summit that runs from Monday to Wednesday.

Indian conglomerate GMR Infrastructure Ltd, which has interests spanning from aviation to power, has 30 billion rupees ($650 million) to invest in existing businesses by March 2011, a top official said.

Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd's open offer for Maytas Infra Ltd would open on Nov. 25 and close on Dec. 14, the offer manager said in an announcement.

Raipur, Nov 24 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Tuesday asked the central government to raise the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy to Rs.1,400 per quintal from the present Rs.950 per quintal.

Ford Motor Co will launch a new car model in India every 12-15 months over the next five years, with its new Figo small car is set to drive a tripling of sales in 2010, its India head said on Tuesday.

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The genetically modified Bt Brinjal has been developed in compliance with international norms and experts evaluating it have found no danger in it, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Tuesday.

Hyderabad, Nov 24 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday filed an additional charge sheet against former Satyam Computer Services founder-chairman B. Ramalinga Raju and others accused in the Rs.78-billion (Rs.7,800 crore) accounting scam that rocked the country earlier this year.

DLF Ltd, India's largest-listed real estate firm, is seeing a demand revival in the housing segment but a full-fledged recovery was still some time away, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) Bilateral trade between India and France will be hit this fiscal on account of the global economic meltdown, a French diplomat said here Tuesday.

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) HCL Security, a wholly-owned subsidiary of hardware major HCL Infosystems, Tuesday said it has signed an agreement with technology firm Cisco to provide internet protocol-based safety and security solutions in India and abroad.

India is set to emerge as a major white sugar importer in calendar 2010, and is expected to buy some 3 million tonnes, Jonathan Kingsman, head of the Lausanne-based Kingsman SA consultancy, said on Tuesday.

Reliance Industries has reopened 900 gas stations, which were shut down when state firms were selling heavily subsidised fuel, the head of the firm's refinery business, P. Raghavendran, said.

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) There was no ambiguity in the agreed price, tenure and quantity of natural gas to be supplied by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) from the Krishna-Godavari fields, counsel for Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL) told the Supreme Court Tuesday.

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Tired of pushing and jostling in order to get a bus ticket? From now on all you need to do is to touch a card on a validator machine for a hassle free transaction, as the Delhi government Tuesday started the smart card automated fare collection in a pilot stage.

An investigation against illegal mining is under way in Orissa and 128 mines of various minerals have been asked to suspend operations, Mines Minister B.K. Handique told the upper house of parliament, a government press release stated on Tuesday.

New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Hundreds of people are expected for a rally in Delhi Thursday to demand change of government policies to ensure food security for all.

Hyderabad/ Chennai, Nov 24 (ANI/Business Wire India): Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global IT services company that offers a broad spectrum of business consulting, IT services and IT outsourcing, today announced it's the winner of Information Management's 2009 Innovative Solutions Award in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) category.

Vadodara, Nov 24 (ANI/Business Wire India): Indusface an end to end Information Security Solutions and Services provider was declared a winner in the Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 India Program.

Hyderabad/ Maryland (US), Nov 24 (ANI/Business Wire India): Ocimum Biosolutions today announced that its specialty life science Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), BiotrackerT has been awarded the prestigious caBIG(r) (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid(r)) Bronze Compatibility Certification by the National Cancer Institute, an institute of the National Institutes of Health, U.S.