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Bicycle crankshafts to satellites: Mittal's journey

Headline via The Economic Times · first report 15 Nov, 11:33 IST, latest 15 Nov, 13:00 IST

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2 independent news organisations have reported this story. The first report we saw came from The Economic Times at 15 Nov, 11:33 IST; the latest is from The Siasat Daily at 15 Nov, 13:00 IST. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details: read each report through the links below.

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New Delhi: When Sunil Bharti Mittal set up a small manufacturing unit making bicycle parts in Ludhiana in 1976, he was barely 18. Fifty years later, the founder of Bharti Enterprises is presiding over a business empire whose flagship, Bharti Airtel, has…

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