"Confidence and perception issues are overwhelming Lehman's franchise value, " said Citigroup analyst Prashant Bhatia in a note Thursday.

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"He will be released from jail after the High Court order reaches the lower court, " Mr Prasadam's lawyer, Prashant Jena, said.

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"In a six-year marriage there are bound to be some arguments, " admits Shashi Ruia's son, Prashant, who sits on Hutchison Essar's board.

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The third technique, being developed by Prashant Kamat of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and his colleagues, uses that fashionable scientific tool, the carbon nanotube.

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On a month-long vacation to India in mid-2006, he started to work on his own business plan for SMS mobile search, and persuaded angel investors Sasha Mirchandani and Prashant Choksey to back him.

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Similarly, a Spanish person could enter their name as Javier (Firstname) Garcia (Familyname) Lopez (Matronymic), while a Russian would be Mikhail (Firstname) Sergeyevich (Patronymic), and a South Indian would be Prashant (Name) Kumar (Patronymic).

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Prashant Bajaj, an Indian tourist who was spending his honeymoon with his wife Risha in Cape Town, told the BBC's Mohammed Allie that it was the availability of the latest technology that attracted them to use Escape to the Cape.

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