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Rio Tinto approves $5.3 bn Oyu Tolgoi mine expansion in Mongolia
09 May 2016
The Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in Mongolia's Gobi desert is thought to be one of the world's largest untapped copper and gold deposits
Amazon to fill gaps in Prime service
07 May 2016
FCC approves Charter-Time Warner Cable-Bright House Networks merger deals
07 May 2016
On completion Charter's merger with Time Warner Cable will be one of the media industry's largest merger deals
Audit finds irregularities in MCFL advances to Mallya firm
07 May 2016
In more troubles for embattled tycoon Vijay Mallya, a forensic audit ordered by Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilisers, which he once controlled, has found irregularities in investments it made in his other group companies
Ranbaxy ex-bosses to challenge Rs2,562-cr fine for hiding info from Daiichi
06 May 2016
In a majority ruling this week, a three-member arbitration panel in Singapore imposed a fine on the billionaire brothers earlier this week in a case filed by Daiichi Sankyo in 2013
Idea ties up with Google Play for card-less purchases
06 May 2016
Idea Cellular and Google have announced a partnership to enable more than 175 million subscribers of the mobile phone operator to make credit cards unnecessary for making purchases on Google Play
ITC shuts cigarette plants as SC favours new pictorial warning rules
06 May 2016
ITC, which pioneered tobacco cultivation and linked the Indian tobacco farmer to markets across the world, is awaiting the Karnataka High Court to decide on the fate of its cigarette business
Former Ranbaxy promoters ordered to pay Rs2,500 cr damages
06 May 2016
Daiichi filed an arbitration case in 2013 in Singapore, accusing the Indian promoters of concealment and misrepresentation of facts and seeking compensation for fines that it was forced to pay the US Department of Justice
Bharti Airtel sells towers in DRC
05 May 2016
BT to invest £6 bn to upgrade infrastructure
05 May 2016
The British telecom giant will replace its aging cable network with fibre optic lines to bring ultrafast broadband to millions of homes and businesses and secure control of its network division, Openreach
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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