Firms/companies
Vale, Apollo Global to jointly bid for Anglo American's Brazilian niobium and phosphates assets
13 Apr 2016
Greybull to buy Tata’s UK long steel arm for £1
12 Apr 2016
Turnaround specialist Greybull Capital has made it clear that its purchase of Tata Steel’s Long Products Europe division will involve no job losses, but the deal is still subject to a ballot by the union
Goldman Sachs to pay $5.06 bn to settle securities fraud charges
12 Apr 2016
Goldman Sachs, Wall Street's most profitable bank, which had earlier vigorously denied of any wrongdoing in the securities fraud case, is still paying far less than the hefty $13.3-billion imposed on mortgage giant JPMorgan
Ford tests night-driving autonomous vehicle
11 Apr 2016
Tata Steel UK sells long products business to Greybull
11 Apr 2016
Tata Steel UK Limited today announced the signing of an agreement to sell its loss-making long products business to a family-controlled investment firm, Greybull Capital
World Bank sees growth in East Asia easing to 6.3% in 2016
11 Apr 2016
Economic growth in developing East Asia is expected to ease from 6.5 per cent in 2015 to 6.3 per cent in 2016 and 6.2 per cent in 2017-18, on the back of a weaker-than-expected recovery in high-income economies and a faster-than-expected slowdown in China
Daily Mail explores bid for Yahoo
11 Apr 2016
London-based Daily Mail, whose business interest include media, energy, education, insurance, and property, is interested in Yahoo’s news and media properties
NASA sends expandable habitat to Space Station
09 Apr 2016
The expandable habitat will allow investigators to use microgravity conditions to assess the impact of antibodies on crew and grow protein crystals that will aid the design of new drugs
Airtel buys Aircel’s 4G spectrum for Rs3,500-cr to operate pan-India
09 Apr 2016
Airtel has made three acquisitions over past two-three years, including last month’s Rs4,428-cr acquisition of Videocon’s 4G spectrum in the 1800 MHz band in six circles, to equip itself for competition with Ambani startup Reliance Jio
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
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
02 Apr 2023
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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