Firms/companies
Reliance Capital to sell 2.77% stake to Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
26 Dec 2014
Mitsui Group companies are simultaneously engaging the two Reliance groups in a bid to expand logistics and financial services businesses in India
Australia’s Telstra acquires Pacnet for $697 mn
24 Dec 2014
With around 815 employees, Pacnet operates 25 offices in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, and the US
Datsun Go+ MPV set for 16 January launch
24 Dec 2014
Novartis-GSK business deal gets CCI nod
23 Dec 2014
Tata Motors starts online bookings for Tata Bolt
23 Dec 2014
RBI widens ambit for banks to deal with loan defaulters
23 Dec 2014
RBI has defined a non-cooperative borrower as a defaulter who deliberately stonewalls legitimate efforts of lenders to recover their dues, thereby narrowing the difference with a ‘willful defaulter’
With Ajay Singh in pic, SpiceJet hopes to tap foreign funds
23 Dec 2014
Reports say unnamed PE firms are conducting due diligence exercise on SpiceJet and the airline is hopeful of infusion of money within the next month and half
Alstom to pay record $772 mn to settle US bribery charges
23 Dec 2014
According to the US Department of Justice, Alstom has paid a total of more than $75 million to secure $4 billion in projects around the world, and profited around $300 million
P&G to sell Camay and Zest soap brands to Unilever
23 Dec 2014
The deal involves the global sale of the Camay and the Zest brand outside of North America and the Caribbean and the Talisman manufacturing facility in Mexico, which employs around 170 people
Google to open own campus in Hyderabad: report
22 Dec 2014
Google’s proposed permanent centre in Hyderabad will be its third campus, after the previous two in the US and the UK
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COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
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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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