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RBI lifts gold curbs, allows local sale of imported metal
22 May 2014
Nominated importers will have to procure gold, if considered necessary, through two invoices – 20 per cent for exporters and the other 80 per cent one domestic users
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EU charges 3 of world’s biggest banks with rate rigging
21 May 2014
US and European regulators have so far handed down some $6 billion in fines to 10 banks and brokerages for rigging the Libor and its euro cousin Euribor
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Google overtakes Apple as world’s most valuable technology firm
21 May 2014
Google’s brand value shot up 40 per cent in a year to $158.84 billion while Apple’s brand value fell 20 per cent to $147.88 billion, according to Millward Brown’s ‘2014 100 Top BrandZ’ report
Google eyeing video streaming service, Twitch
20 May 2014
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Sahara proposes sale of 2 overseas hotels to raise Rs10,000 cr
19 May 2014
A new bench comprising justices T S Thakur and A K Sikri refused to allow Sahara’s plea for putting Roy under house arrest in Lucknow instead of keeping him in Tihar jail
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Adani Group gets Rs5,500 cr DRI show-cause for fudging imports
19 May 2014
Notices were issued against three companies of the Ahmedabad-based Adani Group for alleged over-valuation by Rs2,000 crore of capital equipment for power projects
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AT&T to buy US satellite-television provider DirecTV for $48.5 bn
19 May 2014
A successful deal would combine AT&T, the second-largest wireless carrier and the largest satellite television company in the US, exceeding the deal size of Comcast's $45-billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable
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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
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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
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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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