Firms/companies
Tata Harrier beats Jeep Compass with Feb sale of 1,449 units
08 Mar 2019
With new models like the Tata Nexon, which is touted to be the safest car in India, and a new design language, Tata Motors reported sales of 18,110 units in February 2019
Bharti Airtel, GIC to subscribe half of Rs32, 000 cr rights issue
07 Mar 2019
Bharti Airtel promoters and the promoter group will subscribe to Rs11,785.7 crore and GIC will subscribe to Rs5,000 crore by way of renouncement in their favour
Tata Altroz EV unveiled at Geneva show; India launch in 2020
06 Mar 2019
The Altroz EV will have a longer range of 250-300 km compared to the 130 km of Tata Tigor EV and 140 km of Mahindra eVerito and will take only 60 minutes to charge from 0 to 80 per cent, Tata Motors claims
Mahindra’s Pininfarina unveils faster-than-Formula 1 Battista Electric
06 Mar 2019
Battista Electric Hyper is touted to be faster than a current Formula 1 race car in its 0-100 km/h sub-two second sprint and claims to have a range of up to 450 km on a single charge
Tesla launches more affordable $35,000 Model 3
04 Mar 2019
Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal to step down as chairman
01 Mar 2019
Goyal has also agreed to reduce his 51 per cent stake in the full-service carrier, but will continue to be a part of the company in some capacity even after stepping down as chairman
Amazon appoints ex-PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on its board
26 Feb 2019
Nooyi’s appointment as a member of the audit committee on Amazon’s board comes at a time when the online retail giant’s business plans are going awry under India’s new e-commerce policy
GE to sell biopharma business to Danaher for $21.4 billion
26 Feb 2019
The reversal of an earlier decision not to sell the biopharma business will accelerate GE’s strategy to reduce leverage and strengthen its core healthcare businesses thereby strengthening its balance sheet
Rail Drishti lets passengers peep into railway kitchens
26 Feb 2019
Railways plans to fix barcodes on food served to passengers, which will enable them to know where and when the food was cooked while also allowing them to see how food is cooked and packed in railway kitchens
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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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