Economy - general
CAG blasts government, FCI for shockingly poor food management
By By Jagdeep Worah | 08 May 2013
The country's top audit watchdog has highlighted FCI's increasingly inadequate storage capacity that has led to rotting of foodgrains when millions go hungry everyday
CFO optimism level falls in Q2: D&B survey
03 May 2013
RBI cuts repo rate by 0.25%; says further easing will be difficult
03 May 2013
The cut was on expected lines amid a slowdown in economic growth and a slight easing of inflationary pressures
RBI lukewarm to rate cut demand
02 May 2013
India's core sector rebounds with 2.9 % growth in March
30 Apr 2013
The growth was mainly on account of buoyancy in the production of cement and steel and a marginal increase in electricity generation
CAD more worrisome than fiscal deficit: Chidambaram
24 Apr 2013
Finance minister P Chidambaram today vowed that the government would limit the fiscal deficit for 2013-14 to below 4.8 per cent of the GDP
Gujarat massacre: court to take up Jafri plea against SIT today
24 Apr 2013
A protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of 2002 Gujarat riots victim Ehsan Jafri, is likely to be taken up by an Ahmedabad court today.
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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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