Industry
RBI allows low-cost housing schemes to tap foreign funds
17 Dec 2012
To be eligible for ECB, 60 per cent of the total FSI of the project should be low-cost affordable housing units having maximum carpet area up to 60 sq metres
Craft beer makers take on bigger players
15 Dec 2012
BHP Billiton, ExxonMobil to spend $1 billion on excess carbon treatment at new gas fields in Victoria
15 Dec 2012
Discovery buys Northern European TV channels for $1.7 bn
15 Dec 2012
The purchase will include 12 television networks in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland and other assets, which will further solidify the US company’s long-term growth in the strong Nordic TV markets
PPG Industries to buy AkzoNobel’s North American architectural coatings business for $1.05 bn
15 Dec 2012
UK government greenlights shale fracking
14 Dec 2012
India to get nation-wide MNP from February 2013
13 Dec 2012
Telecom user base falls in October
13 Dec 2012
Swiss chocolatier Barry Callebaut to buy cocoa ingredients division of Petra Foods for $950 mn
12 Dec 2012
National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy, 2012 to replace DPCO
12 Dec 2012
The new policy seeks to regulate drug prices on the basis of essentiality of the drug through market-based pricing of formulations rather than regulating bulk drug prices through cost-based pricing
Shahid Balwa, other 2G accused move SC bench
11 Dec 2012
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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