Industry
Hugh Hefner bids $185 million to buy out Playboy
12 Jul 2010
Hefner has offered to buy all shares of PEI he doesn't currently own, for $5.50 per share in cash, a premium of about 40 per cent to its Friday's closing price.
Titagarh Wagons acquires French wagon maker AFR for €15 million
12 Jul 2010
Titagarh Wagons Ltd will invest around 15 million euros to acquire the assets of French rail wagon maker IGF Industries-Arbel Fauvet Rail
Karnataka High Court bans export of iron ore through 3 ports
10 Jul 2010
The Karnataka High Court passed the interim order on an application filed by the state government seeking to end `illegal export' of iron ore from the state.
Imagine’s new reality show tests TV quotient
10 Jul 2010
China cries foul over telecom equipment ban
10 Jul 2010
With New Delhi concerned about China’s proposed sale of nuclear reactors to Pakistan, it is being speculated that the equipment sale issue has become a bargaining chip between India and China
Pawar moots sugar decontrol
09 Jul 2010
Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar today said that with enough sugar stocks in the country and a bumper crop in the offing, it is time to lift controls on the sugar industry
Disney to sell Miramax film unit to investors for $675 million
09 Jul 2010
The world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerate, The Walt Disney Company, has reportedly agreed to sell its Miramax Films to a consortium of investors for $675 million
NTPC, BHEL trash bribery allegations in US
08 Jul 2010
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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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