Industry
Brazil, Venezuela in $12-billion refinery deal
02 Nov 2009
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras and Venezuela's PDVSA will form a joint venture to set up a 230,000 barrels per day oil refinery in Brazil.
World's largest cruise ship sets sail
31 Oct 2009
The world's largest cruise liner, Oasis of the Seas, commissioned at a cost of $1.5 billion has begun its maiden voyage to Florida, USA.
No pre-paid mobiles in J&K from 1 November
30 Oct 2009
VOXmobile rebranded Orange in Luxembourg
29 Oct 2009
Ogilvy PR wins six government awards
29 Oct 2009
New guidelines for food advertisements
29 Oct 2009
ConocoPhillips plans to sell $10-billion in assets
29 Oct 2009
ConocoPhillips plans to sell assets worth approximately $10 billion during the next two years to strengthen its financial position and reduce its debt-to-capital ratio
Oil surges to $79 a barrel on dollar volatility
28 Oct 2009
Obama unveils $3.4 billion in smart-grid grants
28 Oct 2009
The grant is the largest-ever single-grid modernisation investment in US history
German brand Miele enters India
28 Oct 2009
HyperCITY exits gourmet retailing
28 Oct 2009
US newspaper circulation plunges 10.6 per cent
27 Oct 2009
As publishers across the US hopelessly try to stop the migration of readers to the Internet, their woes have been compounded this year with the recession, price increases and companies cutting down on advertising budgets
Featured articles
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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