Environment
Peugeot develops first diesel hybrid crossover
25 Aug 2010
Peugeot has developed a diesel hybrid combining the best of both fuel economy technologies with its new 3008 Hybrid4 Crossover that uses Hybrid4 technology.
Chinese alliance to invest $15 billion in electric cars
21 Aug 2010
An alliance of 16 state-owned corporations will invest $14.7 billion by 2012 to accelerate green technology development to put more than a million electric and hybrid vehicles on the road
US denies pressuring India to go easy on Dow
20 Aug 2010
Dr Martin Green, father of solar cell technology, awarded Eureka Prize
19 Aug 2010
Coincidenataly, Dr Green's name has become, unwittingly, synonymous with green power generation. His ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence at the University of New South Wales in Australia holds the world record for solar cell efficiency
Nine more containers slip off listing MSC Chitra
18 Aug 2010
BJP backs nuclear liability bill as concerns taken onboard
18 Aug 2010
Parleys with the Bharatiya Janata Party on the issue of the civil nuclear liability bill has yielded results with the party indicating it would support a substantially reworked version of the bill.
UK farmers to get guaranteed returns for green power generation
17 Aug 2010
UK's farmers will get guaranteed cash for the next 25 years on every unit of electricity generated by a solar panel, wind turbine or biomass technology
Ship crash: Jairam Ramesh visits oil spill site
14 Aug 2010
Ship crash: Jairam Ramesh visits oil spill site
14 Aug 2010
Charcoal takes some heat off global warming
13 Aug 2010
India refining tsunami early warning system
12 Aug 2010
Significant changes envisaged in N-liability Bill
12 Aug 2010
A newly drafted version of the Nuclear Liability Bill may look much changed from its earlier avatar when finally presented for approval before members of the two houses of the Parliament.
BP deposits $3 billion in oil spill fund
10 Aug 2010
BP said that it will further contribute $2 billion in the fund in the fourth quarter of 2010, and thereafter, $1.25 billion will be deposited every quarter until a total of $20 billion is reached
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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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
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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
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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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