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ICICI Bank, SBI, Kotak Mahindra and HDFC slash home loan rates
08 Mar 2021
If demand from corporates remains week in the quarters ahead, lenders might be compelled to under-cut each other in order to grow market share
RBI keeps policy rates unchanged amidst abundant liquidity
08 Feb 2021
With benign inflation, weak aggregate demand and buoyant financial markets, the Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI decided to remain accommodative without easing its policy repo rate
Jane Fraser named first woman CEO of Citigroup
14 Sep 2020
Fraser, currently Citi’s president and CEO of global consumer banking, will succeed Corbat as CEO in February, and she has been elected to the board of directors, with service beginning immediately
Govt extends NBFC financing window by 3 months
18 Aug 2020
Yes Bank rescue: SBI, 7 other investors to pool in over Rs12,000 cr
13 Mar 2020
SBI, the lead investor, which has proposed to invest up to Rs7,250 crore in Yes Bank, has also recommended that the current administrator of Yes Bank, Prashant Kumar, be appointed as the new CEO of the bank
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The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
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