Oil & gas
India-US team finds huge gas hydrate deposits in KG Basin
27 Jul 2016
The petroleum ministry and the US Geological Survey made the discovery of large, highly enriched accumulations of natural gas hydrate that has the potential to be producible
Gail renegotiating LNG deal with Gazprom: report
25 Jul 2016
Cairn India says India investment plans intact
22 Jul 2016
Cairn India expects to merge with Vedanta by fiscal-end
22 Jul 2016
The merger of Cairn India Ltd with Vedanta Ltd was planned in June last year, but was held up opposition from minority shareholders
Singapore’s Trafigura Group in talks to buy a minority stake in Essar Oil
04 Jul 2016
Singapore-based commodities trader Trafigura Group is in talks to buy a minority stake in Essar Oil Ltd, in a deal that could value India’s second-largest private refiner at about $6.5 billion
Shell mulls selling ageing North Sea assets
04 Jul 2016
European energy giant Royal Dutch Shell is considering selling some of its ageing North Sea assets in the wake of continuing downslide in global oil prices
IOC-BPCL-HPCL combine to set up Rs30-bn refinery in Maharashtra
04 Jul 2016
The 60-million tonnes per annum refinery and a mega petrochemical complex will beat Reliance Industries as the largest single refinery in India
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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