Oil & gas
Sinopec eyes French oil major Maurel & Prom
01 Nov 2012
LPG price hiked by Rs26.50 to Rs922 per cylinder
01 Nov 2012
Oil ministry defers CAG audit meet on RIL’s KG-D6 block
31 Oct 2012
Instead, officials of RIL and the petroleum ministry are meeting to break the current impasse over the KG-D6 block
Removal of Reddy from oil ministry raises storm
30 Oct 2012
GAIL mulling purchase of Reliance gas pipeline
27 Oct 2012
Oil India keen to exploit Mozambique gas bonanza
26 Oct 2012
RIL set to seek more K-G gas as government limits CAG role
25 Oct 2012
Reliance Industries Ltd may finally begin further exploration in its flagging Krishna-Godavari D6 gas field, as the government has eventually given in to its condition that the CAG can only undertake a financial and not performance audit of the company
ONGC to hire RIL facilities
22 Oct 2012
Russia’s Rosneft nears deal for BP’s TNK-BP stake
19 Oct 2012
The combination of Rosneft and TNK-BP would create the world’s largest investor-owned oil company, surpassing US giant ExxonMobil with a production capacity of over 4 million barrels of oil equivalent per day
KG-D6 plans held up as RIL rejects CAG audit
17 Oct 2012
The CAG had, in its first round of audit, questioned the 'reasonableness' of costs incurred in the gas field development and said the government should revisit the profit sharing mechanism
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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!
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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.
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Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
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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
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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
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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