Pharmaceuticals
Google settles Canadian pharma ad probe for $500 mn
25 Aug 2011
The $500-million settlement, one of the largest ever in the US, represents the gross revenues Google collected from ads placed by Canadian pharmacies
Ipca Labs buys UK-based Onyx Research Chemicals
09 Aug 2011
Danone to buy Wockhardt's nutrition business for Rs1,576 crore
03 Aug 2011
To gain an entry into the world's fastest-growing infant nutrition market, French dairy major Groupe Danone is buying the nutrition business of pharmaceutical major Wockhardt for Rs1,576 crore.
Merck & Co to axe 13,000 more jobs by 2015
30 Jul 2011
The second largest drug maker in the US, Merck & Co, hopes to save nearly $4.6 billion through this restructuring, amid slower revenue growth in the US and Europe
EU to stop confiscating Indian generic drugs under new deal
29 Jul 2011
On 17 occassions between October and December 2008 drugs destined for Latin American countries were detained at Schiphol Airport at Amsterdam and later destroyed or returned to India
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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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