Pharmaceuticals
LEO Pharma to Acquire Peplin for $287.5 million
03 Sep 2009
Pfizer agrees to pay $2.3 billion to settle illegal marketing case
03 Sep 2009
The world's biggest drug maker by sales, yesterday agreed to pay a record $2.3 billion to settle allegations that it has illegally promoted 13 medicines, including now-withdrawn Bextra painkiler
Roche buys Lonza’s Singapore unit for $360 million
02 Sep 2009
Global healthcare giant, Roche agreed to acquire the Singapore facility of Lonza, a manufacturer of pharmaceutical ingredients, for approximately $360 million
Novartis moves Supreme Court on Glivec patent
29 Aug 2009
Warner Chilcott acquires P&G's global pharmaceuticals business for $3.1 billion
25 Aug 2009
Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) is divesting its prescription drug business to Ireland's specialty pharmaceuticals company Warner Chilcott for about $3.1 billion
Glenmark, Forest drug trial for COPD fails
19 Aug 2009
Swine flu bolsters Indian pharma stocks
11 Aug 2009
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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
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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
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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