Industry
Mukesh Ambani to invest $2 bn in cable TV space
08 Mar 2016
Mukesh Ambani is muscling into the country’s cable TV sector as part of a media and telecoms offensive that pits him against his once-estranged younger brother Anil and threatens to shake up both industries
Oil nears $40-a-barrel on demand hopes, tighter supplies
07 Mar 2016
Crude prices gained from a combination of factors, including brightening of global demand outlook, tightening supplies and covering of short positions by traders amidst bets on rising prices
Whistleblower Dinesh Thakur takes pharma regulators to court
07 Mar 2016
Dinesh Thakur exposed how India's then largest drugmaker and his former employer, Ranbaxy Laboratories, failed to conduct proper safety and quality tests on drugs and lied to regulators about its procedures
Drug firms ripping off patients with fixed doses?
04 Mar 2016
The US federal Medicare programme and private health insurers waste nearly $3 billion every year buying cancer medicines that are thrown out because many drug makers distribute the drugs only in vials that hold too much for most patients, a group of cancer researchers has found
Smartphones to comprise around 98 per cent of handset sales by 2020: Market research firm, iGR
04 Mar 2016
Charges will be filed in Aircel-Maxis case: Jaitley
03 Mar 2016
Finance minister Arun Jaitley said that the Enforcement Directorate and the investigative wing of the Income Tax Department, during recent searches in connection with the Aircel-Maxis deal, have recovered several “incriminating” documents which are being scrutinised
Thwarted by HC, Telcos move SC against call drop penalty
03 Mar 2016
Mobile operators today challenged in the Supreme Court a Delhi High Court order which upheld the call drop penalty imposed on them by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
India ranks 90th in terms of energy security
03 Mar 2016
A WEF report says that while India is facing an array of challenges in the power sector, electrification has progressed by 4 percentage points in the last six years to 79 per cent
HC upholds Trai’s Re1 compensation for call drops
01 Mar 2016
The Delhi High Court has ruled that regulator Trai had the power to levy a penalty on call drops, and had done so keeping in mind consumers’ interests
Vedanta wins India’s first gold mine auction
27 Feb 2016
The Baghmara mine, at Sonakhan in Balodabazar-Bhatapara district of Chhattisgarh, about 130 km northeast of Raipur, has an estimated reserve of 2,700 kg of gold
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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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