Industry
Oil fall pummels Saudi Aramco shares to below IPO levels
09 Mar 2020
Saudi official selling prices for crude fell $8-$10.25 below Brent, registering the sharpest fall in at least 20 years even as the Opec kingpin hinted at hiking production by more than 2 million barrels per day
Number of COVID-19 cases in India rises to 31
06 Mar 2020
Oil drops further as Opec, Russia fail to agree to sharp supply cuts
06 Mar 2020
US benchmark US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures hit another low of $45.31, down 1.3 per cent from its Thursday’s lows, by 12:30 Eastern Time while North Sea Brent oil futures lost 1.3 per cent at $49.33 a barrel
Nasa's Curiosity rover captures highest-resolution Martian panorama yet
06 Mar 2020
Meanwhile, an international team of astrobiologists analysing Martian data sent by Curiosity, believe that the organic molecules discovered by Curiosity rover could be evidence of life on Mars
Coronavirus cases in India swell to 28 as 22 more test positive
04 Mar 2020
With 16 of the new 22 confirmed cases turning out to be tourists from Italy, union health minister Harsh Vardhan said that from now on all flights and passengers will be part of universal screening
Govt curbs export of bulk drugs, formulations as COVID-19 threat looms
03 Mar 2020
Besides the two confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported yesterday, the government said it had also detected “high viral load” in six people who had been in contact with a patient who contracted the virus in the capital
India brings home its citizens, others from virus-hit Wuhan and cruise ship
27 Feb 2020
An IAF relief flight from China today brought back 76 Indians and 36 citizens of 7 other nations while a special Air India flight brought back 119 Indians who were stranded on board coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship docked off Yokohama, Japan
Middle East, Europe report more coronavirus deaths
26 Feb 2020
Outside China, Iran in the Middle East and Italy in Europe reported a spike in coronavirus cases, with Iran's deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi also testing positive for the disease
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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
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