Industry
Reliance Retail, Bharti in talks to buy Carrefour’s Indian assets
09 Jul 2014
The availability of ready-built cash and carry stores and associated infrastructure is drawing the interest of the two leading Indian retail companies
East India Company planning a comeback: report
09 Jul 2014
The once mighty East India Company, which is now confined to selling premium luxury brands in the UK, is heading back to India,as a retailer of fine goods
Nicaragua approves $40-bn shipping channel
08 Jul 2014
France’s Carrefour exits ‘underperforming’ Indian market
08 Jul 2014
Carrefour, one the world's largest retail chains, is shutting its business in India less than four years after it opened its first store in the country
COAI to hold round-table on net surveillance
05 Jul 2014
Ex-editor of News of the World Andy Coulson sentenced to 18-months jail over phone hacking
05 Jul 2014
Govt may allow cable TV operators to double as broadband providers
04 Jul 2014
The government is planning to introduce a new licence category, called Cable TV Internet Service Providers licence, as part of the broadband policy
New study links Oklahama earthquakes to fracking
04 Jul 2014
Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, a controversial process, uses high-pressure blasts of water mixed with a chemical cocktail that are injected into wells to fracture rock and unlock trapped natural gas
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
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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