Industry
Tariff revision likely to weaken operating performance of India's state-owned power companies
06 Mar 2014
Finnish solar firm Fortum ropes in former Tata Power executive Sanjay Aggarwal for India venture
05 Mar 2014
Indian media, entertainment industry grew 12% in 2013: survey
05 Mar 2014
India’s media and entertainment industry reached Rs92,800 crore in 2013, logging a healthy 12 per cent growth, largely driven by digitisation
One “villain” of the housing crisis played only a small role
04 Mar 2014
One of the major factors blamed for the sub prime mortgage crisis may have actually played only a minor role in the housing meltdown, new research by Itzhak Ben-David, an author of the study and assistant professor of finance at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, suggests
RJ Reynolds mulls stake in $20-bn rival Lorillard Inc: Report
04 Mar 2014
US tobacco giant RJ Reynolds, which is 42-per cent owned by the UK's British American Tobacco, is weighing a bid for rival Lorillard Inc, which has a market cap of nearly $20 billion.
India second to Russia in cyber-attack vulnerability
03 Mar 2014
India ranks second in the list of most cyber attack-prone countries for mobile devices, designed for phishing and stealing banking details
BT calls for ending subsidies to BSkyB, TalkTalk
03 Mar 2014
Blackstone acquires 20% stake in Versace
28 Feb 2014
New York-based PE firm Blackstone will buy a 20-per cent stake through a capital infusion share purchase from a holding company controlled by the Versace family
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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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