Industry
Devices maker Stryker mulls $16-bn bid for British peer Smith & Nephew
25 Nov 2014
US medical device maker Stryker Corp is considering structuring the transaction as a tax inversion move, allowing it to move its base to the UK, where the taxes are lower than in the US
Michelin set to mass-produce its airless radial tyre ‘Tweel’
24 Nov 2014
Tyre giant Michelin has not only reinvented the wheel as we know it, but is also gearing up to mass-produce it.
Blackstone to buy GE’s real estate business in Japan for $1.6 bn
22 Nov 2014
Blackstone will acquire GE Capital Real Estate’s 200 residential properties, with more than 10,000 rental units, primarily in the major cities of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka, in Japan’s largest property deal this year
Blackstone to buy GE’s real estate business in Japan for $1.6 bn
22 Nov 2014
Blackstone will acquire GE Capital Real Estate’s 200 residential properties, with more than 10,000 rental units, primarily in the major cities of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka, in Japan’s largest property deal this year
LPG subsidy not for ‘people like me’, only for poor: Jaitley
21 Nov 2014
The next important decision India will have to take is whether people like me are entitled to get our LPG subsidy, he said
Apache Corp eyes $1.4 bn through sale of oil and gas assets
21 Nov 2014
Houston-based Apache will sell its working interest in approximately 90,000 net acres in mature southern Louisiana fields, which are characterised by high decline rates and short reserve lives
NDDB sanctions Rs26-cr dairy projects for Bihar
20 Nov 2014
Supreme Court bars CBI chief from probing 2G scam
20 Nov 2014
The judges found "credible" information that CBI director Ranjit Sinha has been trying to subvert his own agency's inquiry into the "2G scam
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