Industry
Qatar Investment Authority seeks control of Canary Wharf owner Songbird Estates
07 Nov 2014
The Qatar Investment Authority is already one of London’s biggest landmark property owners, holding stakes in London’s tallest building The Shard, Chelsea Barracks, luxury department store Harrods earlier owned by Mohamed al-Fayed, and the Olympic Village in Stratford East London
Perrigo Co to buy Belgian pharmaceutical firm Omega Pharma for $4.5 bn
06 Nov 2014
US private-label over the counter medicines maker Perrigo today struck a deal to buy Belgian pharmaceutical company Omega in a bid to expand in Europe
Mumbai ranks number one in Internet users
05 Nov 2014
Xiaomi to invest $1 bn in TV content
04 Nov 2014
One World Trade Center comes alive 13 years after 9/11
04 Nov 2014
Condé Nast, the anchor tenant and its 175 employees were the first to move into the 1,776-foot skyscraper that is yet to open access to its breathtaking 102nd-floor observation deck
UK deploys WW II navigation tech to back up GPS
03 Nov 2014
Petrol price cut by Rs2.41 per litre; diesel to cost Rs2.25 less
31 Oct 2014
The price of petrol has come down steadily from Rs73.60 in July 2014 to Rs64.24 at present in six straight fortnightly reductions
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The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
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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