The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a public interest litigation later in the day seeking a stay on all remaining Indian Premier League cricket matches following the spot-fixing scandal.

Royalty Pharma raises offer to $6.4 bn for Irish drugmaker Elan

21 May 2013

The sweetened offer comes just three weeks after Elan sold its interests in multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri to its US partner Biogen Idec

Actavis to acquire Irish specialty drug maker Warner Chilcott for $5 bn

20 May 2013

Warner Chilcott makes a range of products that include well-known oral contraceptives Loestrin 24 FE, Femcon FE and Ovcon

Irish drugmaker Elan splurges $380 mn on two acquisitions

20 May 2013

Oil ministry proposes unit price of $6.7 for natural gas

20 May 2013

The new pricing formula would apply to all forms of natural gas, including conventional, shale and coal-bed methane (CBM), and across all consuming sectors

SBI says RBI should be regulator for all home loans

20 May 2013

Senator wants US to join EU probe into oil price manipulation

20 May 2013

Groupe Danone to acquire 4% indirect stake in China Mengniu Dairy

20 May 2013

US approves $10-bn LNG export facility in Texas

20 May 2013

The US energy department has conditionally authorised Freeport LNG Expansion LP and FLNG Liquefaction LLC to export LNG to countries that do not have a free trade agreement with the US.

ZTE to foray into Indian smartphone and tablet market

18 May 2013

China buys stakes in key Australian power assets

18 May 2013

The world's biggest utility company by revenue, State Grid Corp of China (SGCC), which is also the world's seventh-largest company, is planning to buy stakes in Australian power assets worth billions of dollars

CBI superintendent probing ‘coalgate’ arrested for graft

18 May 2013

The arrests were carried out by the CBI's internal intelligence unit, which says the cops were caught virtually red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs7 lakh from a businessman

Associations

Industry - general

Industry monitor

Page no. 318 of 740

Featured articles

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