Industry
Lam Research to acquire Novellus Systems for $3.3 bn
15 Dec 2011
Chip equipment maker Lam Research Corp is acquiring its smaller rival Novellus Systems Inc in order to better compete with market leader Applied Materials Inc
Kazakhstan pays $1 bn for 10% of Karachaganak oil and gas field project
14 Dec 2011
Kazakhstan government, will acquire, 10 percent stake, Karachaganak oil and gas field project, for $1 billion, ended, disputes, Sauat Mynbayev, BG Group Plc, Eni SpA, Chevron, Lukoil
2G: CBI indicts Raja’s legal advisor in third charge-sheet
14 Dec 2011
The CBI wants departmental action against former telecom minister A Raja's legal advisor for allegedly suppressing facts in the case of Loop Telecom and the shareholding of Essar in it
Activision’s video game ‘Call of Duty’ grosses in $1-bn in 16 days
13 Dec 2011
While it took director James Cameron's film Avatar 17 days to gross $1 billion at the box office, video game `Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3' made it in 16 days
Bharti Airtel, Tata Communications told to pay Rs5 crore penalty each to DoT in interim TDSAT order
13 Dec 2011
Nimbus run out by BCCI; may appeal for no-ball
13 Dec 2011
AMRI conflagration remains a mystery as investigators seek evidence in basement
12 Dec 2011
The cause of the fire that led to the death of 94 persons, including scores of patients at Kolkata’s AMRI on Friday, remains a mystery as forensic experts have been unable to find much evidence
HPCL in talks for Syrian crude
10 Dec 2011
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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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
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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
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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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