Industry
Government gets full spectrum money as BSNL, MTNL pay up
01 Jun 2010
All the seven private telecom companies which had won 3G spectrum in the recent auction, as well as state-run BSNL and MTNL, have collectively paid Rs67,719 crore to the government
US Senator proposes to end outsourcing through taxation
31 May 2010
A US Senator from New York is planning to introduce legislation that will tax US companies that uses overseas call centres in order to keep call centre jobs within the US
NMDC doubles price for Asian steel mills, moves to quarterly iron ore contract
31 May 2010
The price hike is in line with the prices secured by global mining giants Vale of Brazil, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, who secured a 90 -100 per cent increase for the April quarter with Asian steel makers in March, this year
Drilling delays in US Gulf would cause oil price hike, job losses: API
29 May 2010
The American Petroleum Institute has asked the US Congress to reconsider any decisions that would place previously available lease areas off limits
After telecom, India halts Chinese power equipment suppliers
27 May 2010
Chinese power equipment manufacturers have zeroed in on India's planned addition of 60,000 mega-watts of power capacity from 2007 to 2012 and hope to corner 30 per cent of this market
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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
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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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