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LAN Airlines merges with Brazil’s TAM to create LATAM Airlines
23 Jun 2012
The takeover completed yesterday marks the emergence of the second-largest airline by market value
WPP Group to acquire digital agency AKQA
21 Jun 2012
Julius Baer in talks with BofA for Merrill Lynch's non-US wealth business
20 Jun 2012
Swiss private bank Julius Baer is looking at acquisitions in emerging markets and Europe in order to better compete with its larger domestic rivals UBS and Credit Suisse
CWW’s key shareholder backs Vodafone’s $1.6 billion takeover
18 Jun 2012
CWW owns the UK's biggest fibre network dedicated to businesses and also has a 260,000 mile international cable network that extends across Europe, India and throughout Asia
UK supermarket giant Tesco to sell half of Japanese chain to Aeon Corp
18 Jun 2012
Eight years after failing to make headway in the tough Japanese retail market, British supermarket giant Tesco Plc is selling half its business in the country
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
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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.
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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