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SC ruling paves way for consolidation of telecom sector
04 Feb 2012
The Supreme Court verdict cancelling 122 telecom licences may help established companies like Vodafone and Bharti Airtel to pick up more radio spectrum
China’s Youngman to bid again for Saab: report
03 Feb 2012
Swiss giants Xstrata, Glencore in talks for $80-billion "merger of equals"
02 Feb 2012
A merger between the two Swiss giants could create a company worth more than $80 billion and with revenues of around $175 billion, making it the biggest mining takeover to date
Yara, Apache take control of Oswals' Burrup Fertilisers
01 Feb 2012
Apache paid $439 million to creditor ANZ to acquire a 49 per cent stake in Burrup Holdings, while Yara paid $143 million to increase its ownership in the Australian fertiliser company to 51 per cent.
Walt Disney to acquire controlling stake in UTV
01 Feb 2012
ThyssenKrupp to sell Inoxum stainless steel to Finland’s Outokumpu for $3.55 bn
31 Jan 2012
Combining Inoxum and Outokumpu would create the world's largest maker of stainless steel with over €10 billion in annual revenue and two million tons of annual cold-rolled stainless steel
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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