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Jet Air, SpiceJet may join race to acquire segments of Air India
30 Nov 2017
There may be more potential buyers for Air India other than the Tata Group and IndiGo, which have already expressed interest, as Jet Airways and SpiceJet are likely to join the bidding for the debt-ridden airline
Emerson Electric withdraws takeover bid for Rockwell Automation
29 Nov 2017
US-based industrial-automation systems maker Emerson Electric Co yesterday withdrerw its takeover bid for Rockwell Automation Inc after the Milwaukee-based company rejected its latest sweetened buyout offer
British theater chain operator Cineworld in talks to buy Regal Entertainment for $3.6 bn
29 Nov 2017
Meredith Corp to buy Time Inc in $2.8-bn deal
27 Nov 2017
US media company Meredith Corp yesterday struck a deal to buy Time Inc, the owner and publisher of over 100 magazine brands including its flagship Time magazine, for $2.8 billion including debt
Broadcom mulls raising offer for Qualcomm
23 Nov 2017
US regulator files suit to block $85.4 bn AT&T-Time Warner merger
21 Nov 2017
In October last year, US telecom giant AT&T struck a mega deal to buy multinational media and entertainment conglomerate Time Warner for $85.4 billion in cash and stock, in what could be the year's biggest deal but highly-scrutinized acquisition
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COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
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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
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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