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Titanic director dives to deepest point in the oceans in unique craft
26 Mar 2012
Cameron explored and filmed the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, which is 10,898 metres deep, for six hours and collected specimens and data before resurfacing about 500 km south-west of Guam
R Sridhar appointed MD & CEO of Shriram Capital
26 Mar 2012
JPC to summon A Raja, Behura in 2G probe
21 Mar 2012
New rail minister to be appointed soon: PM
19 Mar 2012
Announcing the resignation of railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he regretted the departure and a replacement would soon be sworn in
Trivedi resigns; to attend party meet
19 Mar 2012
West Bengal chief minister and Tiranmool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee arrived in Delhi last night after ensuring that railway minister Dinesh Trivedi had resigned
Trivedi gets railwaymen’s backing
17 Mar 2012
Union railway minister’s exit imminent: sources
17 Mar 2012
Akhilesh Yadav sworn in as UP chief minister
15 Mar 2012
Trivedi attends house; says he is still rail minister
15 Mar 2012
Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamta banerjee today confirmed that she had written to the prime minister seeking Trivedi's replacement with Mukul Roy
Vijay Amritraj quits Kingfisher board
14 Mar 2012
Nobel laureate F Sherwood Rowland, 84, ozone study pioneer dies
14 Mar 2012
F Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the earth’s ozone layer, has passed away at the age 84
Akhilesh Yadav anointed as UP chief minister
10 Mar 2012
Widely considered to have outsmarted Rahul Gandhi in 'youth' politics, Akhilesh Yadav, son of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was today officially anointed by the party as the next chief minister of UP
Citibank's Vikram Pandit gets $14.86 mn payout
09 Mar 2012
Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit has finally reached his payday, with the third biggest US bank paying him $14.86 million in 2011, as against $1 in 2010
Yeddyurappa gets breather from court in land grab case
06 Mar 2012
The court had issued the non-bailable warrants yesterday after the accused failed to appear for the trial
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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
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