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Indian expat Vinod Khosla tops Forbes ‘green billionaire’ list
23 Apr 2010
Khosla has plenty of other green tech bets, including Calera, a company that is developing technology to trap carbon dioxide and capture it in cement, Forbes said.
Elkann to replace Montezemolo as Fiat chairman
21 Apr 2010
Fiat's new five-year business plan is expected to include the spinning off of its automotive operations from the industrial business, which includes heavy equipment manufacturers CNH and Iveco
Aptech Ltd appoints Easwaran Krishnan HR head
20 Apr 2010
Top management guru, Dr CK Prahalad, passes away
17 Apr 2010
Renowned management thinker, Dr CK Prahalad, who focused global attention at the fortune awaiting innovators at the bottom of the economic pyramid, passed away on Saturday morning in San Diego, US after a brief illness.
Ravi Kapoor to head Citi global banking in India
14 Apr 2010
High growth here to stay: Rangarajan
13 Apr 2010
MasterCard names ‘all-Indian’ Ajay Banga as CEO
13 Apr 2010
Banga is perhaps the only entirely India-schooled executive who has reached the top of an international company; others like Vikram Pandit and Indira Nooyi have degrees from the US in addition to the ones from India
Polish president and wife among 132 dead in plane crash in Russia
10 Apr 2010
While the exact number of people died in the crash is yet to be verified, no one travelling in the ill-fated plane seems to have survived
PC pioneer, H Edward Roberts, passes away
03 Apr 2010
H Edward Roberts, the inventor of the world’s first microcomputer, the progenitor of today’s personal computers, passed away on 1April.Roberts is the computer world’s forgotten hero.
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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
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