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PIN system inventor made no money from his idea
02 May 2016
Motorola ex-chief Rick Osterloh joins Google
29 Apr 2016
Mark Zuckerberg: salary $1, cost of security $4.3 mn
29 Apr 2016
Facebook pays the most to protect its chief executive, but others like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Oracle’s Larry Ellison are not far behind, as top CEOs face a variety of threats, from jihadist groups to wacky relatives
Indra Nooyi, Bhavesh Patel among 10 highest-paid CEOs
29 Apr 2016
PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi and LyondellBasell's Bhavesh Patel are among the world's 10 highest paid executives
Apple should pay more tax, says co-founder ‘Woz’
22 Apr 2016
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak tells the BBC that all companies should pay 50 per cent tax – and that unlike Steve Jobs, he was never interested in making money
Mallya says his foreign assets are worth Rs780 crore
22 Apr 2016
While maintaining that as a Non-resident Indian he is not obliged to disclose the value of his assets abroad, businessman Vijay Mallya informed the Supreme Court on Thursday that his collective family assets abroad amounted to Rs780 crore
RBI chief Rajan, Sania Mirza, Google's Pichai among Time’s top 100
22 Apr 2016
Terming RBI governor Raghuram Rajan as "India's prescient banker," Time said he is among a rare breed of "economic seers" who "steered" India through the global crisis and fallout
Britain celebrates 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II
21 Apr 2016
As Britain celebrated the landmark with gun salutes and fireworks, opinion polls showed that Her Majesty has lost little or none of her popularity among the public
Court convicts Vijay Mallya of cheque fraud
21 Apr 2016
Court tells ED to execute warrant against Mallya
21 Apr 2016
The Enforcement Directorate's case is based on an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation against Kingfisher founder Vijay Mallya and other unknown officials of the Mumbai-based IDBI Bank for causing a loss of Rs900 crore to the public sector bank
Court issues non-bailable warrant against Vijay Mallya
18 Apr 2016
Mallya, however, is just one of the many wilful defaulters in India’s stress-ridden banking sector where 27 public sector banks had written off about Rs1,14,000 crore of bad loans in fiscal year 2012-15
Brazil lower house votes for Rousseff impeachment
18 Apr 2016
President Dilma Rousseff is accused of using accounting tricks in managing the federal budget to maintain spending and shore up support
Vijay Mallya’s passport suspended for ‘wilful non-compliance’
15 Apr 2016
The external affairs ministry will now inform the UK authorities about the revocation of Mally’s passport and seek for his deportation to India
Apple key designer Danny Coster to join GoPro
14 Apr 2016
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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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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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