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`India could be the rape capital of the world'
22 Dec 2012
Capital rape: protests across India; Delhi cops get tough
22 Dec 2012
Outrage swells over the brutal rape of a young woman on a bus in the national capital
Time appoints first woman editor-in-chief
22 Dec 2012
Sen John Kerry to replace Clinton as US secretary of state
22 Dec 2012
Barack Obama on Friday nominated Senator John Kerry as his next secretary of state, replacing Hilary Rodham Clinton.
Digvijay gets bail in Gadkari defamation case
21 Dec 2012
Bill Gates becomes Canadian National Rail's largest shareholder with 12 % stake
13 Dec 2012
US billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates has boosted his stake in Canadian National Railway Co to approximately 12 per cent, worth around $4.7 billion
Pt Ravi Shankar passes away at 92; India loses 'national treasure'
12 Dec 2012
Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, 92, who defined classical Hindustani music for a global audience, died on Tuesday at a hospital in La Jolla, California
Sandip Sen appointed interim CEO of Aegis Ltd
11 Dec 2012
Ajit Pawar to be back as Maharashtra Dy CM
06 Dec 2012
Antivirus pioneer, arrested by Guatemalan police
06 Dec 2012
Rajat Gupta granted bail in insider trading case
05 Dec 2012
Former prime minister IK Gujral passes away
30 Nov 2012
Gujral, who was the 12th prime minister of India from April 1997 to March 1998, had also served in various capacities as minister and diplomat
Ratan Tata urges greater India-Australia cooperation
28 Nov 2012
Australia with its technology leadership and natural resources and India with huge manpower and a growing market could be ideal partners in development, he said
Chitra Ramakrishna set to be new NSE head
28 Nov 2012
Arafat’s body exhumed to test poisoning theory
28 Nov 2012
Forensic experts exhumed the body of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank, seeking to determine if he was murdered by Israeli agents using the hard-to-trace radioactive poison, polonium
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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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