Alcoholic beverages
Heineken in strong bid to buy out Mallya’s UB stake: report
03 May 2017
Dutch beer maker Heineken International has approached banks with a proposal to buy out all of embattled businessman Vijay Mallya’s shares in United Breweries that are pledged with them
Now, a mobile wallet app solves tipplers' woes
20 Apr 2017
India’s ‘Team Indus’ plans to brew beer on moon
22 Mar 2017
Team Indus, a privately-funded team under Axiom Research Labs Pvt Ltd, is competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE – and part of its project is to brew beer on the moon using yeast
Karnataka HC orders winding up of United Breweries to recover Kingfisher dues
07 Feb 2017
Justice Vineet Kothari delivered the winding-up order while allowing a petition filed in 2012 by IAE International Aero Engines AG, Connecticut, USA over the Rs153 crore that KAL and UBHL owed it in 2012
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
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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