Media
Scandal-hit News of the World shuts down after 168 years
08 Jul 2011
The News of the World, Britain’s 168-year-old tabloid and top-selling Sunday newspaper, is being closed down, following a series of phone-tapping and ‘pay-for-news’ scandals.
News Corp sells MySpace for $35 million
30 Jun 2011
Murdoch had paid $580 million in 2005 for MySpace, which was then one of the hottest properties on the internet; in 2006; it used to account for 80 per cent of the total social networking traffic.
Chhota Rajan behind Dey’s killing: Police
28 Jun 2011
Police claim Dey’s murder solved, detain five
27 Jun 2011
Hunt expected to greenlight BSkyB deal next week
23 Jun 2011
Mumbai crime reporter gunned down; killers escape
11 Jun 2011
Jyotirmoy Dey, who was close to only a group of police officials, intelligence sleuths or police informers, recently appeared on web sites, television news channels and newspapers for his latest offering Dial Zero.
Report calls for UK copyright law overhaul
17 May 2011
Facebook's smear campaign against Google ends up in fiasco
12 May 2011
Facebook allegedly hired a top PR agency, Burson-Marsteller, to plant anti-Google stories in newspapers and blogs to bash Google's Social Circle over supposed privacy concerns.
Political parties, media barred from receiving foreign contributions
07 May 2011
The amended Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, also bars the transfer of funds from one person or organisation to another person or organisation unless such person or organisation is equally eligible under rules to accept foreign donations.
News Corp may sell MySpace for $100 million: report
27 Apr 2011
The social networking site, which Rupert Murdock-controlled News Corp bought for over $580 million in 2005, reported an operating loss of $156 million for the quarter ended 31 December 2010 alone
Swiss banks flush with Indian money: Assange
26 Apr 2011
News Corp in talks with Vevo over MySpace fate
29 Mar 2011
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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
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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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