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India’s industrial production declines 0.01% in August

India’s industrial production declines 0.01% in August

12 Oct 2024

Industrial production in India, based on the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), registered a negative growth of (-) 0.1 per cent in August 2024

Nobel Peace Prize goes to Japan’s anti-nuke movement

Nobel Peace Prize goes to Japan’s anti-nuke movement

12 Oct 2024

This year’s Nobel Price for Peace has been awarded to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo - a mass movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Asean, India to promote strategic partnership

Asean, India to promote strategic partnership

11 Oct 2024

A meeting of member states of the Association of South East Asian nations (Asean) and India in Vientaine, Laos, on Thursday reaffirmed

South Korean writer Han Kang awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

South Korean writer Han Kang awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

11 Oct 2024

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang, who used her intense poetic prose to expose the fragility of human life through a narrative of historical traumas.

US researcher to share Chemistry Nobel with UK duo

US researcher to share Chemistry Nobel with UK duo

10 Oct 2024

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 to David Baker of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Adani Group in talks to acquire Heidelberg Cement India: report

Adani Group in talks to acquire Heidelberg Cement India: report

10 Oct 2024

The Adani Group is reported to be in talks to acquire Heidelberg Cement India Limited, the German group’s Indian cement operations, which has a current valuation of about $1.2 billion.

RBI keeps policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5% with focus on inflation

RBI keeps policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5% with focus on inflation

10 Oct 2024

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India, at its meeting on Wednesday, decided to keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.50 per cent.

Chevron Canada to sell assets to Canadian Natural Resources for $6.5 bn

Chevron Canada to sell assets to Canadian Natural Resources for $6.5 bn

10 Oct 2024

US multinational oil and energy group Chevron Corporation on Tuesday announced plans to sell its Canadian assets in the Athabasca oil sands and Duvernay shale formation to Canadian Natural Resources

Ratan Tata is no more

Ratan Tata is no more

10 Oct 2024

Tata Group Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata breathed his last at Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital late on Wednesday. He was 86, and a bachelor.

Rio Tinto to acquire Arcadium Lithium for $6.7 billion

Rio Tinto to acquire Arcadium Lithium for $6.7 billion

10 Oct 2024

Rio Tinto, the world’s second-largest metals and mining group, has agreed to acquire smaller peer Arcadium Lithium for $5.85 per share, valuing the company at $6.7 billion, in an all-cash transaction.

Hyundai Motor India fixes price band for its Rs27,870-cr IPO at Rs1,865-1,960 per share

Hyundai Motor India fixes price band for its Rs27,870-cr IPO at Rs1,865-1,960 per share

09 Oct 2024

Hyundai Motor India has set a price band of Rs1,865-1,960 per share of Rs10 face value for its IPO, which is considered as India’s biggest, so far, by any company.

Tata Technologies and BMW Group launch 50:50 joint venture for autonomous car solutions

Tata Technologies and BMW Group launch 50:50 joint venture for autonomous car solutions

09 Oct 2024

Tata Technologies has pooled its product engineering and digital services capabilities with the automotive manufacturing strengths of Germany’s BMW Group