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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
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
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
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
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
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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
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.
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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
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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
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
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
09 Oct 2024
Tata Technologies has pooled its product engineering and digital services capabilities with the automotive manufacturing strengths of Germany’s BMW Group
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