Entertainment
Byari, Deool share Best Feature Film award
07 Mar 2012
Girish Kulkarni was adjudged Best Actor for his role in political drama `Deool’ while Vidya Balan won the Best Actress award for her role in `The Dirty Picture’
Walt Disney to acquire controlling stake in UTV
01 Feb 2012
Macau’s gambling revenues soar by 42 per cent
04 Jan 2012
Activision’s video game ‘Call of Duty’ grosses in $1-bn in 16 days
13 Dec 2011
While it took director James Cameron's film Avatar 17 days to gross $1 billion at the box office, video game `Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3' made it in 16 days
Microsoft acquires video search engine VideoSurf
23 Nov 2011
Universal Music, Sony to buy EMI from Citigroup for $4.1 billion
14 Nov 2011
EMI, the 114 year-old London-based gramophone company that was home to artists like the Beatles and Pink Floyd, was sold over the weekend in an auction to Vivendi's Universal Music Group and Sony for $4.1 billion
Featured articles
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
