Foods / beverages
Danone to buy US organic foods producer WhiteWave Foods Co for $10.4 bn
08 Jul 2016
French yoghurt giant Danone SA, yesterday struck a deal to buy US organic foods producer WhiteWave Foods in a bid to double the size of its business in the US
US chocolate major Hershey rejects $23-bn takeover bid from Mondelez
01 Jul 2016
US chocolate and confectionery major Hershey Co yesterday rejected a $23-billion unsolicited takeover bid by Mondelez International Inc without assigning any reason for it
100 Nobel winners call on Greenpeace to halt anti-Golden Rice campaign
30 Jun 2016
Golden Rice was designed as a solution to vitamin A deficiency, suffered by around 250 million people globally, including 40 per cent of the children under 5 in the developing world
Chocolate that melts in your mouth, but not on your hips
28 Jun 2016
Were it not for the high fat content, we’d be eating chocolate-covered everything' in a new discovery scientists have found a way to use an electric field to reduce fat in liquid chocolate during the manufacturing process
Electric shocks reduce chocolate fat content
28 Jun 2016
UK food prices set to rise due to Brexit vote
27 Jun 2016
Tata, Starbucks to expand tie-up at global level
27 Jun 2016
India bans potassium bromate as food additive
22 Jun 2016
Patanjali under FSSAI scanner over edible oil ads
02 Jun 2016
The Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved has come under the Indian food regulator's scanner over its edible oil brand advertisement, which is alleged to be misleading
Cargill to buy Five Star Custom Foods
02 Jun 2016
Top Indian bread, pizza brands have dangerous chemicals: study
24 May 2016
Nearly 84 per cent of 38 commonly available brands of pre-packaged breads, including pav buns and pizza bases, tested positive for potassium bromate and potassium iodate, banned in many countries as they are listed as hazardous for public health
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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.
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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
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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