Foods / beverages
General Mills to buy pet food maker Blue Buffalo for $8 billion
24 Feb 2018
US cereal foods company General Mills Inc will buy Blue Buffalo Pet Products Inc for nearly $8 billion as it looks to tap the growing pet foods market to offset falling sales for branded processed food items
Amazon will introduce two-hour delivery from Whole Foods stores to Prime members in select cities in US
08 Feb 2018
Chemical used in McDonald’s fries can help ‘cure’ baldness
06 Feb 2018
Dimethylpolysiloxane, used in cooking McDonald’s french fries, could prove effective in regenerating hair in humans, but scientists warn that eating more fries won’t help!
Doritos to create crunch-free chips for women
06 Feb 2018
KFC chicken container doubles up as drone
25 Jan 2018
Burger King mocks net neutrality repeal via “Whopper Neutrality”
25 Jan 2018
Customers paying the minimum amount for their Whoppers were made to wait 15 to 20 minutes unless they agreed to pay a higher price —for the "fast mbps", to an even higher rate for the "hyperfast mbps" options for a single Whopper Sandwich
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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!
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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
