Mining
New policy to boost mining sector investments
18 Aug 2009
China eyes Canadian Royalties for $148.5 million
12 Aug 2009
Sterlite ups Asarco bid to $1.5 billion; Grupo Mexico outbids with $2 billion
11 Aug 2009
Grupo Mexico has stumped Sterlite Industries' revised $1.5 billion bid for bankrupt US miner and smelter Asarco with a $2 billion offer.
Coal India to expand abroad with Rs30,000 crore war chest
10 Aug 2009
The worlds largest coal mining company, CIL, armed with Rs30,000 crore in cash reserves, is keen expand abroad through deals with global mining giants like BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American among others
China accuses Rio of spying for six years; Australia unimpressed
10 Aug 2009
Keen to protect its iron ore resources, China recently slammed miner Rio's local representative into prison on unsubstantiated spying charges. But China's own record of industrial espionage is far from clean, says Ravi Kunder
Despite profit drop, Xstrata pursues Anglo American merger
04 Aug 2009
Swiss mining giant Xstrata has reiterated its stand that its proposed equal merger with larger rival Anglo American was highly compelling in order to compete
NTPC to bid ‘aggressively’ for coal mines abroad
04 Aug 2009
CISA wants China to end spot iron ore trade
29 Jul 2009
Vedanta to press ahead with mining plans in face of protests
28 Jul 2009
British mining giant Vedanta said it would go ahead with plans to mine a bauxite-rich hillside in Orissa, which tribals living in the region consider sacred
Activists protest Vedanta's Orissa project during London AGM
28 Jul 2009
Global activists in London support Orissa tribals' protests against Vedanta Plc's bauxite mining project at sacred mountain during shareholders meeting.
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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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
