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Uber’s driverless vehicles debut in Pittsburgh
15 Sep 2016
World's first taxi service with self-drive cars launched in Singapore
25 Aug 2016
Singapore today became the first country in the world to permit a self-driving taxi service, beating ride-hailing giant Uber by just days
CVC Capital to buy Asia's largest funeral services firm Nirvana Asia for $1.1 bn
09 Jul 2016
European private equity firm CVC Capital Partners yesterday struck a deal to buy Asia's largest funeral services firm Nirvana Asia Ltd for $1.1 billion in cash and stock
Quess Corp’s Rs400-cr IPO subscribed 147 times
02 Jul 2016
Tech Mahindra to buy British financial services BPO firm Target Group in a Rs1,178-cr deal
28 May 2016
The acquisition will catapult Tech Mahindra to the top three processors in the lending, savings and investment, and insurance sectors in the UK
Bike-taxi app Baxi now goes internet-free
21 Mar 2016
India’s services sector slows as demand slackens
03 Mar 2016
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
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