M&A
Blackstone in talks to acquire stake in Disney's Indian division amid free ICC World Cup streaming
11 Oct 2023
Blackstone, a private equity firm, has started initial talks with the Walt Disney Company to acquire a stake in the Indian division of the firm.
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Deloitte to acquire rival PwC's network firms in Sri Lanka and Maldives
10 Oct 2023
Deloitte, a world-renowned accounting firm, is planning to acquire some of the network firms from its competitor, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), in the Maldives and Sri Lanka regions.
Exxon nears a $60 billion deal to acquire Pioneer
06 Oct 2023
Exxon Mobil is in advanced talks to buy Pioneer Natural Resources for around $60 billion.Exxon is about to make its largest deal since the acquisition of Mobil in 1998
Reliance group secures BCCI media rights, emerges as cricket broadcasting powerhouse
01 Sep 2023
Over the next five years, Indian cricket will find a new broadcasting home on the Viacom 18 network. In an e-auction held on Thursday, 31 August 2023, the media conglomerate, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, successfully secured both the linear and digital rights from the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India)
Reliance Retail to buy out minority shareholders
11 Jul 2023
Reliance Retail will pay Rs1,362 per share to a host of global investors, including KKR, Mubadala, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, General Atlantic, GIC and TPG, who together hold a 10.09 per cent stake in the company
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
HDFC, HDFC Bank to merge in $40 bn deal
01 Jul 2023
The merger, to be effective from 1 July, will create the world’s fifth largest bank with a market valuation of $175 billion, which will be 100 per cent owned by public shareholders
Singapore’s Temasek buys majority stake in Manipal Hospitals
06 Apr 2023
Temasek acquired an additional 41 per cent stake in Manipal Health through Sheares Healthcare India for Rs16,375 cr, taking its stake in India’s second-largest hospital chain to 59 per cent
Reliance to acquire Metro Cash & Carry India in € 500 m deal
07 Nov 2022
The deal includes 31 stores in 21 cities across India, as also land banks and other assets owned by Metro Cash & Carry in India
BP to buy US biogas producer Archaea for $4.1 bn
28 Oct 2022
The addition of Archaea’s production and pipeline has the potential to take BP’s biogas supply volumes to around 70,000 boe/d globally by 2030
Parle in talks with Poland’s Dr Gerard to expand cookie basket
19 Oct 2022
If Parle, which has never been an acquirer - although it has sold some of its own brands – decides to go ahead with the deal, it will be the company’s first acquisition
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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.
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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