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Indian American Dhivya Suryadevara becomes GM’s first woman CFO
14 Jun 2018
Dhivya Suryadevara joins Mary Barra, GM’s first woman CEO, as the first women in their respective positions in the auto industry, as no other major global automaker has a CEO and a CFO who are both female
Mukherjee preaches pluralism at RSS headquarters
08 Jun 2018
Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday performed a balancing act in his speech at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, praising the country’s pluralistic nature even as he refrained from outright political references
COAI names Sunil Sood chairman
08 Jun 2018
IDBI Bank’s MK Jain appointed RBI deputy governor
05 Jun 2018
A career banker, Jain has previously served as the CEO of Indian Bank and since his move to IDBI Bank, he has been focused on cleaning up the bank’s balance sheet and has moved to divest several non-core assets to help release capital
Sebi bars Vijay Mallya from securities market for 3 years
02 Jun 2018
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has barred fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya from the securities market for another three years and also restrained him from holding directorship in listed companies for five years over alleged illegal diversion of funds from United Spirits
Former Softbank president Nikesh Arora is new CEO, chairman of Palo Alto Networks
02 Jun 2018
Former senior executive at SoftBank and Google, Nikesh Arora has joined cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks as CEO and chairman
Infosys independent director Ravi Venkatesan resigns
12 May 2018
Industry watchers did not find former former Microsoft India chairman, who joined the Infosys board in 2011, Ravi Venkatesan’s resignation surprising, seeing it as part of recently re-inducted co-founder Nandan Nilekani’s shake-up of the board
Additional director general of police, Himanshu Roy, allegedly committed suicide on Friday
11 May 2018
Indu Malhotra sworn in as Supreme Court judge
28 Apr 2018
Advocate Indu Malhotra was administered the oath of office at around 10.30 am and by 11.15 am she was already on the job, sitting in Court No 1 with CJI Dipak Misra and Justice D Y Chandrachud
Mallya extradition nearer as judge allows almost all CBI evidence
27 Apr 2018
Likening the role of IDBI’s B K Batra to that of a ‘villian’, the Westminster Court judge said a detailed note presented by the prosecution on the conspiracy charges facing fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya was ‘most helpful’
Dr Kafeel Ahmad Khan granted bail
26 Apr 2018
Prince Charles set to head Commonwealth as queen nears retirement
21 Apr 2018
There have been calls for the role to be rotated around the 53 member-states, most of which are former British territories, but in recent days the queen, the British government and other leaders have backed Charles
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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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