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n 2016, when HP split into two and was looking to sell stake in Mphasis, it was Blackstone that picked up stake. File photo | Photo Credit: AP Janaki Krishnan Quick question. What is common to Manipal Hospitals, Mphasis, HDFC Credila, Suven Pharma, Eureka Forbes, Sona Comstar and Coforge? Keen corporate watchers would have spotted it…
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Venkatesha Babu & Isha Rautela If there is one product that 3M – a global conglomerate with nearly $35 billion in annual sales and 60,000 plus products – is universally known for, it is its post-it notes. Who doesn’t use the ubiquitous sticky yellow notes that now have started appearing in a multitude of colours. The…
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Growth in the Personal Income Tax revenues continued to outstrip Corporate Income Tax. Representational | Photo Credit: C. Venkatachalapathy India’s net direct tax collections picked up pace over the past month to rise 20.25% year-on-year by February 10, compared to a 19.4% uptick on the same date in January, as per data released by the…
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu interacting with the milk producers of the State in Shimla on Sunday. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Sunday said the State government was all set to introduce innovative schemes and increase farmers’ incomes in the upcoming annual Budget since agriculture and milk production played a…
Duty concessions on gold, which accounts for 80% of India’s imports from Peru, is the most challenging issue for New Delhi under the proposed free trade agreement with the South American nation, a report said on Sunday. Economic think tank Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) said that gold, a high-value product with low volume, attracts…
File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) continued their bullish stance on the country’s debt markets with a net infusion of over ₹15,000 crore so far this month, on the back of inclusion of Indian government bonds in the JP Morgan Index along with relatively stable economy. This followed a net investment of…
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Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran attended the MMA Annual Convention in Chennai on February 10, 2024. with Balachander’s report | Photo Credit: Bijoy Ghosh India’s Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran said a healthy population is the fundamental requirement in the push towards the country becoming a developed country by 2047. “It used to…
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A file photo of Chandrayaan-3 Project Director P. Veeramuthuvel. | Photo Credit: Moorthy. G India’s ambitious plans to have its own space station by 2035 and have an Indian astronaut on the moon by 2040 are progressing on track, P Veeramuthuvel, Project Director of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, said on February 10. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
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There’s no doubt that wars create a lot of destruction. It’s been the case throughout recorded history. Wars, however, are also often accompanied by advances at break-neck speed. The fields of science and technology are usually beneficiaries as the advances made without budgetary constraints often contribute to military use that are crucial during the war….
Cervavac HPV vaccine was found to be safe and non-inferior to Merk’s Gardasil vaccine A phase-2/3 trial of Serum Institute of India’s human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Cervavac conducted at 12 tertiary care hospitals across India in girls and boys aged 9-14 years has found the vaccine to be safe and non-inferior to a comparator vaccine…
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