Singapore based global agri-business company Olam International has acquired 100% stake in coffee specialist Schluter for $7.5m. A combination of internal accruals and existing debt facilities will be used by Olam to finance the ...
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Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) has decided to divide its food and refreshments business into two separate businesses. India's largest consumer goods firm said that the change is in alignment with the category structure of Unilever globally. ...
C. S. Verma, chairman of Indian state-owned steel producer Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), has said that the company is ready "to cater to the increased steel demand in a cost-effective manner by way of adoption of modern ...
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India has evinced interest in reviving and expanding operations of Rift Valley Textile Company Ltd (Rivatex) located in Eldoret town of Uasin Gishu County in Kenya. If the Indian Government okays the proposal, the Export-Import Bank of ...
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University of Notre Dame (UND) is developing gallium nitride (GaN) quantum dots in aluminium nitride (AlN) as a route to deep ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jai Verma et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., v104, p021105, 2014]. ...
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According to the Indian government's Press Information Bureau, at the 24th meeting of the National Steel Consumers' Council, Minister of Steel Shri Beni Prasad Verma said that ten steel plants are being set up in Indian state of Uttar ...
Public health researchers from The University of Manchester have found single dietary interventions are not effective at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight children and will not halt the global epidemic in childhood ...
India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that during the third quarter ended December 31 of the financial year 2013-14 its iron ore output amounted to 7.3 million mt, up 37 percent compared to ...
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While not every woman is intuitive or every man handy with tools, neurological scans of young males and females suggest that -- on average -- their brains really do develop differently. The research comes with a caveat: It doesn't connect ...
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The government says its expects all major energy companies to offer smart metering services to all consumers by autumn 2015. The deadline was spelled out in a speech made to the Smart Metering Forum last ?week by Baroness Verma, ...
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India's Steel Ministry is finalizing a new national steel policy (NSP) focusing on infrastructure development, securing raw materials and human resource development for the growth of the steel industry, according to the Associated Chambers ...
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SpineGuard has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for three new products, designed to enhance pedicle screw penetration of small and/or difficult-to-access pedicles. The two miniaturized versions of ...
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Size (and mobility) matters. As desktop PCs lose ground to tablets and smartphones, and the cloud becomes a more mainstream means for software deployment, desktop applications are being elbowed aside by mobile apps and Web services, ...
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The sudden fall in gold prices recently has proved to be a boon to the jewellers as consumers pan India went on buying spree and as a result jewellery sales saw a huge increase of 40 to 50%, as we normally see during Akshay Tritiya and Dhan ...
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India's Steel Ministry has pointed out that the raw material needs of the two major domestic state-owned steelmakers Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (RINL) will increase by up to 39 percent within three years as ...
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