Authors of a newly published Advances in Nutrition supplement explore the state of nutrition science and guidance on lipids in supporting a well-balanced diet. - Source
The MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite captured this image of the Little Bobtail Lake fire in British Columbia, Canada. - Source
Certain tax strategies can be combined and can be more effective for the transfer of a company within the family. Tax reductions of 75 to 85 percent might be attainable. - Source
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) may have turned big sellers in recent weeks. But FII ownership of Indian stocks touched a new high during the quarter ending March. FII holding (including ADRs and GDRs) reached 25.3% in BSE 200 companies, or $343 billion, at the end of March — the highest in a decade. They bought equities to the tune of Rs 37,000 crore during the quarter.
State-owned ONGC has struck black gold in Graben, a sub-surface valley sandwiched between the two giant fields of Mumbai High North and Mumbai High South. The discovery appears to be significant considering that oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan visited the Mumbai oil filed on Thursday following a briefing by the ONGC chairman.
With venture capital funding pouring in thick and fast, eight Indian companies are among the 107 global firms which entered the ‘unicorn’ club with valuations topping $1 billion or more, said New York-based venture capital tracker CB Insights.
Close on the heels of State Bank of India, Axis Bank has said that it will start incorporating NFC technology in credit and debit cards and upgrade 50,000 point of sale terminals to enable acceptance of ‘tap and pay’ feature.
India’s exports shrank for the fifth month in a row, falling 14% to $22 billion in April due to a sharp decline in the value of petroleum products and gems and jewellery.
IBM’s Bluemix, a late effort by IBM to compete with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, is having a good run in India, better than elsewhere in the world. The platform-as-a-service (PaaS), launched globally in February last year, had about 40,000 users in India last November, about 60,000 in February this year, and over 83,000 towards the middle of April. That’s adding over 20,000 users every two months or so.
The ongoing workers’ strike at the Nashik Switchgear division of Crompton Greaves Ltd entered its fifth day on Friday as the agitating employees and the management failed to reach a consensus and the losses mounted to nearly Rs 70 crore.
The NDA government has cleared around 40 new defence acquisition proposals, worth over Rs 1 lakh crore, setting a scorching pace over the last one year. - Source
Days after their merger was ruled out, RJD and JD(U) have got locked into a tussle over who gets to contest how many seats in Bihar elections. - Source
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government said Friday that Canada would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.
