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Vedanta to return $2.5 billion funds after delisting plan fails: Report

Vedanta Resources Ltd will repay $1.4 billion raised via bonds and another $1.1 billion in loans, with a small amount of interest, as early as this week

Disney wants to do a Netflix, rejigs operations to focus on streaming

The company is putting its TV networks, film studio and direct-to-consumer divisions inside one big group called Media and Entertainment, Disney said on Monday

Indices rise for 9th straight day, post longest-winning streak since 2018

The last time the Sensex had gained for nine straight sessions was in April 2018

Indonesia's state Islamic bank merger to form $15 billion mega entity

PT Bank Mandiri, PT Bank Negara Indonesia and PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia signed a conditional deal on Monday to combine their Shariah-compliant units

SoftBank preparing to unveil a blank-check company to raise funds

Rajeev Misra, the head of the Vision Fund, teased the effort in an interview with Bloomberg at the Milken Institute's virtual conference, without providing details

GoAir pilots shut down P&W engine mid-air, even after fixes: Report

The twin-engine jet, operated by Go Airlines India Ltd, landed safely using its other engine in the western city of Ahmadabad on Sept 19

China plans to offer experimental Covid vaccine to students going abroad

The two shots being developed by CNBG -- which are still in the final, third phase of testing -- were authorised for emergency use in China

Covid-19 struck US man twice, and second time was worse

The degree of protective immunity after a Covid-19 infection is one of the pandemic's great unknowns

Telecom spectrum auction: How this year's Nobel-winning idea failed India

The bridge that Milgrom and Wilson built was the 1994 auction of telecommunications spectrum by the Federal Communications Commission

Economics Nobel shows that economists are starting to think like engineers

Most economic theories are basically mathematical parables. Although they're written in equations, the variables in those equations only loosely correspond to real-world things that we can measure

SoftBank's Vision Fund to unveil blank-check co to capitalise fundraising

The target size of the Vision Fund's blank-check company has yet to be determined, according to a person familiar with the plans

J&J confirms pausing Covid-19 vaccine trial because of unexplained illness

Earlier this month, Johnson & Johnson joined the short list of vaccine makers that have moved an experimental coronavirus shot into late-stage human studies

India's gold imports dip after brief rebound as prices curb demand

Inbound shipments fell 38 per cent in September from a year earlier to 8.4 tons, according to a person familiar with the data

Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson win 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics

They were awarded for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats

Singapore Air's A380 restaurant tickets sold within 30 minutes of opening

With flights largely grounded by the coronavirus pandemic, Singapore Airlines is trying novel ways to raise money, including using two of the superjumbos parked at Changi Airport as temporary eateries

Boris Johnson shuts pubs in UK hot spots as coronavirus infections rise

The toughest measures will be brought into force from Wednesday in the Liverpool city area, where the outbreak is spreading fastest

Coronavirus pandemic has exposed global leadership deficit, says report

Over 70 per cent of citizens around the globe say they are experiencing the lowest point in their nation's history, while nearly two-thirds say their leaders are out of touch

New coronavirus cluster in China; 9 million to be tested in 5 days

The city in Shandong province said on Sunday that it found three asymptomatic cases linked to a hospital which treats Covid-19 patients coming from abroad

AstraZeneca's Covid-19 antibody drug heads into final testing stage

The drug will be evaluated for its ability to prevent infections for up to a year in some people and as a preemptive medicine once patients have been exposed to the virus in others

Saudi's largest lender NCB agrees to buy rival Samba for $15 billion

NCB agreed to pay 28.45 riyals ($7.58) for each Samba share on Sunday, valuing it at about 55.7 billion riyals