Shares of diversified conglomerate ITC Ltd. and realty player Aditya Birla Real Estate Ltd. traded mixed in the morning session on April 1, after ITC announced the acquisition of Century Pulp and Paper, the paper and pulp business under the Birla Group.ITC will acquire Century Pulp and Paper for a lump-sum cash consideration of Rs 3,498 crore. In a filing with the exchanges, the Aditya Birla Group...

Shares of Century Textiles and Industries soared over 8 percent on July 16, a day after its wholly-owned subsidiary- Birla Estates acquired a 5-acre land parcel in Gurugram.The land parcel offers a development potential of around 10 lakh square feetand is expected to generate revenue of over Rs 1,400 crore, the company stated.At 09.48 am, shares of Century Textiles were trading at Rs 2,192.95 on t...

Well-oiled storyCastrol shares have caught the attention of some PMS fund managers and high-networth individuals of late. The narrative around the stock has changed over the last three months ever since global news flow on electric vehicles has turned negative. For a company that primarily caters to the internal combustion engine (ICE) segment, a slower adoption of EVs is good news. Bulls are push...

LONDON — When Queen Elizabeth II’s grandfather, King George V, died 86 years ago, many homes in Britain had little or no electricity and large parts of the population still lived in slums.Life in 1936 is unrecognizable to Britons today. But despite almost a century of change, the images from the queen’s lying in state this week are almost exact copies of those from when George V lay in st...

Sea levels are increasing around Britain at a far faster rate than a century ago, while the country is warming slightly more than the global average, leading meteorologists said on Thursday.Their latest annual State of the UK Climate study -- compiled by the country's meteorological authority, the Met Office -- reiterated that recent decades have been "warmer, wetter and sunnier" than those in the...