Shares of Colgate Palmolive (India) slipped over 2 percent to Rs 2,320 in morning trade on July 23 after the company reported an 11.8 percent year-on-year decline in net profit to Rs 321 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.Net sales dropped 4.4 percent to Rs 1,421 crore from Rs 1,486 crore a year ago. Revenue from operations also fell 4.3 percent to Rs 1,433 crore, while total income decline...

International Gemmological Q4 net profit rises 12% to Rs 141 crore.International Gemmological Institute (IGI) shares hit the upper circuit of 5 percent on Monday after the Blackstone-backed company posted a 12 percent jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 141 crore for the fourth quarter ended 31st March 2025. The company, in a statement, said it had clocked a net profit of Rs 126 crore in the yea...

Will China start imposing restrictions on export of paracetamol? This question about this mainstay medication to combat any viral fever, not just during COVID-19, is today crossing the minds of many in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. Indian pharma is already noticing a rising trend in the prices of several drug ingredients imported from China.While the COVID-19 caseload in China seems worryi...

This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded in equal parts to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for developing way of “snapping molecules together.”Hans Ellegren, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the winners Wednesday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off Monday wi...

One nautical mile of air space around the twin towers demolition site in Noida will remain briefly unavailable for flights on August 28, the Noida Authority has said.A nautical mile is equal to approximately 1.8 kilometres.The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has given its consent for this, the Noida Authority said as it oversaw preparations for the demolition of the nearly 100-metre-tall twin tow...