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Boeing raises $25 billion in bond offering, rules out federal aid
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Chicago [USA], May 1 (ANI): Aerospace major Boeing has raised 25 billion dollars in a bond offering and said it will not seek government aid in the fallout from coronavirus pandemic.
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Nearly half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihood: ILO
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 1 (ANI): The continued sharp decline in working hours globally due to COVID-19 outbreak means that 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy -- that is nearly half of the global workforce -- stand in immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed, the Inte
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RIL achieves consolidated revenue of Rs 659,205 crores this year
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 30 (ANI): Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) achieved consolidated revenue of Rs 659,205 crores ($ 87.1 billion), an increase of 5.4 per cent as compared to Rs 625,212 crore in the previous year. Increase in revenue is primarily on account of higher revenue
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Facebook notices sharp surge, over 3 billion monthly users across its plat
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 30 (ANI): For the first time ever, more than 3 billion people are actively using its services including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, on a monthly basis, announced Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
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Moody's assigns Baa3 to Adani Electricity Mumbai's dollar senior bond
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Singapore, April 30 (ANI): Moody's Investors Service on Thursday assigned a definitive Baa3 senior secured rating to the 10-year one billion dollars senior secured bullet bonds issued by Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd (AEML).
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TikTok reaches 2 billion downloads worldwide
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 30 (ANI): Popular video-sharing social networking service TikTok has reached two billion downloads worldwide amid the lockdown enforced to contain coronavirus in many parts of the globe.
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Canada's House of Common approves $6.5 billion COVID-19 student benefit pa
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], April 30 (Sputnik/ANI): Canada's House of Commons has approved the Trudeau government's proposed $6.5-billion Canada emergency student benefits (CESB) program in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Speaker of the House, Anthony Rota, said at the conclusio
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4-billion-year-old Nitrogen-containing organic molecules discovered in Mar
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 29 (ANI): Using advanced techniques, scientists have detected organic compounds containing nitrogen in Martian meteorites which were ejected from Mars's surface about 15 million years ago.
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Spotify's Q1 revenue stands at USD 2 billion, monthly users now at 286 mil
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 29 (ANI): Seems like music is becoming the new solace for people during lockdown as the Q1 revenue of world's biggest music service Spotify stood at USD 2 billion on Wednesday.
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Airtel, Nokia sign $1 billion, multi-year deal to boost network capacity
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Espoo [Finland], Apr 28 (ANI): Nokia and Bharti Airtel on Tuesday announced a multi-year agreement to deploy Nokia's SRAN solution across nine circles in India, helping Airtel to enhance the capacity of its networks in particular 4G and improve customer experience.
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ADB approves $1.5 billion financing to support India's COVID-19 response
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], April 28 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday approved a 1.5 billion dollar loan to India to help fund its response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
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'Elegant' solution reveals how universe got its structure
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 28 (ANI): The universe is full of billions of galaxies -- but their distribution across space is far from uniform. Why do we see so much structure in the universe today, and how did it all form and grow?
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