In the 1750s, well diggers broke into a buried Roman Villa near Herculaneum: What looked like charcoal turned out to be ancient booksEighteenth-century workers in Herculaneum unearthed a unique Roman library preserved by the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. These carbonized papyr...
18 May, 2026, 03.35 PM IST
Bermuda Triangle mystery takes dramatic turn as scientists reveal what’s really hidden deep beneath the Atlantic OceanBermuda Triangle mystery solved: Scientists have uncovered a geological secret beneath Bermuda. A massive, lighter rock layer, formed durin...
15 May, 2026, 08.51 PM IST
Scientists Thought This Ancient Ocean Floor Was Destroyed Forever: Until Hidden Rocks Revealed a Lost Piece of Earth’s Earliest CrustScientists have unearthed evidence of Earth's ancient oceanic crust, older than four billion years, hidden within modern continental rocks ...
12 May, 2026, 07.10 PM IST
It stands over 100 feet tall, is nearly 200 feet wide at the base, and may be older than many famous monuments; now NOAA believes that this Maug coral may hold clues to the future of reefsScientists discovered an ancient, massive Porites coral colony, estimated to be over 2,000 years old, in the Maug caldera near the Mariana ...
30 Apr, 2026, 06.09 PM IST
Beneath the Ocean Floor, a Hidden Carbon Vault Has Been Quietly Rewriting Earth’s Climate StoryScientists discovered massive volcanic rubble, breccia, on the South Atlantic seabed. This porous rock traps far more carbon dioxide than e...
21 Mar, 2026, 04.03 PM IST
Antarctica’s Frozen Secret: How Ice Solved the 1809 Climate MysteryAntarctica's ice holds secrets of Earth's past. Scientists have found evidence of a massive volcanic eruption around 1808 to 1809. This eve...
28 Feb, 2026, 09.54 PM IST
Vedanta to take over Foxconn chip JV from holding companyVedanta also said it would also take over a display glass manufacturing venture from Volcan Investments, Vedanta's holding company.
07 Jul, 2023, 08.07 PM IST
Vedanta Resources reduced net debt by $300 million in H1 of FY 22With the entire debt repayment at Volcan, the pledge on all the equity shares of VRL has been released, the company said in the statement.
13 Sep, 2021, 03.19 PM IST
Vedanta's Anil Agarwal withdraws ‘exploratory’ expression of interest for Jet AirwaysOn further evaluation we intend to not pursue it, Agarwal said in a statement.
13 Aug, 2019, 11.34 AM IST
Billionaire Agarwal walks away from Anglo American stakeBillionaire maintains that his interest in Anglo was family investment and no intent to make a takeover offer.
26 Jul, 2019, 01.32 PM IST
Upstreaming of funds from Vedanta to Volcan could weaken its credit profile: Moody'sA weak credit profile could put pressure on Vedanta’s current rating of Ba3.
18 Jun, 2019, 04.40 PM IST
High debt at holding co of Vedanta group may hit minority interestThe debt at the holding company level in the Vedanta group may come under scrutiny.
11 Feb, 2019, 08.26 AM IST
Moody’s cuts Vedanta outlook to ‘negative’Proxy advisory firms were also not convinced by the management response.
05 Feb, 2019, 07.47 AM IST
Cairn India's investment in Anglo American met all governance standards: VedantaVolcan Investments, a family trust of Vedanta promoter Anil Agarwal, holds around 19% in Anglo American. Cairn India is a subsidiary of Ved...
04 Feb, 2019, 10.12 AM IST
Anil Agarwal to take Vedanta Resources private on Oct 1Volcan, which currently holds 66.53% of Vedanta, had made a cash offer for 825 pence a share.
04 Sep, 2018, 07.52 AM IST
Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal buys 11.4 per cent of miner Anglo AmericanAccording to a notice posted on the London Stock Exchange, the Volcan Holdings investment company owned by Anil Agarwal's family now owns 1...
14 Apr, 2017, 11.51 AM IST
Why did Anil Agarwal buy a part of $23 billion Anglo AmericanThe company's shares soared nearly 300 percent last year and it said in February it would resume paying dividends and slow down its asset s...
17 Mar, 2017, 06.42 AM IST