Otto Hahn, a key figure in nuclear fission discovery, expressed deep shame and sorrow after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ...

The Strait of Hormuz closure is impacting Asia's chemical industry, pushing India to emulate China's coal-to-chemicals model for energy and...

A corporate crisis manager describes how business disputes in India are increasingly being turned into criminal cases, exposing executives ...

Quote of the Day: Alfred Nobel's quote on love, comparing it to digestion, emphasizes that emotions cannot be forced. This reflects his lif...

Europe's most powerful automotive dynasty faces mounting financial strains as Volkswagen's performance deteriorates. Hans Michel Piëch, who...

The German chemist isolated the active ingredient in coffee that we know as caffeine today.

Marga Faulstich worked on more 300 types of optical glasses.

He travelled the length and breadth of Karnataka for more than two decades. Then he compiled the first Kannada-to-English dictionary, in 18...

German auto magnate Ferdinand Piech, head of car giant Volkswagen and its luxury brand Porsche, will shift his holdings to Austrian foundat...

The supervisory boards of Volkswagen and luxury car maker Porsche approved plan to merge their two companies by 2011.

Embattled Porsche chief Wendelin Wiedeking is gearing up for one of his toughest board meetings on Thursday, when the debt-laden sports car...

Qatar is ready to acquire at least a 25-percent stake in German luxury sportscar maker Porsche, heavily in debt after increasing its shares...

The regional premier of Lower Saxony, the German state where Volkswagen is based, said Tuesday he would welcome an Arab investor in the big...

German heavy truck maker Daimler said it will eliminate 3,500 North American jobs owing to the worsening economic slowdown. Jet lays off 60...

The government plans to penalise drug makers who pay wholesalers and chemists over and above the ‘fair’ margin notified by it.

For the first time since Porsche made it clear it wanted to take over Volkswagen, all key players will gather Thursday for a general assemb...

Popular drugs for treating bacterial infection, allergy and inflammation - on which chemists take huge margins and make them 20 times costl...