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Rs. 16 crore

Worth of mostly life saving medicines wasted due to expiry in a hospital in Chennai, India. The loss was due to excess procurement.

Last Modified: 21-Jul-2018 10:34 PM

Posted by Yatin Dhareshwar in Health

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Source Economic Times

Number of IPOs raised in India during the Jan to Jun 2018 period - the most for any country in the world during the same period. Total amount raised $3.9 billion, registering a 27 per cent jump in number of deals and 28 per cent rise in value terms over the same period last year.

Last Modified: 21-Jul-2018 10:25 PM

Posted by Yatin Dhareshwar in Business & Industry

Tags IPO India 29W2018

Source Economic Times

1,700,000

Number of school children that receive nutritious mid day meals cooked by NGO Akshay Patra each day. The meals are cooked in its 36 kitchens spread across India.

Last Modified: 21-Jul-2018 10:17 PM

Posted by Shoan Dhareshwar in Education

Tags NGO Mid Day Meals India Akshay Patra 29W2018

Source Amitabh Kant twitter feed

123,000%

Rise in Amazon’s share price since it listed in 1997. The race is on between Amazon and Apple to become the first $1 trillion company. Amazon’s stock-market valuation breached $900 bn for the first time on 18 Jul 2018 - only the second company, after Apple, to hit the milestone.

Last Modified: 21-Jul-2018 9:58 PM

Posted by Shoan Dhareshwar in Business & Industry

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Source The Economist Espresso

$18 billion

Annual revenue that analysts say 3 casino based resorts planned in Japan could generate if the go through a bill that will be introduce in parliament. Public support is tepid, at best. But the opportunity is hard to ignore - Greater Tokyo, with over 35m people including legions of wealthy retirees, could easily outstrip tiny Singapore as a gambling hub. Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire boss of Las Vegas Sands, calls Japan the “ultimate business opportunity”.

Last Modified: 21-Jul-2018 9:54 PM

Posted by Yatin Dhareshwar in Business & Industry

Tags Gambling Japan Casinos 29W2018

Source The Economist Espresso

$71 billion

Final bid tabled by Disney for Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox. Comcast which had bid $65b in June, conceded defeat. The deal has already cleared American antitrust hurdles and Fox’s shareholders will vote on Disney’s offer on July 27th. Comcast said it would focus on purchasing Sky, a European pay-TV group.

Last Modified: 21-Jul-2018 9:46 PM

Posted by Yatin Dhareshwar in Business & Industry

Tags Media Entertainement Disney Comcast 21st Century Fox 29W2018

Source The Economist Espresso

20%

Percentage of Israel's population that is of Arab origin. Israel's parliament enacted a law on 20 Jul 2018 declaring that only Jews have the right to self-determination in the country and demoted Arabic from its status, at par with Hebrew, as an official language.

Last Modified: 21-Jul-2018 9:42 PM

Posted by Yatin Dhareshwar in Nations & Politics

Tags Israel 29W2018

Source The Economist Espresso

500,000

Production capacity of Tesla's electric vehicles plant that it plans to set up in China. The “gigafactory” in Shanghai will produce lithium-ion batteries as well and serve the carmaker's second biggest market after the U.S. China is to abolish rules requiring foreign firms to set up joint-ventures with local companies later this year, allowing Tesla to own the factory in whole.

Last Modified: 21-Jul-2018 7:27 PM

Posted by Shoan Dhareshwar in Cars & Motorcyles

Tags Electric Vehicles China Tesla 29W2018

Source The Economist Espresso

120 million

Number of mobile phones that can be produced annually at Samsung latest factory based in Nodia, India, making it the world’s largest mobile-phone manufacturing plant. The plant will help Samsung increase its sales in India and the region and is also a boost to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s laggardly “Make in India” campaign to create jobs and exports.

Last Modified: 19-Jul-2018 2:30 AM

Posted by Shoan Dhareshwar in Business & Industry

Tags Samsung India Make in India 29W2018

Source The Economist Espresso

361 tonnes

Amount of garbage that the Arabian sea threw back on shore at various beaches and water fronts in Mumbai over 3 consecutive days of high tide (13th to 15th Jul 2018).

Last Modified: 16-Jul-2018 3:42 PM

Posted by Numerical Environmen in Environment

Tags Marine Pollution Mumbai India 29W2018

Source Times of India