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Acme Solar secures 250 MW green project in NHPC auction
NEW DELHI: Acme Solar Holdings on Wednesday said the company has bagged a renewable energy project of 250 MW in an auction held by NHPC.
ADB LOWERS INDIA GDP GROWTH FORECAST TO 6.5% FOR FY25
NEW DELHI: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday lowered India's economic growth forecast to 6.5% for the current financial year from its earlier estimate of 7% due to lower-than-expected growth in private investment and housing demand.
MOBIKWIK'S INDIA IPO FULLY SOLD WITHIN 1ST HOUR
Indian financial technology firm MobiKwik's ₹572 crore ($67.4 million) IPO was fully subscribed within the first hour on Wednesday as investors bet on the company's growth in a booming domestic online payments market.
Maruti Suzuki eyes 8,000 overall service touchpoints by FY31
THE COMPANY HAS ALREADY ADDED 78 NEW NEXA SERVICE TOUCHPOINTS SO FAR IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR
Data centre mkt attracts $60 bn investment commitment in 6 yrs
NEW DELHI: India's data centre market has attracted investment commitment of $60 billion in the last six years and the cumulative inflow is estimated to surpass $100 billion by 2027-end, according to CBRE.
EVs, ancillary sector may see ₹3.4 lakh cr investment by 2030
Domestic and foreign firms have announced a whopping ₹3.4 lakh crore investment in India's electrical vehicles (EVs) and ancillary industries over the next six years, Colliers India on Wednesday said while expressing concern over \"tardy progress\" towards achieving the goal of 30% electric mobility by 2030.
Inflation, geopolitics key global economic hurdles
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday underscored inflation as a pressing global challenge that transcends borders and defies individual nations' efforts, calling for collective action to tackle the issue effectively.
E-way bills drop to 5-mth low after festive peak
The decline suggests biz may be taking a pause after months of inventory clearance
Celebrities, residents flee from wind-driven Malibu wildfire
Evacuation orders and warnings have gone out to 20,000 Southern California residents, on Tuesday, as firefighters battled a wind-driven wildfire in Malibu that burned near celebrities' seaside mansions, horse farms and Pepperdine University, the sheriff's department said.
Trump mocks Trudeau, calls him 'governor of the state of Canada'
WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump took a jab at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the social media platform Truth Social, describing him as the \"Governor of Canada\".
33 killed in overnight Israeli strike on Gaza
Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip killed at least 33 Palestinians, on Wednesday, most of them in an airstrike on a house in Beit Lahiya town on the northern edge of the enclave, medics said.
EIGHT DEAD IN RUSSIAN STRIKE ON ZAPORIZHZHIA IN UKRAINE
KYIV: Rescuers were working on Wednesday to find people under the rubble of a building destroyed in a Russian attack the day before that killed eight people, Ukrainian officials said.
Police try to raid prez office over martial law
South Korean police tried to search President Yoon Suk Yeol's office on Wednesday but have not been able to enter the main building, Yonhap news reported as an investigation into the US ally's decision to declare martial law widened.
'We must rebuild': Syrian PM urges citizens abroad to return
Assad fled Syria as an Islamist-led opposition alliance swept into Damascus over the weekend, bringing an end to brutal rule by his clan
United Health CEO murder accused fights extradition to NY
The man charged with murder in the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare made it clear he wasn't going to make things easy on authorities, shouting unintelligibly and writhing in the grip of sheriff's deputies as he was led into court and then objecting to being brought to New York to face trial.
U.S. IMPOSES TRADE CURBS ON CHINA, RUSSIA FIRMS OVER HUMAN RIGHTS
The United States unveiled trade restrictions on Tuesday on eight companies, including two Chinese firms and several from Russia, alleging human rights violations.
NO HC RELIEF FOR SAJJAN JINDAL, NSIL FROM SEBI PROCEEDINGS
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Monday refused to interfere in the proceedings initiated by SEBI against Nalwa Sons Investments Ltd (formerly Jindal Strips Ltd) and its directors, including Sajjan Jindal, chairman and managing director of JSW Group, in connection with the 2014 re-organisation of the OP Jindal group.
Choksi's seized assets can be monetised, says court
A special court in Mumbai on Tuesday permitted the monetisation of assets worth over ₹2,500 crore that were attached or seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as part of its money-laundering probe against fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi in the alleged Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case.
Could Trump as president accelerate de-dollarisation?
e-dollarisation, or the ongoing efforts by many (if not most) countries to reduce dependence on the United States (US) dollar, is not a new phenomenon.
Targeting the RS chairperson
The move against the vice president is the fallout of a breakdown in communication between the treasury and Opposition benches
A Maharashtra primer for Mahayuti leadership
The poll grand slam in Maharashtra will certainly warm the cockles of the BJP's heart; but the phenomenal Vidhan Sabha tally raises several issues which the BJP strategists need to address before getting down to the nitty-gritty of governance in Mantralay, the seat of administration, in south Mumbai.
What ails the health insurance industry
Deny, delay, and depose pave the way for insurance company profits and widespread policyholder anger
BEST driver had no electric bus experience, finds probe
MUMBAI: Sanjay More, 54, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) driver who was behind the wheel of the bus that rammed into 22 vehicles, claiming seven lives and leaving 42 injured in Kurla West on Monday night, had received just three-day training before transitioning from driving a manual geared bus to a longer and automatic electric bus (e-bus), people familiar with the probe said on Tuesday.
Gauri seeks nod to increase Mannat
MUMBAI: Mannat, actor Shah Rukh Khan's home in Bandra, a nationally-known address and one of Mumbai's biggest tourist spots is set to get bigger.
PM releases complete works of Tamil poet
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday released the compendium of complete works of great Tamil poet and freedom fighter Subramania Bharati on his 14th birth anniversary and hailed his contributions, saying a personality like him comes once in centuries.
Violence in Parbhani amid calls for bandh
Violent protests took place for the second day in Parbhani city of central Maharashtra on Wednesday over the vandalising of a replica of the Indian Constitution, police said.
Blood-stage Vaccine for malaria shows promise in trials
NEW DELHI: A novel malaria vaccine candidate that works at the blood stage appears safe and highly immunogenic in African children and shows promising efficacy against malaria when given in a delayed third dose regimen, according to the findings of a phase 2b clinical trial published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases on Tuesday.
EU provides information on Indian entities breaching sanctions in dealing with Russia
THE INFORMATION WAS SHARED AS PART OF EFFORTS TO FINALISE EU'S 15TH PACKAGE OF SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA
Baku's biggest legacy will be a reform of COP
As cities across the world face the growing impacts of climate crises, with each season proving to be more erratic than the last, the latest edition of the United Nations' annual Conference of the Parties (COP) in Baku, Azerbaijan fell woefully short of meeting much-needed requirements for climate finance, and transitioning away from fossil fuels.
Mere harassment allegations are not sufficient for abetment to suicide: SC
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that mere harassment or actions intended to provoke anger cannot by themselves constitute the crime of abetment to suicide, cautioning against conflating general allegations with the legal threshold for penal charges.