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Seven killed in fire at Goregaon

A MAJOR FIRE broke out in a seven-storey residential building in Mumbai's Goregaon West early Friday, killing seven people, including two minors, and injuring 69 people

Farm stir, Covid fight, Chinese telecom firms in NewsClick FIR

ATTEMPTS TO SHOW Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as \"not parts of India\"; discrediting government's fight against Covid; funding the farmers' agitation; and \"putting up a spirited defence of legal cases\" against Chinese telecom companies such as Xiaomi and Vivo - these are among allegations detailed by the Delhi Police Special Cell in its FIR against NewsClick founder and editor Prabir Purkayastha

Sikkim flood: 25 bodies recovered, 143 missing

ARMY AND NDRF teams, both on foot and in boats, have recovered 25 bodies including seven army men from the slush and debris of the flash flood which swept through Sikkim's Teesta river, officials said Friday

India-focused portfolio outperforms indices: Greed & Fear report

GREED & FEAR'S India equity portfolio has outperformed the benchmark Nifty50 and the MSCI India since inception, according to the quarterly review of long-only portfolios by Christopher Wood of Jefferies. According to the report, none of the portfolios has been allowed to own cash since inception

Sensex, Nifty post gains after MPC retains rate

AN UNCHANGED REPO rate by the Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee bodes well for the Indian markets as they closed higher on Friday

Banks told to monitor personal loans

THE RESERVE BANK of India (RBI) is monitoring certain components of personal loans for signs of incipient stress, at a time when the unsecured retail loan portfolio of lenders has grown at a rapid pace

India's constellation of five-star cars

Hyundai’s Verna is the latest and possibly the last Indian car to be rated by Global NCAP

Truecaller acquires fraud check provider TrustCheckr

TrustCheckr helps businesses verify customer information and detects fraud risks based on phone numbers and digital signals

TCS board to mull share buyback on October 11

Details of shares to be purchased not disclosed yet

Nykaa sees net sales in mid-twenties

FSN E-COMMERCE VENTURES, the parent of cosmetics-to-fashion retailer Nykaa, expects its consolidated revenue to grow in the early twenties year-on-year during the July-September quarter, at around levels similar to the previous quarter

Notices to YouTube, X, Telegram to remove child abuse content

THE MINISTRY OF Electronics and IT (Meity) on Friday issued notices to social media intermediaries - X (formerly Twitter), Youtube and Telegram, to remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from their platforms on the Indian internet

SEPTEMBER QUARTER UPDATES - Demand recovery gradual as monsoon weighs, says Dabur

Marico, GCPL also see low to mid-single digit growth during Q2

Steel firms to increase prices

STEEL COMPANIES PLAN to raise prices of various grades of the alloy due to rising import costs of coking coal, especially from major producer Australia, officials at four domestic mills said

Hindustan Motors signs deal to sell scrap at Bengal plant

HINDUSTAN MOTORS, ERSTWHILE makers of iconic Ambassador car, on Friday said it is planning to sell scrap and obsolete equipment lying at its Uttarpara plant in West Bengal

Food subsidy: FCI receives ₹70,000 crore in H1 of FY24

Free food grains scheme likely to be extended beyond Dec

G20 Parliament speakers to debate SDGs next week

Parliament chiefs of G20 countries will gather next week in India to discuss how the legislative bodies could contribute to the acceleration of sustainable development goals (SDGs), sustainable energy transition and transformation of lives of people through digital public infrastructure (DPI), Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on Friday

Anti-dumping duty up to 82% likely on Chinese wheel loaders

THE DIRECTORATE GENERAL of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has recommended anti-dumping duty of up to 82% on imports of 'wheel loader', a common use machinery in infrastructure and mining sectors, from China

Analysts agree with RBI inflation forecast

Outlook clouded given global volatility, crop concerns

BRITISH BRAND TO ADD 50 SPECIALITY STORES - Young India prefers coffee to tea, says Costa global CEO

IDENTIFYING INDIAAS a priority market, Costa Coffee's global CEO Philippe Schaillee on Friday said the British chain will open 50 more speciality coffee stores in the country

Disney India biz sale: Adani, Sun TV in fray

WALT DISNEY IS holding preliminary discussions with potential buyers, including billionaires Gautam Adani and Kalanithi Maran, for its India streaming and television business, according to people familiar with the matter

Reliance Retail bags ₹4,966 cr from ADIA

RELIANCE RETAIL VENTURES (RRVL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), said on Friday that a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) will invest ₹4,966.80 crore in the company

RBI bowls OMO googly

EVERYTHING THAT RESERVE Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das said in the first part of his monetary policy statement on Friday was on expected lines: No repo rate hike action for the fourth consecutive time; continuation of the 'withdrawal of accommodation'stance; and no change in the inflation and growth projections of 5.4% and 6.5% respectively for FY24

US trade deficit shrinks to nearly three-year low

THE US TRADE deficit shrank to an almost three-year low in August, reflecting a pullback in American demand for foreign merchandise and a pickup in goods shipments overseas

Nancy Pelosi ejected from Capitol office

THE SEETHING ANGER from the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy has now spread to highly coveted congressional real estate

Online lending startups gear up to meet festive demand

DIGITAL LENDING PLATFORMS such as LendingKart, Indifi and NeoGrowth, which primarily lend to micro, small and midsized businesses, are expecting a surge in credit demand among MSMEs for the upcoming festival season, notwithstanding inflationary pressures

Nobel in Literature for 'giving voice to the unsayable'

NORWEGIAN AUTHOR AND dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature \"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,\" the award-giving body said on Thursday

Kiwis win one-sided Cup opener, stadium near-empty: Are ODIs dying? ask fans

\"OI! JIMMY! YOUR teacher is here!\" Went a cry from the stands, near the sight-screen, and the fan from New Zealand, who was referred to as the teacher, hushed the fellow Kiwi who was shouting

Terms of SBI chief and MD extended

THE GOVERNMENT ON Thursday extended the term of State Bank of India (SBI) chairman Dinesh Khara for a period of 10 months till August 28,2024.Khara, who was appointed SBI chairman for three years in October 2020, will turn 63 in August next year. His current term was set to expire in October

Amazon joins race for satcom licence

AMAZON ON THURSDAY submitted its application for satellite communication services in India to the department of communications (DoT), officials aware of the matter said

Hike in ATF: IndiGo fares to get costlier by ₹1,000

INDIGO, THE COUNTRY'S biggest airline, is introducing a fuel charge on domestic and international routes from October 6 to offset the surge in aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices, the company announced on Thursday