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Antfin Singapore Holding is looking to sell up to 2% stake in Zomato through large deals in the open market. The Ant Group will sell the shares at ₹159.4, which is at a near 4% discount to Tuesday's closing price of ₹165.8 on the NSE.

(Reuters) -Alphabet's Waymo said on Tuesday it will begin driverless passenger services for its employees in Austin, Texas starting Wednesday.

By Stella Qiu

Investing.com — The S&P 500 fell Tuesday, as investors continued to holster bullish bets on big tech just a day ahead of Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell testimony before Congress that will likely echo recent remarks from Federal Reserve members cautioning on cutting rates too soon.   

India’s local governments are weak despite the 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments. They effectively serve as extended implementation arms of state governments, rather than as an independent tier of government. If India has to deliver on its promise of Viksit Bharat by 2047, we must radically change how we view our local governments.

By Stephen Culp

Ram Mandir inauguration in January, hackers and cyber criminals, predominantly from China and Pakistan, were constantly targeting the websites of the Ram Temple, Prasar Bharti and other digital assets of critical infrastructure in Uttar Pradesh (UP), officials told ET. The government had blocked 1244 IP addresses, of which 999 were from China alone. «The rest of the blocked addresses were from Pakistan, Hong Kong and Cambodia,» officials said. Since the government had anticipated a rise in cyber-attacks during the inauguration, all the pre-emptive measures were put in place. The Telecom Security Operation Centre (TSOC) was monitoring around 264 websites including that of the Ram Temple, Prasar Bharti, UP Police, airport, UP tourism, and the power grid among others round the clock to prevent any cyber-attack. «It was a 7-day drill to guard the digital assets as we had anticipated a rise in cyber-attacks. Since the main event was on January 21, we had to secure the assets before and after the event also,» a person privy to the details said.

service sector growth momentum eased in February but remained robust despite a slowdown in new orders and output, according to a private survey released on Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services Business Activity Index fell to 60.6 in February from 61.8 in the previous month. A level of over 50 indicates expansion. «A climbdown from a six-month high in January was largely expected, but at 60+, still indicates a sharp expansion rate,» said Rahul Bajoria, managing director and head of EM Asia (ex-China) Economics, Barclays. Despite the decline, service activity in February was at its second highest level in five months, but milder growth during the month clouded the business outlook. «Due to a slowdown in growth in new orders and output, services companies' outlook for future business activity, while remaining strongly positive, weakened slightly,» said Ines Lam, economist, HSBC. Of the 400 firms surveyed for the period, 26% still expect growth in the year ahead, but 2% predict a decline. Employment suffered with survey members indicating that employment numbers were sufficient.

Chinese influence" may have played a role in encouraging the Leftist unity in Nepal with PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' dropping the Nepali Congress as its partner and form an alliance with the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN)-UML led by K P Sharma Oli. The year-long Nepali Congress and Prachanda-led CPN (Maoist Centre) coalition collapsed on Monday, with Prachanda joining hands with the CPN-UML to revive the «Left alliance». Thereafter, Prachanda reshuffled his cabinet to include ministers from the Communist party and created an eight-point programme to run Nepal. Despite contesting the elections in a pre-poll alliance with the Congress, Prachanda became the Prime Minister on December 26, 2022, with the UML's support. But the partnership could not last long after his party decided to support the Nepali Congress in the presidential election. The UML had pulled out of the government on February 27 last year, and Prachanda and Nepali Congress joined hands to form the government.

According to Citigroup strategists, bullish sentiment in US stock futures saw a moderate increase last week, signaling a tempered pace compared to recent trends.

New Delhi: The plan to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt could be completed by June, two people aware of the matter said, as the island-nation prepared to reach an agreement with its creditors in the coming months. "We expect that the agreements will be finalized around June, which will help settle the debt restructuring process with Sri Lanka," said one of the officials mentioned above, requesting anonymity. In May 2022, India's southern neighbour defaulted on its overseas debt after its worst financial crisis since independence in 1948 emptied out foreign exchange reserves.

China reiterated a call for "reunification" with Taiwan, but added emphasis that it wants to "be firm" in doing so and dropped the descriptor "peaceful", which had been used in previous reports. Although it is not the first time that China had omitted the word "peaceful", the change in language is closely watched as a possible sign of a more assertive stance towards Taiwan. China has been increasing its military budget, and it has been more than doubled under President Xi Jinping's 11 years in office, Reuters reported.

Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon from 2033-35, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday, something he said could one day allow lunar settlements to be built. Borisov, a former deputy defence minister, said that Russia and China had been jointly working on a lunar programme and that Moscow was able to contribute with its expertise on "nuclear space energy".

British digital bank Monzo on Tuesday raised $430 million in fresh capital from investors to help it relaunch its services in the U.S.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) — Decisions on 60% of corporate loans issued by Russia's top lender Sberbank will be made using artificial intelligence (AI) by the end of this year, CEO German Gref said on Tuesday.

A shift away from Chinese equities by global long-term investors has taken a pause, with some funds getting less bearish, according to Morgan Stanley.

China's blueprint for its economy in 2024 is replete with goals and promises, but it's also notable for not spelling out specific moves to attain long-promised reforms that foreign businesses and investors have been hoping for

China's Huawei Technologies and U.S. tech giant Amazon said they had signed a multi-year patent licencing deal that resolves litigation between them. Most terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Alan Fan, head of Huawei's intellectual property rights department, said the Chinese firm had ended lawsuits brought against Amazon in Germany over patented technology related to wifi and video playback.

BRICS nations are set to create an independent blockchain-based payment system, incorporating digital currencies to enable smoother and cost-effective global transactions.

Investing.com -- Shares in Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) slipped in premarket U.S. trading on Tuesday after Bloomberg News reported that the U.S. government had placed a hurdle in front of the company's effort to sell an artificial intelligence chip designed for the Chinese market.