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OTT platform. The streamer shared the news on its social media handles on the occasion of Kareena's 43rd birthday, according to a report published by the news agency PTI. "The crime thriller movie, based on the critically acclaimed Japanese novel "Devotion of Suspect X" from author Keigo Higashino, is set to be released on the streaming platform on September 21," the filmmaker said in an official statement.

Investing.com — Most Asian currencies fell on Friday, while the dollar surged to two-month peaks as markets hunkered down ahead of more signals on monetary policy from the Jackson Hole Symposium.

BSE Sensex has run up quite a bit in recent months. After touching its all-time high of 67,619 in July 2023, it currently trades at 65,400 levels. In this bullish market, most stocks have climbed up the ladder, commanding rich valuations.

Also read: After Chandrayaan-3's success, Japan's space agency set to send rocket to Moon on Sunday. Here's what you should know A statement released on Thursday, August 24, night from Raj Bhavan states, "C V Ananda Bose, Hon'ble Governor of West Bengal and Chancellor of the universities contacted the Chairman of ISRO for identifying appropriate technology to effectively contain and eliminate the menace of ragging in the university campuses." Also read: Chandrayaan-3: Anand Mahindra slams British anchor for remarks about India's poverty, toilets, says ‘it helps restore…’ Governor Bose has further extended his efforts by engaging with a Hyderabad-based firm to explore technological solutions for this grave problem.

Devendra Fadnavis met with the officials of one of the largest power generation companies 'JERA', which has invested in the Indian renewables power production space in 2016, and welcomed the company to once again invest in Maharashtra. Fadnavis met JERA's Senior Management officials Yuichiro Kato, Executive Officer, Head of the Low Carbon Fuel Value Chain Division, Toshihiro Oki, Executive Officer, Head of Renewable Energy Business Group and Tsuyoshi Oyama — General Manager, Head of Hydrogen and Ammonia Upstream Business Unit. The officials briefed Fadnavis about JERA business in Japan and globally. «JERA was created through the consolidation of the fuel and thermal power departments of the Tokyo Electric Power Company and the Chubu Electric Power Company. They have total assets of JPY 8.7 trillion / USD 60 bn.

Chandrayaan-3 and the failure of Russia's Luna-25. India's ISRO recently launched the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which made a soft landing near the moon's south pole, making India the first country to do so. According to a Bloomberg report, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) H2-A rocket is the agency's most reliable rocket, with only one failure in 42 launches since 2001.

Indian stock market is expected to open lower on Friday tracking losses in global peers amid a rise in US Treasury yields as traders await Federal Chairman Reserve Jerome Powell’s speech for clues on the interest rate outlook. Asian markets traded lower, while US stocks ended in the red on Thursday as investors sentiment turned cautious. On Thursday, the Indian benchmark equity indices, Sensex and Nifty, closed lower on profit booking in shares of select heavyweights.

Gold prices steadied near two-week highs on Friday and was headed for their best week in six as U.S. Treasury yields backed off highs ahead of speeches by top central bankers including Fed Chair Jerome Powell that could guide on future interest rates. FUNDAMENTALS * Spot gold was down 0.1% at $1,915.89 per ounce by 0120 GMT, holding below its highest since Aug.

«Nifty in the meantime is expected to remain in a narrow range with some stock-specific action in the broader market,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Here's breaking down the pre-market actions:STATE OF THE MARKETSGIFT Nifty (Earlier SGX Nifty) signals a positive startGIFT Nifty on the NSE IX traded 18.5 points, or 0.10 per cent, higher at 19,311.50, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for positive start on Friday.

Oil prices fell slightly in early Asian trade on Friday, on track for a weekly decline as weak manufacturing activity hurt the global demand outlook and the dollar remained buoyant. Brent crude fell 16 cents, or 0.2%, to $83.20 a barrel by 0013 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 18 cents, or 0.2%, to $78.91 a barrel. Crude prices are set to fall between 2%-3% for the week, a second consecutive week of decline. Oil settled modestly higher in the previous session after Dutch consultancy Insights Global posted data showing gasoil stocks held in independent storage in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub declined by 3% in the latest week. Investor caution ahead of remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the Jackson Hole Symposium lifted the safe-haven dollar to a 10-week high, its biggest rise in a month, as markets waited for word on how long rates would stay high.

Indiabulls Housing Finance has repaid ₹2,232 crore of external commercial borrowings (ECBs) raised in 2018 from Barclays, Japan's MUFG and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, Taiwan's CTBC and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), bringing to an end a deleveraging process the company started after IL&FS had foundered in 2018. Chief executive Gagan Banga said with the repayment on Thursday, the company has repaid all of its $3 billion foreign currency borrowings availed of in the last few years and will now shift focus to growing its assets under management (AUM). «From here on our debt repayments are merely ₹400 crore to ₹700 crore a month. This will be more than comfortably covered by repayment from the loan portfolio.

Woodside Energy has taken steps to streamline its enlarged portfolio after its merger last year with BHP Petroleum, tapping Morgan Stanley to sell its interests in the mature Macedon and Pyrenees oil and gas ventures off Western Australia.

buyback plan and record quarterly revenue. During the session, the company surged as high as $502.66. Nvidia closed up 0.12% at $471.74.

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery rose 16 cents to $79.05 a barrel Thursday

MUMBAI : Even as Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) founder Subhash Chandra and his son Punit Goenka await clean chit from the market regulator over financial irregularities in the media house, the company itself is entangled in a series of legal disputes, including tax claims, regulatory filings showed. While Zee Entertainment proceeds with its planned merger with the Indian arm of Japan’s media behemoth Sony Group Corp’s entertainment division, the filings showed that Zee is dealing with at least a dozen lawsuits, involving cases filed by the Income Tax department, the Commissioner of Service Tax, the Director General of GST Intelligence, and several lenders.

New Delhi: India, which is registering fastest economic growth among top five global economies, is on track to become the third largest economy, finance secretary T.V. Somanathan said on Thursday. India is currently the fifth largest economy behind the US, China, Japan and Germany.

The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is now releasing treated but still slightly radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean

Public fears and frustrations are being shared in Japan's neighboring countries about the release of treated radioactive wastewater from a crippled nuclear power plant

Fukushima nuclear plant's operator says it will compensate exporters of Japanese products banned by China

Japan’s tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant in Fukushima is releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean

Global energy giant BP is optimistic it can export green hydrogen to Europe and Japan by the end of the decade from a repurposed, 70-year-old oil refinery south of Perth.