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ANI. Safdarjung Hospital has reserved 50 beds for isolations and 9 ICU beds along with arrangements related to oxygen, PPE kits and Covid testing. In Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, separate help desks has been set up for Covid-19 patients.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India’s bet to open spacetech to private companies five years ago has spawned startups that are already earning millions of dollars by sharing agriculture and climate data collected by the satellites they launched. These ventures are pivoting towards a new lucrative business: defence surveillance.

₹1.77 trillion, surpassing the 2024 high of ₹1.73 trillion.“A key catalyst was the primary market cycle, including widely recognised names such as Tata Capital, Meesho, Lenskart, LG Electronics, PhysicsWallah and ICICI Prudential–where familiar brands significantly lowered entry barriers for first-time investors across smaller towns,” said Ankit Mandholia, head equity and derivatives, wealth management at Motilal Oswal Financial Services.The growth in new investors from some of these states comes even as the active investor count has fallen from the post-pandemic highs amid global uncertainty and the Sebi’s crackdown against retail trading in the futures and options (F&O) markets.While state-wise data for individual investors is not available, the number of investors pan-India who traded in the cash segment at least once a year fell 8% in 2025. But those trading in the equity derivatives segment fell 25%, showed NSE data, indicating that new investors are participating in the cash market.Across regions, the entry pattern is consistent: the vast majority of new investors begin in cash equities and IPOs, while F&O participation remains a relatively small fraction, said Arief Mohamad, chief business officer-direct business, Angel One.

central transfers, according to a report by PRS Legislative Research. States have budgeted their combined revenue mop-up at 14.3% of gross state domestic product (GSDP) for 2024-25, compared with 13.3% in the last fiscal and 13.8% in the pre-Covid year of 2018-19, the report said. While the pandemic flared up in India in 2020-21, it did impact economic output towards the end of 2019-20, especially in the wake of a lockdown in late March in 2020, although the slowdown had set in before the Covid onslaught.

While stating that they are fully invested at all times with a bottom-up approach to investing in great businesses at attractive valuations, Trupti Agrawal, Fund Manager at WhiteOak Capital AMC, finds more opportunities within Private Financials, Consumer Discretionary, Industrials, Healthcare, and Communication Services. «Irrespective of market levels, at every point in time there will be companies which will be relatively undervalued and our portfolio will reflect some of these new ideas, if they meet our framework of great business,» she says. Edited excerpts from a chat: How have you been tweaking your portfolios in the last few months amid all the concern around valuation and earnings growth slowing down?

GoI also plays a crucial role in policy design and financing. This shared responsibility often leads to conflicts with states, intensified by political turf wars.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Every Friday, Plain Facts publishes a compilation of data-based insights, complete with easy-to-read charts, to help you delve deeper into the stories reported by Mint in the week gone by. Abundant rainfall this year has boosted kharif crop sowing, but excess rains in September may lead to crop damage and add risks to India's inflation trajectory.

Mint explains the significance of stamp duty revenue for states. States are left with fewer avenues to raise tax revenues independently after the introduction of goods and services tax (GST) in July 2017. Many state-level levies were subsumed into state GST.

Olympics. The duo had only two things in common — they were wrestlers and were willing to fight it out on and off the mat to represent India in 48kg category. Almost 28 years later, few in the wrestling circles would have forgotten that eventful day when the two fought tooth and nail at the IG Stadium for a place in the Indian team. Yadav won the controversial trial bout but was not allowed to participate at the Games after failing to clear the weigh-in at Atlanta.

Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Sena faction on Thursday bluntly told the Congress party that if it wants to harbor ambitions of it leading the country and its party leader becoming the Prime Minister of the country then it should let the UBT have the Sangli Lok Sabha seat. “Congress is a big party, we believe that the Congress is to lead the country, we (UBT) don’t want to lead it. We want the Prime Minister of the country to be from the Congress party. For just one seat (Sangli) are you ready to lose the Prime Minister’s post, they (Congress) should think it over.”said UBT Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut. Referring to threats of the local leadership of Sangli announcing that they would not be working for the UBT candidate, Raut warned, “ If someone is talking of a boycott then it is very dangerous for the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, if the same situation happens in other constituencies in the state then who would be responsible.”

₹ 200 of fuel, while four-wheelers are limited to 5 litres or a maximum value of ₹ 500, NDTV reported. ALSO READ: Drivers launch protest across India against increased jail term for hit-and-run cases Tapan Sharma, a former president of the Ahmedabad Motor Transport Association in Gujarat, told PTI that the protests occurred spontaneously. "The association has not called for a strike.

Also Read: Bulls celebrate saffron sweep in state assembly elections While state elections do not correlate with Loksabha elections, the recent outcome removes a key overhang of political uncertainty for the markets for the next five months. Analysts at domestic brokerage firm Motilal Oswal said, "The equity markets were justifiably anxious about the outcome of state polls and what it portends for the 2024 general elections.

Adani Group stocks extended to the fourth day as nine out of 10 stocks traded in the green with Adani Green Energy and Adani Total Gas rising by 16%. Nifty constituents Adani Enterprises and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone were the top index gainers in the early trade as they rose 6% and 7%, respectively. On Wednesday, the combined market cap of all Adani Group companies stood at Rs 14.65 lakh crore. Meanwhile, Adani Energy Solutions, Adani Power, NDTV, Adani Wilmar and Ambuja Cements gained between 13% and 1.2% around 9:35 am.

Disney CEO Bog Iger has said that the media conglomerate would like to stay in the Indian market even as it is considering options for the Star India business, which is also known as Disney Star. «We'd like to stay in that market. But we're also looking to see whether we can, obviously, strengthen our hand and improve the bottom line,» Iger said in response to a question about the company's India business during the Q4 2023 earnings call. While stating that Disney is considering various options for the India business, which comprises 77 TV channels and one streaming platform, Disney+ Hotstar, Iger added that the company has an opportunity to strengthen its hand in the market. «We're considering our options there.

The $6 trillion provider of Australia’s oldest exchange-traded fund has slashed its management fees, a move that brings its costs in line with its faster growing competitors.

Multibager stock: PSU stocks have deliverd stellar return to its investors in last one year. While state-owned banks have taken pause in their continuous rally, some PSU stocks are still in uptrend. MMTC shares are one of them.

Manipur Government to suit Meitei communal interests while conveniently ignoring the historical facts. The letter highlighted the representation submitted earlier by the Ojha Sanajaoba Memorial Trust (OSMT) and explained how the Memorial Trust's demand for the insertion of protective clause under Article 3 and amendment of Article 37 IC (1) & (2) of the Indian Constitution is myopic and communal, and portrayed the exclusive mindset of the Meitei community at large.

Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) fell nearly 6% on the NSE in Thursday's trade after reports that the government was considering selling its stake in the company. The news triggered a strong selling action in the stock, with over 5.65 crore shares changing hands on the NSE around 10:15 am. The multibagger stock which has given more than 130% returns over a 12-month period has significantly outperformed the Nifty which has yielded just over 8% returns during this time.

RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das found a smarter option to absorb surplus liquidity in the banking system — the imposition of incremental CRR. Banking industry analysts say the move will suck out additional liquidity worth around Rs 90,000-95,000 crore from the system.

BJP's vote share during the recently-held panchayat polls in West Bengal, coupled with the unexpected resurgence of the Left and Congress, raises questions about the party's ambitious target of securing 35 Lok Sabha seats from the state in the 2024 elections. While the Bengal BJP narrowly maintained its main opposition position with a 22.88% vote share, down from 38% in 2021 assembly polls, the Left-Congress-ISF alliance has doubled its vote share to 20.80%, up from 10% in the previous state polls, posing a significant challenge.

BEIJING — The ruling Communist Party of China is establishing commissions to oversee finance and tech, state media announced Thursday.