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Nostradamus has left an indelible mark on our collective imagination. Because he wrote in cryptic poems or quatrains, his words possess the quality of being perpetually open to reinterpretation to align with historical occurrences. Evaluating his 'accuracy' becomes a notoriously challenging task due to this characteristic.

ICIMOD) report, released earlier this year, warns that glaciers in Hindu Kush Himalayas are melting at unprecedented rates. They could lose up to 75% of their volume by the end of the century, leading to flooding and water shortages for the nearly 2 billion people who live downstream of the rivers. Such warnings mean that international monitoring of glaciers will be a crucial bulwark for safeguarding the region's future. But, last week, GoI rejected a parliamentary panel's recommendation for a data-sharing agreement on Himalayan glaciers with countries of the region, including not-best-of-pals China.

NBFCs have been integral to India's formal credit system since Independence, complementing banks in distributing credit. The sector has occasionally been marred by financial accidents, but it has proved resilience each time, followed by improved regulatory frameworks. The first instance of imposing an NBFC regulatory framework was in 1963, empowering RBI to supervise, regulate and control them effectively. This was initiated after a slew of fly-by-night operators denting the trust of household depositors (most NBFCs back then accepted deposits). Multiple government committees since then prompted a series of changes in the NBFC regulatory landscape:

Israel-Hamas war, Egypt has put forward a proposal that include a ceasefire, a phased hostage release and the creation of a Palestinian government of experts who would administer the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, said a report by AP citing a senior Egyptian official and a European diplomat. The proposal has been presented to Israel, Hamas, the United States, and the European governments, said the report. According to the report, the proposal calls for an initial ceasefire of up to two weeks during which Palestinian militants would free 40 to 50 hostages, among them women, the sick and the elderly, in return for the release of 120-150 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.

₹20,000 crore in its flagship business, Adani Enterprises. That got pulled after a devastating report from Hindenburg Research, the US-based short seller. For a few weeks, all 10 listed Adani companies were hitting lower circuits, and soon, the shares of each company had crashed by more than 60%.

NEW DELHI : Covid cases continued to rise, with India reporting 628 fresh cases and one death in the past 24 hours, the Union health ministry said on Monday. The active caseload of covid-19 infections rose from 3,742 on Sunday to 4,054 showed ministry data. A death was reported from Kerala, bringing the national fatality toll to 5,33,334.

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Investing.com – Saudi Arabia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Financial Services, Industrial Investment and Retail sectors led shares higher.

MV Chem Pluto, off the coast of India in Arabian Sea, Iran's foreign ministry rejected "worthless" Washington's accusations. "We declare these claims as completely rejected and worthless," said foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani when asked about the US accusations.

Fed hiked interest rates by 5.5% — this, with “quantitative tightening program” of reduction in balance sheet, resulted in multi-decade high interest rates in the US and around the world. As a result, the foreign portfolio investor (FPI) flows turned negative on emerging markets like India, leading to significant outflows and putting downward pressure on Indian equities at the start of the year. The year started with the persistence of inflation at elevated levels across economies, continuing geo-political uncertainties and tightening financial conditions.

The risk of escalating conflict in the Middle East is the latest in a string of unpredictable crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, that have landed like swipes of a bear claw on the global economy, smacking it off course and leaving scars.

Gift cards make great stocking stuffers — just as long as you don't stuff them in a drawer and forget about them after the holidays. Americans are expected to spend nearly $30 billion on gift cards this holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation. Restaurant gift cards are the most popular, making up one-third of those sales.

Manchester United and Aston Villa will clash on Tuesday in the Premier League when both of them have been going through a bad phase with disappointing performances. While Erik ten Hag’s side have failed to score in four straight games in all competitions and were humbled in their 2-0 defeat at West Ham before Christmas, the incredible run of Unai Emery's team's 15 Premier League home wins in a row is over as they drew 1-1 at home against bottom club Sheffield United last time out. Despite this, it has been a superb year for Villa and their main aim for 2024 is to finish in the top six and try to win the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Iran denied on Monday a U.S. claim that a drone launched from Iran had struck a chemical tanker in the Indian ocean. The Pentagon said at the weekend that the Liberia-flagged, Japanese-owned and Netherlands-operated Chem Pluto ship was hit 200 nautical miles off the coast of India.

crude oil purchased from the UAE is helping the world's third largest energy consumer push for taking the local currency global, as it looks for similar deals with other suppliers, officials said, adding internationalisation is a process and there are no targets. With the nation more than 85 per cent dependent on imports for meeting its oil needs, India has been pursuing a three-pronged strategy of buying from the cheapest available source, diversifying sources of supply and not breaching any international obligation like the price cap in case of Russian oil. While the strategy helped save billions of dollars, when it ramped up imports of Russian oil that was shunned by some in West post Ukraine war, it is looking to settle trade in rupees instead of dollars in a bid to cut transaction costs by eliminating dollar conversions. India in July signed an agreement with the UAE for rupee settlement and soon after Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) made payments for purchase of a million barrels of crude oil from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in Indian rupees. Some of the Russian oil imports too have been settled in rupee. Officials said the default payment currency for import of crude oil has been the US dollar for several decades and the currency traditionally has liquidity as well as lower hedging cost. But to boost the rupee's role in cross-border payments, the Reserve Bank of India allowed more than a dozen banks to settle trades in rupees with 18 countries since last year. Since then, India has been encouraging big oil exporters such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia to accept the Indian currency for trade settlements, officials said, adding the first success happened in August this year when IOC made the rupee

Nifty heavyweights — HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank and Infosys, have gained between 6.3%-7.9%, respectively, clearly bringing forth the point that largecaps across sectors have started an up move, and investor interest appears to be increasing in them, said Aamar Deo Singh, Senior Vice President-Equity, Commodity & Currency at Angel One. The smart money understands that at current levels, it would make sense to be largecap heavy rather than others, he added. Q: The world will be in a holiday mood this week, so what triggers do you see for Nifty and Bank Nifty and what will be key levels to watch out for? After posting consecutive weekly gains for the last seven weeks, Nifty took a breather on the back of some selling pressure witnessed in the banking space, particularly PSU banks. While on the one hand, Bank Nifty was down 1.35% WoW, Nifty PSU Bank was down 3% WoW. Other indices like auto, media, metals, IT, smallcap as well as midcap stocks ended in the red.

gap between Reliance Industries Ltd's standalone and consolidated net profit has more than doubled to Rs 22,400 crore in the last couple of years, as the retail and telecom businesses housed in separate subsidiaries saw significant growth, a report said. «The gap between Reliance's standalone and consolidated profit after tax (PAT) has increased significantly — from Rs 8,400 crore in FY20 (April 2019 to March 2020) to Rs 22,400 crore in FY23, as telecom and retail have ramped up,» JP Morgan said in a note that used data from the firm's annual reports to reconcile the difference between the two reported profit numbers.

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that uses sequences of life events — such as health history, education, job and income — to predict everything from an individual's personality to their lifespan. Built using transformer models, which power large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, the tool called life2vec is trained on a data set pulled from the entire population of Denmark.

Chinese state media accused the Philippines on Monday of repeatedly infringing on China's territory in the South China Sea, spreading false information and colluding with extraterritorial forces to cause trouble. The Philippines has relied on U.S. support to continually provoke China, with such "extremely dangerous" behaviour seriously harming regional peace and stability, China's Communist Party mouthpiece, the People's Daily, wrote in a commentary on Monday.

Investing.com – Australia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Consumer Staples, Industrials and Utilities sectors led shares lower.

Investing.com – Japan stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Paper & Pulp, Banking and Chemical sectors led shares higher.