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Rana Gupta, MD, Manulife Investment Management, says what the Indian government did with Make in India, is in the case where the Indian government is the buyer, whether it is power, railways and all this equipment, they made a local content mandatory. That means the import substitution has to happen. You cannot just import and sell, that was the first phase, that has already happened and happening. The second phase is where we are moving on to now is basically technology absorption. In the second leg that we are going to see investing and deepening valuation within India. First, the import substitution gave the volume. Now that is giving these companies confidence to do value addition, leading to exports. I 2024, global growth is going to slow a bit. But if you take a three-year view, the export story is pretty much alive.” I was just speaking with the head of JCB India head. He was just telling me that we are already the third largest construction equipment market in the world and will move to second largest in the next five-seven years. He also said we have a 20% growth visibility on exports. TRIL, KEI, Apar are saying that there is a major manufacturing capex happening in Europe and the US and India will be the country to feed into that. Are you also convinced on this argument? We have been convinced on this argument for some time.

Binance Holdings and its former chief Changpeng Zhao, according to court documents. In November, Binance agreed to pay over $4.3 billion and pleaded guilty to breaking US anti-money laundering and sanctions laws.

BSE Sensex rising above 69,653 on Wednesday—is valid. Foreign institutional investors are back in action as buyers; their dithering in 2022 after yield gaps with safe US debt got squeezed now seems like old hat. An enlarged base of retail investors has held indices up, even as India’s economy has recovered from its covid contraction robustly enough to keep up a relatively pacy trajectory.

Google and Apple in order to spy on users. While Wyden did not name the governments using push notification data to spy on users, the US senator did say that the US government has restricted Google and Apple from sharing information on the issue.

stock market has been climbing to new highs since Friday last week. Nifty 50 index has been hitting new life-time highs for the last four sessions whereas BSE Sensex and Bank Nifty index has been touching record highs for the last three sessions.

ozone pollution, according to a study that opens the door to better models for predicting crop responses to the effects of climate change. The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also pave the way for developing more resilient varieties that can sustain humanity's increasing demand for food, feed, fibre and fuel.

Gold prices rose on Thursday, as signs of a cooling U.S. labour market supported bets of an interest rate cut early next year, while traders also awaited key jobs print due later in the day that could offer clues on the Federal Reserve's trajectory. FUNDAMENTALS * Spot gold was up 0.1% at $2,027.12 per ounce by 0159 GMT. * U.S.

Meta Platforms will add invisible watermarking to its text-to-image generation product imagine with Meta AI chatbot in the coming weeks to enhance transparency, the Facebook-parent said on Wednesday. The social media firm rolled out products infused with artificial intelligence (AI) for consumers, including bots that create photo-realistic images and smart glasses that answer questions, in late September.

— Producer-writer Norman Lear, whose groundbreaking hit comedies such as 'All in the Family' and 'Maude' addressed race, abortion and other social issues rarely seen before on U.S. television, died on Tuesday, at the age of 101, his family said. Lear, one of the most influential people in television, died at his Los Angeles home of natural causes, «surrounded by his family as we told stories and sang songs until the very end,» the family said on Facebook on Wednesday. Lear, who won six Emmy Awards for his work in television, was known for his campaigning for liberal causes, including voting rights, and worked well into his 90s. In addition to 'All in the Family' and 'Maude,' Lear dominated American TV screens in the 1970s and '80s with the situation comedies 'Sanford and Son,' 'The Jeffersons,' and the soap opera spoof'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.' At one point in the 1970s, Lear had eight shows on the air with an estimated 120 million viewers, Time magazine said. By drawing material from social themes of the time, Lear's shows made network executives nervous because they had depth and an air of controversy. «For him to say that he didn't have an impact on not only television but society is… a little too humble,» said Rob Reiner, who had a co-starring role on «All in the Family» before becoming a film director. «I loved Norman Lear with all my heart,» Reiner said on the X social media platform after news of his death.

Nifty is currently just 40 points away from hitting the 21,000 mark. «Markets saw a smart rally of 11% since the low of October end. Despite this sharp up-move, Nifty is trading at a 12-month forward P/E ratio of 18.4x, which is at a 9% discount vs its long-period average. Hence, we expect focus to shift towards the largecap stocks,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal. Here's breaking down the pre-market actions: STATE OF THE MARKETS Gift Nifty signals negative start Nifty futures on the Gift Nifty traded 56 points or 0.27% lower at 21,045.50, signalling a breather for the equity market bulls following a seven-day rally.

The CVM, Brazil’s markets regulator, has co-launched a glossary of crypto-related terms in a bid to “standardize” terminology in the Latin American nation.

In the constantly evolving landscape of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin has recently hit a notable milestone, surging past $44,000 and marking a staggering 160% increase this year.

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Wednesday left at least three people dead before the bloodshed ended with the suspect's own death, authorities said. The Las Vegas Police Department said in written statement on social media that three people, aside from the shooter, were killed. Another person who was shot is in critical condition.

Edited excerpts: Yes, it is difficult in a world that has gone from one shot to another with the consequence being fiscal space in countries has shrunk in some countries. The fight against inflation means that interest rates are high, and for countries with a high level of debt that eats up resources. On top of it, with advanced economies now moving towards industrial policy and green subsidies—which overall is a good track to accelerate decarbonization—they become more attractive for private investors because it’s easier to invest in the developed world.

New Delhi: The stock market regulator has issued show-cause notices to about a dozen foreign investors that owned big chunks of Adani group companies as it seeks to lift the veil on their true ownership, two people aware of the matter said. The notices charge the investors with failing to maintain and disclose information about their ultimate beneficiaries. The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) notices to the foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) follow its investigations after US short-seller Hindenburg Research highlighted them in a damning report released in January.

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By David Shepardson

A pillar of Ethereum’s original vision was decentralization—the idea that its blockchain would operate outside constraints from centralized entities like governments and corporations. Recent data indicates this ideology is being tested, however, as key Ethereum players increasingly censor transactions linked to US sanctions.

Los Angeles Lakers led by LeBron James are set to face off against the New Orleans Pelicans, spearheaded by Brandon Ingram, on Thursday night. In the quarter-final, the Lakers emerged victorious against the Phoenix Suns, led by Kevin Durant and Devin Booker, while the Pelicans secured their spot in the semi-final by defeating the Sacramento Kings, led by De'Aaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis.