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Bain Capital has approached Dr Reddy's Laboratories (DRL) to explore a joint bid to buy out the promoters of Cipla, the Hamied family. Last week, senior leadership from both sides met along with their advisors to discuss and formalise a strategy, said people aware of the development.

Shareholders last week voted down two resolutions, both of which were related-party transactions. One of those was proposed by American multinational company 3M India, and the other by defence supplier Astra Microwave Products. 3M India proposed a resolution to approve material related-party transactions up to ₹1,153 crore from the 2023 AGM until the 2024 AGM with its parent 3M Company, US, which holds 75% equity in the Indian subsidiary.

Steve Harwell, a founding member and former leader of the US rock band Smash Mouth, known for its hit songs "All Star" and "Walkin' on the Sun," died Monday at age 56, his agent said. Harwell, who left the group in 2021 for health reasons and had been in hospice care in recent days, died at his home in Boise, Idaho "surrounded by family and friends," Smash Mouth manager Robert Hayes told Rolling Stone magazine. Hayes said the cause of death was liver failure.

Rehoboth Beach Police Department, 31-year-old Richard Boateng was last seen in the surf off the beach near Rehoboth Avenue on Sunday evening. This beach is located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

A United States federal court has taken a significant step in allowing a nearly three-year-long class-action lawsuit to proceed against the creators of HelbizCoin.

Elon Musk has blamed the Anti-Defamation League for a fall in US advertising revenue on the social media platform. In a series of posts on Monday, Musk said that ad sales are still down 60% “primarily due to pressure on advertisers" mounted by the Anti-Defamation League. Musk said that the ADL was trying to kill the social media platform since he acquired it in October last year, by “falsely accusing" it and him of being anti-Semitic.

G20 Summit, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said the focus should be on the position taken by countries on key burning issues than on the levels of representations at the conclave. «At the end of the day, countries are represented by whoever they have chosen to represent them.

On Aug. 29, crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments scored a major victory against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in its efforts to convert its over-the-counter Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) into a listed Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The U.S. Court of Appeals Circuit Judge Neomi Rao ordered Grayscale’s petition for review be granted and the SEC’s order to deny the GBTC listing application be vacated. Previously, Rao said that the SEC did not “offer any explanation” as to why Grayscale was in the wrong. 

Chinese stimulus measures aimed at supporting the country’s beleaguered property sector. The pan-European STOXX 600 index ended at 457.96 points after rising as much as 0.9% earlier in the session. China’s financial regulators have lowered down-payment requirements for first and second-time home buyers and cut rates on existing mortgages.

The Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI), developed by researchers at Cambridge University’s Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), has been upgraded to reveal new information about Bitcoin mining’s global energy consumption.

Since assuming the position of Chair at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler's stance on cryptocurrencies has undergone a notable shift.

Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) in the UK are from September 1 required to collect, verify and share information on crypto transactions to firms “in the UK, or any jurisdiction that has implemented the Travel Rule.”

Jelena Ostapenko's «nothing to lose» mindset delivered the biggest upset of the US Open on Sunday as the hard-hitting Latvian sent defending champion Iga Swiatek crashing out. The 26-year-old 20th seed had never lost to Swiatek in three previous meetings and made it four-out-of-four with a brilliant 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 victory on the Arthur Ashe Stadium. The shock result sends Ostapenko into a quarter-final date with American sixth seed Coco Gauff on Tuesday, while Swiatek was left wondering where it all went wrong. The defeat also ensures that Aryna Sabalenka will end Swiatek's 75-week reign as world number one at the end of the tournament. Ostapenko had been the butt of jokes earlier in the tournament after making 80 unforced errors in a fitful second round win. But the Latvian had the last laugh with Sunday's win, saying she had been inspired by the packed 23,000-capacity arena. «I just honestly love to play on big courts with full stadiums and a lot of crowd,» Ostapenko said. «It's really the thing that we are working for and playing for. »I had nothing to lose today. I knew it was going to be a tough match.

China, has not yet been detected in India. «So far, Pirola has not been detected in the country,» a member of Insacog, the pan-India network of laboratories set up to monitor genomic variations of coronavirus, told ET. «We are keeping a strict vigil.» Insacog held a review meeting on Friday amidst increasing concern over the BA.2.86 variant, which is informally being termed Pirola. Its members were of the view that sewage testing for Covid-19 should be significantly increased «for timely detection of new variants like Pirola», the person said.

Harvard legal scholar and Yeshiva University law professor Christine Kim recently published a research paper detailing arguments for not only taxing the metaverse but treating it as “a laboratory for experimenting with cutting-edge policy.”

climate change, it coincided with the spread of uncommon diseases as well. Health experts in the US have warned of the health consequences of not addressing climate change. Malaria, a disease of tropical regions and other warmer areas was detected in Texas and Florida. These are also the states that have registered record temperatures, as per reports.

G20 summit in New Delhi. That would make him the second major leader after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to skip the event.

On August 21, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)  announced   that it has levied charges against «Titan Global Capital Management USA LLC», a New York-based FinTech investment adviser. The charges stem from Titan's use of «hypothetical performance metrics» in advertisements that the SEC deemed misleading.

₹6,833.29 crore, resulting in an outflow of ₹3,367.67 crore, according to NSE data. Domestic institutional investors (DIIs) bought equities worth ₹10,461.54 crore and offloaded shares worth ₹7,898.06 crore, resulting in an inflow of ₹2,563.48 crore, the exchange data showed. The BSE benchmark Sensex climbed 240.98 points, or 0.37%, to end at 65,628.14.

Alliance Inc announced Friday that its chief executive, Rosalind Brewer, had resigned the day before. Brewer was the only African-American female CEO to run an S&P 500 company. With so few African-American women ever having gotten to the top of big US companies—other notables include former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Mary Winston as interim chief of Bed Bath & Beyond—Brewer’s departure deserves attention.

Many of my friends in the US, even the ones I consider well educated and reasonable in their views, have turned dejected with the social and political discourse in their country. Some have even remarked to me that they expect a ‘civil war’ in their country sometime soon. I do not believe this is the case; nonetheless, there are two salient contributing factors which I will discuss here: one is technological change, and the other, demographic change.