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Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) will soon take another step to resemble state-of-the art global finance centres as the hub is set to launch its own foreign currency settlement system, K Rajaraman, chairperson of the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) told Bhaskar Dutta in an interview. He also listed out the latest steps being taken by the IFSC Authority to «onshore what is offshore». Edited excerpts: Markets have been telling us about the development of an international-style instant foreign exchange settlement system in GIFT City. What is happening on the ground?

The classic approach to a presidential election in the US, partly led by its system of primary polls to pick candidates, is to first rouse one’s party base on the left or right and then pivot to the centre, since victory is about swinging votes across from the other side. Mild versions of it are visible in the White House race, though more in Joe Biden’s campaign than in Donald Trump’s.

Stock Market News: The domestic benchmark indices, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, finished the special live trading session on Saturday, May 18, with gains, extending their current three-day rally driven by fresh foreign capital inflows and encouraging cues from across the globe. The small and mid-cap indexes outpaced the benchmark indices, and all sectoral indices finished in the green. The 30-share BSE Sensex closed at 74,005.94 in the second special trading session, up 88.91 points, or 0.12%.

Also Read: Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Polling in Mumbai today! Know what's closed, what's open On Tuesday, May 21 at 9:15 IST, the stock market will resume regular trading, but, following a fifteen-minute pre-opening session that begins at 9:00 IST, according per the BSE and NSE websites. The fifth phase (Phase 5) of the general elections for 2024 is slated to take place on Monday, May 20, and voting will take place in as many as 49 Lok Sabha seats, which are spread across six states and two Union territories (UTs).

Daniel Kahneman and Jim Simon. The past few months have seen the passing away of these three people whose lives and work have been of great interest to investors. Of the three, Munger and Kahneman have often been the subjects of my writings over the years. However, I have hardly ever mentioned Jim Simon, even though his life has been the most interesting in some ways. By all accounts, Simon, who passed away last week at 86, was an extraordinary genius. During the first half of his life, he was an academic mathematician or, to be precise, a geometer. Around the time he was 40, he decided that the equity markets could be understood and predicted using purely statistical techniques. He set up an investment firm and hired people from maths and maths-adjacent fields. They struggled for about a decade, but around 1987, their techniques had been developed to a point where they started succeeding. From 1988 to 2018, the Medallion Fund, which was run by his investment firm, delivered annual gross returns of 66%. After considering the enormous fees, the average annual returns came to 39%. During this period, the only negative year was 1989, when the fund lost just 3%. These numbers seem completely incredible, and they are. Most readers must be thinking that these returns should have compounded to trillions of dollars over the years. They would have, but here’s the most interesting fact about this fund: it was not allowed to accumulate assets.

Hero MotoCorp and Harley-Davidson Inc are set to expand their partnership to bring more models of the iconic US motorcycle maker to India, riding on the overwhelming response to the X-440, multiple people aware of the negotiations told ET. The two companies are close to finalising an agreement to broaden their existing partnership, which is limited to a single model, the sources said. The pact could also include manufacturing of Harley-Davidson models for export to other markets, they said. An announcement is likely within weeks, they added. Hero MotoCorp and Harley-Davidson did not respond to ET's queries until press time on Sunday.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States over the mass leak of secret US documents, the culmination of 13 years of legal battles and detentions. Two judges at the High Court in London will rule on whether the court is satisfied by US assurances that Assange, 52, would not face the death penalty and could rely on the First Amendment right to free speech if he faced a US trial for spying. Assange's legal team say he could be on a plane across the Atlantic within 24 hours of the decision, could be released from jail, or his case could yet again be bogged down in months of legal battles.

Crews conducted a controlled demolition on the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. (Credit: Reuters)

business strategies that involve imports of crucial raw materials and machinery from China. Last week, S Jaishankar obliquely questioned the patriotism of firms that source material from China that could be bought or manufactured locally. 'If peace and tranquillity in border areas are disturbed, would you do business with someone who has just barged into your drawing room and is trying to make a mess of your house fencing? It's common sense that if a country has gone back on written agreements and is doing something on our borders, how can we then say that the business world will continue as normal and other things won't,' the foreign minister said at the CII annual business summit in New Delhi last Friday. The timing of this statement is significant for two reasons. One, it comes just 17 days before EC is due to announce the results of the ongoing parliamentary elections that will lead to the formation of the next government. Two, China has just emerged as India's biggest trading partner surpassing the US, according to figures released by Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI).

ALSO READ: NASA shares spectacular images of majestic ‘Pillars of Creation’ from Eagle Nebula | See pics Apart from Gopichand, the crew also included former Air Force Captain Ed Dwight, the first Black astronaut candidate in the United States, reported Hindustan Times. Earlier on 12 September 2022, the programme faced a setback after a New Shepard rocket caught fire shortly after launch. However, the uncrewed capsule ejected in time and ensured the safety of potential astronauts.

Aljazeera, DR Congo Army spokesman Brigadier General Sylvain Ekenge said they have thwarted an attempted coup and have arrested many people, including foreigners. 1) On Saturday, armed men attacked the Kinshasa residence of federal legislator and a candidate for speaker of the National Assembly of DR Congo – Vital Kamerhe. They were stopped by his guards, said his spokesman Michel Moto Muhima on X.

Hamas raged across the north on Sunday as Israel's leaders aired divisions over who should govern Gaza after the war, now in its eighth month. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces criticism from the two other members of his War Cabinet, with his main political rival, Benny Gantz, threatening to leave the government if a plan is not created by June 8 that includes an international administration for postwar Gaza. US national security adviser Jake Sullivan was expected to meet with Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders on Sunday to discuss an ambitious US plan for Saudi Arabia to recognise Israel and help the Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza in exchange for a path to eventual statehood. Netanyahu opposes Palestinian statehood and has rejected those proposals, saying Israel will maintain open-ended security control over Gaza and partner with local Palestinians unaffiliated with Hamas or the Western-backed Palestinian Authority.

A lot of investors have shunned cryptocurrencies and for good reason. After all, who wants to invest in something that is made up, has no real use other than to help commit crimes and is as unstable as a chair with two legs.

Kiara Advani recently attended an event on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival, catching everyone’s attention not only with her stunning pink and black gown but also with her unexpected accent during an interview. The actress spoke to the media on the red carpet of the Red Sea Film Foundation's Women in Cinema gala dinner, and her new accent quickly became a topic of conversation.

Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is there any way to re-educate the machines? The question for some is extremely urgent. In this ChatGPT era, AI will generate more and more decisions for health care providers, bank lenders or lawyers, using whatever was scoured from the internet as source material.

From New York to London to Tokyo, if there’s one similarity among the world’s equity markets it’s this: record highs.

Jules and Jim, Wings of Desire, Metropolis, Notorious—bought between the ages of 21 and 26 at hole-in-the-wall shops in Mumbai and Chennai but most often in the dank underground of Delhi’s Palika Bazaar. There was an unvarying routine: you would ask for foreign films, be offered porn, explain that you meant the other kind of foreign film, bargain half-heartedly, and stumble into the sunlight clutching Renoirs and Kitanos that may or may not play when you got home. It had all the unreliability and exhilaration of a drug deal.

MUMBAI , BENGALURU : Rajnish Kumar and T.V. Mohandas Pai do not intend to continue on the advisory panel of Byju’s parent company, Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd, after their one-year tenure ends on 30 June, presenting the latest setback to the embattled online tutor.

₹24,541 crore in January-March, against ₹23,905 crore in the same period of FY23. The company’s consolidated Ebitda, or earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization, dropped 15% sequentially to ₹6,124 crore. Its operating margin stood at 13.2% during the quarter.

Lounge on a recent trip to Bengaluru. In the spring of 2016 in the United States, Phippen learnt after a thorough analysis that he had type 1 diabetes – a shocker considering he was all of 23 with no family history at the time (although his mother was diagnosed years later). “I felt it was time that I did something that meant a lot to me, which was going back to my childhood dream of being a cyclist," he affirms.