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Hero MotoCorp Tuesday beat street estimates to report a 36% increase in net profit at Rs 1122.63 crore for the three months ended June 30, 2024 driven by steady recovery in motorcycle sales in the local market and higher average selling price of vehicles. The company had reported net profit of Rs 824.72 crore in the corresponding period of the last financial year.

Elon Musk’s much-awaited interview with former President Donald Trump was marred by technical glitches on Monday, with people unable to join the audio conversation on X’s Spaces platform

For the six months ending 30 June 2024, the firm generated £3.5bn in gross inflows, with net flows remaining positive. The company's cost management and growth in operating income also contributed to a rise in adjusted EBITDA, which amounted to £103.9m. Evelyn Partners private equity owner Permira mulls sale of majority stake — reports Evelyn Partners said its AUM increased 13.3% year-on-year, marking a 5.2% rise since December 31, 2023. The company said positive market movements, and a strong investment performance contributed £2.6bn to the increase in AUM, compared to £100m in H1...

bank helped avert a fall to the key psychological support level of 84 to the dollar. The rupee closed at 83.97, nearly unchanged from its close at its all-time low of 83.9725 in the previous session.

The volatility in global financial markets hasn’t derailed investor optimism around US technology behemoths or expectations of a soft economic landing, according to a global survey by Bank of America Corp.

Unicommerce eSolutions made a spectacular debut on the exchanges on Tuesday, listing at Rs 235 per share, which is a staggering 117% premium over its issue price. This blockbuster performance far exceeded pre-listing expectations, fueled by the massive oversubscription of 168.35 times and a robust grey market premium (GMP).

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NASA. The full Moon on August 19, 2024, the day of Raksha Bandhan, will be a remarkable celestial event, marking both a supermoon and a Blue Moon.

Independence day, an event in Uttar Pradesh's Kakori reignited the fire of violent revolution against the Britishers. A small incident of dacoity at a sleepy railway station shook the might of British empire. The use of physical force as a form of direct confrontation with and retaliation against the British began as a concerted attempt in the last decade of the 19th century in India. The anti-Partition agitation that began in 1905 further catalyzed the growth of extremist nationalism in India. Several revolutionary associations and organizations, both clandestine and open, sprang up in Bengal, Maharashtra, Punjab, and so on. This was also the period when the culture of the bomb was absorbed and employed by the nationalists with assistance from the revolutionaries abroad.

This was the lowest level of wage growth recorded in two years, but the data released today (13 August) showed the labour marked has remained «strong», noted Neil Birrell, CIO at Premier Miton Investors. UK battle against inflation is not over warns BoE's Mann The number of payrolled employees is estimated to have grown by 14,000 between May and June 2024, and by 24,000 in July. The employment rate stood at 74.5% for Q2 and while this was below last year's estimates, it showed an increase from the first quarter of the year. The unemployment rate decreased over the quarter to 4.2...

In addition to rainfall, the national capital is expected to witness slight thinderstorms, the weather agency said in their forecast. «Cloudy with light rain and potential thunderstorms. The temperature will vary between 26°C and 32°C,» said the IMD in a statement. Read more: Delhi rains: Traffic alerts issued amid waterlogging on many roads. Check weather forecast

BEL), RailTel, Samvardhana Motherson International, and 13 other companies are expected to be in focus today as they have set August 14 as the record date for determining shareholders eligible for dividend payments. This means today is the last day to buy shares of these companies to qualify for the announced dividends.

Foreign investors pulled out a record amount of money from China in the last quarter. Direct investment liabilities in its balance-of-payments dropped almost $15 billion in April-June, Bloomberg reported, citing data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

rupee weakened to a record closing low of 83.97 versus the US dollar on Monday, mirroring the secular decline in Asian currencies that fell on risk aversion ahead of the publication of US consumer price inflation data later this week. The rupee was also pressured by a rise in crude oil prices.

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life insurance industry in India registered growth in July, with the total annualised premium equivalent (APE) increasing by 16.9% year-on-year. This growth was primarily driven by the private sector, which saw an impressive 18% rise in APE. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), the country's largest insurer, recorded a more moderate increase of around 13.5%. APE is the sum of annualised first-year premium on regular premium policies and 10% of single premium policies written in a fiscal year.

Porsche car crash case claiming these are influential persons and several key witnesses were afraid of them. Investigating officer (IO) Ganesh Ingale told court the accused, like fugitive businessmen Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya, could flee the country if given bail. Two IT professionals were killed on May 19 when their motorcycle was hit by a Porsche, allegedly driven by an inebriated minor, in Kalyani Nagar in Pune. The six accused whose bail please are being heard are the minor's parents Vishal and Shivani Agarwal, Sassoon General Hospital's Dr Ajay Taware and Dr Shreehari Halnor as well as alleged middlemen Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad. Assistant Commissioner of Police Ingale said the conspiracy to replace the blood samples of the minor was hatched at Irani Cafe in Wadgaonsheri area and accused Dr Ajay Taware was contacted and given allurement. «Though Taware told other accused he would not come forward, the probe indicates Taware has a key role in the entire conspiracy,» he said, adding the conspiracy and crime took place in multiple places such as Irani Cafe, Sassoon General Hospital, Yerwada police station, the Juvenile Justice Board permises, Dr Halnor's residential campus.

Tata started the trend at the turn of the century by buying Tetley, the first leveraged buyout by an Indian conglomerate, for $407 million, emerging as the second largest tea company in the world. In 2007, Tata scooped up Corus in the largest overseas M&A by an Indian company at $12.11 billion, just before the global financial crisis. Much of Corus’ UK operations may have shrunk today but India’s most trusted conglomerate still has deep roots in the island nation, having acquired Jaguar Land Rover, British Salt and Brunner Mond, making Tata the single largest private sector employer in the country. Last year, the group announced a 4 billion pound greenfield giga factory for battery cells in the UK, which at the time was regarded as something of a coup by the first Indian-origin PM of Britain, Rishi Sunak. Not that this could stop his defeat in the July general election.

Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda on Monday said that the state has recorded 58 deaths and crop damage in 80,000 hectares, due to «above normal» rains so far in the current monsoon season so far. More rains are anticipated in several parts of the state in the days ahead, and officials have been instructed to take precautionary measures, he said. «In the northern interior region, the average rainfall has been 260 mm, but this year it has received 322 mm, which is 24 per cent higher than normal. The Malnad region typically receives 1,127 mm of rainfall, but this year it has received 1,361 mm, 21 per cent higher than normal.