2020 Financial News

ALSO READ: Google's move will cause ‘irreparable harm to the market’: Indian startups' plea to CCI on app delisting row In a bid to find a solution to the crisis that was being labelled as a dark day for the internet by some, both Vaishnaw and Minister of State for Information and Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar held multiple rounds of discussions with Google and the app owners on Monday. Vaishnaw on Tuesday announced that Google has agreed to restore the status of Friday morning i.e. pre-delisting.

ALSO READ: Watch | SpaceX Falcon 9 completes its 300th mission, Elon Musk is elated The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Endeavor was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, along Florida's Atlantic coast, at 10:53 p.m. EST (0353 GMT Monday).

Calcutta High Court Judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay today announced that he is joining BJP, hours after resigning as judge of Calcutta High Court. Earlier in the day, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay announced his resignation from the Calcutta High Court, citing personal reasons. Several lawyers and litigants requested Justice Gangopadhyay to reconsider his resignation, expressing their gratitude for his judicial service. Mitali Das, a litigant from Bolpur in Birbhum district, traveled nearly 180 km to Kolkata to plead with folded hands, tears streaming down her cheeks. Das, a mother in need, recounted receiving crucial medical aid for her daughter through Justice Gangopadhyay's court orders. Witnesses described emotional scenes in the courtroom, with another woman likening Justice Gangopadhyay's courtroom to a sacred temple. Amidst heartfelt appeals, some lawyers urged him to extend his tenure until his scheduled retirement later this year.

₹40-45 lakh. As a result, the new supply share of affordable housing has significantly contracted over the last two years in the top seven cities, dropping from 26% of total new launches in 2021 to 18% in 2023, a stark decline from 40% in 2019.

S Naren, ED & CIO, ICICI Prudential AMC, says “more than valuation, I would be more worried about sentiment that people are just too positive and we have always seen that when people are too negative, it is a very good period to invest and when people are too positive, it is a time to be more circumspect.” What is the sense that you are getting about the market? S Naren: We are at an all-time high. Just now, we have reached an all-time high. So, it is a very special feeling.

shares of Kotak Mahindra Bank could be in the offing as the price is near a technical support level, which has been breached only during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, said analysts. But a tearaway rally looks unlikely with the stock seen grinding higher because of technical hurdles. Kotak shares are around a support level of its 50-day exponential moving average on a monthly time frame placed at ₹1,700-level, according to Tradonomy, an investment advisory. The stock could bounce from these levels, it said. «Fresh buying from smart money could come around these levels, taking it to 1,900-2,200 levels from here,» said Tadonomy's founder Dharan Shah.

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A handful of senior executives from across the Ontario Securities Commission have left or are on their way out on the heels of a five-year extension of the term of chief executive Grant Vingoe.

enforcement heads of state and central goods and services tax (GST) to settle tax cases linked to classification at its earliest. In her address at a conference of enforcement chief of the state and the central GST formations in New Delhi, she told officials to engage with stakeholders to understand their concerns, enhance compliance, streamline processes, and work collaboratively towards making the tax system more transparent and efficient. «Clarity on classification related issues should be looked into at the earliest through appropriate channels,» the Finance Ministry said in a statement quoting Sitaraman.

merger-related activities have impacted operations and business, Zee Entertainment Chairman R Gopalan said adding the company has now taken several incremental steps to protect all stakeholders and enhance its intrinsic value through this phase. There is «significant room for performance enhancement» and a revival plan by the management team is already being put in action to accelerate growth and enhance profitability, said Gopalan in the opening remarks of an investor conference call of Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd (ZEEL) on Monday. The board has also decided to closely monitor the business model and plan presented by the MD & CEO of the company wherein he has provided the roadmap to improve the performance and efficiency of each of the businesses to achieve higher EBITDA. «We are fully cognizant that significant room for performance enhancement exists and a revival plan by the ZEEL management team is already being put in action to accelerate growth and enhance profitability,» he said, adding the board has full confidence in the ZEEL management team's execution capability.

Donald Trump is eligible to appear in Colorado’s primary ballot in a milestone 2024 U.S. election case, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

fintech startup Wagely has raised $23 million, in a mix of equity and debt, as a part of its latest funding round. The equity portion of the round is led by Capria Ventures, which has invested in the likes of social networking platform, ShareChat, edtech Masai School and Cuemath in India.

Assam announcing to relaunch protests against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Assam police have sounded alert across the state. Recently Union Home minister Amit Shah has stated CAA rules will be notified and implemented before Lok Sabha polls. In several places in Assam, police have readied bamboo barricades in anticipation of the protest. A senior police officer who does not want to be named told ET, “We are anticipating protests however not on the scale which Assam witnessed in 2019 and 2020. There are some organisations which have announced its decision to relaunch the protest however we have taken that seriously and an alert is sounded. Additional forces are deployed in the districts however this deployment is in view of the Lok Sabha polls.”

GOLDSBORO, N.C.—Donald Trump has been impeached, indicted and ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties for committing fraud and defamation. For many Republican voters in this Raleigh exurb, that doesn’t disqualify him from returning to the White House. Instead, it makes them more likely to back Trump in this week’s Super Tuesday primary because they view the GOP presidential front-runner as unfairly targeted by his political enemies.

More new rental apartments are coming to the market than at any time since the 1980s. Really big buildings are a major reason why. Apartment developers are creating soaring properties with more units.

Singapore is set to raise the salary criteria for foreign executives and professionals that companies can hire starting next year, the government announced on Monday. Starting in January of next year, foreigners seeking employment passes, typically reserved for well-paid professionals, will need to earn at least S$5,600 ($4,170) per month, an increase from the current requirement of S$5,000. Those in the financial sector will have the qualifying salary hiked to S$6,200 from S$5,500.

A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as Monday in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election.Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said he is disqualified from being president again and ineligible for the state’s primary, which is Tuesday.The resolution of the case on Monday, a day before Super Tuesday contests in 16 states, would remove uncertainty about whether votes for Trump, the leading Republican candidate for president, will ultimately count. Both sides had requested fast work by the court, which heard arguments less than a month ago, on Feb.

PTI that in the video circulated online, a man is seen in an objectionable position with a woman, and the person seen in this video is said to be Upendra Singh Rawat. "As soon as I got the party's ticket from Barabanki, my opponents did this act", claiming that the video is completely doctored. I hope the accused will be identified soon," he said.

California regulators have authorized Waymo to expand services of its fleet of robotaxis into Los Angeles and to cities on the peninsula south of San Francisco

Native American groups have struggled with mining interests over a decade over Oak Flat, a piece of national forest land in central Arizona

A Delaware judge has declared a mistrial in the latest lawsuit alleging that exposure to the popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer