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All India Muslim Jamaat on Sunday issued a fatwa against New Year celebrations, discouraging Muslims from celebrating it, instead urged them to focus on religious practices that align with their faith.

An online spat between factions of Donald Trump’s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in the president-elect’s political movement into public display

Sensex and Nifty are poised to end 2024 with 9-10% gains despite all the negative impact of geopolitical troubles, weak earnings in H1FY25 and fractured mandate in Lok Sabha elections. Would you expect double-digit gains in 2025? Despite challenges from geopolitical tensions, weak earnings in the first half of FY25, and a split political mandate, India’s equity markets have displayed remarkable resilience. This strength underscores the country’s robust long-term growth fundamentals, driven by strong domestic consumption, structural reforms, and an expanding investor base. <div data-placement=«Mid Article Thumbnails» data-target_type=«mix» data-mode=«thumbnails-mid» style=«min-height:400px; margin-bottom:12px;» class=«wdt-taboola» id=«taboola-mid-article-thumbnails-116673646»>Looking ahead at 2025, we remain cautiously optimistic. While double-digit gains are possible, the trajectory will depend on factors like global macroeconomic trends, corporate earnings recovery, the pace of domestic reforms, and geopolitical stability. Markets are inherently volatile, and we must be prepared for fluctuations. Our focus rema

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The past decade has witnessed the astronomical rise of crypto assets around the world. Their decentralized nature, transactional speed and accessibility immediately lured users.

Nifty, ended with minor declines on Tuesday, dragged down by IT and bank stocks. The 30-stock BSE Sensex finished at 78,472.87, down by 67.30 points or 0.09%, while the broader Nifty50 closed at 23,727.65, declining by 25.80 points or 0.11%. «Nifty breached the critical support of the 200 DMA with volumes, which indicates the index could slide further and test the swing low of 23,300 on the downside,» said Kunal Shah, Senior Technical and Derivative Research Analyst at Mirae Asset Sharekhan. «The real pain was visible in the broader markets, where the advance-decline ratio stood at 1:4,» he added.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In recent years, JSW Infrastructure Ltd has demonstrated significant success in raising the share of third-party cargo to 48% in H1FY24 from 25% in FY21. This helped improve capacity utilization to 63% in H1FY25 from 35% in FY21.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The consequences of Bashar al-Assad’s fall from power in Syria will reverberate for years across the Middle East, but one great fact is already clear. The Obama era in Middle Eastern history has, thankfully, come to an end.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Top billionaire investor and D-Mart promoter Radhakishan Damani opposed the candidate for chairmanship proposed by British American Tobacco (BAT for its Indian unit VST Industries Ltd, leading to his rejection at a shareholder vote, according to voting disclosures and an executive privy to the development. Opposition from Damani, who owns nearly a third of India's third largest cigarette maker, marks a rare episode of opposition from the investor who holds more than 1% shares in 11 publicly listed companies.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Government capex would align with nominal GDP growth in times to come while private capex is expected to gather pace over the next three to five years, driven by higher capacity utilisation and an uptick in investments in emerging sectors such as renewables and electric vehicles, according to Hari Shyamsunder of Franklin Templeton. Shyamsunder, vice president & senior institutional portfolio manager—emerging markets equity—India at the company, said the slowdown in corporate earnings in the second quarter ended September was temporary.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As the new year approaches, the pursuit of self-improvement takes center stage. Traditional vision boards, often adorned with magazine cutouts and inspirational quotes, have long been a staple for those striving to manifest their dreams.

Institute of Eminence (IoE) in Andhra Pradesh. This initiative aims to provide the state’s youth with education in Artificial Intelligence (AI), emerging technologies, new age skills, and entrepreneurship, paving the way for Andhra Pradesh to become an education hub. The University of Innovation will work towards blending academic excellence, innovation, and research. Its focus is to address key challenges in education and employability. The initiative will follow a hub-and-spoke model, with the University serving as the central hub, and satellite centers across Andhra Pradesh acting as spokes. This approach is an attempt to provide students from diverse backgrounds and regions access to contemporary, hybrid education that combines online and in-person learning experiences.

«We now have more smallcap folios than largecap. The aum for smallcap and largecap indices is almost alike and they are buying the same illiquid stock which is creating this very large dislocation. How does this unwind?,» says Jigar Mistry, Co-Founder, Buoyant Capital. Help us with your take and your outlook for the Indian markets for 2025 because 2024 has been a very interesting one, but 2025 a lot of these key drivers could be there, there could be rate cuts, the new us president-elect will be there. So, what is your outlook and expectation from the Indian markets? Jigar Mistry: We need to take a step back from the overall equity experience that we seem to be having. If you look at your over a 5 or 10-year rolling returns, the EPS growth and the share price growth at the index level largecap or smallcap or at the stocks with long enough history it has always aligned. The current observation, however, suggests that especially in the smallcap space you are seeing a huge dislocation which is something that has not really happened before.

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders have made a bottom after taking support near the Rs 3,870 level, from where the stock resumed its upward journey, having broken above its previous swing high near the Rs 4,900 zone. The stock made a fresh high of Rs 5,860 in the month of July, from where it corrected about 51% as it came down to the above-mentioned support zone.

electric mobility is a pivotal change in the global effort to combat climate change, particularly given the automobile sector’s significant contribution to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. As urbanization and pollution escalate, particularly in countries like India, the need for a sustainable shift in the automobile industry is urgent.

Packaged foods in the U_S_ must follow new rules in order to call themselves “healthy.”

National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) International — a subsidiary of the nodal skill development agency on Thursday launched Bharat Innovation Global Private Limited (BIG) initiative in collaboration with edtech startup PhysicsWallah. The programme aims to develop India into a global education hub. The initiative will focuses on bridging the gap between education and employability through flexible, technology-driven learning pathways, a statement from the edtech read, adding that it will integrate AI-driven career guidance, gamification, adaptive learning tools, and secure Learning Management System (LMS) platforms for individuals. BIG will provide skill training to students in grades 11 and 12 in schools, PhysicsWallah said. “This approach extends to Industrial Training Institute (ITI) and Polytechnic learners, university students, and working professionals, fostering learning across ages,” the startup added. The programme will also include capacity building for government sector employees.

Sandeep Gulati, Managing Director at ManpowerGroup (India & Middle East) shares, «In today’s hybrid and digitally transformed workplace, leadership must adopt an outcome-based approach to performance management. By designing metrics focused on measurable deliverables and prioritizing output over input, organizations can shape employee behaviour to achieve desired outcomes.” He adds that a clear alignment between goals and rewards fosters accountability within teams and creates a clear pathway for success.

The report attributed this to a shift in the U.S. Federal Reserve's stance on rate cuts, which has reshaped global monetary policy expectations. The report noted that the Federal Reserve's decision to pause rate hikes was not unexpected, as markets had already anticipated a shallower rate cut cycle. The Fed aligns with market projections of two rate cuts in 2025 and two more in 2026, compared to its September guidance of four cuts in 2025 alone.