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₹2,900 apiece on the BSE. Around 1.04 million Tube Investments shares changed hands in a bunch of trades, reports said. However, the details about the buyers and sellers in the Tube Investments block deal were not known.

Delhi government has decided to extend its existing excise policy by six months due to the time needed for coming up with a new liquor trade regime, officials said on Thursday. The policy has been extended till March 31, 2024 following the requisite approvals from the Delhi government and the lieutenant governor, a senior officer said. A proposal of the excise department to extend the policy, implemented on September 1 last year, was sent for the LG's nod after it was cleared by the government.

Ganpati Visarjan: The Ganesh mandals in Mumbai began the processions to immerse the Lord Ganesha idols on Thursday as the 10 days of colorful festivities come to an end. The crowds have gathered at various points of the city and to minimize the problems for commuters, the Mumbai Traffic Police is releasing advisories informing about the blocked roads and the alternative routes. In its latest advisory, Mumbai Traffic Police informed about no entry from D.

Anant Chaturdashi, the last day of the festival. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has posted 1,337 lifeguards, including 1,035 at 69 natural water bodies and 302 at around 200 artificial ponds, and arranged 53 motorboats at natural water bodies, an official said on Wednesday. Police personnel to be on security duty include 16,250 constables, 2,866 officers, 45 Assistant Commissioners of Police, 25 Deputy Commissioners of Police, 8 Additional Commissioners of Police, and other senior officers, the official said.

Transport Minister Catherine King acted against the advice of her department in refusing to open negotiations with Qatar over expanding a bilateral air rights agreement before abruptly blocking the request nearly a year after it was first tabled.

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The competition watchdog’s former chief Rod Sims says it is “outrageous” that Qantas and Virgin Australia have substantial shareholdings in the company that ultimately polices which airlines take off and land at Sydney Airport.

(Reuters) -The top U.S. markets regulator on Wednesday told Washington lawmakers that a looming shutdown of the federal government would reduce his agency's staffing to «skeletal» levels, blocking it from approving companies' Wall Street debuts and hindering its ability to respond to any market turmoil.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a fully indigenous gallium nitride (GaN) power switch that has potential application in systems such as power converters for electric vehicles (EVs) and laptops, as well as in wireless communications. The entire process of building the switch—from material growth to device fabrication to packaging—took place inhouse, at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), IISc said in a press statement.

A court hearing in Perth has cleared the way for Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources to acquire the Bald Hill lithium mine from administrators as part of consolidation in the sector in Western Australia.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has told the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to refer to its last year’s recommendations on spectrum auction for bands ranging from 600 MHz to 26 GHz for reserve price and other modalities and it will be only giving fresh recommendations for 37 GHz band, which is a new band to be put on sale for the first time. The regulator further said DoT may put to auction the spectrum in the existing bands ranging from 600 MHz to 26 GHZ without waiting for the authority’s recommendations for the new bands. The DoT on August 2 had asked the regulator to furnish recommendations on reserve price, band plan, block size, quantum of spectrum to be auctioned and other conditions for sale of airwaves in bands ranging from 600 MHz to 26 GHz. Frequencies in 37 GHz band, ranging from 37-37.5 GHz, 37.5-40 GHz and 42.5-43.5 GHz bands were added for the upcoming sale. Based on last year’s reserve price, the airwaves of existing bands are worth over Rs 2.5 lakh crore. Trai has highlighted that in its recommendations dated April 11, 2022, it had factored in the fact that auctions would be conducted on annual basis.

Qatar Airways says it was “surprised and shocked” that an application to lift services to Australia was rejected by the Albanese government, and told a senate inquiry it did not believe it had been given good reasons the decision.

Landmark net neutrality rules rescinded under former President Donald Trump could return under a new push by U.S. Federal Communications Commission chair Jessica Rosenworcel

A federal judge in Atlanta is allowing a venture capital firm to continue offering a grant program only to Black women entrepreneurs

Placing and detonating explosives at the face of an underground mine has always been a dangerous environment for mine workers.

The Bitcoin blockchain alone is now capable of tracking Bitcoin’s price without help from the outside world, thanks to a developer’s new tool.

(Reuters) — A federal judge in Atlanta on Tuesday rejected a bid by the anti-affirmative activist behind the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to race-conscious college admissions policies to bar a small venture capital fund from awarding grants to businesses run by Black women.

₹12.02. A bulk deal is a transaction in which at least five per cent of a company's total equity shares are traded all at once.

Chase UK, the British challenger bank brand of JPMorgan, has blocked customers in the U.K. from purchasing crypto assets.

NEW DELHI : Petroleum products are unlikely to be brought under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) anytime soon, as doing so can cause states’ fiscal deficit to balloon, while also widening revenue losses for the Centre, two senior government officials told Mint. The total taxation on petrol and diesel, including state-levied value-added tax (VAT) and the centre’s excise duty, comes to about 35%-50% (45%-50% for petrol and 35%-40% on diesel), one of the officials said. Different states levy different amounts of VAT on petroleum products.

PTI citing an official. Last month, the GST Council cleared amendments to Central GST and Integrated GST laws to give clarity on the levy of 28% tax on the full face value of bets in online gaming, casinos and horse race clubs.