BLOCK Financial News

BJP national president JP Nadda on Saturday said the parties in the bloc only want to take the political families that they represent forward. Addressing a 'Meri Maati, Mera Desh' programme in Ghaziabad's Krishna Engineering College, the BJP national chief said, «Did you see the ones who gathered in Mumbai yesterday? These are leaders who want to take their families ahead, not the country. Sonia-ji (Congress leader Sonia Gandhi) is worried about his son Rahul-ji (Congress MP Rahul Gandhi) and Lalu-ji (former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav) is worried about his son Tejaswi Yadav (Bihar deputy chief minister).

block deals worth Rs 21,821 crore that were executed in more than three dozen companies from the large, mid and smallcap segments. In the largecap space, 15 companies witnessed significant block deals worth Rs 7,711 crore, led by Jio Financial Services with 49 block counts, totalling Rs 2,505 crore. The next in line were Bharti Airtel (Rs 1,879 crore), Zomato (Rs 871 crore), HDFC Bank (Rs 784 crore) and Reliance Industries (Rs 257 crore).

Federal Trade Commission won an administrative ruling against TurboTax tax software maker Intuit after the commission said the company misled consumers with deceptive advertisements pitching «free» tax filing products that millions of consumers were unable to use, the company said on Friday. Intuit said it will appeal the decision, saying it is «confident that when the matter ultimately returns to a neutral body Intuit will prevail, as it has previously in this matter». In April 2022, a US judge refused an FTC request to block Intuit from running ads for «free» tax filing products.

reality has become, that’s a really good example of it, because if, in fact, this were any other time and place, this race would not be happening this way," said Fabrizio, who also works for a super PAC supporting Trump’s candidacy. The survey revealed other findings about the Republican primary race: > At 13% support, DeSantis’s position has collapsed since April, when 24% backed him in a slightly different field of candidates tested by the Journal. > GOP primary voters believe businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and former Gov.

The founder and chairman of Care A2 Plus misled regulators in the United States in a bid to enter the lucrative infant formula market, increase its valuation and “personally receive a windfall” from an ASX-listing, the company’s former distribution partner has claimed in a Florida court.

By Chibuike Oguh and Bansari Mayur Kamdar

NEW DELHI : The ministry of petroleum and natural gas has raised the price of natural gas for September to $8.60 per mmBtu (metric million British thermal unit), up from $7.85 in August. However, the price for gas from ONGC’s and OIL’s nomination gas fields is unchanged capped at $6.5 per mmBtu . “The price of domestic natural gas for the 1 -30 September period is notified at $8.60 per mmBtu on gross calorific value basis," according to the notification dated 31 August.

By Jonathan Stempel

A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts

Federal judge temporarily blocks Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts

Grocery workers on strike from more than two dozen Metro Inc. supermarkets in the Toronto area have accepted a tentative agreement that ends a month-long labour dispute that shut down stores and temporarily blocked deliveries of meat and produce around the province.

Lavrov said on Friday. Lavrov, who has served as President Vladimir Putin's foreign minister since 2004, is due to represent Russia at the Sept. 9-10 meeting of the Group of 20 leading industrialised and developing countries in New Delhi. Putin is not known to have travelled abroad since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him in March on suspicion of war crimes in Ukraine. «There will be no general declaration on behalf of all members if our position is not reflected,» Lavrov told students at the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations. The Kremlin casts the Ukraine war, which began when Russia invaded in February 2022, as an existential battle with an arrogant West that Putin says wants to dismantle Russia and take control of its vast natural resources. The West denies any such intentions but says it wants Ukraine to defeat Russia on the battlefield and has imposed several rounds of sweeping economic sanctions in response to the invasion, which Russia calls a «special military operation». Other leading powers such as China, India and Brazil have called for peace but also reserved the right to determine their own relationship with Moscow.

Canadian uranium developer NexGen Energy has secured $US155 million ($240 million) in financing from investment house Washington H. Soul Pattinson and recourse sector investor Queens Road Capital.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Umang Narula as the parliamentary affairs, according to a government statement. Narula will be replacing Gudey Srinivas, who will move to take up the role of secretary at National Commission for Scheduled Castes under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowement. This comes after the government has called for a special session of Parliament for five days starting September 18.

Reliance Industries: Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd, a unit of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), secured the media rights for all bilateral cricket matches to be played in India during the next five years for ₹5,963 crore through the e-auction conducted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday. The RIL-run broadcaster outbid Sony Pictures Networks India across digital and television, while the third bidder, Disney Star, placed just a couple of bids, according to two people familiar with the development.

Vedanta ran a ‘covert’ lobbying campaign to weaken key environmental regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic, said the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in an article on Thursday. As per the OCCRP article, Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal, in January 2021, told former environment minister Prakash Javadekar that the government could add “impetus" to India’s rapid economic recovery by allowing mining companies to boost production by up to 50% without having to secure new environmental clearances.

A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts

Federal judge temporarily blocks Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts

Sula VineyardsGlobal investment firm Verlinvest Asia has sold partial stake in Sula Vineyards through block deals on Thursday.Gujarat GasSaudi Aramco has fixed September propane contract price at $550/tn as against current price of Rs $470/tn.

India's Vedanta ran a «covert» lobbying campaign to weaken key environmental regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) said in an article on Thursday. In January 2021, Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal told former environment minister Prakash Javadekar the government could add «impetus» to India's economic recovery by allowing mining companies to boost production by up to 50% without having to secure new environmental clearances, the OCCRP said. Vedanta's oil business, Cairn India, also successfully lobbied to have public hearings scrapped for exploratory drilling in oil blocks it won in government auctions, the report said. Vedanta told OCCRP that as «one of the leading natural resources organizations in India» the company operated «with an objective of import substitution by enhancing domestic production in a sustainable manner.» «In view of the same, continuous representations are submitted for consideration to the Government in the best interest of national development and India's march towards self-reliance in natural resources,» a company spokesperson told OCCRP. Vedanta and Cairn India did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. OCCRP's report on Vedanta comes a day after the media group published a report on Adani Group that said the group family used «opaque» funds to invest in stocks.

Microsoft says it will change the way it sells its Teams videoconferencing service to business customers in Europe in a push to address concerns raised in a European Union antitrust investigation. The software giant said Thursday that it plans to offer business customers the chance to buy a lower-priced version of its productivity suites that doesn’t include the videoconferencing app. New customers would still have the option of purchasing Teams separately if they want the service.