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Mankind PharmaMankind Pharma reported a sharp 66% rise in net profit at Rs 487 crore in Q1, with revenue rising 18% to Rs 2,579 crore.TitanTitan posted a 2% year-on-year drop in its profit at Rs 777 crore in the June quarter. Its quarterly revenue jumped 19% YoY to Rs 10,306 crore.IndiGoIndiGo has reported consolidated net profit of Rs 3,091 crore for the quarter ended June.

Twin Star Holdings — one of the promoters of Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta Ltd — will be selling a 4.3% stake in the company through block deals Thursday, documents reviewed by ET showed. The shares will be sold at a floor price of ₹258.50 a share, which translates into more than a 5% discount to Wednesday's closing price of ₹272.80 on the National Stock Exchange.

Digital Personal Data Protection bill, 2023, may give advisory powers to the Data Protection Board (DPB) to recommend to the Centre to either have content taken down, or intermediary access blocked in “public interest.” This is if the board notices two or more instances of rule breaches by a platform, official sources told ET. The bill’s latest version appears to have largely accommodated industry feedback, although the clause ensuring content takedown powers is an addition that has caught some experts by surprise. This may largely impact internet and social media platforms.

Manipur Integrity (Cocomi) on Thursday opposed the attempt to bury the bodies of Kukis at Torbung, which Meiteis claim to be their area, on August 3. Cocomi, a valley-based civil society group, claimed that the same is a provocation for further violence in the conflict-torn state.

Floriana Peroni’s vintage clothing store had to close for a week during Europe’s heat wave last month

The United States has expressed concerns over major land reclamation projects in Manila Bay, where its heavily secured embassy sits on one edge

NEW DELHI : The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, in a divided decision, decided to amend central and state laws from 1 October to ensure that 28% GST is paid on the full value of amounts deposited by players for betting on online games, casinos, and horse races. However, redeployed winnings will be excluded from the indirect taxation. The new regime will be reviewed after six months of implementation, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.

MUMBAI : Brookfield India Real Estate Trust (BIRET) has raised over ₹2,305 crore through qualified institutional placement. The significant investor interest led to a 50% upsizing of the offer, the company said. The base size of the issue was around ₹1,500 crore.

Indian school education has serious challenges, but the picture is not uniformly bad. In every part of India, you can find good teachers and schools. Also, states have systematic differences driven by specific actions they have taken, not just due to their overall governance culture.

Twin Star Holdings, the promoter company of Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Group, is seeking up to $501 million dollar by selling a 4.3 per cent stake in Vedanta via a share sale. As per reports, the promoter entity will be selling 16 crore Vedanta shares in block deal at an offer price of Rs 258.5 per share on Thursday.

₹128.1 per share, reported CNBC TV-18. The US-based investment firm seeks $123 million through the block deal. TCOPY IS BEING UPDATEDGet the best recommendations on Stocks, Mutual Funds and more based on your Risk profile!

weather forecast, further stressed that the some places in the state are likely to receive extremely heavy rainfall (more than 204.4mm rainfall) on August 3. The IMD added the East Madhya Pradesh is likely to get extremely heavy rainfall on Wednesday as well. Sounding the red alert for Madhya Pradesh, the Meteorological Department warned of localised flooding due to heavy rainfall at various places across the state.

Refining rare earths for the green energy transition is hard. Just ask MP Materials and Lynas. The world's two biggest rare earths companies outside of China are facing challenges turning rock from their mines into the building blocks for magnets used across the global economy, from Apple's iPhone to Tesla's Model 3 to Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jet.

Saharanpur, Shamli and Muzaffarnagar districts of Uttar Pradesh bordering Haryana in the wake of communal violence in the neighbouring state, a senior police official said on Wednesday. Checking is also being conducted in areas along the Haryana-Uttar Pradesh border to keep an eye on anarchic elements, Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Saharanpur Range, Ajay Kumar Sahni told PTI. Mobs killed a cleric, torched an eatery and vandalised shops as communal violence that began in Haryana's Nuh spilled over into neighbouring Gurugram on Tuesday. People also blocked a road and downed shutters over the attack on a Vishva Hindu Parishad procession in Nuh a day earlier. Six people have died so far in the violence, 116 people have been arrested and 90 detained, according to the Haryana government. An alert has been issued in Saharanpur, Shamli and Muzaffarnagar districts of the Saharanpur division, he said.

Crypto exchange Coinbase’s CEO Brian Armstrong and former head of Twitter – now X – Jack Dorsey, highlighted the potential and future of Bitcoin’s Layer 2 (L2) payment protocol, the Lightning Network.

Rajya Sabha passed the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) (MMDR) Amendment Bill, 2023 on Wednesday. With this, both houses of the Parliament have cleared the bill and it will be sent for the President's assent.

Elon Musk's social media platform X is aiming to challenge a verdict by an Indian court, which stated that the platform failed to comply with government directives to take down certain content, reported Reuters. The company asserts that this ruling might empower New Delhi to block additional content and expand the possibilities of censorship. X, previously recognized as Twitter, attempted to reverse official mandates in July 2022, requiring the deletion of specific material from its platform.

Brookfield is testing buyer appetite for Australia and New Zealand logistics business Linx Cargo Care Group, seven years after it birthed the business out of Asciano’s $9 billion take-private. 

The Litecoin price has barely moved in the past 24 hours, sticking to the $90 level as the cryptocurrency awaits its latest halving event today.

Looking for an online casino that approves payout requests instantly? If so, this guide compares the 10 best instant withdrawal casinos for 2023. 

Xavi Hernandez, confirmed on Tuesday that winger Ousmane Dembele is on the verge of leaving the club after receiving an offer from Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). Dembele, 26, was left on the bench during Barcelona's 1-0 victory over AC Milan in Las Vegas, marking the conclusion of their North American pre-season tour. Following the match, Xavi informed Spanish television that Dembele, who had scored in the recent victory against Real Madrid in Dallas, expressed his desire to leave the Spanish giants. The French international revealed that he had a proposal from PSG and was set on accepting it. With one year left on his contract with Barcelona, Dembele's personal decision could lead to his departure.