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Reliance Industries (RIL) jumped over 2% to a near six-month high on the buzz of a new Jio 5G phone launch. The stock was last trading at Rs 2,598 on NSE, up 2% over the previous close. On a year-to-date basis, the shares have delivered flattish returns at 0.86%, underperforming the benchmark, which is up about 6%.

Investing.com — European stock markets edged higher Monday, continuing last week's positive sentiment while investors digest mixed regional manufacturing data.

Elon Musk's move to temporarily cap how many posts Twitter users can read on the social media site could undermine efforts by the company's new chief executive Linda Yaccarino to attract advertisers, marketing industry professionals said. Musk announced Saturday that Twitter would limit how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage «extreme levels» of data scraping and system manipulation. Users posted screenshots in reply, showing they were unable to see any tweets, including tweets on the pages of corporate advertisers, after hitting the limit.

Rickie Fowler secured a notable win at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit on Sunday, marking his return to the winner's circle on the PGA Tour after a four-year drought. In an exciting climax on the 17th and 18th holes, Fowler emerged victorious by sinking a birdie on the first playoff hole, defeating Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin.Rickie Fowler, after coming close to victory in recent tournaments, finally emerged as the champion of the Scottish Open.

Twitter users experienced difficulties searching profiles, topics, and the feed on Saturday, 1 July. DownDetector first received reports of these issues at around 12pm (noon).

Lafay won the second stage of the Tour de France in San Sebastian, ending a 15-year drought for the Cofidis team. Lafay timed his attack perfectly, breaking away from a group of 24 riders in the final kilometres and holding off Wout Van Aert to the finish line.

Baltimore Police, a tragic incident occurred in the Brooklyn neighborhood of South Baltimore early Sunday, where a mass shooting took place during a block party. The incident resulted in the loss of two lives and left 28 individuals wounded.

Tour de France offers substantial prize money across various categories. The prize pool for this year's event is significant, and it raises questions about the amount the winner will receive and other important figures.

Stanley Tucci, who has authentically played a queer character in two major films, Supernova (2020) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006), has got talking about whether actors who are straight in real life should play queer characters on the screen. In an interview with the BBC's Desert Island Discs (via The Guardian), Stanley Tucci revealed that despite the criticism for playing an LGBTQ character, he is “always very flattered” when queer men tell him that he has played the role in The Devil Wears Prada or Supernova in the “right way”. But he agreed that often it is not done the right way.

Joe Biden has scheduled a diplomatic trip to Europe this month with stops in the United Kingdom, at the NATO summit in Lithuania and for meetings in Finland, the White House said Sunday. Biden is set to depart July 9 for «engagements» with the UK's King Charles III and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the White House said in a statement.

Baltimore on Sunday — killing two people, wounding 28 and leaving an extensive crime scene that marred the US holiday weekend, police said. Three of the wounded were in critical condition. Baltimore Police Department Acting Commissioner Richard Worley told reporters there were a total of 30 victims during a press conference at the scene.

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GQG Partners has ramped up its shareholding in two Adani group companies to more than 5 per cent in signs of its confidence in the group despite the damning report of a US short seller. On June 28, GQG bought USD 1 billion (Rs 8,265 crore) worth of additional stakes in the group's flagship Adani Enterprises Ltd and renewable energy firm Adani Green Energy Ltd.

place. Meanwhile, those eyeing Fireworks Spectacular ahead, the DCR Hatch Shell on the Esplanade in Boston will host the 2023 edition of the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular. The much-anticipated annual concert will commence at 8 pm, followed by a 30-minute fireworks show starting at 10:30 pm.

Elon Musk ceded the CEO role to Linda Yaccarino, but the microblogging app is still undergoing significant transformations. Twitter will now require users to have an account if they want to see, like, or retweet other tweets. Earlier users could view tweets without having to log in, but now it is mandatory to either log in to their existing account or sign up for a new one if they wish to access tweets.

Joe Biden announced on Friday his intention to seek the cancellation of student loan debt using an alternative legal authority after the Supreme Court blocked his original program to eliminate up to $20,000 in student loan debt for millions of Americans. Biden stated that his administration will now work towards forgiving student loan debt through the Higher Education Act of 1965, which grants the education secretary the power to modify, waive, or compromise federal student loans under specific circumstances.

bus accident on Samruddhi Expressway, in which 25 persons were charred to death, as there were no pieces of rubber or tyre markings at the scene, the Amravati Regional Transport Office (RTO) stated in its report. The RTO report, which was based on survivors' accounts, said there was no evidence (rubber pieces of tyres after burst) or tyre markings at the spot, and the impact marking was on the wheel disc, which was bent, and not on the tyre itself. A bus carrying 33 passengers from Nagpur to Pune on the Samruddhi Expressway overturned and caught fire in Sindkhedraja in Buldhana at 1.32 am, killing 25 occupants. As per the details provided by one of the survivors, the bus dashed into a steel pole on the right side of the road, leading to the driver losing control of the vehicle, which then hit the divider, the report said. It further said the impact of the front tyre hitting the divider was so severe that it caused the front axle assembly to dislocate from the bus chassis. The right side of the vehicle, where the diesel tank is located, again hit the divider, the impact cleaving the bus body, the report said.

«General outsourcing, and general contracting work is under pressure and that will remain under pressure. Amongst the biggies, we have seen some of the companies have started winning big orders now from different geographies. And probably we are seeing the beginning of the recovery phase as far as earnings are concerned for many of the large IT companies,» Sudip Bandyopadhyay of Inditrade Capital told ET NOW.

Hun Sen has backed down from threats to cut off access to Facebook in Cambodia, even as he declared the company's representatives would no longer be welcome in the country. The announcement late Friday night came after Facebook said it was taking down a video in which Hun Sen threatened political opponents — and just before campaigning began for elections widely seen a sham after the main opposition was barred from participating.

Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) Ltd. and HDFC Bank will become a merged entity on July 1, 2023. This implies that HDFC will cease to exist as of Saturday.

Supreme Court handed President Joe Biden a painful defeat on Friday, blocking his plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt — a move that had been intended to benefit up to 43 million Americans and fulfill a campaign promise. The justices ruled against Biden in a 6-3 decision favoring six conservative-leaning states that objected to the policy. The court's action dealt a blow to the 26 million U.S.