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Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and a French private equity group will acquire a 38-percent stake in Heathrow, the London airport's biggest shareholder said Friday. Heathrow, one of the world's busiest airports, is owned by the consortium FGP Topco Limited with Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial holding the lead role with a 25-percent stake.

NEW DELHI:The government will likely offer 62 coal blocks for commercial mining of the fuel in an auction set to be launched next week. Newly-appointed coal minister G.

Goldman Sachs Funds sold 40.6 lakh shares worth Rs 43 crore in Restaurant Brands Asia (RBA) on Friday via block deal. The shares were sold at a price of Rs 105.53 apiece, which was at a discount of 1.30% to Thursday’s closing price of Rs 107 on the BSE. The information of buyers is still not available on the BSE.

The Supreme Court has ruled against a man who wants to trademark the suggestive phrase “Trump too small.”

Paradigm, a leading venture capital firm in the crypto space, has announced the close of its third venture fund, a substantial $850 million initiative to support early-stage crypto projects.

A startup that uses technology to stop employees from abusing corporate expenses just raised 8 million euros ($8.6 million) of funding from investors, defying a slump in investment for the financial technology industry.

Suven Pharmaceuticals share price gained more than 5% in the morning trades on Friday post its announcement regarding acquisition of Hyderabad based CDMO firm Sapala Organics on Thursday post market hours.Suven Pharma share price that opened at ₹695.00, higher than previous close of ₹667.95, gained further more to ₹705 levels in the NSE, marking gains of more than 5%.Suven Pharmaceuticals announcement on the exchanges said that that it has executed definitive agreements on June 13, 2024, for acquiring 100% of equity shares (on a fully diluted basis) in Sapala Organics Private Limited.Also Read- Kotak Institutional raises target price for Adani Ports and SEZ to ₹1,650, says outperformance can continue for longThe Hyderabad based Sapala Organics is contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMO) that is focused on Oligo drugs and nucleic acid building blocks including Phosphoramidites & Nucleosides, drug delivery compounds (including GalNAc), Pseudouridine, amongst others.Suven Pharmaceuticals in its presentation highlighted that Sapala Organics sales stood at ₹67 Crore with more than 45% Ebitda margins in FY24. Ebitda stands for Earnings before, Interest, Tax, Depreciation and amortisation.Sapala Organics has a customer-base across the US, European Union and Japan; partnering on their New Chemical Entity (NCE) programs across project lifecycle.

Ambuja Cement, Vodafone Idea, Puravankara, Wipro among others will be in focus due to various news developments. L&T Finance

Suvendu Adhikari would appeal to Calcutta High Court tomorrow after 200 BJP activists, headed by him, were denied entry to Raj Bhavan on Thursday afternoon to see Governor CV Ananda Bose amid postpoll violence. Kolkata police blocked them with multi-level barricading outside Raj Bhavan despite Bose's signed authorisation. «The Governor had given permission to meet 200 victims in writing,» Adhikari said. The delegation could not enter Raj Bhawan even after waiting outside for two hours after the scheduled time of appointment with the Governor at 4PM. All the gates of Raj Bhavan were barricaded at multiple levels by police citing Section 144. These BJP workers are staying in Kolkata shelter following violence in the districts after the polls.

Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled against a man who wants to trademark the suggestive phrase “Trump too small." The justices upheld the government’s decision to deny a trademark to Steve Elster, a California man seeking exclusive use of the phrase on T-shirts and potentially other merchandise. It is one of several cases at the court relating to former President Donald Trump, including major cases related to the violent attack on the Capitol in 2021. Earlier this term, the court laid out standards for when public officials can be sued for blocking critics from their social media accounts.

Morgan Stanley bought 3,13,29,540 equity shares in L&T Finance for over Rs 534 crore via a block deal on Thursday. Its Asian arm Morgan Stanley Asia Singapore PTE bought shares at a price of Rs 170.60 apiece, which was Wednesday's closing price on the BSE. L&T Finance shares on Thursday ended at Rs 175.85, up Rs 5.25 or 3.08%.

NTPC and Power Grid Corporation, which have delivered returns of up to 110% in a year. However, domestic brokerage firm Kotak Institutional Equities has cautioned that investors may be using incorrect valuation methodologies when assessing stocks like NTPC and Power Grid Corporation.Also Read: Mint Explainer: Why the surging use of AI may challenge India’s power sector"We do not agree with the way investors are valuing NTPC and Power Grid stocks, even as we agree with the view of new capacity creation in the power sector.

Union flight attendants are getting help from some members of Congress as they try to negotiate new labor contracts

In the last twenty-four months, the Bitcoin ecosystem has seen more development than the previous fifteen years. This development has bolstered Bitcoin’s most accepted current use-case, as an alternative store of value independent of the traditional financial system, by increasing its usability as a peer-to-peer payment network. Ultimately, the goal of Bitcoin, since its creation by Satoshi Nakamoto, is to become a global currency. While these technical advances have brought us closer to this goal, in order for Bitcoin to achieve this global status, there are still many technical developments required. This article aims at providing an overview of the current developer or builder ecosystem as well as exploring the current and potential markets that will arise from these new implementations.

National Museum and Rail Museum, and two mental health institutes — IHBAS (Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences) and VIMHANS (Vidyasagar Institute of Mental Health, Neuro and Allied Sciences) — have received bomb threat e-mails, officials said on Wednesday. The officials said that nothing suspicious was found in the searches and later the calls were declared hoax.

Bain Capital and BNP Paribas are likely to sell shares worth $180 million (Rs 1,500 crore) through block deals on Thursday. According to sources, these firms will sell their entire remaining stake of 8.82 crore shares at Rs 169.17 apiece — a 0.85% discount to Wednesday’s closing price. Shares of L&T Finance gained 3.5% on Thursday to close at Rs 170.60. The stock has rallied 10% in the last three months compared to a 4% gain in the Sensex index.

2024 saw a close fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the INDIA bloc in Uttar Pradesh, with the opposition ultimately winning 43 of the 81 seats. However, the outcome could change as at least six recently-elected Members of Parliament (MP) representing INDIA bloc from Uttar Pradesh face multiple criminal charges that could even lead to conviction.The most prominent among them is Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari, who is the elder brother of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari. Afzal won the election as an SP candidate.

India’s ministry of statistics and programme implementation (Mospi) recently released a full report on the results of the Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (HCES) along with unit-level data. A factsheet highlighting some key results had been released earlier this year. This survey has made a number of changes in methodology, which has caused some confusion among the commentariat.

India is witnessing an unprecedented heatwave this summer, leading to many heatstroke cases across the country. However, the dangerous temperatures can have another deadly effect on your body as well. According to healthcare professionals, high temperatures can also cause eye strokes.

The main shipping channel into Baltimore’s port has fully reopened to its original depth and width following the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge

Financial Times in April 2023 itself that he would “100 percent bid for the lithium blocks" a claim he would reiterate in March 2024. Hindalco Industries, Ola Electric, Vedanta Group and Shree Cement were some of the other interested parties. State-run Coal India Ltd, forever looking to diversify beyond coal, also showed interest.