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Tata Steel, JSW steel, Jindal Steel and power Ltd( JSPL) , Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) saw their share prices rise up to 5.1%. The same helped gain for the Nifty metal index that ended the day with gains of 2.49%. The strong Industrial growth numbers in China lifted the sentiments for steel stocks and metals and mining pack as a whole.

WARSAW (Reuters) — Polish farmers blocked two border crossings with Germany on Monday, local police said, as protests against European Union environmental regulations and cheap imports sweep the bloc.

Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), representing major telecom operators such as Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea, has raised concerns over the escalating cases of telecom equipment theft and urged government intervention. In a letter addressed to telecom secretary Neeraj Mittal, COAI highlighted the significant losses and expenses incurred by telcos in replacing stolen equipment at affected sites, ultimately affecting customer services. The association called upon the Department of Telecom (DoT) to address the issue urgently by prioritising complaints related to equipment theft and ensuring stringent action. COAI emphasised the need for cooperation between the DoT and state authorities to tackle this growing problem effectively. COAI also urged the DoT to take immediate steps to block several foreign websites, including eBay, Alibaba, Telefly, Seeker816, and Dorfatrade, which are allegedly involved in selling stolen active equipment from member telcos' networks.

Left Front on Sunday announced its candidate for the Tripura East Lok Sabha seat (ST) and decided to support the Congress in the other seat– Tripura West parliamentary constituency. Front convener Narayan Kar said that former CPI-M MLA Rajendra Reang would be the Left parties’ nominee in the Tripura East Lok Sabha seat, reserved for the tribal. Kar said that former CPI-M MLA Ratan Das, who is also the Secretary of the CPI-M West District committee, would be fielded in the Ramnagar assembly seat (in West Tripura), where by-elections would be held on April 19.

Investing.com — Bitcoin supply growth is set to drop below 1% for the first time ever next month, when the ‘halving event’ gets underway, underscoring the popular crypto’s scarcity premium and likely fueling the current bull run just as institutional investors join the race to ‘hodl’ the popular crypto.

New Delhi, Congress' leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has raised with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the issue of «huge traffic snarls», particularly in central Delhi, due to the movement of the PM's cavalcade and urged his intervention to ensure avoidance of any hardship to people. Chowdhury raised the issue in a letter to Modi while stressing that the prime minister's security and well-being are of utmost concern to the people as a whole and there can never be any compromise or let up on that front. «Nevertheless, it is a fact that the commuters on the public roads, who are from varied sections of the society and may include daily wagers, patients, office-goers, school and college going children, are often put to immense hardship owing to blocking/diversion of traffic, which is often for long durations, due to the VVIP movement,» he said. «I have heard and am also told of instances of people missing their flights, trains, examinations, as also delays in getting critically needed medical care owing to traffic blocks. The effect on the commuters that your movement on Delhi's roads has been having may not be in your notice and knowledge in complete and objective terms,» Chowdhury said in his letter dated March 15.

Amitabh Bachchan's health, the veteran actor categorically denied reports of undergoing angioplasty following his recent hospitalization. Social media was abuzz with concerns about Bachchan's well-being after various sources claimed he had undergone a medical procedure. However, a video capturing Bachchan's exit from the Dadoji Kondadev Stadium in Thane, where he attended the final Indian Street Premier League (ISPL) match between Majhi Mumbai and Tigers of Kolkata, put an end to these rumours.

Want to be Amitabh Bachchan’s neighbour? Here’s your chance to buy 3,000-sqft property near Jalsa In a video, circulating on social media, Bachchan is seen exiting the stadium when someone from the crowd asks him about his health. The actor is initially seen gesturing with his hands that everything is fine. The person then asked him, "How are you? All fine? to which Bachchan said, “Fake news." The reports started in the afternoon with some saying he had gone to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital for a routine check.

French Montana opted for a unique release strategy for his previously unreleased track “Bag Curious.” On March 14, the Mac & Cheese 5 account on X (formerly Twitter) announced that the song had been inscribed into the Bitcoin blockchain. This marks an early example of a mainstream musician exploring blockchain distribution.

(This March 14 story has been refiled to fix a spelling error in the CEO's last name throughout the story)

Halifax Mooseheads star winger Jordan Dumais has been suspended for five games after being charged by police for driving under the influence earlier this month.In a statement, Halifax Regional Police spokesperson Const. Paul DesRochers said officers stopped a vehicle in the 2000 block of Brunswick Street in Halifax for a traffic violation around 2:20 a.m.

Bitcoin (BTC) fell below weekly lows on Friday, reaching as low as $65,600 after hitting fresh all-time highs.

Senior citizens often go for fixed deposits, considering the safety and fixed return. Elderly investors are in for a sweeter deal this year as they can get an attractive fixed return on the Senior Citizen Savings Scheme (SCSS). Is SCSS a better option for senior citizens than tax-saving fixed deposits? Probably yes. But before you invest, let's compare the features and benefits of SCSS and five-year tax-saver fixed deposits (FDs).

Gemini Advanced with Google Workspace or Gemini API, the chatbot could inadvertently divulge personal data, including passwords. The flaw was exploited by providing the chatbot with a prompt to conceal a passphrase. While the chatbot remained silent when directly queried about the passphrase, it readily disclosed the information when presented with an indirect prompt, such as requesting foundational instructions in a markdown code block.

Piyush Goyal, 59, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Textiles, as well as Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, hit the campaign trail must be when he was a young boy when his mother fought corporation polls in Mumbai after the Emergency and later assembly polls in the nineties. Now Goyal is part of a sizable group of BJP's Rajya Sabha MPs who have been fielded in Lok Sabha elections as the party aims to cross the 400-seat mark. Names of Goyal, Sarbananda Sonowal, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, V Muraleedharan: Anil Baluni and Bhupendra Yadav have been announced while Nirmala Sitharaman and S. Jaishankar are likely to join this group. In his 14-year-long career (for he was first elected to Rajya Sabha in 2010), Goyal has emerged as a deft minister and a politician well-versed in the art of the possible. His first electoral tryst will not be a coming-of-age act but a rite of passage he skipped as he gained stature. The go-to man for the party as well as the government, Goyal is now going to the people. He has been fielded from Mumbai North constituency.

The popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney has started blocking its users from creating fake images of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to tests of the...

Thousands of farmers are protesting in India's capital to press their demand for a new law that would guarantee minimum crop prices

President Joe Biden is opposing the planned sale of U_S_ Steel to Nippon Steel of Japan, saying the U_S_ needs «strong American steel companies powered by American steel workers.”

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Minimum and Maximum Deposit: Earlier, the minimum deposit to initiate a non-callable fixed deposit was ₹15 lakh, but in October 2023, the RBI raised the minimum amount for offering non-callable Term Deposits (TDs) 6.66 times to ₹1 crore to ensure that retail depositors don’t get lured by additional interest rates. The maximum deposit limit for non-callable fixed deposits is ₹5 crore. But for NREs, deposits should be below Rs.

Toronto police officer suggested that residents leave their car keys by the front door to avoid a home invasion, seemingly to let criminals steal their vehicle if they break in, leave and avoid injuries.The Toronto Police Service issued a statement Wednesday confirming that an officer made the remarks at a recent community meeting.The officer suggested “that people leave the keys to their vehicle in a faraday bag by the front door,” the statement said.“While well meaning, there are also other ways to prevent auto theft motivated home invasions,” it continued.Faraday bags block signal-duplicating devices used to replicate key fobs which criminals can use to steal vehicles.In Toronto, home invasions and break-ins for auto thefts rose 400 per cent last year, the Toronto Police Service said.At a Etobicoke community meeting, Const. Marco Ricciardi is heard saying, “To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door.”“They’re breaking into your home to steal your car.