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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Stock market: Volatility prevailed and trends suppressed any kind of recovery that was witnessed in Indian stock markets on Thursday, 4 December. The Sensex expiry witnessed strong trended action in certain select stocks that continued to keep the bullish hopes alive.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A steep 70% rally in domestic gold prices over the past year has acted like a Midas touch for gold financiers. Shares of key listed gold-loan companies Muthoot Finance Ltd and Manappuram Finance Ltd have surged nearly 94% and 68%, respectively, in the last 12 months.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s state-owned banks have raised concerns with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) about the weaker transmission of rate cuts to deposits, with lending rates falling significantly faster and straining their balance sheets, according to three people familiar with the discussions. In a meeting with RBI officials about 10 days ago, ahead of the monetary policy outcome on 5 December, multiple state-owned bank chiefs raised concerns that the dominance of external benchmark-linked loans has ensured instant repricing of assets whenever the repo rate moves, said the three people cited earlier.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A sharp post-open shock quickly drained enthusiasm, sending the market lower in swift fashion. Disappointing macro data is likely to assert itself in the sessions ahead, tempering risk appetite.

The fraud came to light when the general manager of the company, Hexaware Technologies, discovered discrepancies during a routine data check by the quality team, he said. The official said a probe revealed that some employees were processing fraudulent refunds without receiving faulty products from customers, causing losses to the company. According to company protocol, refunds can only be issued when customers return faulty products purchased via e-commerce platforms. The official said a group of employees allegedly exploited the system by creating fake customer accounts and issuing refunds.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is looking to outsource work worth around Rs 25,000 crore to the private sector firms. The Cabinet Committee on Security on Friday cleared the mega Rs 62,500 crore deal, and the contract between the Defence Ministry and the HAL was signed on the same day. «We are going to follow the Light Combat Aircraft manufacturing model in this programme as well. The HAL would soon be issuing tenders for involving the private sector in a big way in the Light Combat helicopter (LCh) project,» defence officials told ANI. In the LCA project also, different sections of the aircraft like fuselage, wings etc have been given to different private sector companies like Larsen and Toubro and Vem Technologies, they said. Around 40 per cent of the work share in the Rs 62,500 crore project is planned to be outsourced to the private industry. This is also going to help in further expanding the defence industrial ecosystem in the country at all levels, the officials said

Waqf Amendment Act. He claimed the government has set its eyes on «grabbing» huge amount of gold in the famous Padmanabh temple (in Kerala). Sapkal visited the Kalaram temple in Nashik holding the Constitution book and offered prayers on the occasion of Ram Navami. Speaking to reporters, he said Lord Ram is an integral part of the Indian culture. He said Babasaheb Ambedkar had protested to gain entry into the historical Kalaram temple in Nashik, but the then system resisted his attempts. «I entered the Kalaram temple holding the sacred Constitution written by Babasaheb to have darshan of Lord Ram,» he said.

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Jalgaon Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra. Former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya had raised the issue of the alleged irregularities in the issuance of birth certificates.

2024 election was over, the then vice president Kamala Harris made the tough phone call to president-elect Donald Trump to concede the election. As expected, the call was tense and awkward, but new information from Chris Whipple's upcoming new book 'Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History', highlighted just how uncomfortable the conversation actually was, as per a report. The call was arranged from her Naval Observatory residence in Washington D.C., with her campaign Chief of Staff Sheila Nix and White House Chief of Staff Lorraine Voles, reported Daily Mail. According to Whipple's book, «Nix called the president-elect on her cell phone — but for some reason couldn't merge the call with the vice president's phone. So Voles called Harris on hers — and she and Nix pressed the phones together,» quoted Daily Mail. After Trump picked up the call, Voles told Trump that, «The vice president is on the line,» as quoted in the report.

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Kunal Kamra failed to appear before the Mumbai police on Saturday in connection with a case registered against him for allegedly passing a «traitor» jibe at Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, an official said. This is the third time Kamra has given police summons a miss, the official said. The Khar police booked Kamra on a complaint by Shiv Sena MLA Murji Patel for allegedly making defamatory remarks against the deputy chief minister during a show. Kamra shot a video lampooning Shinde over the split in the Shiv Sena, and party workers later ransacked the studio and the hotel in which it is located on the night of March 23. The official said the Mumbai police asked Kamra to appear before it on April 5, issuing summons to him for the third time. Earlier this week, a team from the Khar police visited his residence in Mahim after he skipped the second summons.

Mohanlal’s L2: Empuraan has been marching towards success since its release on March 27, setting record after record. Directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran, the film has collected over Rs 100 crore (gross) at the Indian box office, becoming only the fourth Malayalam movie to achieve this feat. The movie is also inching closer to Manjummel Boys’ global box office total to be the biggest Malayalam grosser of all time, as per industry tracker Sacnlik. Manjummel Boys had grossed Rs 241 crore worldwide. Empuraan has earned Rs 236 crore till date and is likely to overtake Manjummel Boys soon.

Financial services firm Tata Capital has filed preliminary papers for Rs 15,000 crore plus IPO under the confidential pre-filing route with markets regulator Sebi. The mega IPO will comprise both issuance of new shares as well as offloading of stake by Tata Sons, which owns 93% equity stake in Tata Capital. Tata Capital, identified as an upper-layer non-banking finance company (NBFC) by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), already received its board approval to float the IPO which may comprise 2.3 crore equity shares by way of a fresh issue and an offer of sale (OFS) by certain existing shareholders, according to a disclosure made to stock exchanges earlier.

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