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Maha Vikas Aghadi comprising the Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP and Congress has formed several committees to plan various aspects of the meeting of the opposition bloc INDIA on August 31 and September 1 in Mumbai. Sources on Friday said the committees, which include two leaders from each of the three parties, will take care of media, social media, accommodation, transport among other things. The Congress will handle media and publicity, while the Nationalist Congress Party will take care of transport. The Shiv Sena (UBT) will look after accommodation, they said, adding that more than 200 rooms have been booked in Grand Hyatt hotel, which will be the venue for the two day meet. The management is being supervised by Congress leaders Milind Deora, Naseem Khan and Varsha Gaikwad, while former Maharashtra chief minister and senior leader Ashok Chavan will be overall in charge of the organising committee, they said. Sources said MVA leaders will hold a press conference on August 30 to announce details of the INDIA meeting. Leaders from 28 opposition outfits, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and MPs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and chief ministers of six non-BJP-ruled states will participate in the third meeting of the bloc on August 31 and September 1. The INDIA bloc's first meeting was held in Patna in June, while the second one took place in Bengaluru in mid-July.

(Reuters) -Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp, which has agreed to merge with Donald Trump's media company, fell about 4% on Friday after the former U.S. president returned to social media platform X.

Kfin Technologies Ltd. Investors can find out if and how many shares they have been given through the basis of allotment. The initiation of the refund process will start on Monday, August 28, for individuals not given shares.

Also Read: Aeroflex Industries IPO: What GMP, subscription status signal before allotment date Crop Life Science share price will get listed on the NSE SME on Wednesday, August 30. If you applied for the shares, here's how you can check allotment status of Crop Life Science IPO. If you have applied for the Crop Life IPO, you can check your Crop Life Science IPO allotment status immediately on the website of the IPO registrar, Purva Sharegistry India Pvt Ltd.

₹418 to ₹441 per equity share of face value of ₹10 each. Rishabh Instruments IPO lot size is 34 equity shares and in multiples of 34 equity shares thereafter.

IPO closes on Monday. The category reserved for retail investors was subscribed 9 times, while that of non-institutional investors was subscribed 11.15 times. The qualified institutional buyers’ (QIBs’) part was the least subscribed at just 24%. According to market sources, the company's shares are trading at a premium of Rs 54 in the unlisted market. Analysts recommended investors to subscribe to the issue as the company has a healthy order book and industry tailwinds are expected to benefit in profitability in the coming years. Vishnu Prakash R Punglia is a construction company, primarily engaged in infrastructure projects for the central and state governments.

Arun Ramchandani, Executive Vice-President, L&T Defence, says “we have got a few good breakthrough orders this year. We see a lot of interest in our products, mainly in the artillery systems. A lot of them are in fire control systems, some of the defence electronics, upgrading of a lot of legacy weapon systems are there around the world. We see the potential for exports to grow as a percentage of our order book.”Let us talk about your order book position in the defence space and how the contribution is rising over the years from 3.8%. What kind of visibility do you have for major orders in the pipeline? The defence order book is looking very healthy.

Grant made a vain attempt to plead his case—“Hang it, officer, these animals of mine are thoroughbreds, and there is no holding them"—then drove to the station. There, at least, the president avoided the indignity of a mugshot, which would not be widely used until about a decade later. Despite four indictments in the past five months, the 45th president had long managed to evade it, too.

IPO subscription status: Vishnu Prakash R Punglia IPO has been subscribed 7.52 times so far on August 25, Friday, the second day of the bidding process. The public issue received bids for 16.49 crore equity shares as compared to 3.12 crore shares on the offer, till 2:40 PM. Vishnu Prakash IPO has been subscribed 9.86 times in the retail category and 11.97 times in the Non-Institutional Investors’ (NII) category.

CNBC-TV18 reported. SoftBank owns 3.35% stake in Zomato. It had received Zomato shares during the Blinkit deal for selling its holding to the company.

₹24 apiece levels in March 2020, Titagarh Rail Systems share price has been ascending continuously and it has remained an ideal 'buy on dips' stock on Dalal Street. The stock has been hitting new high for the last four days.

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) share price fell almost 2 per cent in morning trade on BSE on Friday, looking set to extend their losing run into the second consecutive session amid weak market sentiment. The stock opened at ₹2,686.95 against the previous close of ₹2,687.50 and slipped 1.86 per cent to the intraday low of ₹2,637.55 in Friday's trade so far. Market participants said the stock is witnessing some profit booking as it has gained strongly in the recent past.

Indian Railways has announced special train services for Ganapati devotees this year. The Central and the Western Railways combined will be running 312 special trains. Of these 312 trains, Central Railways will be running 257 trains while the Western Railways will be running 55 special trains.

OTT platform. The streamer shared the news on its social media handles on the occasion of Kareena's 43rd birthday, according to a report published by the news agency PTI. "The crime thriller movie, based on the critically acclaimed Japanese novel "Devotion of Suspect X" from author Keigo Higashino, is set to be released on the streaming platform on September 21," the filmmaker said in an official statement.

₹25 for unlimited trips/day or ₹3.50 per ride with no charges after 10 trips. According to a Moneycontrol report, officials say that the app has been offered free of cost since its launch but the subscription fees is needed to maintain the app, cover expenses and manage customer care centre.

FD interest rates. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) paused the benchmark repo rate for the third consecutive time in the August Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting. Further, the decision to withdraw Rs 2,000 notes from circulation created surplus liquidity in the banking system and helped in keeping in check the rise in interest rates on FDs.

Aeroflex Industries IPO: Bidding for the initial public offering (IPO) of Aeroflex Industries Limited ended on Thursday and now applicants are eagerly waiting for Aeroflex Industries IPO allotment date which is most likely on 29th August 2023. As per Aeroflex Industries IPO subscription status after three days of bidding, the book build issue has been subscribed 97.11 times whereas its retail portion got subscribed 34.41 times. Meanwhile, strong response by investors, grey market has gone bullish on the public issue.

Elon Musk has reacted to former US President Donald J. Trump's comeback post on the platform.

Siddhartha Khemka, Head of Retail Research, MOFSL, says among food aggregators, we definitely like Zomato. We have a target price of Rs 110. We believe the excellent Q1 numbers where the company has turned profitable at PAT level, which is much ahead of its Q4, FY24 guidance. We believe that the company could see strong growth where the management is confident of achieving 40% plus organic growth. Even Blinkit is seeing improvement.”How realistic are the gains in some of the companies which have got business or presence in this entire space/rocket vertical? Stocks have gone up 50 to 100% even though the upside could be minuscule. Is it time to log out of BHEL or Paras Defence or Centrum Electronics? Just about every company in that space has got re-rated because of the Chandrayaan mission.The defence space has been in momentum not only because of the Chandrayaan effect but in the past several months also we have seen the large order book that has flown to some of these Indian companies.

Former US President Donald Trump has returned to the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) and posted an update for the first time since his account was suspended in early 2021. In a post on X, Trump shared a mugshot of himself from his booking at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia.

Elon Musk lifted Trump’s ban after he bought the company. However, till now, Trump stayed away from Twitter The message signals the return of Trump to what had been his favorite bullhorn and his first post since several days after the insurrection at the US Capitol by an enraged mob of his supporters attempting to block Joe Biden's certification as president.