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Narendra Modi will visit the United States from September 21 to 23 to participate in the 4th Quad Summit. While in the US, Modi is expected to meet former President Donald Trump, who confirmed the meeting himself. «He happens to be coming to meet me next week,» Trump remarked.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The Adani group will manufacture microchips for its own businesses ranging from ports to power and mining, as well as for global and domestic customers at its proposed fabrication plant in Maharashtra, multiple officials aware of the plans said. The ports-to-cement conglomerate has tied up with Israel’s Tower Semiconductor to build the foundry in Maharashtra's Raigad district.

Hardeep Puri said here on Tuesday at a multinational conference held to deliberate on the world's energy needs. The 52nd Gastech Exhibition & Conference kicked off Tuesday with strategic insights from the world's five leading energy ministers, including India's, at the George R Brown Convention Center. The event, themed 'Transforming Energy Through Vision, Innovation, and Action,' brought into focus a need for global energy stability and rapid decarbonisation. In his keynote address, Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri underscored India's increasingly dominant role in the global energy landscape.

Singapore, 16 September 2024 — ‘Entertainment Datasphere’ Redacted stunned 320 of web3’s elite with a once-in-a-lifetime sky networking event from Dubai to Singapore on September 15 to attend this year’s TOKEN2049. Throughout the 10-hour flight via Doha, passengers were treated to non-stop entertainment, games, giveaways, networking, and fun, with some of web3’s top KOLs and influencers out of their seats mingling, chatting, dancing, jumping up and down, and chanting “Redacted, Redacted, Redacted,” before touching down at Singapore Changi International airport.

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Mphasis on Tuesday announced the appointment of Ajay Arya as the head of mergers & acquisitions (M&A), the company said in a regulatory filing. “Ajay will be based in New York and lead the entire process, including strategy, evaluation, deal sourcing, negotiation, diligence management and post-merger integration,” the company said. Mphasis has completed nine acquisitions with an average acquisition amount of $71.8 million, accoridng to data and market research platform Tracxn. Its most active year was 2023, with two acquisitions, and it has averaged nearly one acquisition per year over the past three years.

Philip Morris International's Vectura Fertin Pharma said on Tuesday it would sell its asthma inhaler maker Vectura Group to Molex Asia Holdings for 150 million pounds ($198 million). Marlboro maker PMI bought Vectura in September 2021 as part of a plan to transform itself into a «broader healthcare and wellness» group, a shift it says has been hampered by critics. PMI acquired Vectura, part of its health and wellness unit, in a deal worth 1.1 billion pounds. It has since taken a $680 million impairment against the unit and abandoned plans to raise $1 billion in net revenues from the division by 2025.

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Shares of Intel are surging before the opening bell after the chipmaker said its foundry business would make some custom artificial intelligence chips for Amazon Web Services as it attempts to reinvigorate its business

Donald Trump should have the opportunity starting Thursday to sell his shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind the Truth Social platform

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Red Lobster, known for its affordable seafood and cheddary biscuits, has exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Amazon is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week starting next year, reverting to its pre-pandemic policy

Tata Group is transitioning into green businesses, semiconductor manufacturing, and mobile phone part production to prepare for future demands, said Chairman N Chandrasekaran in an interview with the Financial Times. This move includes Tata Steel's decision to close blast furnaces at its UK unit, resulting in 2,500 job cuts as the company shifts to green steel-making. Chandrasekaran stressed the necessity of these steps, stating, «However painful...these are transitions that need to be done.» Tata Steel has incurred a loss of 5 billion pounds on the UK business since acquiring it in 2007 as part of the Corus Group. Leaning towards sustainable practices, Chandrasekaran has been steering Tata Group towards electric vehicles and renewable energy while managing debt and profitability. He advised the CEOs of various Tata entities to focus on financial fitness, saying, “every company has to be focused on financial fitness… don't worry about growth, fix the fitness. Performance will come."

hyperlocal news platform Way2News has raised $14 million in a new round of funding led by existing investor WestBridge Capital, with participation from venture capitalist Sashi Reddi. The company plans to use the funds to strengthen its presence in existing markets, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu, and expand to other South Indian states Karnataka and Kerala. “Over the decades, if you look at the media landscape, every section of the society has not been represented… News gets generated in the metros and is distributed to towns and districts. To address this we decided to go hyperlocal,” Raju Vanapala, founder and CEO of Way2News told ET.

Frendy, a grocery chain firm, said it plans to open 300 marts and achieve Rs 500 crore in revenue by 2026 to cash in on the consumer shift towards tech-enabled neighbourhood stores. At present, the firm runs over 25 mini marts and 2,000 mini kiranas. «The current focus is to expand the mini marts in tier 3 towns to 50 by the end of the year and scale to 300 by 2026. As the mini marts scale, we will also in parallel digitally connect to micro kiranas around these mini marts for each, so expect to have a network of 10,000 micro kiranas all in the rural catchment of the towns,» said Sameer Gandotra, founder and CEO at Frendy adding that the current revenue is about Rs60 crore. Unlike traditional kirana stores, where operations such as billing and sourcing are manual, the new-age retail chains have digital apps for orders and delivery as well as the advantage of centralised sourcing. For fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies, these self-service outlets account for 4% of their total sales, compared to less than 1% before the pandemic. In premium categories, their contribution is much higher at 8-10%.

Bitcoin (BTC) was trading lackluster at $$58,638.79 on Tuesday, down by 0.5% ahead of the Federal Reserve’s FOMC meeting outcome on Wednesday. Major altcoins were trading mixed as cryptocurrencies including Ethereum (ETH), Tether, Solana, XRP and Tron gained by up to 1% around 1:15 pm while Avalanche and Shiba Inu, Cardano and BNB fell by up to 5%. «In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin has dipped slightly as traders await the Federal Reserve's anticipated interest rate cut. Expectations are high for a potential rate cut with a 59% chance of a 50 basis point reduction, » Shivam Thakral, CEO of BuyUcoin said.

Suzlon Energy have given multibagger returns of 113% in just 3 months and have increased by 116% so far this year, as the stock sustains its positive momentum. Recently, the company announced it has received India’s largest wind energy order of 1,166 MW from NTPC Green Energy, the renewables arm of NTPC. This order requires Suzlon to install 370 S144 WTGs, each with a rated capacity of 3.15 MW, generating electricity to power 3 million households.

IT industry to continuously upskill its talent pool, top executives and experts caution. The country has to not just skill but unskill quickly, they said. “A GCC (global capability centre) of some bank in the US that’s got 10,000 people here is asking the question – why do I need these people in India when a model I’m running under my desktop can do or generate the same thing?” Nigel Vaz, CEO of global digital business transformation company Publicis Sapient, told ET in a recent interview.

Ayyappan R, former chief executive of Flipkart-owned Cleartrip, is set to launch a new quick-commerce retail venture and is in talks with venture capital firms Accel and RTP Global for a sizable seed funding, multiple people aware of the discussions told ET. The venture is likely to focus on delivering a select range of premium products within 20-30 minutes and will also have an offline retail presence, hence the need for larger-than-usual seed funding, they said. It will cover various retail categories including FMCG, health and fitness and fashion, and offer both international and local brands, they added.