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Bengaluru/Mumbai: About eighty minutes into the virtual annual general meeting of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) on Friday, Hyderabad resident and company shareholder Praful Chavda asked the question everyone tuning in had been anticipating. “Sir," Chavda started, speaking in Hindi, addressing TCS chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran, who is also the chairman of parent Tata Sons, one of India’s largest and best-regarded business houses. “There was this news in the media where it was mentioned something was wrong with the recruitment process." Chavda was referring to the bribes-for- jobs scam at TCS, which was first reported by this paper on 23 June.

Digital assets token accounts and crypto celebrities on Twitter have gained an “influx of fake followers,” a new report reveals.

Independence Day, an East Coast convenience company Sheetz offered gasoline at a 50 percent discount. It will sell gasoline at USD 1.776 as long as the stock lasts. Unleaded 88, E85, mid-grade as well as premium grade fuel will come under this scheme. But it will not cover Ethanol, diesel, and free fuel. Confirming the offer, Sheetz CEO Travis Sheetz said that he wants to ensure that the travelers have some more money in their wallets as they go out to celebrate the 4th of July. The gasoline prices are already low compared to the last year's Independence Day. It was USD 4.87 per gallon last year and now it is sold for USD 3.55 a gallon. Now, Sheetz has offered to sell at half price. An estimated 43.2 million people will travel to celebrate the 4th of July this year. This is not the first time that Sheetz has offered a concessional rate. It sold Unleaded 88 at USD 1.99 per gallon on Thanksgiving Day last week. The 4th of July is a federal holiday in the U.S.A. It is celebrated as Independence Day to commemorate the ratification of the Second Continental Congress on 4 July 1776. It established the U.S.A.

Lodha Group, listed as Macrotech Developers, has recorded its highest ever first quarter pre-sales at Rs 3,353 crores, marking a robust start to the financial year 2023-24. The company has also added five new projects with potential gross development value of Rs 12,000 crores across different micro-markets during the quarter. “With a strong start for the year, the performance achieved is in line with our guidance of 20% pre-sales growth for FY24.

NEW DELHI : Fast moving consumer goods company Dabur India added five new brands with sales greater than ₹100 crore in FY23, the company said in its fiscal 2023 annual report released to the exchanges on Tuesday. “Today, we have a portfolio of 23 billion rupee brands, brands with sales greater than ₹ 100 crore. The year 2022-23 saw five brands joining this list.

edtech major, have together sold shares worth about $408.53 million in 40 secondary transactions since 2015, according to research and data platform PrivateCircle. PrivateCircle used the closest available primary share price and analysed various public data sources to arrive at the findings, in cases where the secondary share price was not available.  Also Read: Byju’s exposes gap in NFRA mandate “Byju's promoters have put the entire secondary sale proceeds back into the business to scale it up further over the years," a spokesperson for the company told business daily ET in response to a query on the secondary share sales.

The Ominous details regarding the safety of the onboard passengers of ill-fated Titan submersible that killed all five including OceanGate Expeditions CEO are emerging weeks after the tragedy that took place near the Titanic wreckage in the North Atlantic Ocean. The New Yorker has published an email of a former employee of OceanGate Expeditions which he wrote to ex-associate years ago with concerns about the potential failings of the submersible and an ominous warning about its CEO Stockton Rush about his reckless pursuit of personal glory.  “I don’t want to be seen as a Tattle tale but I’m so worried he kills himself and others in the quest to boost his ego," David Lochridge wrote about OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, reported CNN.

New Delhi: Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC will acquire a 74% stake in Genus Power & Infrastructure’s new smart metering solutions venture for $2 billion, the company said in a press release. Post the deal, Gem View Investment, an affiliate of GIC will hold a majority stake of 74% and controlling rights in the platform, while Genus will hold the remaining 26%, it added.

₹600 crore (around $73 million). The fund is managed by JM Financial AMC as Investment Manager. Mumbai-based JM Financial Group will invest debt capital in local companies via a new fund, adding another asset class to its portfolio that already includes private equity, distressed assets, non-banking finance and mutual funds.

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The highest-paid CEOs aren’t always the ones running the biggest companies. The chief executives of Hertz, Peloton and Pinterest all earned more than $100 million in 2022, topping almost every CEO in the S&P 500 including Apple’s Tim Cook, who made $99 million. Also on that list: The man who runs CS Disco, a cloud-services provider that caters to attorneys and has a market capitalization of about $500 million.

Each week seems to bring more painful musing over London's place in the world.

Abrdn's head of investments has ruled out launching cryptocurrency products in future but has said the FTSE 100-listed asset manager will continue to experiment around tokenisation.

Also Read: Decoding the dilemma behind escalating cooking oil imports But lower imports in May and the price correction encouraged Indian buyers to increase purchases in June, Sandeep Bajoria, CEO of Sunvin Group, a vegetable oil brokerage and consultancy firm told Reuters. Price-sensitive Asian buyers typically rely on palm oil because of the low cost and quick shipping times.

Tesla is roaring back from a dismal 2022 as company shares, which have already doubled this year, were driven higher Monday by a spike in second-quarter deliveries

New U.S. legislation would ban imported products containing critical green transition minerals mined by child labor in Congo

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The PGA Tour is sending two leading figures to next week's Senate panel reviewing its surprise business agreement with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf

Meta is poised to launch a new app that appears to mimic Twitter, marking a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk

Air travel is getting a bit easier, thanks to a break in storms that have pummeled the East Coast

Air India from the government in January last year, Tata Group has put in place various measures to turn around the fortunes of the loss-making carrier, including placing the largest order for 470 planes and expanding international operations. Tata Group has four airlines — Air India, Air India Express, AIX Connect and Vistara, which is a joint venture with Singapore Airlines.