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World Trade Organisation are maintained at the Abu Dhabi meeting next week, union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday. The country will also raise the issue of the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) at the WTO and bilaterally with the EU, Goyal said at the Raisina Dialogue 2024 here. «There are attempts to include issues in the WTO that are not part of world trade, and India will try to ensure that the guiding principles of WTO are maintained,» he said.

Losses incurred by the German central bank rocketed into the tens of billions in 2023 due to higher interest rates, requiring it to draw on the entirety of its provisions to break even.

Galen Weston may not be the president of grocery giant Loblaw anymore, but you wouldn’t know that based on how often his name and face appear in connection with the company: in memes, on social media, and now emblazoned across the top of a new Reddit forum dedicated to high food prices in Canada.

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In a significant ruling on February 15, the Supreme Court scrapped the Electoral Bonds scheme. A five-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, Justices Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, JB Pardiwala, and Manoj Misra delivered a unanimous verdict.

South Korea and the United States flew advanced stealth fighters in a joint missile-interception drill Friday over the Korean Peninsula, South Korea's air force said, an apparent response to a spate of weapons tests this year by rival North Korea. North Korea has conducted six rounds of missiles tests so far this year, most of them reportedly involving cruise missiles that fly at a low altitude to overcome opponents' missile defenses. Analysts say that in the event of a conflict, North Korea aims to use cruise missiles to strike U.S. aircraft carriers as well as US military bases in Japan. South Korea's air force said the drill on Friday involved fight-generation stealth F-35A fighter jets from both countries and other fighter jets from South Korea. It said the US F-35As were deployed in South Korea on Wednesday from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.

Beam and Stacks have made headlines over the last week after a strong February performance. Following its rise, Stacks has soared up the crypto rankings, while Beam aims to push into the world’s top 50 ranked cryptocurrencies.

manufacturing sector needs to contribute a quarter to India's economic growth amid its ambition of becoming a USD 30-trillion economy by 2030 and a developed country (Viksit Bharat), M&M group Managing Director and CEO Anish Shah said on Friday. Sharing his perspective on the role industries and enterprises will have to play in accelerating national growth and economic prosperity at the third ABP Network's 'Ideas of India Summit 3.0' here, he also said over the next seven years, Indian GDP is expected to add as much to the global GDP as the entire European Union combined. The two-day event, which began here on Friday, has seen the participation of policymakers, cultural ambassadors, industry experts, celebrities, business leaders, economists, among others. «India envisions to be a 30-trillion economy by 2047 to be a Viksit Bharat. This means manufacturing should be 25 per cent of GDP… We should be more ambitious and make manufacturing grow 16 times and exports grow 11 times.» Shah said.

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Mutual fund SIP calculator: You don't become a crorepati in a day, it requires a systematic investment plan (SIP): years of hard labour before you taste the sweet ‘cash fruit’. Many people seek advice on how to build a retirement fund of ₹5 crore. According to personal finance experts, the key takeaway is to begin saving early in your career to benefit from favourable investment returns. Even a year's delay in retirement planning can greatly affect the corpus of your retirement fund. Hence, one should start early to reap the benefits of the magic of compounding.

Buy or sell stocks for today: On account of sharp selling in small and mid-cap stocks, the Indian stock market opened lower on Thursday. However, bulls came back strongly in the last session and most of the Indian sectors witnessed sharp buying, which helped Dalal Street recuperate its losses and end higher.

With Canada’s housing market “starting to turn a corner,” there is growing demand for homeownership with a “colossally high” number of people planning to buy a home within the next year, according to a new poll.

India is renewing its push to add rooftop solar to meet the needs of a fast-growing nation that's hungry for energy

Tata Group and Reliance Industries, two of India's largest conglomerates, are vying for premium retail real estate in Mumbai as they extend their footprints, creating rivalry in a city starved of marquee properties. From Zara and Starbucks to Westside and Titan, the Tata Group occupies nearly 25 million square feet of retail space in India. That is still no match for Reliance Industries that control three times more at 73 million sq ft for more than 100 local and global brands. But in Mumbai, they are evenly matched, having nearly 3 million sq ft of retail space each. That is a quarter of what is considered the most prime retail real estate in the country, and both the retail giants are looking for more. «In a modern retail environment, most visible locations contain more successful or larger brands. It just so happens that many of those brands are owned by either Reliance or the Tatas,» said Devangshu Dutta, founder of Third Eyesight, a strategy consulting firm.

department of telecommunications (DoT) is not keen to intervene in the matter of shutting down of 2G networks, rejecting a call made by Reliance Jio, saying it is a commercial decision to be taken by telecom operators. «The government does not want to meddle in such affairs. The telcos are free to decide what is best for them,» an official told ET on condition of anonymity. There are around 250-300 million 2G customers in India. Experts feel that 2G technology is likely to remain mainstream in India at least for the next two-three years as a good number of people still use it, particularly those who can't afford a smartphone. As per industry data, around 50 million 2G phones are sold in a year while there are over 500,000 2G base tower stations in the country, majority owned by Bharti Airtel, followed by Vodafone Idea and state-run BSNL/MTNL.

Real estate agent Mauricio Umansky says high mortgage rates, high prices and low supply are creating difficulties for homebuyers on The Claman Countdown.

Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, in reprisal for Israeli bombing of Gaza, continue unabated and the disruption they are causing is beginning to pinch. As the crisis enters its fourth month, Mint looks at the impact on India and the sectors that have been hit. There are no signs at all of any improvement.

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Nifty Bank index closed in the red for the second consecutive day on Thursday tracking mixed global cues. The banking index fell nearly 100 points and formed a Long-Legged Doji kind of candlestick pattern on the daily charts. The Nifty50 rose over 160 points to hit a fresh record high.

Stock Market Today: Domestic equity indices Sensex and Nifty 50 settled higher on Thursday, February 22, rebounding from early losses driven by gains in IT, auto, and metal stocks. The broader markets recovered late in the trading session on Thursday with the Midcap index up over 1.1 per cent, and the Smallcap index up 0.7 per cent.