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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the Netflix thriller Squid Game, a group of people sign up to play and win a fortune, only to find themselves trapped in a bloodbath. A similar game may be unfolding in India's small- and mid-cap stocks space, where investors who bet on instant riches may struggle to exit free-falling low-float stocks.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Emerging media platforms and traditional moral values never make for good bedfellows. The controversy that erupted over online influencer and podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, his curiously named company BeerBiceps and some of his fellow travellers has consumed India’s content devouring population, evoking strong emotions and extreme views online.

President Donald Trump said he expected tariffs planned to take effect on Canada and Mexico to go ahead next month following an initial delay to allow the countries more time to address his concerns over border security.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Exam season is around the corner, which means we are not too far away from the summer holiday season. This is also the time most holiday planning is done and one of the things people start focusing on is their vacation look, not just in terms of what to wear but the way they look.

Bryan Johnson, the American billionaire famous for his extreme anti-ageing experiments, has once again captured attention with his latest unconventional move—transforming his hyperbaric oxygen chamber into his new office space.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Dear Reader, Last Sunday, religious leaders, climate thinktanks and the government of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, got together for a rather unique event. On the sidelines of the ongoing Mahakumbh in Prayagraj, the largest religious gathering in the world, the discussion centred on the role of faith in combating the climate crisis.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Might this be the year that stagflation returns to the US? It has been half a century: The last time the US economy had both excessively high inflation and unduly high unemployment was in the mid-1970s, with inflation rates reaching 12.2% in 1974 and unemployment at 8.5% in 1975. The new stagflation is unlikely to be as extreme as that.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s insurance sector is the tenth largest in the world, and is expected to reach $170 billion by 2027. Driven by the increased sensitization to the importance of insurance and the digitization push, the sector has grown by leaps and bounds since the pandemic.

nuclear fusion research, setting a new world record with their 'artificial sun' reactor. On February 12, the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission’s WEST reactor (short for «Environment in Steady-State Tokamak,» with «W» representing tungsten) maintained a plasma state for more than 22 minutes—a feat that could revolutionize clean energy production.

GalaxEye after launching a SyncFusion payload which combined Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical imagery in orbit last year, announced that it has successfully tested its payload in extreme environments in space.

Shoaib Akhtar criticised star batter Babar Azam for his slow and conservative knock against New Zealand in the ICC Champions Trophy opener, saying that the batter has «no intention to improve».

polar vortex has returned to the US and frostbite-inducing temperatures are blasting millions of Americans. A relentless 'life-threatening' cold wave has gripped the central and northern US which has not just caused freezing temperatures and snowstorms but also heartbreaking loss. Families are mourning loved ones as the extreme weather, driven by a polar vortex, has already claimed at least 14 lives.

recruitment specialist recently uploaded an image of his shattered keyboard, which he reportedly broke in frustration after a job seeker turned down his employment offer in favor of another opportunity. Ethan Mooney, a recruitment professional based in London, took to LinkedIn to share a snapshot of the damaged keyboard along with an account of the chain of events that led him to lose his composure.

Mohan Yadav on Wednesday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her 'Mrityu Kumbh' remark saying she used extremely low-grade language and she should apologise.

Ranveer Allahabadia, also known as Beer Biceps, recently faced a huge backlash for making inappropriate jokes at Samay Raina’s show ‘India’s Got Latent’. Allahabadia’s attempts to match the show’s grim humour did not go down well with fans.

«We talk about US, the great bull market between 1980 and 2000, the Dow moved from some 700 to 10,000, but in that there was something called crash of 87, where books were written about, but we do not talk about it. 2003 to 2008 in the Indian context, the market had hit lower circuit two or three times,» says Atul Suri, Marathon Trends — PMS. It has been a bad year. Will bad get ugly before it gets better? Atul Suri: See, it is a very difficult answer whether it will get ugly, but personally I think that the first question you have got to ask yourself is the primary trend changed. I do not think so. We are still in a larger bull market. Yes, we will go through corrections. We will go through pain. I mean, we know it, we can look back at 50-100-year charts and see that hey no line has gone straight and in all these times.

Rajat Sharma, Founder & CEO, Sana Securities, says he is looking at beaten down largecaps which have not been performing on account of difficulties they are facing in their sectors. Consumption and banking are the two sectors where he is focusing right now. In FMCG, one such stock is Asian Paints. Sharma has never liked the stock when it was trading at about a 100-105 odd price earnings multiple three-four years back, but right now is a very, very good time to buy this stock. Among banks, he likes HDFC Bank. A rate cut could be very good news for them. It has been quite a cheer in the last one or two weeks, the major event is already through in terms of Union Budget but the RBI policy is on its way. Help us with your reading on the markets as well as the sectors that you like at this point. Rajat Sharma: Both my reading on the markets and the sectors I like have a lot to do with the events, one, which has gone by and the other which you speak about – the monetary policy meet and the Union Budget. I have consistently maintained for the last few weeks that consumption as a sector was extremely undervalued and within consumption, consumer staples, FMCG stocks is what I have liked and with the way the income tax slab rates have been revised, obviously some value will emerge as the volume growth comes back.