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stock market took off, block and bulk deals shot up 55% to touch a record ₹5.25 trillion, data from Prime Database showed. Sectors that saw the biggest deals were financial services, consumer goods, telecom, aviation, pharmaceuticals, IT and power.

Supreme Court on Thursday reserves its judgment on petitions seeking 100 per cent verification of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections set to begin Friday. The VVPAT is a mechanism that ensures that voters are given visual confirmation that their vote has been cast. Paper slips show in a display on the VVPAT machine with the candidate’s serial number, name, and party symbol for seven seconds so that the voter can verify their vote. As it stands, the mechanism to tally votes post-polling is as follows: VVPAT paper slips of five randomly selected EVMs in each assembly constituency or each assembly segment in a parliamentary constituency are physically verified to confirm the accuracy of the election.

Wipro is estimated to report a consolidated net profit of ₹2,746 crore Q4FY24, registering a muted growth of 1.92% from ₹2,694.2 crore in Q3FY24. The company’s IT services revenue is expected to see a sequential growth of 0.18% to $2,661 million from $2,656 million, while in rupee terms, the revenue may fall by 0.28% to ₹22,141 crore from ₹22,205.1 crore, quarter-on-quarter (QoQ), due to macro impact and continued softness in verticals, as per average estimates of five brokerages.

PBKS vs MI 2024: Rohit Sharma has been one of the most successful captain in Indian Premier League (IPL), as the batter led Mumbai Indians to five championships. That's why his replacement with Hardik Pandya attracted so much ire from the fans, while Rohit Sharma didn't reacted to the development much. While speaking at the Club Prairie Fire podcast, Rohit Sharma said that he knows how IPL works and how to succeed in the tournament.

₹411 crore, a rise of 14.8% from ₹358 crore in the year-ago period. The insurer's net premium income increased to ₹20,488 crore from ₹19,426 crore in the same quarter last year, a 5.4% increase. In its exchange filing, the company said that it had surpassed its goal of double-digit growth for the whole year, with an 11% rise for FY24 on a normalised basis.

Rohit Srivastava, Founder, Strike Money Analytics & Indiacharts, says “will look for opportunities on the sell side as and when markets turn higher. The easy segment to target there is the weakest one, which has been financials, in terms of not performing that well on the upside. Of course, they have not fallen like the IT sector. But because the IT sector has already fallen a lot, it would not be the space to look for shorting opportunities right away. But in banking, once there is a bounce over the next one to two days, I will look for opportunities across the stocks based on what the setups are.” Is this recovery something that we should be excited about and believe that a floor has been made or is there still time to perhaps factor that in? Rohit Srivastava: This might just be a counter trend bounce which means it is just a retracement of the fall that we have seen over the last five days and possibly there could be more downside risk in the days ahead because what appears to have started as a sell-off in global equities on the back of rising bond yields, I do not think that trend is completely over. It makes me think that further pressure will build up in the days to come but we did get extremely oversold in a very short term and a one- to two-day bounce back is a good thing to relieve that very short-term pressure. Overall, this remains a sell-on-rise market and we will see lower levels in the days ahead.

Business Today TV has reported citing a top government official. Nestlé came under the scanner for the sugar content in its baby food.

Bushra Bibi. PTI reported that Bushra Bibi, 49, was convicted in a corruption case as well as in the case of illegal marriage with Khan, 71, and is currently held in detention at their Bani Gala residence in the suburbs of Islamabad. Imran Khan in a conversation with journalists at Adiala Jail where he is currently incarcerated hurled allegations against the army chief, according to a long post uploaded on Khan's official X account.

The second round of stress test and liquidity analysis for small and midcap funds appeared slightly better compared to the previous month’s results. Asset management companies (AMCs) were asked by capital market regulator Sebi to start conducting a regular stress test on their small and midcap funds to see how prepared the fund houses are to meet any sudden surge in redemption requests by their subscribers. Take a look at the performance of India’s top five fund houses in the stress test results for March 2024.

Midcap and smallcap funds stress test results: After a month of disclosing stress test results for their mid- and smallcap portfolios following regulator SEBI’s “froth” concerns, asset management companies have come out with March month’s data showing how prepared they are to meet liquidity challenges in case 50% or 25% of their mid and smallcap portfolios need to be offloaded.

Anti-incumbency might make this Lok Sabha poll battle from Mandla a bit tough for Union minister and six-term MP Faggan Singh Kulaste, who faced defeat in the 2023 Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, political analysts claim. While the BJP and analysts feel the 'Modi factor' would work in favour of Kulaste, the Congress claimed he has not worked for the welfare of tribals. Senior BJP leader Kulaste, the sitting MP from Mandla (ST-reserved) in the state's Mahakoshal region, is pitted against Congress' Dindori MLA Omkar Singh Markam. The Mandla Lok Sabha seat, where polling will be held on Friday, includes eight assembly segments — six reserved for the Scheduled Tribes and one for the Scheduled Caste candidates.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Authorities in Bengaluru have announced stringent measures to maintain law and order situation in the capital city of Karnataka during phase 2 polling for the Lok Sabha elections on April 26. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) will be enforced from 6 pm on April 24 until midnight on April 26. Under this, public meetings, rallies, gathering of more than five people, burning of effigies, possession of lethal weapons, provocative speeches, and publicly raising political slogans will be strictly prohibited in Bengaluru from April 24 to April 26.

large cap mutual fund, it is rational to examine the past returns delivered by the schemes across mutual fund houses to make an attempt towards gauging their long-term potential. Although investment experts often caution investors against deciding to invest in a scheme solely on the basis of its past returns, also known as historical returns, it is not wise to overlook this factor either. Here we filter out a number of large cap mutual funds based on their past returns across tenures such as one, three and five years.

Vodafone Idea FPO: The Follow-on Public Offer (FPO) of Vodafone Idea Ltd is going to hit the primary market today. The Vodafone Idea FPO will remain open till 22nd April 2024. The telecom company has fixed the Vodafone Idea FPO price band at ₹10 to ₹11 per equity share, which is around ₹2 below Tuesday's Vodafone Idea share price closing.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is imposing higher taxes on the wealthiest Canadians as part of the federal government

Abbott Laboratories on Wednesday reported first-quarter profit of $1.23 billion

A National Public Radio editor who wrote a critical essay saying that his company had become intolerant of all but liberal views has resigned

Pennsylvania utility regulators must turn over inspection records to the National Transportation Safety Board as part of the federal investigation into a fatal explosion at a chocolate factory

On the eve of a vote on union representation at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory, Gov. Bill Lee and five other southern governors are telling workers that voting for a union will put jobs in jeopardy

Kylian Mbappe era by lifting the Champions League trophy at Wembley in June. Their hopes of going all the way in Europe's elite club competition for the first time hung in the balance after they lost 3-2 at home to Barca in the first leg of their quarter-final last week. They had never previously won a Champions League knockout tie after losing the first leg at home, and their prospects of doing so this time appeared slim after they conceded the opening goal on the night.

India into a developed country by 2047. Revamping the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) will focus on substantially expanding and upgrading the network of rural roads and linking them with nearby hubs and markets to bolster «productive capacity of the economy and ensure ease of living», said the people cited above. «Along with rural housing, rural roads will assume renewed focus in the next term (of the Modi government). The priority will not just be to have roads in every nook and corner of rural India but to go beyond that and link economic, educational, health, social or agriculture centres,» one of the persons said. «These steps are aimed at transforming rural India like never before,» he added.