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The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits fell to its lowest level in five weeks, even as more high-profile companies announce layoffs

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My11Circle, RuPay, Angel One, and Ceat have bagged sponsorship slots for the Indian Premier League (IPL) for a cumulative sum of ₹1,485 crore, people privy to the development told ET. Three out of four winners have bid for five years until 2028 while RuPay has bid for a three-year deal ending in 2026. The bids were submitted to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday.

Congress on Thursday escalated its attack on the BJP-led Centre over the farmers' protest and demanded that a special session of Parliament be convened to discuss the pressing issues of the tillers. The opposition party also urged the Punjab government to convene a similar session of the state assembly to deliberate on the issue. A farmer was killed and about 12 police personnel were injured in clashes at Khanauri on the Punjab-Haryana border on Wednesday. The incident took place when some protesting farmers were trying to head towards barricades. Subhkaran Singh (21), hailing from Bathinda district, died at Khanauri on the Sangrur-Jind border.

Gaza overnight, half of them women and children, health officials said Thursday. European foreign ministers and U.N. agencies called for a cease-fire, with alarm rising over the worsening humanitarian crisis and potential starvation in the territory. Tensions were also rising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where three Palestinian gunmen on Thursday opened fire on morning traffic at a highway checkpoint, killing one person and wounding five others, Israeli police said.

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₹65,000 crore, which will include a steel plant with a capacity of 13.2 MT, a captive power plant, captive jetties with cargo-handling capacity, a cement manufacturing unit, etc. Port facilities would considerably ease logistics. JSW is eyeing stakes in overseas coal mining operations.

policy committee (MPC) meeting on February 8 decided to keep the benchmark interest rate (repo rate) unchanged at 6.5 per cent citing inflationary concerns. Five members including Dr. Michael Debabrata, Shashanka Bhide, Ashima Goyal, and Rajiv Ranjan voted for status quo on the policy rate for the sixth consecutive time, while Jayanth R Varma voted to reduce the policy repo rate by 25 basis points.

(Reuters) — Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ:KDP) missed market expectations for fourth-quarter sales on Thursday as higher product prices deterred demand for the beverage maker's sodas and tonic water.

Congress MLA and Baba Siddique's son Zeeshan Siddique on Thursday said he will remain with the Congress party but will keep his options open. This comes after the President of Mumbai Pradesh Youth Congress, Zeeshan Siddique said communalism in Congress and youth Congress was more than outside. He said Muslims were discriminated within the party. Zeeshan Siddique was elected to the assembly in 2019. He defeated Shiv Sena leader and former mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar. Earlier this month, Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique quit Congress and joined NCP in the presence of party chief and Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar.

ANI, said that he himself has been associated with Ayush since Covid-19 broke out, and recalled a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The prime minister, as the CJI recalls, said, "I believe that you are down with Covid and I hope everything is fine. I realise that you are not in good shape but we'll do everything.

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy had utterly failed in addressing important issues of youth, unemployed and students in the last five years while speaking to the media at Andhra Ratna Bhavan in Vijayawada, Taking to her account on X she wrote, “If we call for protest on behalf of the unemployed, will you try to keep us under house arrest? Don't we have the right to protest in a democracy? Is it not shameful that as a woman I have been forced to evade the police and spend the night in the Congress Party office to avoid house arrest?" Further lashing at the state government, she said, "Are we terrorists...or anti-social forces? They are trying to stop us... It means they (the government) are afraid of us. They are trying to hide their incompetence, the real truth.

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has once again voiced his concerns regarding overly complicated Layer 2 scaling solutions. 

NPS. Within the NPS framework, there are multiple PFMs available, along with investment options (Auto or Active), and four asset classes: Equity, Corporate Debt, Government Bonds, and Alternative Investment Funds. The subscriber initially chooses the PFM and subsequently has the option to select one of the investment options after the PFM selection.

doctor loan stands as a pivotal tool tailored to meet your specific needs and goals. That's why Bajaj Finance offers the doctor loan, meticulously crafted for medical professionals like you. Doctors across various states in India, such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, and others, can effortlessly access a Bajaj Finserv Doctor Loan.

mutual fund investors choose schemes primarily on the basis of their past performance. It is a different matter that investment experts point out that the past returns are not a guarantee of the scheme's future performance. Here, we list out the top-performing flexi cap mutual funds which have delivered more than 20 per cent CAGR (compound annual growth rate) returns in the past five years.

Roughly half of college graduates end up in jobs where their degrees aren’t needed, and that underemployment has lasting implications for workers’ earnings and career paths. That is the key finding of a new study tracking the career paths of more than 10 million people who entered the job market over the past decade.

Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth," the Bombay High Court on Thursday asked to stop screening and asked the streaming partner, Netflix to arrange a special screening for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers. «Why should the CBI not be allowed to see the series. What is the difficulty in sharing the docu-series?» the court asked. The series, based on the Sheena Bora case, was scheduled to be aired on Friday. Meanwhile, a division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Manjusha Deshpande have decided to hear the case next week, that is on February 29.

Grasim Industries, the flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, has made its foray into the paint business with the launch of their highly anticipated brand, Birla Opus. This move intensifies competition in the decorative paints sector, currently dominated by major players like Asian Paints and Berger. The Mumbai-headquartered group aims to become a profitable No. 2 player in the coming years. «The launch of our paints business mirrors our zest for innovation. The booming construction sector is a major reason for this venture,» said Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla at the launch event.

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₹1,054.40 apiece on Thursday after the company announced expansion plans in Chennai. The real estate developer Brigade Enterprises has signed a joint development agreement with PVP Ventures Limited to develop a 2.5 million square feet, high- rise residential project, spread across 16 acres in Perambur, Chennai.