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The Trudeau Liberals are set to announce that the federal government will provide low-cost loans in British Columbia to help build rental housing on provincially owned land, according to senior government sources.

Indian Premier League's 17th season may start from March 22, the chairman of the cash-rich cricket league, which has become a decacorn and is the richest cricket league in the world, said on Tuesday. «We are planning to start IPL 2024 from March 22,» PTI cited IPL Chairman Arun Dhumal. This is in line with previous media reports that IPL will commence on March 22, five days after the conclusion of Women's Premier League. Reports said IPL 2024 may run till May 26, leaving just five days for the Indian cricket team to prepare for the ICC T20 World Cup that starts from June 2 in the US and the Caribbean. India's first game in the T20 World Cup is scheduled on June 5 against Ireland.

Centre accept their demands, including a legal guarantee on the minimum support price (MSP) for crops and farm loan waiver, and said they will head to Delhi on Wednesday. His statement came a day after the farmer leaders taking part in the «Delhi Chalo» agitation rejected the Centre's proposal for procuring pulses, maize and cotton at the MSP by government agencies for five years, saying it was not in favour of farmers. In the fourth round of talks with the farmer leaders on Sunday, a panel of three Union ministers proposed that government agencies would buy pulses, maize and cotton at the MSP for five years after entering into an agreement with farmers. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha are spearheading the «Delhi Chalo» march.

Apollo Micro Systems Ltd are one of the multibagger stocks that the Indian stock market has delivered in recent years. However, it seems that foreign institutional investors (FIIs) still see some upside in this defence share. As per the shareholding pattern of Apollo Micro Systems Ltd for the recently ended December 2023 quarter, FIIs are owning 11.01 percent stake in this multibagger defence stock.

Adani Enterprises started as a commodity trading business in 1988, specialising in agricultural goods and textiles. By the early 1990s, the company broadened its scope to include the import and export of both raw materials and finished products. Then, in the late 1990s, the company began diversifying across various sectors such as infrastructure, logistics and energy.

Delhi Chalo' march planned for February 21, farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher on Monday criticized the government, stating that it is preventing farmers from entering Delhi. Here are the top five updates related to the farmer's protest: 1. As reported by ANI, farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher emphasized that farmers should be permitted to proceed with their march on Wednesday.

Federal Bank shed 8 percent in intra-day deals on Tuesday as investors booked profit in the lender amid an overall weak market environment. Both Nifty Bank as well as Nifty also lost 0.2 percent in intra-day deals today. The stock fell as much as 7.9 percent to its intra-day low of ₹150.

Dwarkadhish temple. It is being built for ₹978 crore. Here are five things to know about Gujarat's Signature Bridge, 1) The construction of the bridge, initiated by the Centre in 2017 with a groundbreaking ceremony, aims to facilitate easier access for devotees commuting between Okha and Bet Dwarka.

speed limit for light vehicles on the Yamuna Expressway and Noida-Greater Noida Expressway has been increased to 100 km/hour from February 16, as per a Hindustan Times report. This adjustment comes after the speed limit was temporarily reduced to 75km/hr on December 15 last year due to road accidents caused by fog. Throughout the year, the speed limit for light vehicles on both expressways is 100 km/hr, while heavy vehicles maintain a limit of 80 km/hr.

interest rate cut in China failed to excite investors jaded at the lack of bigger stimulus measures. China's five-year loan prime rate was lowered by 25 basis points to 3.90%, bigger than the five to 15 bp cuts forecast by economists. The Shanghai Composite, however, fell 0.7% in early trade and blue chips fell 0.6%.

India will likely retain its position as the fastest-growing large economy for the third successive year in 2024-25. Besides price stability, which has been achieved even under difficult global conditions, the post-covid fiscal rollback has been smooth because there were few cash giveaways. The upward adjustment of the monetary policy rate was done smoothly; it did not upset India’s growth momentum, unlike in the West, where higher policy rates are going against growth.

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The United Auto Workers union is threatening to go on strike next week at Ford’s largest and most profitable factory in a dispute over local contract language

A labor union in Germany has called on ground staff for Lufthansa to walk off the job at seven airports on Tuesday following a similar strike earlier this month

Trainee doctors in South Korea have begun resigning en masse in protest of a government plan to increase the number of medical students

Amazon is arguing in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional

By Xinghui Kok and Joe Brock

In Monday’s trading session, the following five stocks witnessed a build of fresh long positions. Lets first understand how this conclusion is reached that whether the stock has seen a buildup of fresh long position or not. When the stock prices move up and open interest on the counter also moves upward, it is taken as a sign of a long buildup. The signal is considered more reliable if the volume on the counter has also seen an increase.

Vikas Pershad, Fund Manager, M&G Investments, says “one has to think about not just China plus one, but also one plus India. If you are selling into a country, add India; if you are making in another country, you have to think about India now, which I have come around to, I was not a believer in a big way just a couple of years ago.” Markets always follow a style. There is a time when dividend investing will do well. There is a time when growth does well. There is a time when value does well. In the last 18 months, growth has done well in India whether it is some of the defence, cyclicals or infrastructure names and value has made a comeback which is PSU. It is a rarity. Why is that we are seeing a rising tide phenomenon? Vikas Pershad: Before we look abroad, you look internally and look at the retail interest, how the financialisation of savings is happening here in India. Retail investors are now taking money from other sources and putting it into the market and I think that is driving it. You have a lot of people focussed on this market. You have China, on one hand, that has gone from being a specialist market to a generalist market and it is back to being now a specialist market.

China is widely expected to trim its benchmark mortgage reference rate at a monthly fixing on Tuesday, as banks' improving net interest margins give authorities some leeway to use monetary stimulus to shore up faltering economy growth. The loan prime rate (LPR) normally charged to banks' best clients is calculated each month after 20 designated commercial banks submit proposed rates to the People's Bank of China (PBOC).