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Vicky Jain, one of the contestants on the Salman Khan hosted 'Bigg Boss 17', bid farewell to the reality show just days before the highly anticipated grand finale. The news, reported by The Khabri on X (formerly called Twitter), has stirred a mix of reactions among netizens, leaving fans both surprised and disappointed. Vicky Jain, who entered the Bigg Boss house alongside his wife Ankita Lokhande, faced a tumultuous journey marked by intense altercations and controversies. His elimination, though not officially confirmed, has triggered varied responses online.

₹2,365.50, experiencing a nearly 4% decline on the BSE during Tuesday's intraday trade, accompanied by substantial trading volumes. Over the last two trading days, the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company's stock has witnessed a 7% downturn following its disappointing performance in the December quarter (Q3FY24), attributed to sluggish demand.

WPL 2024 will see the participation of five teams, namely Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Giants, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and UP Warriorz. The matches scheduled until March 4 are set to take place at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, while the remaining fixtures of the tournament will be held at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.

Rail Vikas Nigam, Ircon International, Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), and RailTel Corporation of India all plummeted in today's trade between 7-14%. It is worth noting that these five stocks rallied up to 58% in the last week alone, despite frontline indices finishing the week in red. According to the analysts, the sharp rally in railway stocks was attributed to the anticipation of the Government of India (GoI) unveiling fresh investments for railway infrastructure development in the upcoming 2024 budget.

demand from infrastructure and housing sectors, the cement industry is on course to add capacity by 150-160 million tonnes from FY25 to FY28, a report said on Tuesday. In the past five fiscals, the industry has added capacity by 119 million tonnes (MT) per annum to reach a total of 595 MT now, according to a Crisil Ratings report. The capacity addition is for the purpose of meeting the rising demand as well as to consolidate market share in a highly fragmented and competitive industry, the report added.

Mint decodes the study and what it means for the Indian economy. The teens contacted for the study were given five tasks. For instance, they were asked to read basic text in their own language to test their ability to read it as sentences with ease and without making too many mistakes rather than as a string of words.

bank fixed deposit or SCSS. The maturity period for the SCSS scheme is five years. It can be extended for another 3 years.

Rep. Maxine Waters has expressed significant concerns over Meta’s continued involvement in the digital asset sector.

foreign investors. Some are most worried by China’s souring relations with Western governments. Others fret about the unprecedented slump in the country’s property market.

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Gautam Shah, Founder & Chief Strategist, Goldilocks Premium Research, says “metals have started to look quite interesting. Nalco is a very high conviction idea for us for the whole of 2024 and can deliver supernormal returns. Steel Authority of India, Tata Steel, JSW Steel may beat the Nifty returns for sure for the next two to three quarters. Auto ancillary, I think, is a very interesting space as is fertilisers. Paper stocks and that entire unlocked theme of airlines, hotels. Other unlocked theme stocks like Sapphire Foods, Devyani International have very good fundamentals and have not done as well as some of the other themes. They should do quite well.”

Infrastructure funds have topped the return chart and offered an average return of around 33.23% in three years, data crunching by ETMutualFunds showed. There were around 18 schemes in the infrastructure fund category that completed three years.

Dolly Khanna added multibagger JKumar Infraprojects in her portfolio in the quarter ended December 30, 2023 along with two more stocks Ujjivan Financial Services and Zuari Industries (ZIL).

My 66-year-old sister has no income and no one to support her after she lost her son. I have decided to sell her flat and move her to a senior living home with a monthly expenditure of Rs 50,000. The sale will leave me with about Rs 1 crore after deducting capital gains tax. How should I invest this amount to generate a monthly income for her? Vidya Bala, Co-Founder, PrimeInvestor.in: Invest in safe options that give around 7% return. Choose from the Senior Citizens’ Savings Scheme, RBI Floating Rate Bonds, and bank fixed deposits that you can lock in at this rate for five years or more. Considering her age, keep at least 10% of the corpus in a combination of savings bank account and short-term bank FDs so that it can be easily liquidated. This will also be necessary to pay taxes, apart from possible medical needs.

BENGALURU (Reuters) -Zee Entertainment's shares (NS:ZEE) plunged 10% on Tuesday, set for their biggest one-day slide since April 2021, after Sony (NYSE:SONY) India scrapped a $10 billion merger with the Indian broadcaster, raising concerns about its survival in an increasingly competitive industry.

Chinese stocks extended declines after a brutal session.

investors unleashing dovish monetary wagers across the board: Two-thirds of Bloomberg Markets Live Pulse respondents said that betting on early monetary easing is the «most foolish» among popular trades heading into 2024.

Netflix on Wednesday with its five hosts, who are also called Bobby Berk, Fab Five: Jonathan Van Ness, Antoni Porowski, Karamo Brown, Tan France. As per Netflix's season explanation, the Fab Five are entering into a former nun's life who is the largest Kiss fan as well as the Louisiana School for the Deaf's football coach among others.

Moody’s Analytics has found 21 million “red flags” associated with shell companies that could be used to enable financial crimes, from ancient directors to dubious addresses.

Global hedge funds are having a notable shift in sentiment towards U.S. technology stocks, actively accumulating positions in the sector at the swiftest pace in two months, according to Goldman Sachs.

The CEO of a large-scale crypto Ponzi scheme known as IcomTech has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to forfeit $914,000 in criminal proceeds.