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Amritsar will soon have the opportunity to witness the Indian tricolor flying high once again. As per a TOI report, India is preparing to install a national flag on a pole that stands an impressive 418 feet tall, surpassing the Pakistan flagpole in height. In response to India's tricolor flying atop a 360-foot pole on the border, Pakistan had erected its own 400-foot-high national flagpole six years ago.

Maruti Suzuki share price traded lacklustre on Wednesday. The stock fell over half a per cent in intraday trade on BSE and looked on course to extend the losses into the second consecutive session. The stock ended 0.30 per cent lower in the previous session.

AMFI showed. This was well above the average monthly addition of 2.2 million over the past two years, led by a renewed investor interest amid the market rally. The benchmark indices have gained nearly 16% in the past six months fueled by domestic and foreign inflows. The monthly SIP addition remained above three million for the second month in a row. The SIP addition was 12.5 million accounts in the past 12 months. The net addition in August was 1.6 million, the highest in 23 months. The total SIP account tally reached a record 69.7 million. The monthly inflow in the SIP funds was Rs 15,814 crore in August while the average ticket size was Rs 2,269 per account, the highest in 19 months. Given the past 12-month cumulative SIP inflow of Rs 1.7 lakh crore, the assets under management (AUM) of the SIP linked funds reached Rs 8.5 lakh crore.

JioCinema will open its innings to broadcast Indian cricket team's home matches riding on its free playbook, as the media unit today said it will stream India's 3-match ODI home series against Australia for free. This is the first international series in the rights cycle that will be presented on JioCinema. The OTT will stream the matches in 11 languages and has also roped in Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, Aakash Chopra, Amit Mishra, Hanuma Vihari, Kiran More, Anirudha Srikanth, Sarandeep Singh, among others, to be part of the expert panel. Viacom18, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has secured exclusive media rights for international and domestic matches by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for a cumulative figure of Rs 5,963 crore for the next five years between September 2023-March 2028.

IndiGo will soon wear a wrist gadget and use a ground device to detect fatigue and check their alertness level before and after their flights. The airline will start this experiment in collaboration with French aerospace conglomerate Thales group to collect data and use it to make flight patterns and roster which are reduces tiredness of their pilots, The airline will also on board a sleep researcher who will work on its fatigue management system, according to an internal memo reviewed by ET. “After six years of research, they have developed a fatigue detection model, offering detailed insights into demographic data, including routes, pairings, crew profiles, and more, going beyond traditional scheduling- models. “IndiGo will conduct a proof-of-concept trial for their technology-driven interface to assess pilot alertness levels over the next few months. Once completed, we will collectively evaluate the efficacy and accuracy of the data,” Ashim Mitra, senior vice president of Flight Operations wrote in a note to pilots. However IndiGo will continue the existing system where pilots can ask for removal from duty when they feel tired. Initially, the ground devices will be set up at large bases of IndiGo like Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai where pilots will undergo a five minutes test.

Public Investment Fund (PIF) is co-ordinating the acquisition of players based in Europe, of whom it aims to place at least three at each of these clubs. Four state-owned entities have invested in another four teams. The PIF argues that its involvement in football is part of a broader project to diversify the Saudi economy away from oil and to promote physical activity among citizens.

Mumbai: IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company Limited (IndiaFirst Life) has introduced a novel offering -- IndiaFirst Life Guaranteed Single Premium Plan. This unique plan is designed to provide individuals with a seamless blend of financial protection and savings.

Kfin Technologies Ltd. Investors can find out if and how many shares they have been given through the basis of allotment. The initiation of the refund process will start on Thursday, September 14, for individuals not given shares.

Pankaj Murarka, CIO, Renaissance Investment Managers, says “The Nifty index trading at about 20 times current year earnings is reasonable in the context of the strong earnings growth that we are witnessing. From here on, much of the gains on the indexes are done and markets will be more stock specific in that sense. And some correction at this level is pretty healthy for the medium term health of the market.”Going by the exceedingly volatile moves that we have witnessed in the broader markets, from the March lows first we have seen a meteoric rise and then yesterday, things were clearly shaken up. Is that an instance of the direction that the broader markets are headed in?We have had a phenomenal rally in the last six months and so a correction was probably much warranted and it is a healthy correction for the market because there are pockets of markets where we have seen stock prices have clearly run ahead of fundamentals and there has been a fair degree of exuberance or froth in midcap smallcap space. So, correction is much warranted. Aggregate markets are still reasonably priced.

Heightened security has been deployed in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir as an ongoing encounter between security forces and terrorists enters its second day, officials report. The encounter, which initiated on Tuesday, has already resulted in the neutralization of one terrorist, while tragically claiming the life of a brave soldier.

iPhone model you purchase on launch day may be manufactured in India. As per reports, Apple intends to make the India-built iPhone 15 available here and in a few other areas on the first day of worldwide sales on September 15. When will the iPhone 15 sale start in India?Apple will begin collecting preorders for the next iPhones on September 15 in over 40 countries, including the US, India, China, the UK, and Canada.

UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis has said it is «incongruous» that only five countries can exercise certain powers within the UN Security Council, underlining that the thrust of reform has to be to «democratise» the powerful UN organ, making it more fit for purpose in the 21st century. «It's not untrue that the architecture of the Security Council was designed a very long time ago, decades ago when geographically and geopolitically the world was a very different place,» Francis, President of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, told PTI in an exclusive interview. Francis said many countries did not exist at the time when the UN Security Council was formed more than seven decades ago, particularly developing countries in the Global South and «countries like my own Trinidad and Tobago. We would at that time have been represented by the British. »But the world has changed.

Kotak Flexicap Fund crossed a milestone of 14 years on September 11. The scheme has given 14.04% returns since its inception. The scheme manages assets worth Rs 40,086.25 crore, making it the second largest scheme based on assets managed in the flexi cap category. Launched in 2009, Kotak Flexicap Fund (earlier known as Kotak Standard Multicap Fund) has offered 17.32% in 10 years, 12.93% in five years, and 21.60% in three years. During the same periods, the benchmark (Nifty 500 — TRI) offered 15.96%, 14.17%, and 24.51% respectively. This shows that the scheme has outperformed its benchmark only in the 10-year horizon.

Ishan Kishan has usually been India's go-to wicketkeeper for limited-overs matches this year but it is clear he cannot take his place for granted with KL Rahul hitting top form after returning from injury at the Asia Cup. Kishan appeared to be first-choice for the gloves, not just because he has four fifties in his last five one-day knocks but also for the left-handed variety that he brings in a batting lineup dominated by right-handers. Rahul's first two knocks since returning from a thigh injury, however, have ensured he remains in contention, creating the «good headache» that chief selector Ajit Agarkar had anticipated after picking both in the World Cup squad.Rahul had only five minutes to prepare for the blockbuster Asia Cup match against Pakistan after Shreyas Iyer was a last-minute withdrawal due to a back spasm. But in his first outing since his coming back from injury he smashed an unbeaten 111 and forged a brilliant stand with fellow centurion Virat Kohli to set up India's comprehensive victory against their arch-rivals. The elegant right-hander featured in another crucial partnership, this time with Kishan, in Tuesday's low-scoring contest against hosts Sri Lanka, which India won by 41 runs. Rahul also kept wicket for the majority of the Pakistan innings and throughout the Sri Lankan innings. «I have been keeping wicket for a long time, more than two years now actually,» Rahul told reporters, adding that he was comfortable with the dual role. «So it's not new for me, and the team management has told me that this would be my role in the squad — to play in the middle order and keep wicket.» Primarily a versatile batter comfortable in any position in the top and middle order, Rahul said he had honed his keeping

retail inflation eased in August, but remained above the upper end of the central bank’s target band for a second consecutive month. The CPI inflation in August fell to 6.83% from 7.44% in July. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) rose by 5.7% in July, according to the official data.

Sunil Singhania, Founder, Abakkus Asset Manager LLP, says “the only theme we follow is whether the company can double profits in four to five years and a lot of these themes are interesting and exciting. But the valuation at which the IPOs are coming and the stocks are getting listed is something which at least conservative investors like us cannot comprehend.”You have followed a template of 15-15-15, return ratio of 15%, growth 15%, and PE multiple of less than 15. Is that template still at play or the market conditions are forcing you to change that template?No, it is becoming difficult for sure.

interest rate unchanged at the end of its Sept. 19-20 policy meeting and probably wait until the April-June period of 2024 or later before cutting it, according to economists in a Reuters poll.Fed Chair Jerome Powell underscored the «higher-for-longer» mantra for rates in a speech at the annual Jackson Hole central banking symposium in August and maintained another rate hike might still be needed to bring inflation down to the 2% target. But other members of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), including some of the more hawkish ones, have raised the possibility of holding off on another rate hike to allow more time to gauge the impact of the cumulative 525 basis points of tightening delivered by the Fed since March 2022. More than 95% of economists, 94 of 97, in the Sept.

Lok Sabha elections, the BJP's Central Election Committee (CEC) has decided to hold a meeting on Wednesday at 5 pm, according to a report published by India Today. It is expected that the committee members will review the ongoing poll preparations, formulate the saffron party's poll strategy, and gather feedback, and the selection of candidates can also take place today.

Crackerjack Foods, a privately owned Melbourne manufacturer of potato cakes, has been bought out by US french fries giant Lamb Weston, which is backing the potato cakes and hash browns market to grow strongly as Australians demonstrate a preference for pub dining over restaurants.

Insurance customers want more frequent and clearer outlines about how their damage claims are progressing and timelines for conducting repairs, the industry’s association has admitted.

Rogers got injured in his first match with the New York Jets, which was being played against the Buffalo Bills on Monday Night Football. He hurt his ankle and fell down on the ground, and was carted off the ground within five minutes of the first match. Rodgers could throw only one pass, and that too was an incompletion. He played four snaps before leaving the ground. A cart was sent to the Jets' medical tent and Rodgers was carted off to the locker room. As Rogers got off the cart, he was limping badly.