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Investing.com-- Most Asian currencies moved little on Monday as markets weighed hawkish yet somewhat reiterative comments on monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, while the dollar retained recent gains and came close to a three-month high.

A better-than-expected final dividend has helped keepLiberty Financial’s share price relatively stable despite tougher lending conditions pushing after-tax profits nearly 20 per cent lower and an uncertain outlook.

Day trading guide for today: On account of weak global market cues, Indian stock market ended downside on second day in a row on Friday. NSE Nifty went down 120 points and ended at 19,265 levels, BSE Sensex finished 365 points southward at 64,886 mark whereas Bank Nifty index corrected 264 points and closed at 44,231 levels. NSE Cash market volumes were higher as compared to recent average.

credit risk funds and liquid funds sit on opposite ends of the risk-return spectrum. Liquid funds are usually used for parking any idle surplus, with safety as a priority, even if it means compromising on returns. Credit risk funds are fancied by yield-hungry investors for the promise of a bigger pay-off.

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Sunday announced the names of probable candidates for the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) elections slated to be held on September 22. The RSS-affiliated student organisation said they will start pre-campaign for the polls from Monday. The probable candidates are Tushar Dedha, Vaibhav Chowdhary, Sushant Dhankar, Ashish Singh, Ankita Biswas, Muskan Bedi, Aparajita, and Rahul. Besides, Aman Kapasia, Himanshu Nagar, Sachin Baisala, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Saransh Bhati, Balkishan Chowdhary, Rishabh Chowdhary, Rishiraj Singh, and Akash Yadav are among the possible candidates, the students' group said in a statement. «By dividing these student leaders into different groups, the pre-campaign of ABVP will start from Monday in all the 52 colleges and departments from where votes are to be cast in the DUSU elections.

Directorate General of Civil Aviation has found that Tata Sons-owned Air India made forged reports of spot checks that it did not actually carry out. The audit report, seen by ET, says the airline fabricated reports of 13 checks at three stations. “After cross verification with CCTV // footage//, it was understood that 13 spot checks shown to be carried out at Delhi, Mumbai and Goa were established to have not been carried out. However, reports were subsequently falsified when the DGCA asked for it,” the civil aviation regulator said in the audit report. Still, the reports were accepted by two top officials of the airline, the DGCA said.

the future of BRICS-Plus. The Johannesburg summit of BRICS leaders, which ended on 23 August 2023, agreed to induct six new members: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia. Along with the existing five members—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—the expanded grouping of 11 members now presents an interesting alchemy of geo-political and geo-economic interests.

All India Chess Federation (AICF) president Sanjay Kapoor said Indian chess has entered the «golden era» and the country will have over a hundred Grandmasters within two years. For years, five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand dominated the conversation on Indian chess and rightly so. However, the dynamics have changed in the past decade with youngsters like R Praggnanandhaa, D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi making rapid progress in the international arena. «There was one Vishy (Anand) before but now I believe the golden era of chess has started in India,» Kapoor told PTI. «Anand is a stalwart of the game.

Delhi government's plan to revise circle rates of residential and commercial areas in the capital is back on the drawing board, reported TOI. According to officials the previous plan prepared by the revenue department proposing the creation of sub-categories in A to H categories of residential areas with multiple slabs of circle rates was returned by the finance department with certain objections and suggestions. «We have decided to carefully study the suggestions and rework our proposal,» said a senior revenue department official. «Since there is a big gap in the existing circle rates and the market rate at which the sale and purchase of properties take place, we will propose a hike of up to 35%. But based on the feedback received from the stakeholders, we will also consider downgrading or upgrading the categories of certain colonies based on their location, facilities and existing market rates,» the official said. Circle rates, or minimum rates for valuation of land and immovable property in the national capital, were last hiked for residential areas in all existing categories in 2014.

Women’s tennis was luckier. It had a King. It is 50 years since women’s tennis scored its first victory in pay equality. In 1973, the US Open became the first Grand Slam to announce equal prize money for men and women. In 1968, Billie Jean King had won the first Open era Wimbledon women’s title and received £750 for it while her ‘counterpart’ Rod Laver took home £2,000. In 1970, she and eight other US women players broke away from the US tennis tour over equal pay demand. They created Virginia Slims Invitational circuit. But things didn’t change. In 1972, the US Open men’s singles champion Ilie Nastase received $25,000. The women’s winner, King, got $10,000. The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) was launched in 1973 and King threatened to boycott the US Open until the pay was equalised. And it was!

In this, the component of the 'new' can also be replaced by settings and things to which you return after a gap. Excited and happy, you use both the limitations and advantages of the locally available materials to engage with whatever surrounds you. As it is with art, it often is with food and cooking.

More than 98 per cent of India’s senior citizen population remains devoid of health insurance coverage amid the increasing cost of healthcare services, according to a recent survey by leading insurtech platform Plum. The need for comprehensive health coverage for senior citizens has become more apparent, however, the penetration continues to be a challenge. According to census reports, India has 1,380 lakh elderly citizens and is further expected to increase by around 560 lakh by 2031.

New Delhi: The government is considering a proposal to include electric vehicles (EVs) in priority sector lending category, a senior official said on Saturday. «We have received a representation to include EV in priority sector. We will look at reworking the priority sector lending requirements for banks,» the official said adding the issue has to be discussed with the Reserve Bank of India. As per RBI guidelines, it is mandatory for banks to extend 40 per cent of their adjusted net bank credit to priority sector. Currently, seven sectors — agriculture, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), export credit, education, housing, social infrastructure, and renewable energy — are considered for priority sector lending (PSL).

Roshni Nadar Malhotra, chairperson of HCL technologies, said in the national capital on Saturday. Speaking at a B20 panel on technology, innovation and R&D, she said, “One of the issues with global technology and skilling is that innovation is very specific to countries,” adding that the challenge is taking solutions to scale. Nadar-Malhotra, who also co-chairs the B20 Taskforce on Digital Transformation, said the B20 Task Force on Technology, Innovation and R&D’s recommendation for such a digital platform aligns with that of her own task force’s focus on bridging the digital divide, addressing digital literacy and the skills gap, enterprise transformation of MSMEs with a digital toolkit, and fostering digital trust. Developing future skills will be key and has boded India well since it invested in R&D in information technology since the 1970s, she said. This attracted international companies to come and leverage its capabilities.

financial inclusion model and move much faster, said Dinesh Kumar Khara, SBI Chairman, on Thursday. “If you look at it in our country, I think it's a lesson for all of the globe on how the payment system could be so efficient, cheap and economical,” Khara said in an exclusive interview with ET on the sidelines of B20 Summit organized by CII in New Delhi. Khara noted that if Jan Dhan had been a pure vanilla account, people would not have shown so much interest in the scheme and it is the addition of services which has given it nuance. “Now it has gone beyond.

Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial price changes Friday: Gap, Hibbett rise; Hawaiian Electric, Nordstrom fall

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Crisil Market Intelligence and Analytics. Rainfall remained 7% below normal long period average (LPA) at 611.4 mm during 1 June to 25 August. The June-September monsoon season drives a big chunk of India’s $3 trillion economy, bringing nearly 75% of the country’s annual rains, crucial for agriculture and for replenishing reservoirs and aquifers along with meeting power demand.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, memorialized the bravery of British soldiers as they attacked Russian forces in the 1854 battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. “Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred” tolls throughout the poem. Tragically, the soldiers’ courage was betrayed by a careless mistake: they were sent the wrong way. Either the command was poorly communicated, or it was misunderstood by the brigade’s leader. Whichever was the case, the six hundred needn’t have died, if only the right plan had been executed.