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Naxalite was killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Sunday, police said. The gunfight took place in a forest near Keshkutul village under Bhairamgarh police station area at around 5.30 am when a team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an anti-Naxal operation, a senior police official told PTI. The operation was launched based on information about the presence of division supply team commander of Maoists, Kawasi Pandaru, and 15-20 other cadres in Keshkutul-Keshmundi forests, located around 400 km from the state capital Raipur, he said. After the exchange of fire stopped, the body of a Naxalite, a weapon and explosives were recovered from the spot, the official said.

₹495. The current market price of Pricol Ltd is ₹425.25. "We anticipate significant benefits for the company stemming from the robust demand across various segments of the automotive industry, including 2-wheelers, commercial vehicles, tractors, and off-road vehicles.

Q4 Results: HDFC Bank on Saturday said its Board of Directors has recommended a dividend of ₹19.50 per equity share of Re. 1/- each fully paid up (i.e. 1950 per cent) out of the net profit for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024.

mutual fund scheme, investors tend to compare the annualised returns delivered by it to make a projection of future returns. Once a mutual fund category is shortlisted, one has to zero in on the schemes within that category. Thanks to the power of compounding, when an investment is made for a long time, the returns — more often than not — grow multi-fold.

Zomato has received a tax demand and penalty order of Rs 11.82 crore related to GST on export services provided to its subsidiaries located outside India from July 2017 to March 2021. The order was passed by the Additional Commissioner, Central Goods and Services Tax, Gurugram, raising the GST demand of Rs 5,90,94,889, with applicable interest (not quantified) and penalty of Rs 5,90,94,889. «We believe that we have a strong case on merits, and the company will be filing an appeal against the order before the appropriate authority,» Zomato stated in a regulatory filing late evening on Friday.

Catch all the LIVE Updates on Iran-Israel war hereUS Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin held talks with Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant and discussed efforts to maintain regional stability and the latest developments in Gaza. The readout from Pentagon Press Secretary Major General Pat Ryder reads, "Secretary of Defense Lloyd J Austin III spoke with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant today to discuss efforts to maintain regional stability, the latest developments in Gaza, and measures to accelerate humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza." This comes a day after reports claimed that Israel carried out strikes in Iran.

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Bitcoin’s long-anticipated ‘halving’ is, depending on where you sit, a vital event that will burnish the cryptocurrency’s value as an increasingly scarce commodity, or little more than a technical change talked up by speculators to inflate its price.

IREDA Q4 results 2024: The Indian PSU (Public Sector Undertaking) company Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) Ltd announced its Q4 results 2024 on Friday evening. The state-owned company declared an impressive number during the recently ended March 2024 quarter both sequentially and yearly. On account of higher income, the state-owned company reported a net profit of ₹337.37 crore in Q4FY24, logging a YoY growth of 33% against the company's net profit in Q4FY23.

Digi Yatra Foundation on Friday said that the personal data of 3.3 million Indian users of Digi Yatra (DY) app is absolutely safe, reiterating that DY does not store Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

Raj Bhavan in Kolkata moved the Election Commission of India, urging it to identify and take strong action against officials in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal who may have «leaked names of gangsters and goons» to political parties, sources said on Saturday. In the wake of the ongoing general elections, the office of Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose had, using its own mechanism, compiled a list of suspected criminals across the state who could be used by political parties to intimidate voters on or before poll dates besides creating other law and order situations. In the second week of March, the Raj Bhavan had shared a list of such goons and anti-social elements with top officials of the CEO's office, West Bengal, through the state Director General of Police for appropriate pre-emptive action, an official said. «A few senior officials of the CEO office, West Bengal may have leaked the list of the suspected criminals, provided by the Raj Bhavan, to top political leaders of the state,» the source told PTI and suggested that, in doing so, may have thwarted the governor's attempts to reign in criminal activities during the polls.

A group of cryptocurrency users involved in a class-action lawsuit against former FTX CEO Sam  “ SBF ”  Bankman-Fried has recently reached a proposed settlement.

The French government has announced a new rule that will require stores to tell customers when a product becomes smaller but its price stays the same or increases

ICs and IHCs, whose shares are trading at a big discount to their book value, according to the consultation paper. Some market observers believe that the significant difference between market price and book value of these companies is hurting liquidity, fair price discovery, and investor interest.

Wipro's board of directors has reappointed Azim H. Premji as Non-Executive, non-independent director of the company while re-appointing Rishad A. Premji as the whole-time director for a period of five years with effect from July 31, 2024, to July 30, 2029. Rishad Premji's whole-time director post is designated as Executive Chairman.

A civilian interrogator who worked 20 years ago at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors in Virginia that he never abused detainees and was actually promoted for doing a good job

A group of Japanese doctors has filed a civil lawsuit against U.S. search giant Google, demanding damages for what they say are results showing unpoliced derogatory and often false comments

Ashish Kacholia portfolio: Shares of Sanjivani Paranteral Ltd are one of the multibagger stocks that the Indian stock market has produced in recent years. This multibagger pharma stock has risen to the tune of 300 percent in the year but it seems that ace Indian stock investor Ashish Kacholia is still bullish on this small-cap stock. Ashish Kacholia's name has appeared in the shareholding pattern of Sanjivani Paranteral Ltd for the January to March 2024 quarter.

The deceased, along with their friends studying at Scotland's Dundee University and pursuing Master's degree, were on a hiking trip in the tourist spot. An official from the Indian High Commission in London informed that the bodies of the two students were found downstream.

Motilal Oswal surged 5% to day’s high at Rs 2,185 on Friday after it announced a proposal to consider allotment of bonus shares to its shareholders in an intimation filing to the exchanges. The stock broker informed the exchanges that the meeting of the board of directors will be held on Friday, April 26, 2024, wherein the company will approve the audited financial results (Standalone & Consolidated) for the quarter ended March 2024 along with a consideration to present a proposal for declaration on bonus shares to the shareholders.