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1. Auspicious beginnings: Muhurat trading marks the commencement of the new year according to the Hindu calendar. It is believed that initiating any significant activity, including financial transactions, during this period brings good luck and prosperity for the upcoming year.

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Whether you should invest in stocks or in mutual funds is a debate as old as the emergence of financial markets itself. Let’s draw from historical data and technical analysis to see which one is the better option for higher returns.

Padmanabhan Iyengar, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu In the dynamic landscape of the Indian securities market, gold has long held its position as a coveted asset, offering a hedge against inflation and economic uncertainty. However, when it comes to investing in gold, investors often face a dilemma between two popular options: gold mutual funds and sovereign gold bonds. Understanding the nuances of each instrument is crucial for making an informed decision that aligns with one's investment goals and risk tolerance.

Mahindra Lifespace Developers, the real estate and infrastructure development business of the Mahindra Group, has decided not to undertake a joint development on a nearly 5-acre land parcel in Mumbai’s western suburb Dahisar owing to significant delays in fulfilment of certain conditions precedent. The company had finalised the terms for this project in October 2021 and the development was estimated to provide around half a million sq ft of carpet area. The terms of this joint development were subject to conditions precedent including regulatory clearances and approvals for effective development of the land parcel in a timely manner. “In the best interest of the company, owing to significant delays in fulfilment of certain conditions precedent, the same shall be discontinued and shall not be pursued,” the company said. Mahindra Lifespace Developers recently acquired 5.38 acres of land in Wagholi locality of Pune. The land is estimated to have a development potential of over 1.5 million sq ft of saleable area. For the quarter ended September, the company has recorded pre-sales of Rs 455 crore for 0.68 million sq ft saleable area in its residential business. The company has a healthy pipeline of business development with Gross Development Value {GDV) of over Rs 5,000 crores, Amit Sinha, Managing Director & CEO, Mahindra Lifespace Developers told investors during its September quarter earnings call. The company has multiple launches coming up in the second half of the current financial year.

Maharaja' using Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service, which responds to over 6,000 consumer inquiries every day, is set to get more advanced functionality. The airline is using ChatGPT to assess questions, even some complex ones that it might not be able to respond to right away, in order to enhance customer experience in subsequent contacts and help it become more natural language sensitive, the company said in a press release on Friday. Air India said it has successfully implemented 'Maharaja', making it the first airline in the world to do so. Since its experimental introduction in March 2023, the agent has satisfactorily addressed over half a million client queries, Air India said.

Enforcement Directorate has attached three immovable properties worth Rs 24.95 crore of Hero MotoCorp executive chairperson Pawan Kant Munjal attached as part of money laundering probe, the federal agency said on Friday. The ED said that the total value of seizure and attachments now stands approximately at Rs 50 crore. «The prosecution complaint alleges that foreign currency/foreign exchange equivalent to Rs 54 crore was illegally taken out of India,» the ED said. A First Information Report (FIR) was filed in October on a complaint alleging forgery, falsification of accounts, criminal conspiracy, and cheating by certain officials of Hero MotoCorp. The FIR named Pawan Munjal, and Hero MotoCorp executives Vikram Kasbekar and Hari Gupta. However, the company said in a statement on the exchanges that this case is an old matter and pertained to the year 2009-10 with a disgruntled service provider, Brains Logistics, a former vendor of Hero Honda Company, alleged that the accused colluded to and committed “the illegal acts of forgery, cheating and falsifying the books…and manufactured fake month-wise bills”. These bills, totalling Rs 5.95 crore for 2009 and 2010 were debited to the complainant, it alleged. Separately, in August this year, the ED had conducted searches on Munjal and some others as part of an investigation into an alleged money laundering case. The searches were carried out at the residential and business premises of Munjal in Delhi and Gurgaon, and some linked entities. In a statement, the company had at the time said, “Officials from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today visited two of our offices in Delhi and Gurugram and the residence of our executive chairman Dr Pawan Munjal.

diets and poor hygiene means 2.5bn people around the world suffer from tooth decay, in which acid produced by mouth-dwelling bacteria eats away at the hard enamel that coats the outside of a tooth. That can open the door to painful infections, which cause further damage. Once decay has set in, all a dentist can do is fill the gap with an artificial plug—a filling.

Bard is a path to developing another product with two billion users, a director said on Thursday at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York. Bard, which lets consumers brainstorm and fetch information with the help of new artificial intelligence, is laying the ground work for Google to attract still more customers, its Product Lead Jack Krawczyk said in an interview.

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Gaza Strip, according to a report published by The Guardian, citing sources familiar with the negotiations. This came in exchange for releasing some hostages held early in the war. However, other sources indicated that the negotiations started prior to the Israeli ground invasion which resumed after October 27 and Netanyahu took a tough line on proposals involving a ceasefire in return for hostages.

The New Yorker wrote about the consultancy firm recently. “Escape from accountability is the most valuable service" the management consultancy provides, went on the article, referring to a former McKinsey employee’s description of it as “capital’s willing executioners".

Edmonton Police Service described as “serious, targeted incident” at a shopping complex Thursday in deep southeast Edmonton.Around noon MT, over a dozen police cruisers and an ambulance responded reports of a shooting at the Petro-Canada gas station and A&W in the Harvest Pointe shopping complex just off Ellerslie Road and 50th Street.Upon arrival, police said officers found a 41-year-old man and an 11-year-old boy in medical distress.EMS responded, however, both the man and child died of their injuries on scene.They are a father and son, EPS confirmed. Not long after the shooting, family members began showing up to the scene, where they learned their loved ones had died.The homicide section is now investigating the suspicious deaths and said detectives have determined this was a targeted attack.As of Thursday evening, autopsies had yet to be scheduled.“We are sad to report that a child lost their life as a result of this violent event,” EPS Homicide Section Staff Sgt.

Boeing Co., ION Trading UK and the UK’s Royal Mail. The prolific gang known as Lockbit is suspected to have orchestrated a ransomware attack against the US unit of ICBC, the world’s largest lender by assets, according to people familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. The attack has resulted in disruptions across the US Treasury market, with some transactions failing to clear and traders being asked to reroute their deals. Lockbit, a criminal gang with ties to Russia, specializes in using malicious software known as ransomware to encrypt files on its victims’ computers, then demanding payment to unlock the files.

The head of Dunamu, operator of South Korea’s market-leading Upbit crypto exchange, has been found not guilty of manipulating platform data.

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak remains hospitalized in Mexico City following a “health problem” while he was in the city to speak at a business conference