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The floor price is at a discount of 3.5% over the stock’s closing price on Monday.

Meesho on Tuesday announced the launch of its GenAI-powered voice bot to improve user experience and ensure round-the-clock customer support. The voice bot, which started operating about a month back, is currently available in English and Hindi, and is likely to expand to six additional regional languages — Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, and Tamil. Designed to autonomously handle a wide range of customer interactions, the voice bot currently handles about 60,000 calls daily, providing fast and efficient resolutions. With an impressive 95% resolution rate, it significantly reduces the need for human intervention, streamlining support and minimising escalations. «This efficiency has also contributed to a nearly 50% improvement in Average Handle Time (AHT), resulting in quicker and more effective customer service,» a company statement said.

The Information, the tech giant may shift from using titanium or stainless steel frames, instead opting for aluminium — a material commonly found on its non-Pro devices.If accurate, this would mark a departure from the titanium frames introduced with the iPhone 15 Pro range in 2023 and carried forward to the upcoming iPhone 16 Pro lineup. Apple had heavily promoted the aerospace-grade titanium on the iPhone 15 Pro series, highlighting its premium and durable qualities.It is noteworthy that the alleged proposed change would mean that all four iPhone 17 models, expected to debut in late 2025, could share a similar aluminium build, bridging the gap in materials between Pro and non-Pro variants.In addition to the aluminium frame, the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max are also rumoured to feature a rear panel comprising a mix of aluminium and glass.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Raise your hand if you have encountered a dialog box on an app or a website where “Yes" is brighter and more visible than a “No", or the site you are buying from has sneakily added a new service or an item while charging you more money. These traits, called deceptive patterns, are design decisions made by companies to subconsciously coerce users into making a decision, making a purchase, or ticking a box.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Morgan Stanley discovered last year that a yearslong brokerage customer had been convicted in 2005 in a U.S. court—for lying about terrorism investigations—and had links to al Qaeda bombings of U.S.

Michael Fassbender, it explores duty, loyalty and the costs of espionage.

The federal government is calling on the provinces to “step up” and drop their sales taxes on certain items in line with Ottawa’s proposed two-month relief period.

Diddy would reside on Manhattan's Upper East Side; a decision is anticipated next week. On Friday, November 21, Sean Diddy Combs made his third bail application in court. At a hearing on Friday, Nov. 21, the judge stated that he expects to decide by next week, but no decision was made today regarding Sean Diddy's' bail request. Combs, 55, wore a khaki outfit provided by the jail and entered the Manhattan federal courtroom through a side door. He waved to his family, which included his twin 17-year-old daughters, in the second row while grinning. After a contentious two-hour hearing, Judge Arun Subramanian directed the defence team and the U.S. Attorney's office to elaborate on Combs's communication from behind bars during the two months since his arrest on trafficking charges, as quoted in a report by People.

Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet's decision to introduce PAN 2.0. Will you need to reapply for a new PAN card under the government’s recently launched PAN 2.0 Project? The answer is a clear no. The Union Cabinet on Monday approved the ₹1,435 crore PAN 2.0 initiative, ensuring that your existing PAN remains valid, even as the system undergoes a significant digital transformation. Vaishnaw, while announcing the decision, confirmed that the upgrades, including the addition of a QR code to PAN, will be rolled out free of cost to all taxpayers. The project aligns with the government's Digital India vision, making the Permanent Account Number a «common business identifier» across digital systems managed by government agencies.

Uber Technologies from passengers who allege they were sexually assaulted by the ridesharing service's drivers, plaintiffs' lawyers are pushing for what they see as a quick and easy way to help gather evidence in the sprawling multidistrict litigation. What if they just open their file cabinets? Three plaintiffs' lawyers have sought the court's blessing to use documents, deposition and hearing testimony already in their possession — material that they acquired in past lawsuits against Uber involving claims ranging from pay violations to wrongful death that's designated as confidential --in the sexual assault MDL now pending in San Francisco federal court.

bribery scandal in the US will not have a material impact on billionaire Gautam Adani's businesses, Rajiv Jain's GQG Partners on Monday said there is no change in its investment thesis on Adani Group companies. Before the scandal broke out, GQG's total exposure to Adani Group companies stood at $9.7 billion which was about 6.1% of its total assets. «We believe this level of exposure is manageable, even given the volatility in Adani Group stocks,» GQG Partners said in a memo, adding that the fundamentals of the companies the boutique investment firm is invested in remain sound.

GST on life and health insurance will be placed before the GST Council when received, Parliament was informed on Monday. The issue of exempting/reducing GST on life and health insurance was placed before the GST Council in its 54th meeting on September 9, 2024. After detailed deliberations, the Council recommended constituting a GoM to holistically look into issues pertaining to GST on life and health insurance. Accordingly, a GoM was constituted under the Chairmanship of Samrat Chaudhary, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar. First meeting of the GoM was held on October 19, 2024 at New Delhi where issues of GST rate on health and life insurance policies were discussed, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On a recent morning walk, a friend asked me: "Mutual funds to sahi hai, but why do I need a financial advisor to guide my investment decisions?" He said he could do his own asset allocation, identify funds to invest in based on the information and ratings available, monitor his portfolio and transact easily across digital platforms. So, why should he go through the trouble of finding a good advisor? He could not see any clear value-addition that the advisor could provide and had not consulted one for several years.

RITES Ltd soared 12.6% to their intraday high of Rs 310 on the BSE after announcing that the company has secured a major order for railway electrification work from Northeast Frontier Railway. The order value stands at Rs 531.77 crore. The original cost of the project was Rs 288.44 crore.

Yahoo and confronted lawsuits involving patent, trademark and copyright claims, its executives sent out a confidential memo. «We believe that information is good,» the executives told employees in the memo. But, they added, government regulators or competitors might seize on words that Google workers casually, thoughtlessly, wrote to one another. To minimise the odds that a lawsuit could flush out comments that might be incriminating, Google said, employees should refrain from speculation and sarcasm and «think twice» before writing to one another about «hot topics». The technology was tweaked, too. The setting for the company's instant messaging tool was changed to «off the record». An incautious phrase would be wiped the next day.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. One of the biggest red flags for investors when picking stocks is debt. High debt usually raises considerable questions about the company’s operational efficiency and sustainability.

Religare Enterprises (REL) have resigned in the past two months. On Friday, REL informed the stock exchanges that its newly-appointed company secretary and compliance officer, Rajat Kalra, has resigned. Kalra, who was appointed on October 8, submitted his resignation on October 24. He had joined in the place of Reena Jayara who had left the New Delhi-based financial services firm on October 7. The group's chief financial officer Nitin Aggarwal also quit the company on November 12.

Chinese government has started a special program to crack down various unfair and non-compliant practices on the internet to safeguard the interests of netizens and companies, according to a statement from the Cyberspace Administration of China on Sunday. From today through Feb. 24, 2025, regulators will rectify malpractices such as creating so-called information cocoons via homogeneous push notifications, manipulating and interfering with rankings to hype up hot topics, as well as infringing on people's rights to do business via the internet, according to the statement. An information cocoon is when a platform chooses to expose the user to results based on expressed interests, tastes and preferences.

Gautam Adani paid and offered bribes to Indian government officials for securing solar power projects has now reached the Supreme Court. A fresh plea was filed late Saturday night informing the apex court to take on record the allegations of bribery and corruption raised by US prosecutors and the US SEC against the Adani group. The application has been filed in a batch of pending petitions in the Adani-Hindenburg row over allegations of stock price manipulation by the Indian corporate giant. Lawyer Vishal Tiwari, who was also one of the petitioners in the Adani-Hindenburg case, in his fresh application said the indictment order was relevant to the pending case and these documents «unveil serious malpractices carried out by the conglomerate» and these should be thoroughly investigated by the Indian authorities in the «interest of the nation.»

«Odisha has always been a land of seers and scholars. The way the scholars here took our religious texts to every household and connected the public with those, it has played a crucial role in the cultural prosperity of India. »There was a time when India's eastern region and the states there were called backward. However, I consider India's eastern region as the country's growth engine. That is why we have prioritised the development of India's eastern region," he said.

The 60-year-old actor shares six children with Jolie—Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Vivienne and Knox. Over time, his bond with several of them has reportedly weakened. Some of the children have even distanced themselves from Pitt, with instances of name changes highlighting the growing divide. Shiloh, for example, has formally petitioned to be known as Shiloh Nouvel Jolie, while others have reportedly made informal decisions to drop the Pitt surname. According to RadarOnline.com, Pitt is desperate and ready to beg his ex to let him see the children. According to reports, Brad Pitt remains determined to reconnect with his children despite these challenges. The actor is struggling with feelings of alienation, particularly as the holidays approach, which intensifies his longing to rebuild ties with his family. Currently, only the youngest children, Vivienne and Knox, maintain contact with Pitt through scheduled visitation, leaving him largely estranged from the rest.