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Mint in the week gone by. The Sensex closed above 70,000 for the first time on Thursday, taking 551 days to add the last 10,000 points, while inflation rose to a three-month high. Meanwhile, funding slowdown continued for India's tech start-ups, falling to a five-year low.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody joins ‘Varney & Co’ and discusses Florida’s efforts to tackle crime during a wide-ranging interview.

Three out of ten individuals do not purchase health insurance due to the high premiums associated with it, according to a recent survey conducted by Pristyn Care. Furthermore, the research revealed that approximately 34% of individuals lack awareness about the various options available for health insurance.

Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) to provide €500 million (around ₹4,500 crore) in financial assistance for the expansion of the Bengaluru Metro. The funding, which includes loan and grants, will help the metro’s expansion plans as well as provide technical expertise to the metro project. KfW, which is looking to expand its funding for green energy and sustainable mobility projects in India, is also financing metro projects in Mumbai and Nagpur among other cities.

Rail Vikas Nigam (RVNL) rose over 4% to Rs 185.6 in Tuesday's trade on BSE after a joint venture of the company emerged as the lowest bidder for a project worth Rs 543 from Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation. «RVNL-URC joint venture emerges as the lowest bidder for part design and construction of an elevated viaduct, five elevated metro rail stations (viz. Shaheed Bagh, Khajrana Chauraha, Bengali Chauraha, Patrakar Colony and Palasia Chauraha) and ramp for Indore Metro Rail Project,» the company said in an exchange filing. The project is to be completed in 1,092 days. At 11.03 am, the scrip was trading 1.5% higher at Rs 180.8 on BSE.

Infosys: India's second-largest IT services company on Monday said Nilanjan Roy, its chief financial officer has tendered his resignation. Jayesh Sanghrajka, a member within the company, will be taking over the role. Roy chose to resign to pursue personal ambitions beyond the scope of the company.

The Russian Central Bank is playing down talk of a 2024 rollout for its digital ruble – insisting that the coin will not be ready for nationwide use before 2025.

Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) to over 3,300 acres along with vibrant social infrastructure from current 886 acres is in the final stages of completion and is likely to be submitted by Gift Urban Development Authority to the Gujarat government’s Urban Development Department in the next few weeks. The second phase development plan with town planning schemes around the GIFT City is expected to be unveiled after the state government’s review and feedback from the public as per the statutory requirements. The development plan is expected to further the efforts to develop GIFT City, counted amongst Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream projects, in a global financial activity hub. «The expansion of GIFT City limits, the riverfront development, and the upcoming metro connectivity are pivotal steps in our journey toward an integrated and thriving metropolis.

old and new regimes, slightly surpassing the 71% of their male counterparts. Another interesting aspect revealed by the survey is the changing mindset of different age groups.

home loan EMIs have been pivotal factors in convincing tenants to invest in their own homes. The report also threw light upon the continued reliability of the real estate sector for investment among Indians. In the survey, it was found that 74% of respondents found real estate as a better option to invest in compared to other options like gold, bitcoin, etc.

₹72. The Presstonic IPO lot size is 1,600 shares.

Rajnath Singh said India has emerged as a global growth engine and is providing a new direction to the world. The minister emphasised that the growth story has showcased that there is no trade-off between economic growth and distributive justice. «Our growth model shows that equal opportunities to everyone and the accelerated growth rate can be achieved simultaneously,» the minister said at Ficci's 96th annual general meeting and annual convention in New Delhi. He added that the growth being achieved is sustainable and has not come at the cost of environmental degradation. «We have chosen the path of green growth.

₹72. The presstonic IPO lot size is 1,600 shares.

₹2.5 lakh. The retired official, named SP Sinha, resided in Kolkata's Thakurpukur lost his life savings to a treacherous call deceiving to be from the bank where he held an account. The agent called Sinha and disguised as bank official stationed at “table number 3" of the same branch where Sinha held his pension account, reported Metro.

Chennai's flood has been startling. Large parts of the city are still inundated and without electricity. Loss of life has been less than in past years, but displacement and loss of property has been massive.

What do girls want? Not girls whose families have access to newspapers like this, but average Indians. Most of the 1.4 billion. From high mountains to the coasts, from desert dunes to the riverine islands, from jungles to the dusty fertile smoky plains, and in the slums of metropolises and gali-koochas of the kasbas.

NHSRCL), which is executing India's first bullet train project, will lease out about 580,000 square feet of space to offices, commercial development and retail outlets at the Sabarmati Multi Modal Transit Hub, said a senior executive. The property, currently in the final stages of the request for proposal process, is planned to be leased out to a single lessee for a period of 35 years, extendable to another 35 years. «We will have two towers, spread over a total area of 3.6 hectares and a super-built-up area of 579,980 sq ft.

Uttar Pradesh government has given the green light for a rapid rail corridor that will connect the Noida International Airport (NIA) with Delhi and other areas of the National Capital Region (NCR). The proposed route will extend from the Ghaziabad rapid rail station on the Delhi-Meerut line. While this development is a step forward in establishing connectivity for the new airport, it is important to note that it is a long-term plan.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un's satellite snaps White House, Pentagon As per United Nations data, the average number of children being born in North Korea by a mother stood at 1.8 as of 2023 amid an extended fall in birth in recent decades. The figure remains higher than North Korea's neighbours which are also witnessing a downward trend.

New Delhi: India is looking to create a tunnel safety system as part of a broader effort to fortify the extensive tunnel network across highways, railways and metro systems in the country, people familiar with the development told ET. This will include forming an audit team with experts from various IITs and setting up a world-class tunnelling centre under IIT Delhi to research and propose enhanced safety measures for tunnels that are benchmarked to international levels, the people said. They added that the move is aimed at preventing recurrence of mishaps like the recent Silkyara tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand in future.

Gurugram, the bustling satellite city of Delhi, is gearing up for a transformative boost in its real estate sector with the impending metro rail project. Similar to the successful models of DMRC and NMRC in Delhi and Noida, Gurugram is set to establish its dedicated entity, GMRC (Gurgaon Metro Rail Corporation), which is exclusively focused on the city’s metro projects.