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₹1,761.86 crore, according to NSE data. DIIs bought equities ₹1,328.47 crore net, the exchange data showed.World oil prices sank Monday as traders hoped a region-wide conflict could still be avoided and Israel said its forces killed dozens of Hamas militants in clashes in Gaza.Global investors are looking forward to key reports on consumer confidence and the U.S.

Trinamool Congress top leaders ahead of the coming Lok Sabha polls as the party claimed to have «learnt their lessons from the past» in 2021 polls, BJP State President Sukanta Majumdar said on Monday. The saffron party, however, is open to taking grassroot workers from both Trinamool (not leaders) and CPI-M, who have concern for the welfare of the state. «They are welcome to join BJP,» the state President said. «We have already learnt lessons by burning our hands during the last assembly polls.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), a regulated derivatives exchange that lists Bitcoin (BTC) futures, now stands just behind Binance in terms of notional open interest to rank second in the list of BTC futures exchanges.

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Mamaearth, will open for subscription on Tuesday. The anchor investor allocation will be done later today. Ahead of the issue opening, the company's shares are commanding a marginal premium of Rs 7 in the unlisted market. Mamaearth has fixed a price band of Rs 308-324 per share for its IPO, which closes on November 2.

₹567 crore from anchor investors on Friday, October 27. Cello World primarily deals in three categories such as stationery and writing instruments, moulded furniture, consumer housewares, and associated goods.

Open-source protocols have become a mainstay in the tech world and are gaining traction due to the myriad benefits that they offer over their proprietary counterparts.

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who had accused Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra of «asking questions in the Lok Sabha in exchange for cash and gifts,» has leveled fresh allegations on TMC MP. Dubey has raised concerns about Moitra's willingness to engage in media interviews while avoiding her scheduled appearance before the Ethics Committee, originally slated for October 31. In response to Moitra's media interactions, Nishikant Dubey expressed his decision to abstain from engaging with the media to uphold the Parliament's dignity.

Malta on Saturday, with the participation of more than 65 countries — but not Russia, Maltese and Ukrainian officials said. The two-day meeting of national security delegates is the third round of such talks in recent months.

The unveiling of an open-source directory dedicated to Uniswap v4 hooks has recently incited discord within the cryptocurrency realm. At the heart of the contention is a newly introduced hook, now accessible on this directory. This hook facilitates the execution of Know Your Customer (KYC) checks on users prior to engaging in token pool trading activities, thereby intertwining regulatory compliance with decentralized operations, a notion often deemed incongruent in the decentralized finance (DeFi) domain.

Vindhya region was nearly swept by the BJP in the 2018 assembly elections, but it has a history of giving space to parties with different ideological hues — from Communists to the BSP — making the region politically evolved where the Congress will look to improve tally in the upcoming polls and new entrant AAP try to notch up its first win in the state. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is eyeing to enter in the state assembly, possibly through the Vindhya region, which elected the first Lok Sabha member for the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) from Madhya Pradesh in 1991 and also gave representation to Communists in electoral politics.

Nasdaq opened higher on Friday as robust forecasts from Amazon.com and Intel lifted beaten-down megacaps, while investors also drew comfort from data that showed inflation rose largely in line with expectations. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.90 points, or 0.01%, at the open to 32,782.40. The S&P 500 opened higher by 15.70 points, or 0.38%, at 4,152.93, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 123.08 points, or 0.98%, to 12,718.69 at the opening bell.

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OnePlus Open - is all set to go on sale in India today. The smartphone was launched last week and is currently available for pre-order on the official OnePlus website. Interestingly, ahead of the first sale of the OnePlus Open, the smartphone maker has rolled out a software update to tweak and take care of some of the issues that have plagued the premium hand The OnePlus Open sports a 7.82-inch Flexi-fluid AMOLED panel with 1-120 Hz dynamic refresh rate.

OFS) of 4.12 crore shares. The IPO was sold at a price band of ₹308- 324.

Congress leaders have alleged an electoral nexus between BRS, BJP and AIMIM ahead of the assembly polls in the state, aimed at splitting the anti-incumbency votes against the K Chandrasekhara Rao government in order to defeat Congress. Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Revantha Reddy claimed that once the assembly polls are over these three parties would be in a formal alliance for the Lok Sabha polls, just as the BJP and JDS did in neighbouring Karnataka. While maintaining that Congress will score a big victory in the Telangana assembly election, Reddy said at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) media briefing on Thursday that BJP, BRS and AIMIM have already worked out an informal seat-sharing formula for the Lok Sabha polls.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 18.76 points, or 0.06%, at the open to 33,017.17. The S&P 500 opened lower by 10.78 points, or 0.26%, at 4,175.99, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 52.26 points, or 0.41%, to 12,768.97 at the opening bell.

PNB Q2 Results: Punjab National Bank (PNB) announced its July-September quarter results for fiscal 2023-24 (Q2FY24) on Thursday, October 26, beating D-Street estimates with a multifold growth of 327 per cent in net profit to ₹1,756 crore, compared to ₹411.3 crore in the corresponding period last year. The state-run lender's net-interest income (NIIs) – the difference between interest earned and interest expended- in the second quarter of current fiscal rose 20 per cent to ₹9,923 crore, compared to ₹8,270.7 crore in the year-ago period. The bank's asset quality for the quarter ended September 2023 improved on a sequential basis.

The IPO includes fresh issuance of shares worth up to Rs 365 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) of about 4.12 crore shares. Honasa promoter Varun Alagh will sell 3,186,300 shares while his wife Ghazal Alagh will sell up to 100,000 shares in IPO. Other shareholders who would be selling stake in the OFS include Kunal Bahl, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Rishabh Harsh Mariwala, Fireside Ventures Fund, Sofina, Stellaris and Rohit Kumar Bansal. The bid lot size has been fixed at 46 shares per lot, which implies that the minimum bid lot amount in the retail category would be Rs 14,904. About 10% of the issue size has been reserved for retail investors, 15% has been allocated to the HNIs while the remaining 75% is reserved for qualified institutional buyers (QIB). Honasa employees will get a discount of Rs 30 per share as well as a reservation of equity shares worth up to Rs 10 crore. The stock will get listed on both NSE and BSE on November 10 while the finalisation of the basis of allotment is likely to be done by November 7. Book-running lead managers for the IPO include Kotak Mahindra Capital, Citigroup, JM Financial and JP Morgan. Net proceeds from the IPO would be spent on advertisement expenses towards enhancing the awareness and visibility of brands, capital expenditure for setting up new EBOs, to set up new salons under its subsidiary Bhabani Blunt Hairdressing, general corporate purposes and unidentified inorganic acquisition.

As winter approaches, a Vermont ski town that was hit by severe flooding this summer wants to get the word out that its very much open, with only a handful of businesses still rebuilding

Crypto exchange dYdX has published the open source code for its new Cosmos-based network of the same name, according to an October 23 blog post. The new code includes the “protocol, order book, front-end, and more,” the post stated. The publication of the code is intended to pave the way for a mainnet launch, which is being organized by the dYdX Decentralized Autonomous Organization (dYdXDAO) SubDAO on Operations.