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Hindustan Times quoted Siraj as saying ahead of the KKR match with RCB. ALSO READ: Sunil Gavaskar says bowlers are suffering amid IPL 2024, asks BCCI to 'increase the size of the boundary' Earlier, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma too had his reservations regarding the impact players rule, as he pointed that it is holding the all-rounders back. "I am not a big fan of Impact sub rule.

NDA challenged by a determined INDIA bloc may be the big story of the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, but in a Bihar seat, the narrative has come to be centred around an Independent candidate. Situated in the state's northeastern corner, Purnea, named after the eponymous district, has been known to literature aficionados as the land where Phanishwar Nath Renu lived and breathed life into famous characters like Hiraman, played on the big screen by Raj Kapoor in 'Teesri Kasam'. In the battle for 2024, the place is hogging the limelight, primarily because of Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, who according to some opinion polls, may turn out to be the dark horse when votes are counted on June 4. This is despite the fact that the NDA candidate is JD(U) MP who is aiming at a hat-trick while the INDIA bloc has thrown its weight behind Bima Bharti, who recently quit Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party and was promptly rewarded by arch-rival Lalu Prasad with the RJD ticket.

Bernstein Societe General Group's latest India Strategy report provides insights into the country's political and economic scenarios. While the first phase of polling has been completed, the report indicates a prevailing optimism regarding the incumbent government's performance. However, it also highlights the challenges that lie ahead in achieving these expectations. Pre-election Euphoria and Market Trends The report notes that India experienced record-high valuations, particularly in the small and mid-cap sectors, at the beginning of the year. Despite some stabilization during the months of January, February, and March, there has been a recent resurgence, with small caps rising by 4% and mid-caps by 2% this month.

BJP in Delhi will hold a mega influencers' meet next week for increasing voter outreach through social media ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, party leaders said on Saturday. Social media is a very potent tool to send across any message and there are a large number of users on platforms such as X, Facebook and WhatsApp, among others, that need to be reached, the BJP's Delhi unit chief Virendra Sachdeva said. «The influencers' meet will help us bring those supporting us together for coordinated, organised publicity and campaigning on different social media platforms,» he said. The meeting is expected to be attended by 1,000 influencers, he said.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is expected to report healthy numbers for the quarter ended March 2024, driven by robust O2C business and healthy growth in the consumer-facing businesses of Jio and retail. The company will announce its quarterly numbers on April 22 and the Board will also consider approving a dividend for FY24.

₹72.05, marking a 19.56% year-on-year increase. Bajaj Auto's stock performance has been impressive, with a 0.47% return in the last week, 64.54% return in the last 6 months, and a 32.72% Year-to-Date (YTD) return.

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.

CSDS earlier released a detailed analysis of how accurate were the opinion polls during the Lok Sabha Elections from 1998 to 2009. A political party needs to win 272 seats of the total 543 seats to gain a majority in the Lok Sabha in India. The report revealed that the pre-election opinion polls in the 1998 Lok Sabha Elections were "almost accurate", while the prediction in the 1999 elections "slightly overestimated" the performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

controversy has erupted as Nike is under the social media radar due to an Olympic uniform of the USA track and field members. The controversy began when Citius Magazine, a popular and followed publication, posted a glimpse of Nike kits that the US track and field team will be donning this summer during the 2024 Paris Olympics, says USA Today.

Amanatullah Khan. AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Thursday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the Delhi Waqf Board, officials said.

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is perhaps the world’s most aggressively “woke” brand. By running campaigns on international geopolitics, immigration policy and culture war issues, Ben & Jerry’s has made a name for itself as a taboo-smasher willing to serve dessert with a side of aggressive virtue-signalling.

BJP, whose 2019 poll record resembled an almost wipe-out, hinting at a more assertive north-south divide in case the saffron party returns to power for its third straight term. However, the poll of opinion polls by NDTV says the BJP might be able to bag two seats in Tamil Nadu, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a staggering 10 visits in the past eight weeks. The five southern states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and Telangana, and the union territories of Puducherry and Lakshadweep, constitute India’s most economically prosperous region, according to an Al Jazeera report.

Tata Communications, ICICI Lombard, Angel One among others. The boards of Tata Communications and ICICI Lombard will also consider paying a final dividend to investors along with the fourth quarter results. Some other companies which will also declare their results later today include Just Dial, Hathway Cable, DRA Consultants, Hardcastle, Infomedia Press and KCL Infra.

A new national survey paints a fresh picture of economic stress among American women over the age of 25, with growing concerns about affording health care and retirement expenses.

Canada will raise capital gains taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals to help pay for tens of billions in new spending aimed at making housing more affordable and improving the lives of young people.

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Mutual funds added a whopping 19.71 crore shares of ITC to their portfolios in March — a 16.1% month-on-month jump from the number of shares they held at the end of the previous month. According to a Motilal Oswal note, mutual funds together owned 140.91 crore shares of ITC at the end of March.

Western media has been writing opinion pieces on India with a high focus on the 'attack' on opposition by the now Narendra Modi-led government with the rise of Hindu Rashtra. Major Western media houses including The Times and Financial Times have been focusing on reporting the 'dark side of upcoming Lok Sabha polls.' The exhaustive reportage of the Western media of India's Lok Sabha polls sheds light on the arrest of AAP ministers and the freezing of Congress bank accounts among other issues. 'Darker side to Modi's popularity'

Lok Sabha Elections will take place across the country this year. The voting will begin on April 19 and the results will be declared on June 4.

foreign portfolio investors’ (FPIs’) investment in Indian equities jumped to Rs 13,347 crore in April taking the total tally to Rs 24,240 in 2024 so far. After remaining net buyers in March and February, FPIs continued their buying activity in April, too. The net purchases in March stood at Rs 35,098 crore while it was Rs 1,539 crore in the previous month.

ITC and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) witnessed significant buying action in March from mutual funds, which bought shares worth Rs 7,700 crore in the former and Rs 5,700 crore in the latter, a Nuvama report suggested. Among the funds shopping for ITC were ICICI Prudential MF which topped the charts with a share purchase worth Rs 4,892 crore. It was followed by DSP MFs and Kotak MF which added shares worth Rs 432 crore and 377 crore, respectively. The other large additions included Aditya Birla Sun Life MF which bought shares worth Rs 306 crore while Axis MF bought ITC shares worth Rs 356 crore.