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American Idol is returning with its 22nd season with it’s premiere on ABC on Sunday. The show marks the return of the judges Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie, and Katy Perry, besides host Ryan Seacrest. The show will be searching nationwide to identify the amateur most talented singers in Nashville, Los Angeles, Tennessee, and the hometown of the judges. After the narrowing down of the contestant's field by the viewers and the judges, a winner will emerge and receive a management contract as well as a record deal with a major label.

GoKwik, has reported that the direct to consumer (D2C) brands on its network witnessed 12.72% increase in sales during the Republic Day sale week compared to the week prior. The GMV or Gross Merchandise Volume also saw a nominal rise of 10%. The growth in the first quarter of FY 2024 has been muted after a great performance in the last quarter of 2023, despite Republic Day, which is usually a marquee sales event at the start of the year to give the necessary boost to brands. “With shoppers going all out in the long festive season sale period in 2023, followed by the Black Friday sale that has increasingly grown popular amongst Indians, a modest surge in the Republic Day sale period could be a natural resting period in the first month of 2024. Moreover, with macro headwinds such as high-interest rates, layoffs, etc, shoppers might have been more conservative in their spending this time around. However, this seems to be a temporary trend and the consumption is likely to pick up with D2C’s favourite Valentine’s Day sale period coming up,” said Chirag Taneja, Co-Founder and CEO, GoKwik.

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The GBP/USD edged higher in reaction to the firmer wages and jobs data from the UK earlier this morning, ahead of the release of even more top-tier data from both sides of the pond.

NHPC shares witnesses an impressive 8.4 percent surge following the company's declaration of an interim dividend of ₹1.4 per share for the fiscal year 2023-24, on Tuesday's trading session. Despite facing challenges in the third quarter, analysts maintain a positive outlook on the stock, largely due to its attractive 2.5 percent dividend yield.

BSE PSU index are trading between 10% and 37% lower from their 52-week highs. Leading this trend is SJVN, which has witnessed a significant decline over the last two trading sessions, tumbling by 24%. From its 52-week high of ₹170.50, the stock has corrected by 37%, currently trading at ₹108.15 apiece.

₹500 crore upon competition. Brigade’s hospitality segment saw occupancy level at 73%, up 500 basis points y-o-y. One basis point is equivalent to 0.01%.

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₹30,297 crore as compared to ₹29,175 crore recorded in the same period last year. For the first nine months of the current financial year, PSBs have earned a cumulative profit of ₹98,358 crore as compared to ₹70,166 crore in the year-ago period, an increase of 40.17%. In Q1 and Q2 of the current fiscal year, public sector banks earned a cumulative profit of about ₹34,418 crore and ₹33,643 crore, respectively.

Mutual Fund announced the launch of the Union Business Cycle Fund. The scheme opened for public subscription on February 13, 2024, and will close on February 27, 2024.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday asserted in the Assembly that high population is a «disease» for the state, which impacts its performance in various parameters. He also maintained that the state's poor performance in a nationwide cleanliness survey «is a reflection on the people as a whole rather than the government», as he pitched for a 'proper citizens' movement'. Taking part in a discussion on the state Budget, Sarma said the state's performance in terms of percentage cannot be compared with Arunachal Pradesh or Meghalaya, which have a much lower population than Assam. «Our population burden affects our performance in terms of percentage. Population vis-a-vis students determine the percentage», he said, referring to opposition Congress MLA Bharat Chandra Narah pointing out that Assam's gross enrolment ratio (GER) was much less than the national average.

artificial intelligence rules ahead of a vote by the legislative assembly in April that will pave the way for the world's first legislation on the technology. Called the AI Act, the new rules aim to set the guardrails for a technology used in a broad swathe of industries, ranging from banking to cars to electronic products and airlines, as well as for security and police purposes.

National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced that 23 candidates have achieved a perfect score of 100 in the JEE-Main engineering entrance exam. The majority of these high scorers hail from Telangana. A total of 11.70 lakh candidates appeared for this crucial exam. Out of the 100 NTA scorers, seven are from Telangana, two from Haryana, three each from Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, two from Delhi, and one each from Gujarat, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu. The NTA officials clarified that the NTA score is not the same as the percentage of marks obtained but represents normalised scores. A senior official explained, «NTA scores are normalised scores across multi-session papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session. The marks obtained are converted into a scale ranging from 100 to 0 for each session of examinees.»

cricket career for India spanned from 1952 to 1961, during which he played in 11 Tests. He was a reliable batsman with a strong defense and good at driving the ball. He was also an excellent fielder.

iPhone 16 series, considering that the iPhone 15 series was unveiled at the Wonderlust event just over 5 months ago. However, the rumour mills have been filled with one leak after another about Apple's upcoming smartphone series and the iOS 18 operating system that will power it. According to a post by Naver user "yeux1122" cited by Macrumors, the iPhone 16 Pro Max will feature a larger battery and is expected to deliver the "longest battery life ever seen on an iPhone".

R Mukundan, MD & CEO, Tata Chemicals, says “the main issue which we will face going forward next year is going to be in terms of exports where compared to the pricing which we got in the export markets, we would see at least a $100 reduction. This is mainly out of exports coming out of the US and Europe. We have operations in the UK, similar to most people, there is going to be a compression of margin of at least a hundred pounds per tonne. Those are the two pressure points.”

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National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the final answer keys and announced the results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains 2024 session 1 exams on Monday. The Paper 1 exams were held on 27, 29, 30,31 January and 1 February, while the Paper 2 exam was held on 24 January. Among the candidates who scored 100 NTA scores, seven are from Telangana, two from Haryana, three each from Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, two from Delhi and one each from Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

₹1,063.40 apiece on the BSE. On Monday, Bharat Forge stock price plunged over 14% after the forging company reported its December quarter results. In two days, the stock has fallen over 19%.