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Jaideep Kaur (30) and her husband Mohit Randhawa (32), an IITian, found themselves in an unexpected and frightening situation as they faced the relentless wail of sirens in Israel. The couple, who had been married since 2020, never anticipated such a situation until the recent events that unfolded.

ICICIdirect on Thursday said some of its retail customers are facing difficulty in placing orders due to a connectivity issue at BSE. «You may face difficulty in placing trades on BSE exchange as there is a connectivity issue at BSE. You can place your trades at NSE, which is working fine.

Pramod Gubbi, Co-Founder, Marcellus Investment Managers, says “like always the credit cycles will peak out either because there is an event in the economy or lenders have gone overboard in terms of lending but at this stage, It looks like a Goldilocks situation where demand is pretty strong, asset quality concerns are not that grave. Therefore, we should continue to see this sort of growth in retail credit.” I would like to talk to you about the small ticket loan space. After Q2 updates, Poonawalla Finance was 150% higher YOY. Today, U GRO came out. Five Star Business also recently hiked their guidance. One is getting a sense that after GST, Jan dhan, Aadhaar and mobile phones, small ticket loans for enterprises, SMEs or even individuals, are getting deeper into the country. It is like a satirisation of what happened in the consumer space a few years back with Rs 2 shampoo sachets, Rs 5 biscuit packets. Or do you see this as a risk also because in this business, collection is a bigger issue and not giving loans? A lot of people are scratching their heads around this.

'Chhath Puja' festival to avoid any inconvenience to the devotees and mismanagement at the last moment. "Chhath Puja festival is associated with the faith of lakhs of people, and the Kejriwal government is determined to ensure that no inconvenience is caused to the devotees while worshipping.

PwC Australia spin-off Scyne has been approved by the powerful Finance Department to take on the federal government contracts of its predecessor and accept new Commonwealth work.

Wagering giant Tabcorp has followed global rival Entain in warning investors about soft trading conditions, reporting that revenue fell across its divisions just three months into the new financial year.

Pro on-chain DeFi and NFT analytics platform Parsec has secured $4 million in an investment round. 

By Valentine Hilaire

Social Security's cost-of-living increase for 2024 will be announced Thursday

A retired bank official has testified that Donald Trump obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in loans using financial statements that a court has since deemed fraudulent

Plans by the Port of South Louisiana to purchase what was once a major shipyard for construction of military vessels have been delayed

Thailand's prime minister says Malaysia’s national carmaker Proton and its Chinese partner Geely are considering setting up a plant in Thailand to produce electric vehicles

The Honda Pilot has become a byword for the affordable midsize SUV

Social Security's cost-of-living increase for 2024 will be announced Thursday

(Reuters) -Goldman Sachs Group is suing Malaysia in a UK court, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, as tensions escalate over a settlement linked to its role in the 1MDB investment-fund scandal.

(Reuters) — Air Canada has been sued by Miami-based transport and security services provider Brink's, which alleged the airline of «negligence and carelessness» related to a gold and cash heist at a Toronto cargo facility in April, a court filing showed.

By Dietrich Knauth

The key question facing the crypto industry is what the real utility of cryptocurrency is, according to Wall Street Journal columnist Jon Sindreu.

NEW DELHI : The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) continues to own shares worth at least ₹25,000 crore across 20 major Indian companies, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd, Infosys Ltd, Hindustan Unilever Ltd and Vedanta Ltd, despite escalating geopolitical tensions between the two nations over the past three years, company filings showed. Infosys and ICICI Bank are PBoC’s biggest portfolio holdings in India. The Chinese central bank owns 0.8% of Infosys, worth ₹4,678 crore, and 0.7% of ICICI Bank, worth ₹4,583 crore at current prices.

Jim Cramer, the well-known host of CNBC’s Mad Money show, has raised eyebrows with his recent Bitcoin (BTC) forecast.

New insights into the creation of Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto's identity have emerged through an undisclosed email from August 22, 2008, directed to computer scientist Wei Dai. This email sheds light on the early stages of Bitcoin's development and its intellectual foundations.