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BSE Sensex ended at 64,948.66 down 202.36 points or down 0.31% while the Nifty also closed at 19,310.15 level, down 55.10 points or 0.28%. Also Read: Market Wrap: Sensex falls 200 points, Nifty ends around 19,300 amid weak global cues According to Sameet Chavan - Chief Analyst - Technical and Derivatives, Angel One, although, the correction has not been severe, the Nifty has marked negative close in last four consecutive weeks. The global headwinds and banking related concerns post the RBI policy are keeping our markets under pressure, whereas the inherent strength in other spaces is providing some support at lower levels.

15th annual summit of the BRICS—a group comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—takes place in Johannesburg. For the first time one of the bloc’s leaders will be absent. As host, South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, felt he had a responsibility to welcome his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

earning a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago in 1997. Also read: Microsoft's AI bet pays off, CEO Satya Nadella's windfall surpasses $1 billion amid stock surge Nadella's ascent within Microsoft was steady and impressive. By 1999, he had already been appointed vice president of the Microsoft bCentral small-business service.

After the success of the first edition of Krishi Mangal, a scale-up accelerator program launched in 2021, to propel agritech start-ups supporting smallholder farmers, global tech leader Cisco and Social Alpha, an innovation curation and venture development platform for science and technology start-ups, have finalized a new selection of start-ups for its second edition.

New Delhi: Fuel delivery platform FuelBuddy is looking at expanding its global footprint by foraying into Africa. FuelBuddy is an online platform providing doorstep delivery of fuel. Apart from transporting fuels, the company sells lubricants.

Financial inclusion is a critical driver of economic development, and embedded finance as-a-service has emerged as a powerful tool to deepen financial inclusion in India's new age economy with over USD 5bn in market size. The growing and prominent role of fintech in leveraging embedded finance to unlock new value chains, empower underserved populations, and drive economic growth is undisputed. However, despite significant progress, India still faces challenges in achieving comprehensive financial inclusion.

entrepreneurship goes beyond mere innovation. At its core lie two fundamental values: honesty and responsibility. These principles not only govern the dynamic between entrepreneurs and their investors but also serve as a guiding force behind successful ventures.

Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday addressed the G-20 Digital Innovation Alliance in Bengaluru and said that over the past decade, India's entrepreneurial landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation. «Over the past decade, India's entrepreneurial landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation. With just 500 start-ups a decade ago, today we proudly stand with over 100,000 startups and 108 unicorns.

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Instacart Inc. is planning an initial public offering as soon as September, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to a potential rebound for US listings. The largest US online grocery-delivery company could publicly file its plans for an IPO with the US Securities and Exchange Commission as soon as next week, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information was private.

Melting glaciers could create new ecosystems covering an area between the size of Nepal and Finland by the year 2100, researchers said. Glacial area outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets could be halved because of human-caused climate change under a high-emissions scenario, they said in a study published in the journal Nature. This glacial melting could cause a rapid ecological shift as novel ecosystems develop to fill emerging new habitat, they wrote. However, analyses of this change at a global scale are lacking, they said. Jean-Baptiste Bosson, from the Conservatory of Natural Areas of Haute-Savoie, France, and colleagues used a global glacier evolution model to examine the predicted twenty-first century trajectory of 650,000 square kilometres (sqkm) of glaciers found outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Deglaciation, or glacial retreat, will continue to occur at a similar rate regardless of the climate scenario until 2040, the modelling predicted using glacier outlines, digital elevation models of subglacial terrain and climatic data.

Government employees can rely on their pensions for post-retirement income, to an extent at least. Others have to build their own retirement money kitty. For many in the private sector, a portion of their salary is directed toward the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF).

Tata Motors subsidiary. Dalal Street spectators are eagerly expecting the start of the Tata Technologies IPO subscription date now that the market regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has given the go-ahead to the company. The Tata Technologies IPO date is anticipated to take place at the end of August or in the middle of September 2023, according to stock market experts.

reality of maximizing aircraft utilization for revenue often results in a stressful environment for pilots due to tight scheduling. “Cumulative fatigue has started showing its results and it is time that DGCA maintains a record of pilot demise and unfit issues due to conditions related to the heart," a pilot said on condition of anonymity. In fact, Airlines Pilots’ Association of India has written to pilots regarding the urgent need of a mega body of Indian pilots under industry veteran Captain Shakti Lumba.

Battlegrounds Mobile India) quickly rose to prominence in India after the ban on PUBG Mobile. Despite facing its own ban, the Indian government decided to allow BGMI back into the country with certain modifications around 10 months ago. Similar to other popular battle royale titles like Garena Free Fire, BGMI developers regularly release redeem codes that grant players access to a wide range of enticing rewards and freebies.

Mustang GT3 racing vehicle, set to compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans event in the year 2024. Among the existing lineup of Mustang cars, the Ford Mustang GTD boasts the most assertive design. Marked by its sizable grille and air intakes, coupled with a dynamic bumper and front wings operated hydraulically.

startups and innovation, is hosting the "Tamil Nadu Startup Thiruvizha 2023" at the CODISSIA Trade Fair Complex in Coimbatore on August 19 and 20, stated an official release on August 17. This inaugural two-day event aims to celebrate entrepreneurship in Tamil Nadu and showcase the government's support for startups and aspiring entrepreneurs at various stages of growth, ANI reported.

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Furthermore, under the new guidelines, loan sanction letters will need to mention the costs associated with transitioning from a floating to a fixed interest rate in the future. Lenders will be required to ensure that even in the event of significant rate hikes, the EMIs will continue to cover the monthly interest payments, preventing any increase in the outstanding loan balance from the previous month after the EMI is paid. The RBI's circular on resetting floating interest rates for EMI-based personal loans said that lenders should not solely assess repayment capacity based on prevailing interest rates but they should factor in a cushion to ensure borrowers can meet their payment obligations even if interest rates climb.In the past, interest rates have experienced fluctuations of up to six percentage points within a single loan cycle, which means the interest burden had sharply increased and typically the loan tenure rose by years. Lenders have sometimes refrained from adjusting EMIs, as extending the EMI duration would result in higher interest earnings.

Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), a leading technology company in the cryptocurrency mining community headquartered in Singapore, announced its unaudited mining and operations updates for July 2023 on August 7, 2023.

China's military began drills around Taiwan on Saturday, saying it was a «serious warning» to separatist forces, in an angry and widely expected response to a visit of Vice President William Lai to the United States. Lai, the front-runner to be Taiwan's next president at elections in January, returned from the United States on Friday, where he officially made only stopovers on his way to and from Paraguay, though he gave speeches while in the country. China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, despite the strong objections of the island's government.