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Mint. The lackluster consumer sentiment was reflected in QSR companies’ December quarter (Q3FY24) results as well with most players reporting a sequential drop in sales growth, and some also posting negative year-on-year same-store sales growth, a key metric for retailers. This was despite Q3 being a festival-heavy quarter.

credit score. So, utility bills can impact your credit score. Unlike credit cards or loans, utility bills are not reported to CIBIL, unless they are sent to collections.

credit score suffers considerably. Identity theft, more often than not, can have a significant impact on your credit score in a number of ways. Unauthorised accounts: Identity thieves could open credit card accounts, loan in your name without your knowledge.

When it comes to happiness worldwide, Canadians appear to be a pretty content bunch, according to the 2024 World Happiness Report.

Some Canadians who opened a first home savings account (FHSA) in 2023 have faced delays getting their tax return processed by the Canada Revenue Agency, a government spokesperson confirmed to Global News.

DLF Ltd. gained 2.4 per cent to Rs 845.75 in Thursday's trade as of 11:37AM (IST). The stock hit a high price of Rs 849.0 and low of Rs 834.7 during the session.

BSE shares spiked as much as 7.95% to a high of ₹2,194.95 apiece on the NSE. Investec upgraded its rating for BSE shares to “Buy" and assigned a target price of ₹2,800 per share, implying an upside potential of nearly 38% from Wednesday’s closing price, CNBC-TV18 reported. The stock exchange BSE continues to witness strong traction in equity derivatives volumes and its options market share has jumped 3x on a quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) basis from 4.2% to over 15% in March, Investec noted while anticipating further market share gains given the rapid scale-up of the BANKEX product.

Household debt is on the rise. According to an analysis by Motilal Oswal Financial Services, household debt as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) touched a new high of about 40% in the December quarter (Q3FY24).

Giorgia Meloni is pursuing legal action and seeking €100,000 ($109,345) in damages after explicit deepfake videos featuring her were created and disseminated online without her consent. A deepfake image is created by digitally superimposing the face of one person onto the body of another. The deepfake videos in question surfaced in 2022, prior to Meloni's appointment as Italy's Prime Minister.

Microsoft's Windows 11 to transform upcoming PCs with game-changing 'AI Explorer' feature: Report Suleyman, who led a rival artificial intelligence startup called Inflection AI, has joined Microsoft along with many key employees at his former company. The appointment of the 39 year old AI leader is being seen as an effort by Microsoft to improve its in-house AI capabilities.

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₹30 lakh so that they could settle in another country, The Times of India reported. As per a screenshot of a WhatsApp chat doing rounds on social media, the kidnapping photographs were sent to the father. When Kavya’s father replied, saying he was sending the pics to the SP, the “kidnapper" replied: “Send it to whomever you want to.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of parliament (MP) Varun Gandhi from the Pilibhit seat in Uttar Pradesh, which he represents. Pilibhit, along with seven other seats in Uttar Pradesh, will go to the polls on April 19 in the first phase of the Lok Sabha 2024 elections, for which the filing of nominations started on March 20. For quite some time now, speculation has been rife that Varun may not be fielded by the BJP in 2024 because he attacked some of his party’s policies over the past few years.

US Fed keeps benchmark rates steady at 23-year high-mark, projects 3 rate cuts in 2024: 5 key highlights As Mint reported, the policymakers sharply upgraded the US growth outlook for the year 2024 to 2.1 per cent from 1.4 per cent in December but left the headline inflation forecast unchanged. However, they slightly raised the outlook for annual core inflation, which excludes energy and food prices, to 2.6 per cent. Also Read: US Fed leaves key rates unchanged: Full text from Fed's monetary policy statement A rate cut by the Fed is a boost to the equity market as lower interest rates mean cheaper borrowing for businesses which helps them to expand their operations more easily, ultimately leading to increased profitability.

₹1 lakh crore issued by the erstwhile HDFC Ltd as infrastructure bonds, according to a report by Economic Times. Infra classification would have granted regulatory relaxations to the country's largest private sector bank. The stocks of HDFC Bank were trading in green at ₹1444.35, up 0.93 per cent on March 21, at 9:54 am on BSE.

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Rose Hanbury is denying any allegations of an affair with Prince William, according to a report.

U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further

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electoral bonds as 'hafta vasooli' (extortion), Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated that Rahul Gandhi should explain the source of the ₹1,600 crore he referred to as ‘hafta vasooli’. As reported by ANI, in response to Rahul Gandhi, who had referred to the bonds as 'hafta vasooli', “Gandhi also received ₹1,600 crore.