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simultaneous polls headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind is likely to submit its report on 'one nation, one election' on Thursday, it is learnt. Though there was no official word yet, sources said the report could be submitted to President Droupadi Murmu. The panel may recommend amending at last five articles of the Constitution to enable holding of simultaneous polls in the country. The proposed report would also focus on having a singular electoral roll for holding Lok Sabha, state assembly and local body polls.

₹19,125 crore in the April-January period of the current financial year, followed by Karnataka with ₹13,738 crore and Uttar Pradesh with ₹ 13,004 crore. Odisha collected ₹7,729 crore of cess, while Tamil Nadu reported ₹7,291 crores. Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand and West Bengal are the other big contributors of GST cess.

credit score. However, it is a responsible financial management that leads to a good CIBIL score. Therefore, a borrower must take some steps to ensure that credit score stays healthy and sound.

ANI quoted him as saying. In the meantime, reports arrived that people in Bengaluru are calling for a shift to online work or work-from-home until the monsoon season.

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Luxury brand leases in India surge 170% in 2023: Report “2024 is anticipated to be a more dynamic year for the both the Asia Pacific real estate markets as well as capital in the region remaining the dominant investor in global real estate. The ability to act quickly, dig deeply into markets and sectors to identify value, and forge productive partnerships will be key to making the most of the region’s diversity and increased opportunity," said Chris Pilgrim, Colliers Managing Director of Global Capital Markets, APAC, said.

BBC, in 2018, carried a report listing 11 cities across the globe that were likely to run out of drinking water, including Cape Town and Beijing. Bengaluru was the only Indian city on the list. Not a single lake had suitable water for drinking, the report noted.

Don’t expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates anytime soon as sticky inflation seems to be very much intact at this point.

The US 10-year Treasury yield continues to trade well above a ‘fair value’ estimate, based on the average of three models maintained by CapitalSpectator.com.

Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) shares tumbled in pre-market trading Wednesday after the company unveiled its fiscal Q4 results.

Telangana Chief minister and Congress leader Revanth Reddy-led government had suspended Praneeth Rao on 5 March for allegedly tapping phones of opposition leader when the K Chandrashekar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) was in power in Telangana, reports Deccan Chronicles. According to media reports, Praneeth Rao was a officer with the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) in Telangana Police.

Lohum has raised Rs 450 crore ($54 million) in a primary funding round. Mumbai-based Singularity Growth Fund, which counts CaratLane founder Mithun Sacheti among its backers, led the round in which investors like Baring Private Equity, Cactus Venture Partners and Venture East also participated.

internet firms Zomato, Swiggy, Flipkart and Oyo have opposed the new regulations on digital competition proposed by a government-appointed committee to pre-emptively regulate abuse of antitrust laws. In a report submitted late Tuesday, the committee proposed a new digital competition law with an «ex-ante» framework to address potential abuse of dominance involving big tech companies. Prior to submitting the report, the Committee on Digital Competition Law had sought stakeholder comments.

Headline dividend growth stood at 5.6% for the year, the report found. The fourth quarter of 2024 was «particularly encouraging», Janus Henderson said, as dividends rose by 7.2% in the three-month period on an underlying basis. IWD 24: Is Meta's dividend a sign the FAANGs are becoming mature companies? Globally, 86% of companies either increased or, kept them level last year. However, large cuts from five companies — BHP, Petrobras, Rio Tinto, Intel and AT&T — shaved off two percentage points from global underlying growth, the report found. Overall, 22 countries experienced reco...

Visa application volumes from Mumbai in 2023 registered a 30 per cent year-on-year growth, according to a report by VFS Global, closing in further to the pre-pandemic levels. When compared to the pre-pandemic numbers, visa application volumes from Mumbai reached 90 per cent of the 2019 levels. The demand pattern in Mumbai was in line with the overall growth trend registered in India, which saw a 16 per cent year-on-year in visa applications in 2023. In comparison to the pre-pandemic numbers, visa application volumes from India reached 93 per cent of the 2019 levels.

gross negligence on the part of the auditors" of the now-crippled edutech firm Byju's, said its president Ranjeet Kumar Agarwal on Wednesday. Besides, the top official also said the accounting body is also planning to inspect the books of payments major Paytm. «Our inspection has found gross negligence on accounting practices by individual auditors of Byju's and accordingly we have recommended to the Financial Reporting Review Board (FRRB) to take punitive actions on auditors concerned,» Ranjeet Kumar Agarwal, the president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), told PTI here. When asked whether the ICAI will inspect the books of the payments major Paytm group now, he said, «As we have taken a suo moto decision to look into the role of the auditors of Byju's, we are now thinking about looking to the role of the auditors of the payments major Paytm now».

Election Commission has received details from the State Bank of India (SBI) related to the electoral bonds and will share all relevant information in time, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said here on Wednesday. The assertion comes in the wake of the Supreme Court directing the SBI to submit the details of the electoral bonds purchased since April 12, 2019 to the EC. SBI is the authorised financial institution to issue the electoral bonds. «The SBI was supposed to submit the data by March 12. They have given to us the details in time. I will go back and look at the data (and) would definitely disclose it in time,» Kumar told reporters here.

Investing.com-- Markets will be watching to see whether major U.S. technology stocks can continue to help Wall Street rise past growing concerns over higher-for-longer interest rates, following upbeat consumer price index inflation data. Gold prices fell from record highs after the reading, with more U.S. inflation cues also on tap later this week. 

I must say that I didn’t see this one coming. Credit where credit is due, though: while Street economists were just a little low (consensus was +0.40% headline, +0.30% core), the CPI swap market at least got headline right (there being no market for core inflation CPI swaps) by pricing in +0.47%, seasonally adjusted.

(Reuters) -Dollar Tree swung to a quarterly loss on Wednesday after the retailer took an over $1 billion goodwill impairment charge, as it plans to shut nearly 1,000 stores.

Apple Vision Pro headset, reported the Metro. Acting as a crucial support, the nurse utilized the headset to navigate through the intricacies of the surgery, ensuring adherence to the correct surgical protocols and facilitating the precise selection of tools required for the task at hand. According to insights from a report by Metro, the scrub nurse, tasked with the meticulous preparation of instruments and equipment, integrated the use of Vision Pro into the surgical workflow.