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Target is reporting a 58% increase in fourth-quarter profits and handily beat Wall Street expectations as the retailer cut costs and maintained a lean inventory during the holiday season

China's blueprint for its economy in 2024 is replete with goals and promises, but it's also notable for not spelling out specific moves to attain long-promised reforms that foreign businesses and investors have been hoping for

Houthis are targeting merchant ships belonging to either Israel, the US or the UK in the Red Sea with drones and missiles and the situation is «not very good». Describing the activities in the Red Sea as «an offshoot of the Israel-Hamas conflict», the Admiral said the Indian Navy is providing necessary protection primarily to India-flagged ships and also to other vessels that seek assistance. «Indian Navy is supporting all merchant ships in their to and fro journey between the Red Sea and Indian Ocean Region. Primarily, we are looking at the India-flagged vessels but also assisting any ship that seeks our help,» the Naval chief told reporters on the sidelines of the inauguration of the new Administrative building of Naval War College near Panaji. Admiral Kumar further said the Indian Navy has given a clear message (to attackers) that we will not tolerate such acts, [which] make the Indian Ocean unsafe".

will turn profitable in another 6-8 months, once the newly launched 'BB Now' vertical starts making money, its co-founder and chief executive Hari Menon told reporters here. When asked about plans for an IPO, he said, «We will probably have it in 2025. But we are leaving it to the Tatas, there cannot be anybody better to guide us and advise us on that.»

Mint explores the reasons behind this governmental directive. The extension to blend imported coal has been announced amid anticipation of high power demand in the upcoming summer season. The power ministry, in its letter, said that the peak demand in the April-June period this year is likely to reach 250 GW, but logistical issues would impact coal supplies.

Ravi Shankar Prasad and Anil Baluni. On Saturday BJP declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the saffron party candidate from Varanasi for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. Notably, even before PM Modi, Varanasi had been a BJP stronghold, with the party retaining it consistently since 1991 except in 2004, when the Congress's Rajesh Kumar Mishra had won.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , Infosys share prices have gained 18-20% from October lows. The overall investor sentiments have improved with expectations of the US interest rates likely to have peaked leading to easing concerns on global slowdown. As analysts remain optimistic on earnings catching pace in few quarter , there are several opportunities that can help improve growth prospects.

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Investing.com -- Shares in Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) slipped in premarket U.S. trading on Tuesday after Bloomberg News reported that the U.S. government had placed a hurdle in front of the company's effort to sell an artificial intelligence chip designed for the Chinese market.

(Reuters) — U.S. stock index futures dipped on Tuesday as investors awaited a slew of economic data and several key events this week, including appearances from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Shares of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) are trading around 1.5% lower in pre-market on Tuesday, following a Reuters report the company had to halt production at its Berlin factory, after suspected arson set an electricity pylon on fire in a field close to the cite.

Shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) fell 1.5% in premarket trading Tuesday following reports that the iPhone maker saw sharp sales declines in China’s smartphone market during the first six weeks of 2024.

The United Nations says that women who run farms and rural households in poor countries suffer more from climate change and are discriminated against as they try to adapt to other sources of income in times of crises

Aston Villa insists the club is operating within the financial rules of the English Premier League despite reporting a loss of 119.6 million pounds in its latest accounts

Shares are mostly lower in Europe and Asia following a decline on Wall Street

Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures point lower, with labor market data and comments from the top Federal Reserve policymaker looming later in the week. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) shares slump in after hours trading on falling deliveries of its China-made vehicles, while the price of Bitcoin rises to within touching distance of an all-time high.

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BJP on Tuesday lashed out at the opposition parties' INDIA bloc over reported remarks of DMK leader A Raja against Hinduism and Lord Ram and said insulting India's ethos publicly and humiliating Hindu gods has become the hallmark of their political agenda. Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, senior party leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad noted that DMK MP Raja in his latest speech in Tamil has said «India is not a nation. Understand this well. India is never a nation. One nation means one language, one tradition, one culture. Then, only it is a nation. India is not a nation but a sub-continent». «This is Maoist ideology,» Prasad charged, reacting sharply to the DMK leader's reported remarks. Prasad further quoted Raja who said in his speech «if this is your Jai Shri Ram, if this is your Bharat Mata Ki Jai, we will never accept that Jai Shri Ram and Bharat Mata. Tamil don't accept. You go and tell (that) we are enemies of Ram».

China will formulate plans to develop emerging industries including quantum computing and continue striving to achieve self-sufficiency in technology, a government work report said. It will also step up efforts in big data and artificial intelligence (AI) and intends to launch a number of major science and technology programmes to meet major strategic and industrial development goals, the report shows.

Mercedes-Benz expects India to become its third biggest market in its 'Region Overseas' over the next 2-3 years with demand anticipated to remain strong for luxury products, according to a senior company executive. The Region Overseas for Mercedes Benz comprises 118 countries, excluding North America, Europe and China. India is the fifth largest market in the region after Japan, South Korea, Australia and Turkey. The sales gap between India and Turkey is around 8,000 units per year.

Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday charged the ruling BJP at the Centre with diverting public attention by "Modi ka Parivaar" rhetoric, which came as a response to his father Lalu Prasad's attack on the Prime Minister a couple of days ago. Talking to reporters here, Yadav said BJP leaders suffixing «Modi ka Parivar» to their names reminded him of «Main Bhi Chowkidar» rhetoric ahead of Lok Sabha polls of 2019 when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had coined a slogan "chowkidar chor hai". «I am glad that the words of Lalu ji have so much impact,» remarked the former Bihar Deputy CM sarcastically, adding: «But what about issues like poverty and unemployment that he had raised? He spoke of so many things». Prasad, who is the RJD's founding president, had on Sunday told a rally here that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had «no family» of his own, in a bid to rubbish the latter's criticism of «parivarvad» or dynastic politics.