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special invitations have been reportedly sent to 6,000-7,000 people, including several politicians and celebrities. As the fervour over the Ram Mandir ceremony remains high among the people of the country, here's how expensive the flight tickets to Ayodhya from 10 major cities are. Roughly, there was a difference of ₹1,000-3,000 in the fares of few trips available on MakeMyTrip and EaseMyTrip platforms.

HCL Tech Q3 Results: HCL Technologies reported its December quarter (Q3FY24) results on Friday, January 12. The IT major posted a consolidated net profit (attributable to shareholders of the company) of ₹4,350 crore, a rise of 13.5% from ₹3,832 crore in the previous quarter (Q2FY24).

I’m changing the way I do the monthly CPI analysis. Doing it live for an audience was always stressful, especially with the inevitable data issues from time to time.

(Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures declined on Friday as weak earnings reports from big banks sparked worries about the health of corporate America, while investors awaited an inflation report during the day for clues on monetary policy outlook.

Investing.com -- JPMorgan and Bank of America are among a slew of major U.S. banks set to report their quarterly earnings on Friday. Markets will likely be keeping tabs on how the companies are bearing the weight of higher interest rates and expenses related to the collapse of regional banks last year. Elsewhere, demand for spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds soars in the first trading day after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved them in a landmark decision.

Bank of America (BAC) reported fourth-quarter revenue figures that trailed analyst estimates, causing shares to fall more than 4% in the premarket.

Investing.com — BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) has agreed to purchase Global Infrastructure Partners in a $12.5 billion cash-and-stock deal that will create a multi-asset class investing giant.

Trade Policy Forum (TPF) meet in New Delhi starting January 12. US Trade Representative Katherine Tai is on a three-day visit to India for this meeting. Tai and Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will co-chair the meeting. On India's agenda are a number of key issues that include a social security pact, US audit of Indian pharma players, etc. Other issues to be raised by India are: a) delay in visa; b) increasing exports of table grapes, pharma goods, and marine products such as wild caught fish and shrimp; c) reinstating the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) status to India; d) export control regulations for high-tech products and technologies; more access for Indian mangoes to the American market, etc. The two prime issues that will dominate the discussions this time are the social security pact and USFDA drug inspections in India, news agency PTI reported. Social security pact The Social security pact is also called a totalisation agreement.

Former Reagan economist Art Laffer discusses inflation, recession concerns and the impact of the election on the economy.

Tarun Tejpal told the Delhi High Court on Friday he will publish an apology in a national daily stating that an Indian Army officer, against whom he had levelled allegations of corruption in defence procurement, had not accepted any money. The high court was hearing an appeal filed by Tejpal, the proprietor of Tehelka.com, and its reporter Aniruddha Bahal challenging a single judge's order awarding a compensation of Rs 2 crore to Major General M S Ahluwalia for the loss of reputation suffered by him on account of a 2001 «expose» by the news portal alleging his involvement in corruption in defence procurement. The counsel for the duo also told the high court that they will deposit Rs 10 lakh each with the court.

A MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) arbitrage bot operator, known as 2Fast, has achieved a profit of $1.8 million from a single transaction bundle.

Bank of America reported fourth-quarter earnings before the opening bell Friday.

₹365 crore in the third quarter ended December. The private sector insurer's profit stood at ₹315 crore in the year-ago period, HDFC Life said in a regulatory filing. Total income increased to ₹26,694 crore in the latest December quarter from ₹19,693 crore in October-December 2022.

fountain pen valued at Rs 5,000 and a sum of one lakh rupees were stolen from the check-in baggage of Binod Kumar Mandal, a 46-year-old director at Manipal Tech Group Companies, during his flight from Mangalore to Mumbai on Wednesday. Mandal, who had kept the cash for emergency use and the antique pen, discovered the theft upon landing at Mumbai Domestic Airport.

premium goods will outperform broad-based competitors as the country’s affluent class is expected to nearly double to 100 million people within three years, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Strong economic growth, stable monetary policy and high credit growth has increased the purchasing power of top earning Indians over the past decade. This has resulted in the number of affluent Indians earning above $10,000 per annum from 24 million consumers in 2015 to 60 million, or 4.1% of the population currently, according to a Goldman report published on Friday. The world’s fifth-largest economy is tipped to become the third-biggest by 2027, according to the International Monetary Fund, with the country seeing rising spending power among its middle-class, benefiting firms with premium brands in leisure, jewelry, out-of-home food and healthcare, according to Goldman. “There has been a significant increase in the value of financial and physical assets in India in the past three years which is driving an increasing wealth,” according to the report.

₹129.90 apiece. The stock commenced its upward momentum in the preceding trading session, surging over 2.50%, following the release of the bank's Q3FY24 business update on January 10. In the current month so far, the shares are up 14.5% The public sector lender reported impressive figures for the December quarter, with its total business improving 9.90% YoY to ₹12,76,389 crore as compared to ₹11,61,441 crore in the same period of last year.

Wipro on Friday, January 12, reported a 1.8 per cent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) increase in its net income to ₹2,690 crore ($323.9 million) for the third quarter of the current financial year (Q3FY24). However, its revenue from operations declined year-on-year (YoY) and QoQ and profit also fell year-on-year. “In a seasonally soft quarter, deal booking momentum remained strong.

Wipro announced its September-December quarter results for fiscal 2023-24 (Q3FY24) today, reporting a consolidated net profit of ₹2,694 crore, a mere 1% QoQ jump, while showing a 12% decline on a year-on-year (YoY) basis. The revenues of Wipro came in at ₹22,205 crore in Q3, indicating a 4.4% decrease compared to the revenue of ₹23,229 crore reported in the corresponding period last year. Sequentially, revenue also saw a 1.4% drop.

During the course of his protracted legal struggle in the United States, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, who formerly served as the CEO of Binance, has encountered a serious setback. In response to Zhao's second request to fly outside of the country, a federal judge named Richard Jones of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle declined to grant his request. This determination was made as a part of the processes that took place prior to the sentence hearing for Zhao.

There was a big security compromise that occurred on the on-chain trading platform known as Thunder Terminal. An exploit resulted in illegal access to 114 of the more over 14,000 wallets that were connected to its network. The total amount of losses reached 86.5 Ether and 439 Solana, which is roughly comparable to $240,000. According to reports, the assault, which was carried out in only nine minutes, was caused by a third-party service that Thunder Terminal used that had been hacked.

HDFC Life on Friday posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 367 crore for the three months ended December 2023. The profit rose 16% from Rs 316 crore clocked in the corresponding period of last year. Net premium income for the third quarter rose 6% year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 15,273 crore.