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An explosion in downtown Fort Worth on Monday afternoon left at least 21 people injured and caused significant damage to a hotel, likely due to a gas leak, according to authorities.

Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday met Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar here and raised a slew of complaints against the ruling YSRCP government in Andhra Pradesh. Accompanied by Janasena chief Pawan Kalyan, Naidu said they explained all the issues clearly to the Election Commission, whose members are on a two-day visit to the state ahead of the forthcoming legislative assembly and Lok Sabha elections. «Atrocities are happening unlike any other time.

Investing.com — Boeing (NYSE:BA) shares were marginally lower in premarket U.S. trading on Tuesday after two airlines reportedly discovered loose parts on some grounded models of the planemaker's 737 Max 9 jet, threatening to compound growing safety concerns following a dangerous mid-air blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight last week.

Activist investors are expected to carry out fewer environmental and social campaigns this year after the strategy proved less lucrative than other shareholder agendas, according to business consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal Inc. 

By Johann M Cherian and Ankika Biswas

DLF has reported Rs 7,200 crore sale from its latest luxury residential development, DLF Privana South in Gurugram, with the project getting sold out within 72 hours of the launch. This exclusive enclave will comprise 1,113 luxury residences across 7 towers, presenting 4 BHK apartments and penthouses.

Stocks and bonds retreated before key inflation readings from the U.S. and China later this week and the earnings season kicks off on Friday. 

Budget Measures for EVS: Amid calls to curb use of fossil fuel and improving sentiment of adoption of electric vehicles, India's Budget support and policies become a crucial factor for not only the stakeholders in the industry but for consumers as well who would want the best rates to shift from fuel vehicles to EVs. EV demand in India As per media reports, India's electric vehicle sector achieved a historic milestone in 2023, crossing 1.5 million unit sales, marking a remarkable 46% year-on-year growth for the first time. Want to know nitty-gritties about Budget? Click here The demand for electric vehicles (EVs) in India has surged by over 100% since 2017. In January-November 2023, EV sales skyrocketed to 89,137 units, doubling from 44,489 units in the corresponding period of 2022. Tata Motors, the EV leader, anticipates a slight moderation in 2024 due to a high base. However, they forecast annual electric car sales to reach 1 million units by 2028, supported by new launches and expanded charging infrastructure. Tata Motors aims for EVs to constitute 25% of its sales by 2027 and 50% by the decade's end.

Match Group's (NASDAQ:MTCH) shares experienced an 8.3% surge in premarket trading Tuesday.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) for approximately $13 billion, according to the WSJ.

Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures pointed lower on Tuesday, suggesting a possible retreat from gains in the prior session that stemmed in part from a rally in shares in chip designer Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA). Elsewhere, two airlines reportedly discover loose parts on some of their grounded models of Boeing's (NYSE:BA) 737 Max 9 jet, adding to scrutiny on the planemaker that has been building since a dangerous mid-flight blowout on a single version of the aircraft last week.

Jim Freedman, Intrepid Investment Bankers chairman, discuss how rate cuts could help small and midsize businesses with debt and capital growth on 'The Claman Countdown.' 

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's plan to kick-start its economy via a $14.3-billion cash handout programme will proceed by May, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin told reporters on Tuesday.

By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang

Investing.com — European stock markets traded in a mixed fashion Tuesday, as investors digested weak German economic data as well as a positive overnight close on Wall Street. 

A curious citizen out on a Sunday stroll says he found an intact iPhone — still in perfect working condition — that appears to have been sucked out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which suffered a catastrophic failure to its fuselage on Friday.

Voltas Ltd. traded 1.08 per cent higher in Tuesday's session at 11:52AM (IST). The stock opened at Rs 990.1 and has touched an intraday high and low of Rs 1003.05 and Rs 990.1, respectively, during the session so far.

Carta Inc., a fintech firm that works with startups, is getting out of the stock sale business following a controversy over its use of customer data. In a blog post Monday night, Carta chief executive officer Henry Ward said the company will stop its work in secondary share trading, a business it was pushing into alongside its service managing startups’ investor information, or cap tables.

Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) will be undertaking a three-level scrutiny of housing projects that will be registered to ensure zero complaints from homebuyers and better compliance on developers’ part. As part of this new mechanism, all the project registration applications received will be subjected to scrutiny at legal, financial, and technical levels. These three tiers of thorough scrutiny will be done by three different independent teams. With the introduction of new application scrutiny measures, MahaRERA aims to ensure projects to be completed within the scheduled time frame without any hurdles and eventually bring down the complaints from the home buyers to zero. The applications will have to undergo all possible scenarios that may derail the project or may pose a risk of incompletion, the regulatory body said. «MahaRERA has laid down the legal, financial and technical parameters to ensure that there are no problems in timely completion of the real estate projects, while issuing registration numbers to new projects.

JSW Steel Ltd on Tuesday announced that its consolidated crude steel production for the third quarter of FY24 stood at 6.87 million tonnes, up 8 per cent QoQ and 12 per cent YoY. 

chlorine gas leak was reported in Jhanjra area of Dehradun on Tuesday, people were evacuated as they complained of breathlessness. A senior police official told news agency ANI that the residents were sent to safe places and also informed that there was no report of any casualties. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and other security forces rushed to the spot soon after receiving complain, ANI reported citing Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dehradun, Ajay Singh. «On receiving information about people facing difficulty in breathing due to leakage in the chlorine cylinder kept in the empty plot in the Jhanjra area of Prem Nagar police station in Dehradun, Police, NDRF, SDRF and fire team reached the spot and are taking action for safe disposal,» Singh said.