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Market ahead: Q3 results, Red Sea crisis, inflation, FII activity among key market triggers to watch next week The majority of investors continue to hold an optimistic outlook, encompassing positive sentiments toward the U.S. economy, corporate profits, and the Federal Reserve's course of monetary policy.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials were attacked in West Bengal, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury—leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha—Sunday criticized the central enforcement agency as “an idiot" and the ruling Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in the state over the incident. "What will ED do? ED is itself an idiot," the West Bengal Congress chief said. On January 5, the economic intelligence agency team was attacked and its vehicles were damaged in Sandeshkhali village of North 24 Parganas district when the central arrived to raid the house of block level TMC functionaries Shahjahan Sheikh--a close aide of state minister Jyotipriyo Mallick--and Shankar Adhya, and their relatives in connection with alleged ration scam.

Google accounts without needing their passwords. According to the cybersecurity company CloudSEK, a new type of malware that uses third-party cookies to gain unauthorised access to people's private data is already being actively tested by hacking groups.

BJD and opposition BJP were working against Odisha's self-esteem by involving «outsiders» in the state's affairs, senior Congress leader Ajoy Kumar alleged on Sunday. Raising the slogan of «Odisha for Odias», he claimed that «outsiders» were now playing a bigger role in the state's politics, economy and bureaucracy while the importance of Odias was diminishing day by day. «Government work contracts of Rs 35,000 crore have been awarded to outsiders.

Narendra Modi government has time and again stressed that fiscal prudence remains a top priority for the dispensation with an eye on FY26 by when it targets to bring the fiscal deficit down to 4.5 per cent. Come February 1, analysts expect Sitharaman to continue the BJP government's focus on infrastructure spending with an aim to lower the fiscal deficit from the target of 5.9 per cent of GDP set for the current financial year. Analysts have said that high hopes of re-election in April-May 2024 has allowed the Modi government to keep a check on populist measures and instead focus on its infrastructure spending like roads, power plants, among other things. The government expects the Indian economy to grow at 7.3 per cent in the ongoing financial year, as per the First Advance Estimates released Friday.

IT companies are expected to report a «soft» third quarter with higher-than-usual furloughs weighing on revenue growth, industry watchers said cautioning that demand outlook commentary is likely to be unchanged as clients continue to scrutinise discretionary spends and prioritise cost optimisation. The big earnings week for tech heavyweights is up ahead, with the top tier IT companies slated to announce their December quarter numbers this week. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys will declare their Q3FY24 report card on January 11 (Thursday) and Wipro and HCL Technologies on January 12 (Friday).

BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday asked her SP counterpart Akhilesh Yadav to introspect before making any unrestrained jibe at her party. Mayawati's comment comes a day after the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief took a jibe at the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) while speaking to reporters during an event in Ballia district. Asked whether the BSP would join the INDIA alliance, Yadav questioned in return, «Who will give an assurance after that?» In a post on X in Hindi, Mayawati said, «The SP chief who is helpless owing to his and his government's anti-Dalit policies, habits and style of working, should introspect before making any unrestrained comment on the BSP and check how tainted his reputation is in this strengthening the BJP and reconciling with them.» «Also, who can forget the blessings given by the then SP chief to the BJP before and after winning the parliamentary elections. And then how can the public forget the meetings of the SP leadership with the BJP leadership after their government was formed (in the Centre)? In such a situation, it would be appropriate if SP fights communal forces,» she added.

Animal Box Office Collection: It’s been 37 days since Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal was released in theatres. On January 6, a Saturday, it saw the biggest jump so far in the domestic Box Office. The movie, directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, minted ₹88 lakh, a 76% increase from the previous day.

₹4,773 crore into Indian equities, as reported by NSDL data. In December, the domestic equity markets experienced a surge fueled by substantial inflows from foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), who infused an impressive ₹66,134 crore during the month. The Nifty concluded the preceding month with a nearly 8% increase.

The long-awaited approval for a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) may finally come this Wednesday.

Ram Temple in Ayodhya will be in the form of a five-year-old boy. The 51-inch tall idol will be made of black stone and will be placed on the ground of the temple, said Champat Rai, the general secretary of the Ram Temple Trust while sharing the details about the temple and its idol. He also said that the stone used for making idol will not tarnish after coming in contact with milk and other items.

Motorola has already confirmed that its next generation of G series smartphone, the Moto G34 5G will launch in India at an event next week. The official unveiling is set for January 9 at 12:00 pm IST, and the smartphone will be made available for purchase on both the company's official website and Flipkart. According to the specifications revealed on Motorola's official website, the Moto G34 5G will be powered by the Snapdragon 695 5G processor and paired with an Adreno 619 GPU for graphics-intensive tasks.

Bangladesh Elections 2024: Bangladesh began voting for its general elections early today January 6, amid pre-poll violence and opposition calls for a boycott of the incumbent government and its candidate, current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Notably, however, Hasina looks set to win a fifth term, and fourth consecutive clean sweep in the country, amid a lack of a significant rival option. This election has unfolded against the backdrop of Hasina's government unrelentingly tamping down on protests by opposition party representatives via widespread arrests.

Myanmar's military government has officially acknowledged the withdrawal of its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China, on January 6. The city, Laukkaing, fell to an alliance of ethnic armed groups after months of conflict, marking a significant defeat for the military government. The fall of Laukkaing, the capital of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone, is part of a series of setbacks for the military since the ethnic alliance initiated an offensive on October 27, according to a report by the Associated Press.

Tata Electronics is reportedly to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth a whopping Rs 12,082 crore with Tamil Nadu Government. The MoU is likely to be signed at Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet 2024 in Chennai which was inaugurated by state's Chief Minister M. K.

Elon Musk arriving in India next week to announce a Tesla manufacturing unit in Gujarat (although no official confirmation has come yet), the focus has once again shifted to ramp up the public infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs) in the country in order to meet the ambitious 2030 goal of the government. India needs to have a robust backbone for charging infrastructure across the length and breadth of the country with considerations of traffic and population density, as it aims to break the barriers for large-scale adoption of electric vehicles. India's top nine cities, with a population of over 40 lakh each, would require 18,000 public EV charging stations by 2030, according to the recent government data.

reported. As per the publication, King Charles is now determined to solve the 'Andrew problem'. Andrew has consistently denied the allegations.

Bangladesh Elections 2024: Bangladesh began voting for its general elections early today January 6, amid pre-poll violence and opposition calls for a boycott of the incumbent government and its candidate, current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Notably, however, despite the opposition, protests, and claims of coercion, Hasina looks set for a fifth clean sweep in the country amid a lack of a significant rival option. This election has unfolded against the backdrop of Hasina's government tamping down on the boycotts by opposition party representatives via widespread arrests.

After Canada and Palestine, Indian hackers launch cyber attacks on Qatar to avenge death penalty of former Navy officers The new vulnerability was analysed by security firm CloudSEK and reported by The Independent. Furthermore, the issue first came to the fore when a hacker posted about it on a Telegram channel in October 2023.

shortly after its issuance. The Department of Education clarified that the earlier order, which extended the winter break, was issued by mistake. A decision on the matter was supposed to be reached on January 8.

Arvind Kejriwal attributed the rise in per capita income in Delhi to innovation and forward-looking steps that have been taken under his leadership over the past nine years. A 'Statistical Handbook-2023' released on Saturday by the Economic and Statistics Department of the Kejriwal government said Delhi's per capita income increased from Rs 389,529 to Rs 444,768, a 14 per cent yearly rise, and is 158 per cent higher than the national average per capita income. «This is a huge increase in per capita income in any state in any single year. It has been achieved by the hard work of 2 cr Delhiites and Del govt working together day and night.