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₹42.3 lakh spend on Swiggy, spurring speculation on X (formerly Twitter) about the possibility of this user being rival Zomato. In the world of food delivery services, Zomato and Swiggy stand as direct competitors. Their core business is delivery of food, linking a vast array of restaurants and cloud kitchens to a shared customer base.

Let him cast the first stone, he who has not sinned, said Jesus Christ. He was admonishing a crowd gathered to stone a woman of sin, one Mary Magdalene. He might have said the same thing at the Dubai climate summit, addressing the delegates from the rich world hollering for an early elimination of fossil fuels.

deepfake videos of him circulating on the internet. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he said some web pages claimed that the tech tycoon invested in automated trading applications. “In recent months, there have been several fake news items propagated via social media apps and on various webpages available on the internet claiming that I have endorsed or invested in automated trading applications," Murthy wrote on the microblogging site.

Texmaco Rail & Engineering, the engineering and infrastructure company, rallied 10.7% in Friday's early trade to reach an all-time high of ₹188.80 apiece, driven by the company's new order win. The Ministry of Railways has awarded an order to the company for the manufacturing and supply of 3,400 BOXNS waggons valued at ₹1,374.41 crore, the company informed through an exchange filing on Thursday. Also Read: Sensex surging: Will this be the new normal? The company operates in the business of manufacturing rolling stock, including wagons, coaches, EMUs, loco shells and parts, hydro mechanical equipment, steel castings, rail EPC, bridges, and other steel structures.

India Today report. “The opposition misleads the country. Now the Hindus of the country have woken up, now Hindus will not be divided.

Bandhan Bank Ltd.(up 5.04 per cent), IDFC First Bank Ltd.(up 0.85 per cent), Federal Bank Ltd.(up 0.78 per cent), IndusInd Bank Ltd.(up 0.6 per cent) and Au Small Finance Bank Ltd.(up 0.38 per cent) were among the top gainers. Axis Bank Ltd.(down 0.66 per cent), Bank of Baroda(down 0.2 per cent), State Bank of India(down 0.13 per cent), ICICI Bank Ltd.(down 0.05 per cent) and HDFC Bank Ltd.(down 0.01 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company Ltd. gained 0.86 per cent to Rs 1239.65 at 10:56AM (IST) in Friday's trade. The stock has hit a high of Rs 1246.1 and low of Rs 1229.0 so far during the session.

Lalit Mohan Jha, the alleged mastermind behind the December 13 Parliament security breach on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack, was arrested on Thursday. According to Delhi Police, Jha, accompanied by an accomplice turned himself in, after a manhunt was launched to nab the alleged mastermind behind the entire conspiracy in the Parliament Security breach case. A Delhi court on Thursday had granted seven days custodial remand of all four accused persons arrested earlier — Manoranjan D, Sagar Sharma, Amol Dhanraj Shinde and Neelam Devi — in connection with the Parliament security breach matter. In the Thursday's security breach in Parliament, Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D had jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during Zero Hour, released yellow smoke from canisters and shouted slogans before being overpowered by MPs.

Investing.com — Here is your Pro Recap of the biggest analyst cuts you may have missed since yesterday: downgrades at Stanley Black & Decker, Green Dot, Deckers Outdoor, and EOG Resources.

Tata Steel with a target price of Rs 150. The current market price of Tata Steel Ltd.

Brigade Enterprises Ltd.(up 4.02 per cent), Swan Energy Ltd.(up 2.86 per cent), Sobha Ltd.(up 1.57 per cent), Phoenix Mills Ltd.(up 0.45 per cent) and DLF Ltd.(up 0.18 per cent) were among the top gainers. Prestige Estates Projects Ltd.(down 2.7 per cent), Macrotech Developers Ltd.(down 1.15 per cent), Godrej Properties Ltd.(down 1.02 per cent) and Oberoi Realty Ltd.(down 0.32 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com, says “holding some amount of cash is prudent potentially in sectors where the run-up has been too swift or where someone has an overexposure and then wait for some corrections to allocate that. But the overall economic outlook is positive, so we cannot go very hugely into cash. So, maybe a 10-15% cash position could be potentially prudent and then in between, opportunities will keep on coming up because all stocks do not correct at the same time.” It is almost like the market is believing that the next RBI policy will see a rate cut. Is there a correlation? Should one also anticipate a rate easing by the RBI? It looks highly unlikely that we are going to see a rate cut anytime soon. The scenario that is building globally right now is that the rate hike cycle clearly seems to have ended and once that happens, we will see that the dollar index peaks out, flows start into emerging markets, etc. I think that is the phenomenon we would see.

Simbhaoli Sugars’ plans of a one-time settlement with lenders hit a roadblock with a division bench of the Allahabad High Court directing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe whether loans were sanctioned in contravention of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines and whether there was a case of money laundering. The court order came in response to a writ petition by the company seeking to squash insolvency proceedings initiated against it by State Bank of India (SBI) after the company could not convince the lender of its intention to complete the payments related to the one-time settlement (OTS). Simbhaoli Sugars owes lenders nearly Rs 1,500 crore. “The petitioner has filed the petition with the sole intention of holding back the NCLT (National Company Law Tribunal) proceedings,” a division bench of Mahesh Chandra Tripathi and Prashant Kumar said in the order.

Hindustan Zinc with a target price of Rs 325. The current market price of Hindustan Zinc Ltd.

LTIMindtree Ltd. gained 3.07 per cent to Rs 6129.75 in Friday's session as of 10:35AM (IST) even as the equity benchmark Sensex traded 500.67 points higher at 71014.87. Earlier in the day, the stock witnessed a gap down start to the session.

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(up 1.47 per cent), Tata Motors Ltd.(up 1.44 per cent), Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(up 1.09 per cent), Bajaj Auto Ltd.(up 0.68 per cent) and Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(up 0.55 per cent) were among the top gainers. Tube Investments of India Ltd.(down 0.44 per cent), Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd.(down 0.3 per cent), TVS Motor Company Ltd.(down 0.18 per cent) and Balkrishna Industries Ltd.(down 0.08 per cent) were the top losers on the index.

Life Insurance Corporation of India with a target price of Rs 916. The current market price of Life Insurance Corporation of India is Rs 797.5. Life Insurance Corporation of India, incorporated in the year 1956, is a Small Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 506980.19 Crore) operating in Financial Services sector.

Maersk Tankers is to insist its fleet of fuel carriers have the option to avoid the Red Sea following an escalation in attacks on merchant ships in the area. The decision, set out in a notice seen by Bloomberg, doesn’t mean Copenhagen-based Maersk Tankers ships will dodge the area — and by extension Egypt’s Suez Canal — but it gives the firm discretion to do so. Houthi militants, aligned with Iran, are attacking vessels with ties to Israel when they pass through the Red Sea, causing insurance costs to increase. Maersk’s notice opens the door to a practice — extending voyages by thousands of miles to sail around Africa — that could disrupt energy flows were it to be widely adopted in the market. Ships that detour would burn hundreds of tons more fuel and deliver their cargoes days later. Maersk Tankers is what’s known in the shipping industry as a pool operator, meaning it commercially manages tankers for numerous owners, listing a 131-strong fleet on its website. The firm is separate to A.P.

stocks that have given multibagger returns of upto 412% in 2023 so far, saw retail investors increase their holdings for three consecutive quarters. These 12 stocks are Anand Rathi Wealth, Control Print, Gravita India, IRCON International, Jupiter Wagons, KDDL Ltd, Kilburn Engineering, KSolves India, Saksoft, Shilchar Technologies, Sky Gold, and Som Distilleries Breweries. Stocks in the smallcap segment have had a dream run this year, backed by the relentless buying, particularly by retail investors.

Meta and China's TikTok restricted a record number of social media posts and accounts in Malaysia in the first six months of 2023, data published by the firms showed, amid a jump in government requests to remove content. Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's administration, which came to power in November 2022 on a reformist platform, has faced accusations of backpedaling on its promises to protect freedom of speech amid increased scrutiny of online content in recent months.

By Laura Sanicola and Andrew Hayley