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₹750 crore via open market on Thursday, for the second time in six months, according to bulk deals data. Warburg Pincus, via its subsidiary Orange Clove Investments BV, divested 28,83,819 shares, representing a 3.3% stake in the affordable housing financing company, for approximately ₹251 crore. As of the end of September, an affiliate of Warburg Pincus held a 26.4% stake in the company.

Holiday travelers are starting their final sprint

Tourism from Japan has been sluggish since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shares are mixed in Europe and Asia after a modest advance on Wall Street that kept the market on track for a fourth straight weekly gain

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a modest advance on Wall Street that kept the market on track for a fourth straight weekly gain

Finnish border guards and soldiers have begun erecting barriers including concrete obstacles topped with barbed-wire at some crossing points on the Nordic country’s lengthy border with Russia

Less than two years after nearly being killed by a Russian bomb while reporting, Fox News' Benjamin Hall returned to Ukraine this week

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, a sign that U.S. job market remains resilient despite higher interest rates

The oil and gas sector, one of the major emitters of planet-warming gases, will need a rapid and substantial overhaul for the world to avoid even worse extremes fueled by human-caused climate change

Retailers are kicking off the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season on Friday with a bevy of discounts and other enticements

Pricing for the average new car continues to rise, with the latest reports pegging the average new vehicle transaction price around $48,000

Reserve Bank of India's recent decision that require banks and non-bank financial institutions to allocate more capital against unsecured consumer credit will constrain loan growth in the segment, according to a report. This should also reduce the potential for the rising appetite for such lending to weaken financial system stability, a report by Fitch Ratings said on Thursday.

Mercedes racer Lewis Hamilton has finally addressed rumours that claim that he is maybe looking to switch teams by joining Red Bull. «I don't really understand what he's been talking about because no one, as far as I'm aware, from my team has spoken to him. I haven't spoken to Christian really in years,» said Hamilton to reporters.

Nirmala Sitharaman in Delhi on Thursday and requested her to take an early decision on the State's memorandum seeking drought relief. He urged her to release funds from the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF) early, highlighting the urgency due to prevailing farmers' distress. «Timely payment of assistance to farmers would partly relieve their distress,» Gowda told ET. He has also asked her to consider the data the government submitted on the numbers of small and marginal farmers. The available data with the Union Government, he added, underestimated the size of the small & marginal farmers. The government, the minister said, had placed Aadhaar-lined alternate data sets to substantiate that 70% of farmers in Karnataka were small and marginal in nature. The CM told the media in Mysuru, last week, that the government has sought Rs 17,900 crore towards drought relief. The Central Drought Study Team, he said, had not given a report even after a month and the Centre had also not responded to the government's request.

Insurance behemoth Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) is set to unveil 3-4 new products in the upcoming months, aiming a double-digit increase in new business premiums during the current fiscal year. "We are projecting double-digit growth over the last year. We are going to achieve that because a recent trend is showing an uptick in individual retail business.

Galathea bay project are planned for early next year, Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said in a statement Thursday. According to the Shipping Ministry, environmental clearance for the project came in November last year. Stage 1 forest clearance has been received and in-principle approval for Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the International Container Transhipment Port (ICTP) project is under finalization. The proposed facility is envisaged to be developed in four phases with Phase 1 is proposed to be commissioned in 2028 with handling capacity of around 50 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) or 4 Million Twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU). The planned International Container Transhipment Port (ICTP), at Galathea Bay is part of the holistic development of Great Nicobar Island.

Israeli army, along with other senior doctors from al-Shifa Hospital, the main medical facility in the Gaza Strip, as reported by doctors and various media sources. The Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported the arrest, and Salmiya's cousin, Adham Abu Selmiya, confirmed it in a post on the social media platform X.

Bank of Baroda is yet to complete the forensic audit into the recent graft allegations against some of its key employees of its mobile app Bobworld, a senior bank official said on Thursday. «We are still working on the forensic audit as the central bank is still doing some more due diligence on the app Bobworld,» Joydeep Dutta Roy, an Executive Director of the bank, told reporters on the sidelines of the two-day national banking summit organised by IBA and Ficci. On October 10, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) banned the lender from on-boarding new customers on its mobile app after finding certain material supervisory concerns.

Islamabad: Terming illegal immigrants as "Aliens", Balochistan Caretaker Information Minister Jan Achakzai has said that the second phase of a crackdown against illegal foreigners has been initiated and the government is planning to deport 1 million illegal foreigners by January 2024, Pakistan-based Geo News reported. More than 340,000 illegal migrants, particularly Afghans, have voluntarily left or been deported from Pakistan after the Pakistan caretaker government announced its decision to deport undocumented refugees on October 5. Earlier in October, the Pakistan caretaker government had said that all illegal immigrants should leave Pakistan by November 1 or face forceful expulsion, according to Geo News report.

Uttarkashi Tunnel LIVE Updates In his recent post on X, formerly Twitter, the 68-year-old business tycoon expressed his confidence in the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel, and called them “heroes". “Our collective, national prayers for their rescue. The @NDRFHQ are heroes & I know they will bring them out as soon as possible," wrote Mahindra on X.

truce involves a four-day cease-fire in war-hit Gaza and phased release of at least 50 hostages (by Hamas) in return for 150 Palestinian prisoner (held in Israel). Israel said the truce could last beyond the initial four days as long as the militants free at least 10 hostages per day. Qatar said Israel would also allow more fuel and humanitarian aid into Gaza, but did not provide details.