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Au Small Finance Bank Ltd. 0.91 per cent to Rs 553.75 in Friday's trade as of 10:15AM (IST). The stock hit a high price of Rs 557.40 and low of Rs 548.75 during the session. The return on equity (ROE) for the stock stood at 12.28 per cent. Traded volume on the counter stood at 10:15AM shares and turnover at Rs 0.79 crore around that time. The stock of Au Small Finance Bank Ltd. quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 813.00 and 52-week low prices of Rs 540.90, respectively.

PVR INOX has reportedly removed Pushpa 2 from its theatres following an argument. Film industry tracker Manobala Vijayabalan yesterday in a post on X claimed, «Pushpa 2 was removed from all PVR INOX chains in North India from tomorrow». However, later he said that the issue has now been resolved and that shows are 'opening slowly one by one'.

Luigi Mangione and Sean «Diddy» Combs, now have two things in common: they share the same prison and the same lawyer. Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been transferred to Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where Combs is also being held amid a series of sexual assault lawsuits. Incidentally, Mangione's lawyer is also defending rapper Sean «Diddy» Combs in a separate sex-trafficking case. Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania after a five-day search and brought to New York. CNN and ABC News report that he is now in federal custody at the MDC. “Mangione appreciates everyone’s support,” said Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione’s lawyer and the wife of Marc Agnifilo.

buy call on Lemon Tree Hotels with a target price of Rs 190. The current market price of Lemon Tree Hotels Ltd. is Rs 154.25. Lemon Tree Hotels, incorporated in 1992, is a Mid Cap company with a market cap of Rs 12207.73 crore, operating in Tourism & Hospitality sector. Lemon Tree Hotels Ltd. key Products/Revenue Segments include Income from Rooms, Restaurants & Other Services and Other Operating Revenue for the year ending 31-Mar-2024.

Winter vacation dates, however, remain subject to extension depending on the severity of the cold wave. Here's a detailed breakdown of winter break announcements across states:

buy call on Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) with a target price of Rs 950. The current market price of Indian Hotels is Rs 880.3. IHCL, incorporated in 1902, is a Mid Cap company with a market cap of Rs 125461.32 crore, operating in Tourism & Hospitality sector. Indian Hotels Company's key products/revenue segments include Income from Rooms, Restaurants & Other Services and Other Operating Revenue for the year ending 31-Mar-2024.

IT stocks like TCS, Infosys, and HCL Tech are likely to be in the spotlight on Friday following Accenture's better-than-expected Q1 earnings and upgraded revenue guidance. Accenture’s first-quarter revenue of $17.7 billion surpassed analyst estimates of $17.12 billion, driven by strong demand for its AI-powered solutions that help businesses optimize operations.

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blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis showed on Thursday. The hacking amount exceeded $1 billion for the fourth straight year and the number of incidents rose to 303 from 282 in 2023, it said. Hackers had stolen $1.8 billion in 2023.

Bharti Airtel are expected to remain in focus today (Friday, September 20) after the telecom major informed exchanges about pre-paying Rs 3,626 crores to clear all liabilities for spectrum acquired in 2016. The company has prepaid a total of Rs 28,320 crores of spectrum liabilities in this calendar year. «With this, Airtel has now prepaid all its spectrum dues that had interest costs higher than 8.65%,» the company filing on Thursday said.

US Department of Commerce has recently asked Nvidia to look into how the company's products ended up in China over the past year, The Information reported on Thursday, citing a person close to the department. The chip giant has asked big distributors such as Super Micro Computer and Dell Technologies to conduct spot checks of their customers in Southeast Asia, the report said. Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips are embedded in server products made by Super Micro and Dell. The Information reported that five different people involved in smuggling Nvidia chips said they have managed so far to evade detection during recent inspections by Super Micro.

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Nacdac Infrastructure set a record on Thursday, being oversubscribed 1,976 times on its final day. The ₹7.28-crore offering attracted ₹14,386 crore in bids from 6.41 lakh applications. The non-institutional investor (NII) portion of the IPO was subscribed 2,635 times, while the retail investor segment saw 2,504 times subscription. The qualified institutional buyer (QIB) category was subscribed 236 times.

“As per our estimates, the 1,700 centres in total have grown in size by 25%, meaning they are individually expanding while new ones are also being added. That is why you’re seeing so much activity and hiring,” said Nambiar. Formerly the CMD of Cognizant India, he took over as Nasscom’s president in November. Nambiar emphasised that the growth of GCCs doesn’t signify a loss for the IT sector. Instead, both sectors are closely intertwined, creating a win-win situation for India. To further accelerate the growth of the sector—which has hired more people than IT services firms—Nasscom is working with various government arms to address key concerns facing GCCs, such as safe harbor provisions and advance pricing agreements. He added that the era of requesting tax incentives or sops is over; the focus now is on resolving these structural concerns.

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Canada’s new finance minister said the government needs to preserve its fiscal ability to support households and businesses if Donald Trump’s tariff threats materialize into an economic shock.

This week, Canada’s mortgage rate scene was as quiet as a bank vault on Christmas Day. Only one national mortgage rate leader tweaked its offers since last Thursday. That was on the two-year insured fixed, which rose one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.74 per cent.

U.S. stocks are stabilizing following one of their worst days of the year

Kirti Vardhan Singh told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that the government is aware of reports issued from time to time by various foreign entities, including in the US, about the situation of human rights in India. Such reports are often found to be subjective, misinformed and biased in nature, he said. The minister said that the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is an organisation with a political agenda and the government attaches no credibility to its reports, which misrepresent facts and peddle a motivated narrative about India. He said India is a vibrant democracy with its Constitution guaranteeing fundamental rights of citizens, and a robust judiciary and free media ensuring the exercise of these rights.

Fans can expect the complete season to drop on February 6, 2025, as mentioned in a report by What’s On Netflix. Here’s everything we know about Sweet Magnolias Season 4 and what could lie ahead in Sweet Magnolias Season 5.