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Buy or sell stocks for today: The Indian stock market ended flat on Friday after a weak opening. The Nifty 50 index finished marginally lower at the 22,513 level, the BSE Sensex added 20 points and closed at the 74,248 mark while the Bank Nifty index gained 432 points and finished at the 48,493 level.

template of that mistake, and we find it easy to access and use it again. Our personal financial well-being suffers from this limitation. Researchers have long argued that we are incapable of learning from our failures. We are either resistant to learning from those mistakes or we learn the wrong things. We are tuned to feel good about ourselves. Contemplating our mistakes hurts our selfesteem. To deny or ignore is this natural triumph of our need for validation over the lessons from examining what we did wrong. We may decide to think about our mistakes sometimes, but that process taxes our brain and cognitive system. We suffer from what behavioural scientists call confirmation bias. We process selectively. We look for what we already know, quickly draw conclusions from a few data points, arrive at a conclusion that confirms our beliefs, and move on.

Indonesia, following its recently concluded elections, wants to usher in new socio-economic initiatives under President-elect Prabowo and has approached India to adopt best practices in mid-day meal scheme and digital inclusion. Notwithstanding the Ramadan period and election process in India, Mochammad Firman Hidayat, Deputy Coordinating Minister of Maritime Resources, Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Investment, Indonesia led a high-level delegation on a visit to India last week. The working visit was aimed at fostering collaboration in the field of biotechnology, digital inclusion, agriculture, and to study the world’s largest free school lunch programme with the objective of implementing a similar programme to provide quality meals to school students in Indonesia, officials said. The proposal for mid-day meal schemes in schools is mentioned in Prabowo’s election manifesto.

BENGALURU : Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of US-based Cerebras Systems, which last month released what it touts as the world's largest and fastest artificial intelligence (AI) ‘chip’ with 4 trillion transistors, insists that while AI is not a silver bullet, it can certainly solve many of the world’s problems. In a video interview from his US office, Feldman spoke about areas where his company’s third-generation wafer-scale AI accelerator—the CS-3—scores over Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs). He also shared his thoughts on how India can leverage AI and Generative AI (GenAI) tools, and whether GenAI is being oversold, among other things.

New Delhi: Chennai-based space start-up Agnikul Cosmos on Sunday called off the maiden launch of its 3D-printed, semi-cryogenic Agnibaan rocket about 129 seconds before lift-off citing communication in the onboard hardware. Sunday's was the third attempt at the test launch of the Agnibaan Sub-Orbital Technology Demonstrator (SOrTeD) since March 22, when the test flight was first scheduled to be held at the Agnikul Launch Pad at ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. The second attempt at the test launch at 7.50 a.m.

BSE Sensex added about 0.8% each for the week. Financial services, the highest weighted sub-index, gained 2.70% this week, its best in four months, led by a rise in top private lender HDFC Bank after it posted a sequential growth in deposits in the March quarter.

The net outflow came after a staggering investment of Rs 35,000 crore in March and Rs 1,539 crore in February, data with the depositories showed.

celestial event. The US space agency is one of the institutions at the ready for the eclipse, with plans to launch so-called "sounding rockets" to study the effects on Earth's upper atmosphere. Here is a look at what researchers are hoping to learn from the upcoming eclipse: When the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun and blocks it, the elusive outermost edge of the Sun's atmosphere, or corona, will be visible "in a very special way," Melroy said.

Buy-ology (2010) and Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational (2010). At the time, both books were best-sellers and regularly cited alongside other widely read titles such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink. After I finished Lindstrom and Ariely’s books, I realised that the best sections in both owed their existence to the same man: Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel-winning psychologist, economist and writer who died last week, at the age of 90.

but managed to end on a positive note. Weak global cues continue to weigh on the sentiment however, buying in select heavyweights across sectors not only capped the damage but also helped the index to close in the green. Domestic equity benchmarks Nifty 50 and Sensex extended their winning streak and logged a third straight week of gains, with the onset of FY25.

Gen Z, are showing more interest in buying local products, pushing up the age group’s contribution to their sales in the last three to four years. Several companies in categories such as electronics and technology products, personal care and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) said Gen Z roots for desi products, unlike consumers in the age group from the late 30s to the 50s, who have a soft corner for foreign brands. Sales from younger consumers are growing at the fastest pace — two to three times the overall sales growth in the last few years, marketers said. Latest study by market researcher NielsenIQ said almost 100 million Gen Z consumers in India are shaping a new form of patriotism, going beyond traditional notions.

MUMBAI : Sellers made a beeline for the Jio Financial Services Ltd (JFSL) counter, dragging down the stock to the lower circuit for a third straight day. A total of 42.89 lakh shares were traded on the National Stock Exchange while 3.79 lakh shares changed hands on the BSE. The stock plunged 5% to ₹224.65 on the NSE and to ₹227.25 on the BSE.

Investors are demanding higher yields to own the bonds of regional banks, threatening to further pressure lenders that are already being hit by rising deposit costs.

climate change impact as it has developed many indigenous heat-resistant and short-duration seed varieties, according to agri-scientists. India is the second and Pakistan is the eighth largest wheat-producing country in the world. While India is self-sufficient in wheat output, the latter imports 2-3 million tonnes. One of the reasons behind Pakistan still being dependent on imports to meet domestic requirements is its failure to develop indigenous varieties of climate-resilient seeds. Presently, the harvesting of wheat crops is underway in both countries. India has projected wheat output to touch a new record of 114 million tonnes in the 2023-24 crop year (July-June), while Pakistan has set an ambitious target of 32.2 million tonnes from an area of 8.9 million hectares.

HDFC Bank share price appreciated to the tune of 6 percent, which triggered speculations about the large-cap banking stock coming out of the base-building mode after the merger with HDFC Ltd. HDFC Bank is expected to declare its Q4 results 2024 on 20th April 2024.

Ask more questions is advice that’s par for the course for a journalist, but best-selling author Charles Duhigg also believes it’s the single most important factor in communicating successfully. In his new book Supercommunicators: How To Unlock The Secret Language Of Connection, Duhigg writes that some people seem to “click" with others effortlessly, while most struggle to carry a conversation though we are connected and talking all the time—email, WhatsApp groups, Instagram, X, Slack channels, phone and video calls, meetings—in person and via screens.

Richard Brock, a 67-year-old treasure hunter, unearthed England's largest-ever gold nugget, weighing 64.8 grams, near the village of Much Wenlock in Shropshire. This discovery, nicknamed 'Hiro’s Nugget' after Brock's wife, has garnered significant attention due to its rarity and size.

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₹333-660) per month. Over the last five-six years, Sushant Bhatia, a consultant in the education sector, has tested multiple apps and platforms for his notes. He has implemented the Zettelkasten method of note-taking (a specific system of organising your note or index cards that also helps with knowledge management) on digital platforms and used a combination of Obsidian and Substack to publish his work and writings, on both his phone and desktop.

As postsecondary students get ready to cross the stage to get their diplomas, a new survey from business consulting firm Robert Half shows they could face an active market. Sixty-four per cent of companies surveyed say they intend to hire entry-level professionals — those with zero to two years experience — in the first half of this year.

In another demonstration of real-world unintended consequences, a new academic study makes a strong case that when it comes to state-level income taxes, too much can be a bad thing.