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BSE on Monday, January 29, ahead of its December quarter earnings. GAIL share price opened nearly 2 per cent higher at ₹168.15 against the previous close of ₹165.40 but soon pared most gains. Around 9:40 am, the stock traded 0.88 per cent up at ₹166.85.

Stock market today: Despite strong Asian cues, the Indian stock market ended lower on Thursday. The Nifty 50 index lost 101 points and closed at the 21,352 level, the BSE Sensex shed 359 points and finished at the 70,700 mark while the Bank Nifty index ended 216 points lower at the 44,866 level. Broad market indices fared better than the Nifty and the BSE Small-cap index ended in the positive even as the advance-decline ratio remained positive at 1.27:1.

By Ankur Banerjee

Stock Market News: After an extended weekend, this week will see a number of noteworthy events for the domestic equities market, with the budget taking centre stage. Experts note that the finance minister's hint of a low-key, vote-on-account budget, however, points to a lack of big decisions.

Catch Live Market Updates here Both the domestic benchmark indices dropped around 1.3% in the holiday-shortened week gone by. On January 25, the Sensex fell 359.64 points, or 0.51%, to 70,700.67, while the Nifty 50 ended 101.35 points, or 0.47%, lower 21,352.60. Nifty 50 formed a small negative candle on the daily chart with a minor lower shadow.

By or sell stocks for today: Despite strong Asian cues, the Indian stock market ended lower on Thursday. The Nifty 50 index lost 101 points and closed at the 21,352 level, the BSE Sensex shed 359 points and finished at the 70,700 mark while the Bank Nifty index ended 216 points lower at the 44,866 level.

Iran-backed militants launch missile attack on Iraq airbase, US soldiers injured Last week, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sent the research satellite Soraya into space. However, Britain, France, and Germany condemned that launch.

Here are the biggest analyst moves in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) for this week.

ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first person anywhere to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia. He was convicted in 1989 of murdering Elizabeth Sennett, the wife of a preacher from Alabama, on her husband’s orders. The state had first tried to execute him, by lethal injection, in November 2022, but botched the procedure.

GenAI) and projected to nearly triple spends on this technology to USD 3.4 billion in 2024 across Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, India, and Singapore, according to Infosys Research. While the spending trails North America, APAC's adoption, effectiveness, and growth are among the highest globally, it said. «Companies across Asia-Pacific are quickly ramping up investments in generative AI and entering a higher stage of maturity,» the IT major's research arm, Infosys Knowledge Institute (IKI), said in the research.

POEM-3, successfully achieves all payload objectives. With the likely re-entry of POEM-3 in the next 75 days, the PSLV-C58 XPoSat mission will be leaving zero debris in space," ISRO said in an X post on Saturday.

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the country will no longer be given grades under the accreditation system, rather they will be categorised either as «accredited» or "not accredited", the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) decided on Saturday. In an executive council meeting held on Saturday, the NAAC also decided that the accredited institutions will be further given levels between one and five to encourage them to achieve the highest level.

By Vineet Sachdeva,

What do a Hollywood starlet, an Olympic gold medalist and a Harvard longevity researcher have in common? All of them follow an influencer who has kicked off a health craze known as the Glucose Goddess Method. More of a philosophy than a diet, the Glucose Goddess approach consists of “hacks" meant to minimize blood-sugar spikes. Proponents say that following its guidance can help people think more clearly, have more energy and reduce cravings.

ISRO said on Saturday its space platform, POEM-3, has successfully achieved all its payload objectives. POEM-3 (the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module-3) uses the spent PS4 stage of the PSLV-C58 rocket that launched XPoSat on January 1 this year. ISRO said POEM-3 flew with nine payloads from Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Physical Research Laboratory, academia, and space start-ups.

retail lending is increasingly posing concerns for the banking industry, arising from a potential systemic risk. The non-mortgage lending growth of banks and NBFCs has been growing at 25-30% YoY, mainly led by credit cards, durables, autos, personal loans, education loans, and others. A recent RBI research delves into the empirics of retail credit growth and concludes that the quality of retail loan portfolio is healthy across banks, product categories, and borrower risk classes, even as growth continues to surge. But it warns that some subcategories, mainly credit cards and vehicle loan portfolios, show signs of weakness, and need close monitoring. The broader message of this study is that there are incipient concerns about rising credit risks from rampant retail lending by banks and NBFCs. However, the fact that the RBI’s research recommends further regulatory tightening to contain the spillover effect aligns with our fervent alerts on exuberant retail lending. Considering RBI’s latest study, the announced and prospective regulatory tightening, and our assessment of the economic cycle, the headwinds for the Indian banks and lending industry will likely intensify.

By Doyinsola Oladipo

BEIJING (Reuters) — China's major southern city of Guangzhou fully relaxed home purchase limits for some people on Saturday and said it would increase affordable housing supply, in a move to support the local property market.

I chuckle when somebody insists CO2 is a greenhouse gas and that’s all there is to it. Virtually all expert science would say, then, don’t worry about CO2 because the direct effect of increased CO2 is easily calculated to be only about 1 degree Celsius of warming from an expected atmospheric doubling later this century. To make CO2 responsible for the warming already observed—1.2 degrees—scientists have to posit “positive" or warming feedbacks.

equity-linked savings scheme (ELSS) represents a prudent approach to attain both investment growth and tax benefits. These funds predominantly allocate investments to equities, known for historically delivering superior returns compared to asset classes such as debt or fixed deposits. Consequently, ELSS emerges as an attractive choice for those seeking to create long-term wealth.

investment philosophy: Schloss advocated for acquiring stocks that were trading well below their intrinsic value. He employed various metrics, including the price-to-book ratio, price-to-earnings ratio, and dividend yield, to pinpoint undervalued stocks. Schloss transcended mere metrics to gain a profound comprehension of a company’s intrinsic value.