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A decade ago, global fashion companies set out to raise the pay of workers who make the clothes they sell to a living wage. It hasn’t happened. In Bangladesh, the nearly 600,000 people making clothes for Swedish giant H&M—one of the biggest retailers in this space to start talking about paying living wages—earned an average of $119 a month in the first half of 2023, excluding overtime, the latest available data shows.

₹55 apiece levels, shares of Ircon International Ltd have been climbing to new peaks regularly. In the last nine months, Ircon share price has ascended from ₹55 to ₹190 apiece levels, delivering to the tune of 250 per cent to its positional shareholders.

Bengaluru real estate market is one of the sought-after in the country and has consistently delivered rich returns to investors across established and emerging segments of real estate. “Touted as the Silicon Valley of India, Bengaluru possesses the fundamentals for attracting domestic and global investments in the form of the highest number of engineering colleges in the country and some of the marique management colleges. This is consistently driving the demand for commercial, residential, retail, and warehousing sectors to meet the evolving needs of occupiers, homebuyers, and shoppers and presents immense opportunities in the real estate sector," said Sankey Prasad, CMD, Colliers India.

BSE. In the one week period, Adani Ports share price has rallied more than 9%.

BEIJING — It's been a tumultuous 12 months for Alibaba, casting doubt on the future of the tech giant just as artificial intelligence is taking off.

Buy or sell stocks for today: Following weakness in global market sentiments, Indian stock market extended the selling spree for second straight session on Wednesday. Nifty 50 index lost 148 points and closed at 21,517 levels, BSE Sensex crashed 535 points and closed at 71,356 mark whereas Nifty Bank index went off 56 points and finished at 47,704 levels.

Hindenburg Research's allegations of fraud, misgovernance and stock price manipulation. It said the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) was conducting a «comprehensive investigation» that «inspires confidence.» It asked the regulator to complete investigation within three months. Sebi has, so far, completed its Supreme Court-ordered probe into 22 of 24 items. The apex court also asked the Centre and Sebi to constructively consider suggestions of the six-member expert committee headed by former Supreme Court judge AM Sapre, and take further action to strengthen the regulatory framework, protect investors and ensure the orderly functioning of the securities market.

NEW DELHI : India should explore alternatives to lithium-ion batteries for scaling up electric mobility, the government’s principal scientific advisor Ajay Kumar Sood said, amid a global scramble for critical minerals. Sood, who also chairs the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council specifically mentioned sodium-ion and aluminium air batteries as alternatives to lithium. Mining lithium is yet to take off in India although reserves found in Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan make India among the top 10 holders of the mineral.

metal companies were among the top losers Wednesday as fresh concerns over the economic prospects of China, one of the largest consumers of commodities like steel, aluminium, and copper among others, prompted traders to cut their bets. The Nifty Metal index fell 1.81% Wednesday. Among steel producers, JSW Steel, SAIL and Tata Steel slumped 3-4%.

investors need not rush to purchase equities at record levels. If history is to go by, the market may give them buying opportunities this year, too. According to a study by ICICI Direct on index declines in the past 12 years, the Nifty fell between 10% and 16% every year on nine occasions.

«Overall we expect the market to consolidate and take a pause before the quarterly results starts, leading to more stock-specific action,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal. Here's breaking down the pre-market actions: STATE OF THE MARKETS

A senior ETF analyst has cast doubt on the accuracy of a new report published by crypto investment services provider Matrixport alleging the SEC may very well reject all spot Bitcoin ETF applications come January.

Supreme Court on Wednesday delivered its judgment on a cluster of petitions seeking an 'independent investigation' into allegations, levelled by US short-seller Hindenburg Research, related to stock manipulation and accounting fraud against the Adani group of companies. By refusing to transfer the ongoing Sebi probe to a special investigation team (SIT), the apex court has backed the domain authority of the markets regulator and reposed faith in it to see the matter to a conclusion. Any closure, as the court reminded, to the ongoing investigation would come after Sebi completes its investigations, for which it has now got an extended deadline by three months.

fossil hunters unearthed the remains of a dinosaur from the hills of eastern Montana five years ago, they carried several key characteristics of a Tyrannosaurus rex: a pair of giant legs for walking, a much smaller pair of arms for slashing prey, and a long tail stretching behind it. But unlike a full-grown T. rex, which would be about the size of a city bus, this dinosaur was more like the size of a pickup truck. The specimen, which is now listed for sale for $20 million at an art gallery in London, raises a question that has come to obsess paleontologists: Is it simply a young T.

Investing.com — U.S. futures traded lower Wednesday, with investors consolidating ahead of the release of the minutes from the December Federal Reserve meeting.

2023 was a roller coaster of a year for the markets, fuelled by rate-cut expectations from the US, the UK and Europe, global tensions erupting in the Middle East and, not least of all, disappointing news from China’s economy.

Nifty on Wednesday ended 148 points lower to form a long negative candle on the daily chart placed at the edge of breaking below the immediate support of 10-day EMA. The positive chart pattern like higher tops and bottoms is intact on the daily chart and the present weakness could be in line with the formation of new higher bottoms of the sequence. A decisive move below 21,500 levels could open the next downside of 21,255 (20-day EMA) and the next 20,980 levels in the near term. Immediate resistance is placed at 21,670, Nagaraj Shetti of HDFC Securities said.

. Although lithium imports do not form a significant chunk of India's import bill, the imports are likely to grow further. A key mineral being explored for manufacturing of batteries is sodium.

DA Davidson analysts assert that NVIDIA (NVDA) plays a crucial role as a leader in accelerated computing, projecting an impressive 20% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2022 levels across cycles.

SHANGHAI/SYDNEY (Reuters) — China's leading bubble tea makers including Mixue Bingcheng and Guming are rushing to apply for first-time share sales in Hong Kong as companies in the fast-growing sector expand aggressively amid fierce competition.

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) has filed a record 122 intellectual property rights (IPRs) and achieved a licensing rate of around 14% to industry partners in 2023, the premier technology institute said in a statement on Wednesday. IIT Kanpur has now filed a total of 1,039 IPRs to date, a testimony to its strength in cutting-edge research and innovation. The 122 IPRs filed last year include 108 patents, four design registrations, three copyrights, and one trademark application, along with four US and two China patents. The year also saw 167 IPRs being granted with 15 technologies licensed. The patents are for inventions from varied domains such as MedTech and nano technology, including innovative healthcare solutions like a portable medical suction device and a continuous lung health monitoring system.