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Sai Life Sciences will debut on the exchanges on Wednesday. Ahead of the listing, the company's shares were trading with a GMP of Rs 72 in the unlisted market. Considering the upper price band of Rs 549, the stock is expected to see a premium of just over 13% on listing.

SME IPO of Identical Brains Studios opened for subscription earlier today and will close on December 20. The company aims to raise Rs 20 crore through the SME IPO and list the shares on NSE SME platform. Here are 10 key things investors need to know about the public offer before subscribing to the issue.

«We are continuing to take steps to further knock down barriers to private sector cooperation, and importantly, we are in the process of finalising national security memorandum that will update our own export control policies under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR),» Finer said. Finer, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Indian Ambassador to the US Vinay Kwatra visited Houston on Tuesday and met the astronauts of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) who are training at NASA's Johnson Space Center to execute a joint effort of the International Space Station next year.

New England shrimp will come back to seafood counters in small amounts next year under a research fishing program

The NSE Nifty fell 332.25 points, or 1.35%, to close at 24,336. The BSE Sensex declined 1,064.12 points, or 1.3%, to end at 80,684.45.

Canada’s inflation rate slowed to 1.9 per cent in November, slightly below forecast and down from two per cent in October, a deceleration that economists said should give the Bank of Canada room to continue to ease its policy rate.

An Alabama woman received a pig kidney transplant last month and is free from dialysis for the first time in eight years

People worried they'll never get a scarce human transplant want to know when they might get a pig kidney instead

USCIS) has introduced sweeping reforms to the H-1B visa program, refining eligibility standards and offering new flexibility to both employers and skilled foreign workers. The regulations, finalized on Tuesday, reintroduce a “prior deference” policy for visa extensions and address long-standing concerns regarding the program's integrity and accessibility.

HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank, along with declines in blue-chip stocks like Reliance Industries and Bharti Airtel weighed on the benchmarks. The benchmark BSE Sensex lost 1064.12 points or 1.30% to settle at 80,684.45, while the broader Nifty 50 index closed at 24,336.00, lower by 332.25 points or 1.35%.

Indian defence forces are aiming to expand their assets in space and bolster the strength of the agencies responsible for these tasks. A detailed presentation was recently made by the Department of Military Affairs (DMA) to senior Defence Ministry functionaries in the presence of service chiefs and key stakeholders from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Government officials told that the defence forces are focusing on enhancing the number of space-based assets and the necessary ground infrastructure to support them.

«The research on quantum computing has been ongoing for several years by various institutions, including us. The Quantum Reference Facility is coming up at the C-DAC facility in Bangalore,» said A S Murty, senior scientist and Kolkata head of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). The scientist was speaking on the sidelines of the International Symposium on Quantum Computing (ISQCI 2024) held in Kolkata.

NITI Aayog has invited expression of interest for undertaking research on 'Cost of Doing Business in India' (CoDB), as India faces strong competition from countries like Vietnam, China, and Indonesia, which offer lower operational costs in key sectors. In a notice, Niti Aayog said the cost of doing business is a pivotal factor influencing the competitiveness of an economy, encompassing the expenses businesses incur to establish, operate and expand. «For a rapidly growing economy like India understanding these costs is essential to fostering a conducive business environment and attracting investment. »Despite India's significant reforms to improve its business climate, it faces strong competition from countries like Vietnam, China, and Indonesia, which offer lower operational costs in key sectors," it said.

A popular retirement strategy known as the 4% rule may need some recalibration for 2025 based on market conditions, according to new research.

Markets regulator Sebi has amended norms governing investment advisers (IAs) and research analysts (RAs) to facilitate ease of doing business by providing relaxation in eligibility criteria for registration and simplifying the compliance requirements. In two separate notifications, Sebi said the minimum qualification requirement has been reduced to a graduate degree in specified fields and net-worth requirement has been replaced with the requirement of deposits. Further, it has introduced «part-time investment advisor» and «part-time research analyst» and the definition of investment advice/research service has been tweaked to exclude trading calls.

precious metals from its free trade agreements (FTA) so as to curb speculative imports, safeguard foreign exchange reserves and protect India’s trade balance and economic resilience, think tank Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) said Tuesday. Gold imports reached a staggering $14.9 billion in November 2024, accounting for 21.2% of India’s total merchandise imports of $70 billion and for the first time, gold surpassed crude petroleum as the country’s largest single import item. Most gold enters India as bars and rods with 99.99% purity, but traders are also using other tariff-free or concessional categories to bypass import duties such as platinum alloys from Dubai, gold compounds and noble metal solutions from Japan, and gold and silver jewelry from Indonesia. These routes push actual gold imports to much higher levels than official figures suggest.

Portfolio Investors (FPIs) from issuing offshore derivative instruments (ODIs) with derivatives as underlying or use derivatives to hedge their ODIs in India. «A Foreign Portfolio Investor shall not issue ODIs with derivatives as reference/underlying. A Foreign Portfolio Investor shall not hedge their ODIs with derivative positions on Stock Exchanges in India. Accordingly, ODIs shall only have securities (other than derivatives) as underlying and shall be fully hedged with the same securities on a one-to-one basis, throughout the tenure of the ODI,” a Sebi circular issued on Tuesday said.

Thorn has worked at the firm for over 40-years and his announcement has catalysed a series of internal promotions. Nick Wood has been named as Thorn's successor, taking over as the next head of regional offices and stepping up from his role as head of investment research, which will now be assumed by Matt Ennion. Quilter Cheviot CEO Andy McGlone joins PIMFA board Wood, who joined Quilter in 2012, will begin his role as head of regional offices on 1 January 2025, subject to regulatory approval. He will be working with the outgoing Thorn to ensure a «smooth transition» in the inte...

The U.S. Census Bureau is changing how it counts international migration in its annual population estimates

Hindprakash Ind(up 19.99%), Alfavision Over(up 19.96%), Shish Industries(up 18.77%) and Visco Trade Associates(up 16.93%) were among the stocks that surged over 15%.

Adani Power Ltd. 1.53 per cent to Rs 537.10 at 09:59AM (IST) in Tuesday's trade. The counter has hit a high of Rs 537.50 and low of Rs 525.00 so far during the session. The stock had closed at Rs 529.00 in the previous session. The counter has had a total traded volume of 144579 shares so far with a value of Rs 7.67 crore on the NSE. It traded at a price-to-earnings multiple of 16.19 and a price-to-book ratio of 5.78.