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extreme weather conditions. And the season is not over yet! India has recorded over 40,000 suspected heatstroke cases amid a prolonged heatwave, reported Reuters. Simultaneously, parts of the country, including the northeastern region, are dealing with severe floods triggered by heavy rain. This extreme weather is part of a larger trend affecting billions across Asia. Scientists attribute these conditions largely to human-driven climate change. North India has seen temperatures soar close to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) during one of the longest heatwave spells on record, as reported by Reuters.

Gold prices edged higher on Thursday as lacklustre U.S. economic activity fuelled expectations that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates this year. FUNDAMENTALS

Som Group distillery and temporarily suspending the plant's manufacturing licences after the federal child rights agency found 59 children working at the site illegally. Police launched an investigation into Som after the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) last week found 39 boys and 20 girls working at the factory. The agency also released photos of children's hands it said showed burns due to contact with chemicals. «We have sent the police force to ensure there are no issues during the sealing process,» Vikas Kumar Shahwal, a senior Madhya Pradesh police official, told Reuters.

Reuters reported that the upcoming first full-fledged Budget 2024 of Modi 3.0 is expected to relieve taxpayers, as the government considers reducing income tax rates for specific groups of individuals. The report also indicates that the government is considering lowering income tax rates for individuals earning annual incomes of ₹10 lakh.Moneycontrol reported, quoting government officials, that the Centre plans to raise the income threshold before any tax is levied from ₹3 lakh to ₹5 lakh in the upcoming budget.

Indus Towers for up to USD 2 billion. This is a significant increase from the approximately 10 per cent stake they initially intended to sell.The telecom company, which holds a 21.5 per cent stake in Indus Towers, is planning to use the proceeds from the sale to repay debt, according to a report by Reuters last week.In 2022, Vodafone announced its intention to sell its entire stake in the Indian firm.In the latest stake sale planned for June 19, the company aims to sell shares within the price range of 310 to 341 rupees.On Wednesday, over 615 million shares of Indus Towers were traded across numerous block deals, with a total of approximately 713 million shares exchanged, according to data from the National Stock Exchange of India.Indus Tower's share price was trading in red, down 4.48 per cent at ₹328.50, on June 19, at 11:00 am, on BSE.

Decagon, a startup that sells artificial intelligence-powered customer support solutions, said on Tuesday it had raised $35 million in Series A and seed funding. Accel led the series A round with participation from Andreessen Horowitz. Decagon uses generative AI to replace or augment a company's customer support workforce.

Ford plans further job cuts in Germany, Spain and the U.K., the head of the worker's council for the US automaker in Germany told Reuters on Tuesday. It is unclear how many additional job cuts are foreseen in Germany under the new restructuring plan, which comes on top of a previous restructuring program, said the head of the works council at Ford's Cologne plant, Benjamin Gruschka. Gruschka added that a decision is expected by end June.

Elon Musk told employees on Monday that the electric vehicle maker is working on stock-based compensation for high-performing employees, according to two people who reviewed an internal memo.The plan comes just days after Musk won shareholder approval for his $56 billion pay plan consisting of stock options and two months after he announced job cuts affecting more than 10% of Tesla's global workforce in the face of slowing demand for EVs and intensifying price competition from Chinese rivals."Over the next few weeks, Tesla will be doing a comprehensive review to provide stock option grants for exceptional performance," Musk said in an email, according to the two people who reviewed it and are based in China and the U.S., respectively. They declined to be named as the memo is for internal use."There will also be an ongoing program to award spot option grants for anyone who does something outstanding for the company.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk told employees on Monday that the electric vehicle maker is working on stock-based compensation for high-performing employees, according to two people who reviewed an internal memo. The plan comes just days after Musk won shareholder approval for his $56 billion pay plan consisting of stock options and two months after he announced job cuts affecting more than 10% of Tesla's global workforce in the face of slowing demand for EVs and intensifying price competition from Chinese rivals.

euro on Monday, as the common currency recovered from the more than one-month lows hit last week driven by political turmoil in Europe. The euro was up 0.1% to $1.0718 on Monday, rebounding from the six-week low of $1.066775 touched last week following news of a snap parliamentary election in France.

India's monsoon has delivered 20 per cent less rain than normal this season, according to the weather department. This shortfall raises concerns for the country's critical agricultural sector, which relies heavily on monsoon rains. News agency Reuters reported that as per the Indian Meteorological Department, India has received 20 per cent less rainfall than normal since June 1. Almost all regions except for a few southern states have seen shortfalls and some northwestern states experiencing heat waves, the report said. «The monsoon's progress is stalled. It has weakened. But when it revives and becomes active, it can erase the rain deficit in a short burst,» an IMD official told Reuters.

NEW DELHI : Private equity (PE) firm I Squared Capital and alternative investment firm Stonepeak are vying for Vodafone Group Plc’s 21.5% stake in Indus Towers Ltd in a deal potentially valued at around $2.3 billion, according to two people aware of the development. The talks are in advance stages, the people said. On 14 June, Reuters reported that Vodafone Group was looking to sell its entire stake worth $2.3 billion, as of Friday's closing stock price in Mumbai, in India's largest telecom tower company through stock market deals and had hired Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and BNP Paribas to manage the sale.

A US District Court judge has signed off the settlement two months after a jury found Terraform and Kwon civilly liable for fraud after the $40 billion collapse of the company and its ecosystem.The collapse happened after, in May 2022, the TerraUSD stablecoin was de-pegged from the US dollar, prompting it and Terraform’s other tokens to plummet to close to zero in value, leading to "devastating losses to countless investors," says the SEC.Terra's implosion also set off a series of devastating events for the crypto industry, causing the failure of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital which, in turn, hit Genesis Global Capital and FTX.SEC Chair Gary Gensler says: “Terraform and Do Kwon’s fraudulent activities caused devastating losses for investors, in some cases wiping out entire life savings. Their fraud serves as a reminder that, when firms fail to comply with the law, investors get hurt."The judgement, to which Terraform and Kwon consented, includes $4.05 billion of disgorgement plus interest, and a $420 million civil fine for the company.

CNBC reported.TD Securities told CNBC that the influx of hundreds of thousands of fans to London in August for Swift’s final U.K. performances could stimulate the economy enough to delay a potential interest rate cut in September.“We still anticipate a BoE cut in August, but the inflation data for that month might keep the MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) on hold in September," the bank’s macro strategist, Lucas Krishan, and its head of global macro strategy, James Rossiter, wrote in a note Friday.The Bank of England is anticipated to start lowering its bank rate from the 16-year high of 5.25 percent soon.

Kate Middleton, Britain's Princess of Wales, has said she is making good progress as she undergoes preventative chemotherapy but is «not out of the woods» ahead of her first public appearance on Saturday since surgery revealed the presence of cancer. In a personal written message released on Friday, Kate said she had been «blown away» by the thousands of kind messages from across the globe that followed her cancer announcement in March, as per a Reuters report. She said they had made a world of difference to her and her husband, heir-to-the-throne Prince William. «I am making good progress, but as anyone going through chemotherapy will know, there are good days and bad days,» her statement said.

A shift in opinion by Vanguard, Tesla’s largest outside investor, played a pivotal role in passing a record-setting pay arrangement for CEO Elon Musk during the company’s annual meeting on Thursday, according to Reuters.

liquidators of China Evergrande Group are investigating some of the property developer's service providers including its former auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers, to potentially recoup losses for creditors, three sources said. Evergrande, once China's largest property developer, was ordered to be liquidated by a Hong Kong court in January, after it failed to deliver a concrete restructuring plan for its $23 billion worth of offshore debt deemed to be in default.

inflation in India, measured using the Wholesale Price Index, quickened to a 15-month high of 2.61 per cent on an annual basis in the month of May as against 1.26 per cent in April 2023, government data showed on Friday. WPI quickened considerably to 7.4 per cent in May from 5.5 per cent in April and 4.82 per cent in May 2023. Primary articles inflation quickened to 7.2 per cent in May from 5.01 per cent in April.

Sensex gained 204.33 points, or 0.27%, to close at 76,810.90, while the Nifty 50 settled 75.95 points, or 0.33%, higher at 23,398.90.Also Read: Buy or sell: Vaishali Parekh recommends three stocks to buy today — June 14“Nifty made another new high at opening on June 13, gave up some of these gains and remained rangebound through the day. The fact that the Nifty keeps making new highs every day is assuring, but it is not able to hold on to the entire gains.

‘Mornings with Maria’ panelists react to December’s better-than-expected jobs report, detailing its expected impact on the labor market and U.S. economy.

Reliance Industries' Jio Platforms and Luxembourg-based SES to provide gigabit fibre internet has won approval from the Indian space regulator to operate satellites there, a government executive said. The three approvals issued to Orbit Connect India — which aims to provide satellite-based high-speed internet access — come as companies from Amazon.com to Elon Musk's Starlink have been vying for the go-ahead to launch satellite communication services in the world's most populous nation. The authorisations have not been previously reported. They were granted in April and June from the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre, known as IN-SPACe. These allow Orbit Connect to operate satellites above India, but further approvals are needed by the country's department of telecoms to begin operations.