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Budget date: Narendra Modi’s first Budget of his third term, to be presented on July 23, will see Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman leveraging revenue growth and a record dividend from the Reserve Bank of India. The focus will be on infrastructure investment and targeted spending for the middle class, women, and the agricultural sector. Besides showcasing economic resilience, the government plans to introduce reform measures that bypass the need for legislative approval. “Hon’ble President of India, on the recommendation of Govt of India, has approved the proposal for summoning of both the Houses of Parliament for the budget session, 2024 from 22nd July, 2024 to 12 August, 2024 (subject to exigencies of parliamentary business). Union Budget 2024-25 will be presented in Lok Sabha on 23 July, 2024,” parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju said in a post on X.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and sought the Union government's support for crucial proposals for the state's development. Naidu, whose Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is a vital partner in the BJP-led NDA government, sought enhanced assistance for Andhra Pradesh if the special category status cannot be granted to the state, sources said. The TDP chief, who is on a two-day visit to the national capital, also held talks with Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal on state-specific issues. Sources indicated that Naidu is scheduled to meet several other Union ministers, including Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and Health Minister J P Nadda.

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Greenko Mauritius, a subsidiary of Greenko Energy Holdings, has decided not to proceed with its planned dollar bond issuance that had sought to refinance a $425-million bank loan. The company, which is into renewable energy sources, will now seek alternative bank borrowing instead, Fitch Ratings said, while withdrawing the 'BB' rating assigned to the proposed bond. Initially, the proposed notes, rated 'BB' by Fitch and 'Ba2' by Moody's, were expected to price a 3.5-year bond under 7%. However, earlier this year, Greenko Mauritius deferred the bond due to interest rate volatility. The $425-million bridge loan remains outstanding and is due by September 30, 2024.

₹25 lakh in some cases. An AIF though is still required to apply for clearance.

Pegasus spyware developed by the NSO Group, Apple has classified these attacks as highly advanced and rare, requiring substantial financial investment by perpetrators. These operations, which focus on a select number of individuals globally, are designed to operate covertly and evade detection.The latest communication from Apple warns affected iPhone users of the ongoing nature and expansive reach of these attacks.

Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi reviewed the security situation along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday and exhorted the troops to remain steadfast to meet all security challenges, officials said. This was his first visit to the Jammu region after taking charge as the 30th chief of the Indian Army on June 30 and it assumes significance in view of the ongoing Amarnath Yatra and massive anti-terror operations underway, especially in the hilly districts. The Army chief reached Jammu in the morning and flew to the border district of Poonch to review the security situation and operational preparedness along the LoC, the officials said, adding he was accompanied by General Officer Commanding-in-chief, Northern Command, Lt Gen Suchindra Kumar and General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Jammu-based White Knight Corps Lt Gen Navin Sachdeva. Gen Dwivedi also chaired a high-level meeting of Army and police officers on his return from Poonch at the Army headquarters in Nagrota. Director General of J&K Police R R Swain, Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, Vijay Kumar and ADGP, Jammu zone, Anand Jain attended the meeting.

Volkswagen unit MAN Energy Solutions' gas turbine business to a Chinese company on Wednesday, with ministers citing security reasons. The decision comes amid rising trade tensions between the EU and China. Germany's economy ministry can review and stop transactions deemed to have national security implications, and Berlin and the EU are trying to reduce risks from economic ties with Beijing. The planned sale of the German business to Chinese state-owned CSIC Longjiang GH Gas Turbine Co (GHGT) was announced in June 2023 at an undisclosed price, but MAN Energy Solutions said in September the government would take a close look.

The initiative, dubbed the FIX-FinP2P Protocol Interoperability Alliance, aims to upgrade existing financial infrastructure to seamlessly interact with distributed ledger technology by facilitating interoperability across traditional financial systems and blockchain-based platforms.The alliance is dedicated to enabling messaging between traditional finance and digital securities, such as regulated institutional tokenized real-world assets including bonds, loans, securities lending, alternative investments, repo, and money market funds. It entails the integration of the open-source FIX Trading Community and the open-source FinP2P tokenization interoperability protocol, with Ownera as an integration partner.The Joint GDF and FIX Trading Community Working Group, which first met on June 20th, will operate over a four-month period, during which participating GDF and FIX community member firms and relevant blockchain technology firms will collaborate to test the integration of a FIX-based trading system with a FinP2P router in a sandbox environment.Anthony Woolley, co-chair of the GDF Tokenization Forum and head of business development and marketing at Ownera says: “The biggest challenge facing tokenization initiatives today is to connect market supply and demand at scale and make it easy for buy-side institutions to access the pipelines of high-quality assets now being tokenized by the sell-side.

WASHINGTON—The White House once hoped the NATO summit that opens Tuesday would showcase President Biden’s leadership of the trans-Atlantic alliance and his differences with Donald Trump. Instead it has become a pivotal test of his fitness for a second term. A solid performance during the three-day gathering of North Atlantic Treaty Organization leaders could help shore up his candidacy, reminding voters of his support for the 75-year-old military partnership that his predecessor regularly attacked.

₹15,000 price bracket in July 2024. Some of them are new lauches like the CMF Phone 1 and Tecno Spark 20 Pro while others have been here for a while the Samsung Galaxy F15 and Vivo T3x.CMF Phone 1 starts at a price of ₹15,999 for the 6GB RAM/128GB storage variant.

appraisal season winds to a close, the eventual opening up in the job market in the coming months may see a wave of resignations across corporate India, with many employees looking for change, suggest the findings of a new survey. As much as 86% of 5,562 professionals who responded to a survey put together by job portal Naukri.com for ET said they would be actively looking out for new jobs now that appraisals were over. About 39% of the respondents said their appraisals had been worse than last year, while they were similar for 33% and better for the balance 28%. People have chosen to remain where they were as the job market was muted in several sectors with employers exercising caution in hiring decisions fearing cost escalation, said Arvind Usretay, regional client manager – Asia at HR consultancy Mercer. “When such a phenomenon occurs, it bottles up the regular churn in the market, leading to ‘waves’ of sorts (when the job market revives),” he said. “The last time we witnessed such a frenzy was about 24 months ago.”

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India Cements with a target price of Rs 130. The current market price of India Cements Ltd. is Rs 284.65. India Cements Ltd., incorporated in the year 1946, is a Small Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 8810.38 Crore) operating in Cement sector.

The Compound Finance website has apparently fallen victim to a hijacking incident, according to crypto investigator ZachXBT.

Ed Tilly is joining upstart brokerage-services provider Clear Street, as the former head of Cboe Global Markets Inc. takes a new leadership role in the securities industry. 

Telangana State Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB).

The protesters also ransacked the station's neighbouring administrative office in Thursday night's incident in rural Sibi, in southern Balochistan province, where temperatures peaked at 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). «People stormed the electricity supply office and ransacked it last night and a case has been lodged against them,» police official Anayatullah Bungulzai told AFP, adding that the group numbered up to 800 people.

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With the Supreme Court ruling late last month against the government-favored “Chevron Deference,” one crypto industry leader being targeted by the agency is already using the decision to its advantage.