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Shree Cements Ltd. traded 1.55 per cent down at Rs 23963.0 at 01:35PM (IST) on Thursday, even as BSE benchmark Sensex dropped 293.22 points to 65702.59.

Taylor Swift enthusiasts are in for an electrifying surprise as the renowned singer-songwriter confirms the impending release of her re-recorded album, "1989 (Taylor's Version)." This announcement arrives exactly nine years after the original album's debut, marking a significant milestone in her career. The revelation took center stage during the climactic final show of her Eras Tour in Los Angeles.

PwC Australia spin-off Scyne Advisory has replaced the embattled big four firm as a pre-vetted supplier of cloud computing services for the Commonwealth, and its consultants have won new work from a federal and Victorian departments.

Insurers are the unlikely stars of this profit season, prized by investors for their ability to push higher premiums on to policyholders, after years in the equity market wilderness.

NBN Co will not seek more revenue per user this year despite increasing inflation, as it prepares its fourth attempt at setting new pricing for retailers including Telstra, TPG and Optus.

The Australian Taxation Office is driving a bump in insolvencies and corporate stress as it chases $30 billion in debt from small and medium businesses, Commonwealth Bank executive Michael Vacy-Lyle says.

OTT platforms. This Independence Day, the box office battle will be between the two most-anticipated movies of the year--Gadar 2 and OMG 2. Actors Sunny Deol, 60, will be back as 'Tara Singh' on the big screens.

Narendra Modi shared on X (formerly twitter) that World Lion Day provided an opportunity to celebrate the magnificent lions that capture our admiration with their strength and magnificence. He mentioned that India felt proud to be the home of the Asiatic Lions, and highlighted that there had been a consistent rise in the lion population in India over recent years. PM Modi applauded the individuals and groups working tirelessly to protect the lions' habitats.

Puma India has on-boarded budding actor Shanaya Kapoor as its new brand ambassador to deepen its connect with Gen Z consumers in the country. Shanaya will front PUMA’s athleisure and performance wear, taking the sports brand a step closer to its next generation of shoppers and boosting its commitment towards connecting with youth culture. “I have always been a daredevil.

inflation as it believes that soaring vegetable prices, likely transient, could ease soon after monsoon rains subside. It raised the inflation forecast for the financial year to 5.4 percent, from 5.1 percent earlier, as vegetable prices could keep the headline numbers high even though core inflation may be reasonable.

metaverse could reach up to $900 billion dollars by 2030, though it may remain in the seed stage for at least another five to 10 years, Bain and Company said in a report released on Thursday. The report, titled Taking the Hyperbole Out of the Metaverse, said the metaverse poses real and growing economic opportunities for businesses.

PNB Housing Finance, part of the housing finance segment, have rallied more than 30% in the last three months which has helped the stock to close above the descending trendline resistance on monthly charts and stage a breakout from Cup and Handle pattern on the weekly charts. The breakout on both monthly and weekly charts has opened room for the stock to head towards 800-900 levels in the next 3-6 months, which would take the stock to a fresh 52-week high, suggest experts. The housing finance stock rose from Rs 458 hit on 6 April 2023, to Rs 620 recorded on 7 August 2023, which translates into an upside of 37% in the last 3 months.

Suzlon Energy and Patanjali Foods during the June quarter, India's HNI (high net-worth individuals) investors bought the dip in Adani Transmission shares but found peace in the safety net of bluechips like HDFC Bank and Reliance Industries. An analysis of the June quarter shareholding pattern shows that HDFC Bank saw one of the highest increases in HNI ownership, followed by Jhunjhunwala-owned Star Health and Radhakishan Damani's Avenue Supermarts. HNI buying was also seen in Reliance Industries, Suzlon Energy, Patanjali Foods and Adani Transmission.

Punita Kumar Sinha, Managing Partner, Pacific Paradigm Advisors, says “every company globally is now looking at India as a source of opportunity and growth. They are all finding ways to invest more in India. So there is a lot of strategic interest in India.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed his top general and called for stepping up war preparations «in an offensive way», including boosting weapons production and conducting more drills, state media reported Thursday. With a cigarette in hand, Kim was shown talking to a room full of uniformed top generals, and pointing at maps, images in state media showed, while he discussed «major military actions» against South Korea at a meeting of the Central Military Commission. The Korean Central News Agency said the agenda of the meeting, which comes just days after Kim inspected key arms factories, was «the issue of making full war preparations» and ensuring «perfect military readiness for a war». The meeting comes as Seoul and Washington prepare for major joint drills later this month, which the North views as rehearsals for invasion and has repeatedly warned could trigger «overwhelming» action in response. At the meeting, Kim dismissed chief of the general staff Pak Su Il, replacing him with Vice Marshal Ri Yong Gil, KCNA said without giving further details.

TikTok, a social-media platform, in which an American called Zaid Khan embraces the notion of not going above and beyond at work, has caused an awful lot of noise. The video itself is amazingly anodyne. A piano tinkles.

As Rahul Gandhi's ‘flying kiss’ created a controversy, Delhi Commission for Women's Swati Maliwal made a sharp attack at Union minister Smriti Irani taking reference of former WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's sexual harassment act. Swati Maliwal wrote on X (formally Twitter), “A supposed flying kiss thrown in the air ignited so much fire. A man named Brij Bhushan is sitting two rows back.

The initiative was launched to boost flood resilience in major cities and make better use of rainwater through architectural, engineering and infrastructural tweaks. But cities remain vulnerable to heavy rain. In July alone, floods and related geological disasters caused 142 deaths and disappearances, destroyed 2,300 homes and caused direct economic losses of 15.78 billion yuan ($2.19 billion), China's emergency ministry said on Monday.

United States likely rose in July for the first time in 12 months, driven higher by more expensive gasoline and suggesting that the fight against rising prices may prove bumpier in the months ahead. The inflation report the government will issue Thursday is expected to show that consumer prices increased 3.3% from 12 months earlier. That would mark an uptick from a 3% year-over-year increase in June — the lowest such figure in more than two years.

It was a day of strong consolidation for the markets. They opened lower but showed a remarkable recovery towards the end while closing on a modestly positive note.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said late on Tuesday that apps without proper filings will be punished after the grace period that will end in March next year, a move that experts say would potentially restrict the number of apps and hit small developers hard. You Yunting, a lawyer with Shanghai-based DeBund Law Offices, said the order is effectively requiring approvals from the ministry.