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₹6,495 per bbl, having swung between ₹6,456 and ₹6,598 per bbl during the session, against a previous close of ₹6,514 per barrel. -Analysts attributed the price falls to profit-taking plus a combined response to a surge in US crude stocks and continuing hopes of a Gaza ceasefire deal in coming days.

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Real estate agent Mauricio Umansky says high mortgage rates, high prices and low supply are creating difficulties for homebuyers on 'The Claman Countdown.'

New York Post columnist Rikki Schlott on young professionals fleeing Democrat-run states and legacy admissions at Ivy League schools.

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Nifty could find strength only above its biggest hurdles of its all-time high at the 22,298 mark, while support is likely at 21,857 and 21,566 levels.

NEW DELHI : After Bharat atta and rice, the Union government is planning to launch Bharat masur (lentil) dal – but, at around ₹89 per kg, without a discount – a senior official told Mint. Normally the Bharat brand comes with hefty discounts. The lentil pricing comes despite inflation being in control and with huge quantities of masoor lying in government stocks.

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commercial credit portfolio of Indian micro small and medium enterprises grew 11% on-year in Jul-Sep, as accelerating economic activity boosted demand for commercial loans, TransUnion Cibil and the Small Industries Development Bank of India said. “Credit exposure stood at Rs 28.2 lakh crores at end of the quarter ending September 2023...supply volumes grew by 20% year-over-year (YoY) in the July-September 2023 quarter, indicating improved lender confidence,” TransUnion Cibil and SIDBI’s analysts said in a report on 80 lakh MSMEs. Commercial loans grew 29% YoY in Jul-Sep, while the total value of new credit for micro small and MSMEs was Rs. 2.43 lakh crores with small enterprises having the largest share of 42%.

BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is likely to get a majority in the Rajya Sabha in April this year once the remaining six vacancies under the nominated category are filled and those newly elected take oath. According to data available with the Rajya Sabha Secretariat, the BJP, which currently has 94 members, gained two seats in the Upper House in the just concluded elections, pushing its own strength to 96. The strength of NDA, which at present has 113 members, will cross the half-way mark of 123 in the 245-member House in April this year once all nominated members take oath. At present, there are only six MPs who have been nominated by the President of India as members in the Rajya Sabha, with some having joined the BJP later. There are a total of 12 nominated members in the House.

Asha Bhosle, is 90 and says she can belt out 18 numbers at one go even today. And that's just what Bhosle is about to do at her March 9 concert to celebrate her 90th birthday. «If I will live more, I will go almost everywhere in Maharashtra and do shows. The name of my show is 'Woh Phir Nahin Aati Hai'. I will also not come again… You should never regret that you haven't seen that person. People say we did not see Kishore Kumar and other singers (perform). But now you can say we have seen Asha Bhosle,» the legendary singer said at a press conference on Wednesday. Singing, she said, is her passion. She would sing even as a child but took to professional singing due to circumstances, Bhosle said.

Climate change may be causing more competition for food in oceans, leading to a reduction in the weight of fish, according to a study. Researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan found that fish weight in the western North Pacific Ocean dipped in the 2010s due to warmer water limiting food supplies. They attributed the first period of weight loss to greater numbers of Japanese sardines, which increased competition with other species for food. «With higher temperatures, the ocean's upper layer becomes more stratified, and previous research has shown that larger plankton are replaced with smaller plankton and less nutritious gelatinous species, such as jellyfish,» Professor Shin-ichi Ito from the University of Tokyo said.

Northern Railway zone launched a 15-day long special drive from February 25 to counsel the loco pilots and assistant loco pilots to strictly follow norms regarding stabilising engines after working hours. A written instruction, addressed to chief loco inspectors (CLIs) and lobby in-charge of various stations, detailed the recent incident of driverless running of a freight train for about 75 km between Jammu and Pathankot and said the present counselling drive aims at avoiding recurrence of such incidents in future. It directed the CLIs to train the loco pilots and assistant loco pilots that instead of coming out of the engine and leaving it unmanned, they should hand over or take over the charge inside it.

Is artificial intelligence blowing a bubble? Probably not, but the rally is still risky. Nvidia has become the undisputed leader in a stock market powered by AI hopes. Valuations are lofty for both the U.S.

Sundar Pichai introduces Gemma: Google's State-of-the-Art open models for developers Addressing the recent controversy surrounding Gemini, Pichai wrote a memo to Google employees in which he called some of Gemini's responses "unacceptable" and admitted that the tech giant "got it wrong". Pichai wrote in the letter, quoted by The Verge, “I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly Bard). I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias — to be clear, that’s completely unacceptable and we got it wrong." Our teams have been working around the clock to address these issues.

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Also Read: Wipro shares trading at expensive valuation, offer little margin of safety, says Kotak Equities; downgrades to ‘Sell’ The Bank Nifty has closed in the green on all the four occasions (the index was not trading during the year 1999) with an average up-move of around 21%, data compiled by JM Financial showed. It had closed flat in 2004, while the highest return of approximately 46% was observed in 2014. Further, the Bank Nifty has outperformed the Nifty 50 on all the four occasions with an average outperformance of around 11%.

Eugene Levy is the latest addition to the cast of season four of the popular Hulu series "Only Murders in the Building". Levy joins the lead trio of Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez in the upcoming chapter of the show, reported entertainment news outlet Variety. Meryl Streep, Eva Longoria and Molly Shannon will also star in the fourth season of «Only Murders in the Building» in recurring roles. The new installment of the hit crime comedy will begin with Martin, Short, and Gomez's characters taking a trip to Los Angeles before the action returns to its central location, The Arconia apartments, in New York City.

China’s dominance in electronics exports in some key markets as manufacturers diversify supply chains away from the world’s factory to other parts of Asia, a new study shows. The impact is most pronounced in the UK and US, where geopolitical tensions with China have increased in recent years. India’s electronics exports to the US as a ratio of China’s increased to 7.65% in November last year from 2.51% in November 2021, according to London-based Fathom Financial Consulting. In the UK, the share rose to 10% from 4.79%.

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd. traded 0.16 per cent down in Wednesday's trade at 01:54PM (IST). Around 48,898 shares changed hands on the counter. The counter opened at Rs 1739.95 and touched an intraday high and low of Rs 1739.95 and Rs 1688.0, respectively, in the session so far. Shares of the company of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd. quoted a 52-week high of Rs 1739.95 and a 52-week low of Rs 1049.1.