Sustainability Financial News

Prayoga Institute of Education Research, has added five advanced labs to help students pursue research around the theme of sustainability. Online brokerage firm Zerodha has funded the new research block, named after eminent space scientist Prof UR Rao, which includes labs for life sciences, physical sciences, chemical sciences, earth sciences and sophisticated instrumentation for multidisciplinary scientific research.

Indian Stock Market: Nifty opened higher but failed to sustain the morning momentum, leading to a closing at the day's low due to profit booking. However, the sentiment remained positive for the short term as the index closed above the crucial resistance level of 22,200, with the next resistance seen at 22,400. Short-term support is positioned at 21,900.

IBSA’s vision for peace, global governance reform, sustainable development, and the fight against poverty and hunger, as such countries can serve as a bridge for South-South and South-North dialogue and cooperation. This was decided at the IBSA Foreign Ministers meet on Friday in Brazil attended by MoS External Affairs V Muraleedharan. The Ministers also called upon the international community to establish a genuinely broad international counter-terrorism framework in accordance with the principles of international law and support the United Nations' central coordinating role in international counter-terrorism cooperation.

₹26,168 crore so far in 2024. FPIs have sold ₹424 crore worth of Indian equities and the total inflow stands at ₹18,633 crore as of February 23, taking into account debt, hybrid, debt-VRR, and equities, according to National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) data. "An interesting feature of the FPI trend recently is the decline in FPI equity outflows despite the rising bond yields in the US.

Solana (SOL) price action remains a focal point for investors, with the asset trading at around $101.85 and a volume of $1.5 billion over 24 hours.

Indian warship provided critical assistance to a merchant vessel after it caught fire following a suspected drone or missile attack in the Gulf of Aden, the latest in a series of such support missions in the region. Palau-flagged vessel MV Islander came under attack on Thursday and a crew member of the ship sustained injuries, Indian military officials said on Saturday. An explosive ordnance disposal team of the Navy embarked the vessel and sanitised it for any residual risk following which the vessel was cleared for onward transit, they said. The fresh incident comes amid growing global concerns over attacks on various commercial vessels in the Red Sea by Houthi militants.

town of Rafah, Palestinians cling to life amid the grinding war with Israel. A barefoot boy wears a pot on his head and beams a smile. A child lugs a jerry can half his size full of water. Men sit at half-empty tables selling canned goods. A tapestry of laundry hangs from every line.

gold closed with a gain of 0.57% at $2036 Friday. The metal was up nearly 1% on the week. As per the macroeconomic data released Friday, China's new home prices — 70 City Index (January) slid for the eighth consecutive month in January. Germany's GDP contracted 0.30% in the 4Q as per the final reading, which matched the forecast. ECB's one-year and three-year CPI expectations stood at 3.30% and 2.50% respectively, almost in line with the exception.

Dawood Ibrahim, Nihal Khan was allegedly shot dead during a wedding event in Uttar Pradesh's Jalalabad. As reported by Free Press Journal, Nihal Khan, who hailed from Mumbai's Byculla had journeyed to Uttar Pradesh to attend the wedding. The body has been sent for autopsy, and the authorities are conducting a probe into the matter.

smallcap stocks run up too high? Is this rally in smallcaps going to continue further? Or are we going to witness a brutal crash? If you are an investor, then these questions must be bothering you right now. Let us help clear these doubts. Here’s a quick summary of what’s driving this rally.

Buy or sell stocks: After showing an excellent upside recovery from the lows on Thursday, the Indian stock market shifted into a range-bound action for the whole session on Friday and closed in the red territory. The Nifty 50 index went off 4 points and closed at the 22,212 level, the BSE Sensex slipped 15 points and ended at the 73,142 mark while the Bank Nifty index lost 108 points and finished at 46,811 level. After opening on a positive note, the Nifty 50 index was not able to sustain the opening gains and slipped into minor weakness amidst a range movement in the early part and later this sideways movement continued for the whole session.

Not too long ago, the positive news surrounding sustainable investing seemed as if it would never end. Unfortunately, that stream of praise proved to be, well, unsustainable, as evidenced by the recent backlash against it.

sustainable, aerospace company Embraer and South Korean automaker Hyundai are among the companies betting on a new form of air travel — air taxis. Hyundai's Supernal and Embraer-backed Eve Air Mobility are developing electric aircraft that take off and land vertically. The idea is that such air taxis might provide a sustainable form of air transport for densely populated cities and areas with less developed public transport networks. Experts say they could help offset carbon emissions from the traditional aviation sector, but there are plenty of technological and regulatory challenges to making air taxis commercially viable.

adventure tourism is virtually untapped. The 2020 Adventure Tourism Development Index ranks India 96th among 191 countries, below Bhutan (14th) and Nepal (67th). This is due to a lack of infrastructure, trained personnel, stringent safety guidelines, and a cohesive policy among GoI, states, private sector and local communities.

BofA raised its price target for Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) to $98 from $82 per share in a note Friday, maintaining a Buy rating on the stock.

Investing.com — Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) has reported fourth-quarter revenue that was below average analyst forecasts, but the media group said it is now on a «clear pathway» to growth.

Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com, says “the market is becoming tougher and tougher, that is the issue, because whatever you held and you thought it should move up, those stocks have moved up too much. On the largecap side, Maruti still has legs and could go higher. L&T after the correction on the Saudi Aramco postponement of orders, could, as that has corrected 10% from the top and that could open with some upside. On the midcap side, we have bought V-Guard Industries. It is at the same level. It has not moved at all because people are not yet confident in the consumer durable story. That looks like a reasonable low volatility bet to me.” Sabharwal also says: «We own M&M, Maruti, as well as Tata Motors, and we continue to hold and have no intention of selling in the near term.» With all that is happening with NVIDIA stellar moves, largest single day gain in history. What is it that you are making of tech in particular and the kind of strides that we have made here? Sandip Sabharwal: Technology is a great story, but in innovative companies which exist either in the private space in India or in countries like US, Korea, etc.

South Indian Bank are rejoicing over the bank's extraordinary performance in recent months. After experiencing a significant decline between CY18 and CY21, during which the stock depreciated by approximately 71.45%, there was a notable turnaround in the subsequent year, leading to sustained upward momentum in the following years. In CY22, the stock rebounded strongly with a remarkable return of 112.43%, followed by another surge of 42% in the subsequent year.

inflation and growth forecast of 4.5 per cent and 7 per cent each for FY25, India's policymakers are inferring that the economy is in a 'Goldilocks scenario'. However, economists say they must err on the side of caution. The six members of the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) broadly agreed that while there is a need to be vigilant, there is some comfort in retail inflation in India. At the same time, they also agreed that the Indian economy is currently showing resilience on the growth front, according to the minutes of the latest policy meeting.

Delhi Chalo march. Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, a Sikh Member of Parliament from Britain said the ‘freedom of expression’ of farmers must be protected. Addressing the Parliament, the Dhesi MP said, “Many of my Slough constituents, including members of the Sikh community and Gurdwaras have written to me regarding their serious concerns about the safety of protesting farmers in their attempt to march towards New Delhi." “Yesterday, a protestor was killed during a reported standoff with the police wherein, the cause of death was, and I quote: "a bullet wound to the head"," Singh told the House.

Investing.com-- Semiconductor maker Kioxia Holdings and U.S. partner Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC) will resume negotiations for a potential merger in late-April 2024, Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported on Friday.