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Indian telecom firms too want fair share of revenues from internet companies “The new law covers much more than what the earlier laws used to cover. Some licences that have been given in the last six to seven years will remain active as per rules of the older Acts. It has to be ensured that they continue and the new laws don’t create any conflict, that itself will take a lot of time.

Doctors are rallying around an audacious goal: eliminating a cancer for the first time. Cervical cancer rates in the U.S. have dropped by more than half since the 1970s.

Indian stock market: The Indian stock market indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, concluded the trading session with a mixed performance, on May 6. Shares of specific heavyweight companies such as Titan, SBI, and Reliance Industries exerted notable downward pressure on these primary indices. The Sensex ended the day with a slight increase of 17 points, or 0.02 percent, closing at 73,895.54, whereas the Nifty 50 concluded with a decrease of 33 points, equivalent to 0.15 percent, closing at 22,442.70.

Berkshire Hathaway shares rose in premarket trading Monday after Warren Buffett's conglomerate reported a surge in operating earnings as well as a record cash hoard.

Germany said Monday it recalled its ambassador to Russia for a week of consultations in Berlin following an alleged hacker attack on Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party. Germany last week accused Russian military agents of hacking into the top echelons of Scholz's Social Democrats' party and other sensitive government and industrial targets. Berlin has joined NATO and fellow European countries in warning that Russia's cyberespionage would have consequences. The Foreign Office in Berlin said Monday that the government is taking the latest incident «seriously» and that Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had decided to call back German Ambassador Alexander Lambsdorff. He would return to Moscow after a week, it said.

Keshav Prasad Maurya on Monday said both Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be defeated in Kannauj and Rae Bareli, respectively in the Lok Sabha elections. Addressing a gathering in support of BJP candidate from Shravasti, Saket Mishra, Maurya said the manner in which Akhilesh's wife Dimple Yadav was defeated in 2019 from Kannauj, the same will be his fate this time. «Rahul will also taste defeat from Rae Bareli,» he said. The BJP leader expressed confidence of the saffron party winning more than 400 seats in the general elections.

recycling and reuse of plastic packaging may hurt consumer plays such as Britannia Industries, Colgate Palmolive India and Nestle India while benefiting ITC, Ganesha Ecosphere, EPL, and Uflex, according to Kotak Institutional equities. The new rules, which could put India ahead in the global league in terms of handling plastic waste problems, will increase the packaging costs of consumer staple companies, Kotak. On the other hand, plastic recyclers and innovative packaging companies such as Ganesh, EPL, Uflex and ITC, which can provide solutions for making plastic recyclable, develop products using post-consumer recycled material (PCR), and offer economical alternatives to plastics, will be the key beneficiaries of the roll-out of the new rules.

Congress failing to field a strong candidate in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, the BJP is eyeing a record winning margin of more than 10 lakh votes for its sitting MP and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. In the past, this predominantly urban constituency has been represented by BJP stalwarts L K Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. While the seat has been a pocket borough of the BJP since 1989, it did witness interesting contests when the Congress chose high-profile candidates like T N Seshan and Rajesh Khanna. This time, the Congress has fielded its former Gujarat women's wing chairperson Sonal Patel against Shah, who had won by more than 5.5 lakh votes in the 2019 polls. Local BJP leaders said the party aims to raise this margin of victory to more than 10 lakh votes. In 2019, BJP's C R Paatil defeated his Congress rival by more than 6.9 lakh votes from Navsari in Gujarat. It was the highest margin of victory in the country in the 2019 elections.

financial year 2024-2025, all eyes are on the Reserve Bank of India and its actions that will shape the country's economic landscape. With the first monetary policy committee meeting for FY25 being on the hawkish side, the market is eager to gauge how and when will the central bank's stance change amidst the inflationary pressure sustaining.

Shares of Avenue Supermarts traded lackluster after a 22% year-on-year (YoY) jump in its March quarter net profit failed to impress Dalal Street investors. Post its quarterly earnings, JPMorgan upgraded the stock and raised its price target price. Domestic brokerage Motilal Oswal and Prabhudas Lilladher maintained their buy ratings while Nuvama and Kotak Institutional Equities retained their 'Hold' and 'Sell' stance.

«We are always going to have an exposure to new energy vehicle companies because a lot of innovation comes from those companies but there are some volatility issues that we have to grapple with and I think we have successfully done that in the context of the last fiscal year. So, we are very pleased with FY24 and the solid finish to the year that we had in Q4,» says Warren Harris, CEO & MD, Tata Tech. What has led to the revenue softness in the fourth quarter, especially the services segment for you? I would challenge the perception that growth has not been strong. If we look at the full year, we grew our business by 15.9% in Indian rupees. If we look at services specifically, we grew over 13%. I signalled in January that we had some runoff at VinFast as we transitioned from the completion of our engineering work to launch support.

Gujarat-based company has issued a clarification after a job hiring LinkedIn post associated with the firm received severe backlash for barring Marathi applicants for the role.. In its recent post on LinkedIn, the Surat-based company, ITCODE Infotech called the previous post targeting the Marathi people ‘hateful’ and clarified that the freelance HR, who shared the post on LinkedIn is not “affiliated with our company in any capacity" The company also rejected any association with the HR and mentioned that the freelance HR already apologised for the controversial post. Also Read: ‘Parents demanding 65% of salary’ sparks online debate, netizens say ‘unreasonable, learn to say NO’ “The HR simply utilized the company name on LinkedIn, a platform open to anyone.

Real estate and equity have long been the primary avenues for investment. Recently, real estate is experiencing an upturn due to economic growth and rapid urbanisation. Traditionally, the realm of real estate investment for retail investors has been limited to residential properties or small commercial spaces, such as individual shops.

₹1,612.30 apiece on the BSE. Kotak Mahindra Bank reported a standalone profit for the quarter ended March 2024 at ₹4,133.30 crore, a growth of 18.22% year-on-year (YoY), while its net interest income (NII) increased 13% YoY to ₹6,909 crore. Its net interest margin (NIM) in Q4FY24 rose to 5.28% from 5.22% in Q3FY24.

Indian stock market: 8 key things that changed for market over weekend - Gift Nifty, US jobs data to Nasdaq rally For the short term, market experts suggest picking stocks with strong technical indicators. Based on the recommendations of several experts, here are 9 stocks that can rise 6-15 per cent in the next 3-4 weeks. Take a look: Orient Electric has demonstrated a breakout above the medium-term falling channel pattern at ₹225 on the weekly chart, suggesting the onset of an uptrend.

Ambuja Cements with a target price of Rs 665. The current market price of Ambuja Cements is Rs 623.3. Ambuja Cements Ltd., incorporated in the year 1981, is a Large Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 153267.86 Crore) operating in Cement sector.

Birlasoft with a target price of Rs 810. The current market price of Birlasoft Ltd. is Rs 634.85. Birlasoft Ltd., incorporated in the year 1990, is a Small Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 17492.42 Crore) operating in IT Software sector.

Sona BLW Precision Forgings with a target price of Rs 678. The current market price of Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd. is Rs 610.45. Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd., incorporated in the year 1995, is a Small Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 35800.48 Crore) operating in Auto Ancillaries sector.

Stock market today: Despite strong global market sentiments, the Indian stock market ended lower on Friday. This was primarily due to profit booking after the indices reached new peaks earlier in the day. The Nifty 50 index ended 172 points lower after reaching a new peak of 22,794, and the BSE Sensex dropped 732 points from its lifetime high of 75,124.

investors resorted to profit booking. The 30-share Sensex dropped 733 points to settle at 73,878 and Nifty declined 172 points to 22,475. Stocks that were in focus include names like CEAT, which fell 2.93%, Coforge, which was down 10.03%, and ABFRL, whose shares dropped 3.43% on Friday.

Israeli soldiers were killed in a rocket attack claimed by Hamas armed wing, near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, where Palestinian health officials said at least 19 people were killed by Israeli fire on Sunday. Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza that Israel said killed three of its soldiers. Israel's military said 10 projectiles were launched from Rafah in southern Gaza towards the area of the crossing, which it said was now closed to aid trucks going into the coastal enclave. Other crossings remained open.