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Jai Ram Thakur on Friday claimed that the Congress has been trying to woo back its six rebel leaders, who had cast their votes for the BJP candidate against party lines in the last month's Rajya Sabha polls. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Thakur said that a piquant situation prevails in the party with rounds of persuasion taking place to bring the rebels back into the fold. The six Congress MLAs had been stripped off their state assembly membership last month. Later the party also removed them from internal posts. They still, however, remain in the party. The six have been camping outside Himachal since their rebellion.

NEW DELHI : The Indian Premier League (IPL) is revving up for the opening weekend of its latest edition, with the hospitality sector raring to capitalize on surging demand on the back of a likely heady mix of Twenty20 cricket and festivities. Hotels and restaurants are rolling out targeted deals, anticipating a significant uptick in bookings. The industry expects the opening weekend will hold a distinct value because of the long weekend, with Holi falling on Monday.

₹5,000 crore towards several CSR initiatives over five years focused on skill development, an announcement that saw the coming together of the larger Bajaj family. It unveiled ‘Bajaj Beyond’—an identity for the group’s social impact programmes.

₹678, indicating an upside potential of 40 percent from its current market price of ₹484.20. "Hindustan Foods Limited (HFL), the largest consumer contract manufacturer in India, has built durable moats by scaling up its manufacturing base, building strong clientele, constructing the widest array of product portfolio and creating operational efficiencies. Over the last four years (FY19-23), HFL has scaled up its sales and EBITDA five-fold, while profitability six-fold.

Radiowalla Network, one of the leading providers of B2B customer engagement services, announced the launch of its IPO on March 27. As of the filing of RHP, Kacholi The company is aiming to raise Rs 14.25 via this IPO, which closes on April 2. The issue size is of 18.75 lakh shares at face value of Rs 10 each.

Russian strike Friday severed one of two power lines supplying Europe's largest nuclear power plant in southeast Ukraine as Moscow launched a major assault on energy infrastructure. «The enemy is now carrying out the largest attack on the Ukrainian energy industry in recent times,» Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on Facebook, adding that shelling had knocked out «one of the power transmission lines feeding» the Zaporizhzhia power plant. The facility, Europe's largest nuclear energy site, was seized by Russian troops in the first days of the war but is powered by Ukrainian lines.

Stock market today: Shares of the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) Limited witnessed strong buying interest during early morning deals on Friday. IREDA share price today opened upside at ₹133.70 and went on to touch an intraday high of ₹136.40 apiece on NSE, logging an intraday rise of over 3 percent in the early morning session.

Arvind Kejriwal's arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in an excise policy-linked money laundering case on Thursday, calling it 'violative of the spirit of democracy". Congress leader Shashi Tharoor called upon to take suo moto cognizance of Kejriwal's arrest by the ED in excise policy case. “The court has every right to take imminent action against anything that has a material effect on the elections…," he told ANI. He also said, “This is fundamentally violative of the political rights of every Indian citizen...

Avenue Supermarts, the DMart retail chain operator, with a ‘Buy’ rating and a target price of ₹5,107 per share, implying an upside of over 22% from Thursday’s closing price. According to CLSA, DMart is rapidly scaling its private-label offerings, which could drive the next leg of share gains.

Notting Hill? In one of the film’s iconic sequences, Grant asks what exactly fruitarians are. He’s told: “We believe that fruits and vegetables have feelings, so we think cooking is cruel. We only eat things that have already fallen off a tree or bush—that are, in fact, dead already." Grant, who plays William, a bookstore owner, asks about carrots on the table.

In a joint effort to fight the rise of precious metals fraud, particularly targeting those nearing or in retirement, major regulatory bodies have issued a stark warning. In a statement, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it is working with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. and the North American Securities Administrators Association to highlight risks associated with investing in overpriced gold, silver, and other metals.

Stock market today: Following strong global market sentiments after the US Fed meeting, the Indian stock market shifted into a decent follow-through upside move on Thursday and ended higher on second day in a row. The Nifty 50 index gained 172 points and closed at the 22,011 level, the BSE Sensex shot up 539 points and ended at the 72,641 mark while the Bank Nifty index finished 374 points higher at the 46,684 level.

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Investing.com-- Japan consumer price index (CPI) inflation rose as expected in February, rising well above the Bank of Japan’s annual target rate and giving more credence to the central bank’s recent policy shift. 

Canada is set to implement measures to curb the influx of temporary foreign workers for the first time, as announced by officials on Thursday. Ottawa aims to reduce the number of temporary residents to five percent of the population over the next three years, down from the current 6.2 percent, which translates to 2.5 million people. The proposed target will be solidified following consultations with Canada's provinces, some of which have expressed concerns over significant migrant inflows amid housing shortages and increased demands for services. Restrictions on temporary foreign worker permits are scheduled to commence on May 1. This decision comes on the heels of a recent announcement imposing a cap on new permits for international students and introducing visa requirements for certain Mexican travelers.

As the Dogecoin price consolidates near $0.15, not far below the recent multi-year highs it hit earlier this month, members of the Dogecoin community are targeting a new ICO called Sponge (SPONGE) in search of 1000% gains.

With the boom in mergers and acquisition involving broker-dealers and registered investment advisors showing no sign of slowing down, it turns out that brokerage firms other than giants like LPL Financial, Osaic and Cetera Financial Group are targeting acquisitions of firms or financial advisors.

poll panel on Thursday issued a fresh set of transfer orders, moving out eight 'non-cadre' SPs/SSPs and five non-cadre district magistrates in Gujarat, Punjab, Odisha and West Bengal, besides the district police chiefs in Assam and Punjab. The latter are learnt to be the brothers of chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Congress MP Khadoor Sahib Jasbir Singh Gill, who have been posted at Assam's Sonitpur and Punjab's Bhatinda, respectively. They have been moved out in view of their «kinship or familial association with the elected political representatives». The poll panel said in a statement on Thursday that the officials in these two districts have been transferred as «pre-emptive measures to dispel any apprehensions of the administration being biased or perceived to be compromised». Among others moved out are SPs of Chhota Udaipur and Ahmedabad Rural districts in Gujarat, SSPs of Pathankot, Fazilka, Jalandhar Rural and Malerkotla districts in Punjab, DM of Dhenkanal and SPs of Deogarh and Cuttack Rural districts in Odisha and DM of Purba Medinipur, Jhargram, Purba Bardhaman and Birbhum districts.

The Bank of Canada’s governing council seems to be growing in confidence that the central bank will be able to lower its benchmark interest rate sometime this year, but newly released documents show there’s concern among monetary policymakers about risks to their outlook.

Federal Reserve officials signaled Wednesday that they still expect to cut their key interest rate three times in 2024, fueling a rally on Wall Street, despite signs that inflation remained elevated at the start of the year.

Arvind Kejriwal, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi Thursday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of adopting dictatorial tactics to suppress dissent and destroy democracy in the country. "A scared dictator wants to create a dead democracy," the Wayanad MP said in a post on microblogging platform X (formerly Known as Twitter) in Hindi, without naming anyone.