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Narayana Murthy sleep on a large box in a windowless storeroom surrounded by cartons during a visit to the United States for work in the initial days. However, the client's own home had four bedrooms, the book “An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy" published by Juggernaut Books revealed. Indian-American author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has come out with a biography covering the early days of Sudha Murty's and Narayana Murthy's lives that is replete with many such nuggets about the iconic couple.

Narendra Modi government has time and again stressed that fiscal prudence remains a top priority for the dispensation with an eye on FY26 by when it targets to bring the fiscal deficit down to 4.5 per cent. Come February 1, analysts expect Sitharaman to continue the BJP government's focus on infrastructure spending with an aim to lower the fiscal deficit from the target of 5.9 per cent of GDP set for the current financial year. Analysts have said that high hopes of re-election in April-May 2024 has allowed the Modi government to keep a check on populist measures and instead focus on its infrastructure spending like roads, power plants, among other things. The government expects the Indian economy to grow at 7.3 per cent in the ongoing financial year, as per the First Advance Estimates released Friday.

Bangladesh Elections LIVE updates On Friday, a passenger train was set on fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Four people including two children died in the incident. On Saturday, miscreants torched a polling centre in Lalmonirhat's Hatibandha upazila.

quoted him as saying. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left the Royal Family in 2020. They gave up their royal duties.

Most of the real estate stocks have done well and we believe that another 5% to 10% kind of rally can be expected in the coming week, says Rajesh Palviya, Axis Securities. Edited excerpts. Do you believe that we could be range bound in the times ahead or there could be some weakness or strengthening from these levels next week? If we analyse the tone, it is on the bullish side and yes benchmark indices are behaving in a range-bound kind of activity since the last couple of trading sessions. If we analyse the derivative data, major put writing activities are seen around 21,500 and 21,600 strikes. So, this range is likely to act as a good support area in the decline. Even in Friday's session, we have seen a sharp dip and then again the major put writing activity has been witnessed around 21,500 strikes. We have seen a sharp pullback action from the lower end of the corrective move. So, on the higher side, the major supply zone is still placed at 21,750. That level needs to be taken out by the Nifty, then we can see short covering action and then possibly the Nifty can scale up to the level of 21,900, even beyond the 22,000 kind of level.

The Election Commission said voting would start Sunday and last for eight hours across the country in over 42,000 ballot stations to receive the more than 119 million registered voters. Ballot boxes, among other election supplies, have been sent over in preparation for the vote, the commission said.

online scam operations in another blow to the embattled junta. The military is facing its biggest threat since seizing power in a 2021 coup after three armed ethnic groups — known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance — launched a sweeping October offensive in northern Shan state. Since November people have been fleeing Laukkai town, located in a district bordering China that is run by a Myanmar military-aligned militia and notorious for gambling, prostitution and online scams run out of compounds staffed by thousands of people, many trafficked. The alliance — made up of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the Arakan Army (AA) and the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) — said the town was now under their control. «All members from the Myanmar Army's Military Operational Command in Laukkai were disarmed and Laukkai became a clean area where there are no more members of the Myanmar Army,» the alliance said in a statement. It added that scores of junta soldiers, including some officers, had been captured and disarmed. The junta has not commented. TNLA Brigadier-General Tar Bhone Kyaw confirmed Saturday that the MNDAA had taken Laukkai. «It is their land, they got it back now,» he told AFP.

Buy or sell stocks: Despite cautious sentiments in the global market, the Indian stock market ended higher for the second straight session on Friday. Nifty 50 index added 52 points and closed at the 21,710 level, and BSE Sensex regained the 72,000 mark by adding 178 points in the last session of the week gone by. However, the Bank Nifty index went off 36 points and finished at 48,159 level.

₹185 apiece level on the NSE at the end of March 2023 and since then it has remained an ideal 'buy on dips' stock for investors. In the last two months, Tata Power's share price has been touching new highs regularly and it has delivered over 80 per cent return to its long-term investors in the current fiscal. Speaking on triggers that are fueling Tata Power shares, Amit Goel, Co-Founder & Chief Global Strategist at Pace 360 said, "Shares of Tata Power Co Ltd have risen 46% since October end, bringing into spotlight what was till recently regarded as a defensive bet from the Tata Group.

Their Middle East visits came three months since Hamas militants from Gaza attacked Israel, triggering an offensive that has devastated the enclave, uprooted 90% of its population, and killed 22,600 people, according to Palestinian officials.

With companies across sectors — led by technology products and services — slashing hiring numbers, IITs are exploring all avenues to ensure that as many students as possible graduate with a job. Meanwhile, some students who are yet to get placed have been applying to off-campus jobs since last month, to have a backup in hand should on-campus offers not come through, students at top IITs told ET.

₹760, while maintaining the ‘buy’ tag. The brokerage firm has also named SBI as its most preferred stock in the PSU sector. “Given the relative strength of SBI as a franchise (demonstrated over the last credit cycle), we now recommend owning it over other PSU banks.

Mint broke the story in October on the government’s plan to prematurely exit the Bharatamala highway programme conceived six years ago, and start building largely access-controlled highways in the country. The development of expressways was critical for the next phase of infrastructure development, as it would lead to faster travel, reduce fuel consumption and help lower logistics cost, Jain said, briefing media persons about the achievements of the ministry in 2023. The government finalized the Bharatmala Pariyojana in 2017, with the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approving the phase 1 of the programme the same year.

Analysts at Jefferies provided their view on the software sector in a recent research note, upgrading Dynatrace Inc. (NYSE:DT), monday.com Ltd. (MNDY (NASDAQ:MNDY)), Freshworks Inc (FRSH), and Instructure (INST) to Buy. They also downgraded Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA) and Vimeo (NASDAQ:VMEO) to Hold.

Indian navy commandos have safely evacuated 21 crew members from a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier involved in a hijacking attempt in the Arabian Sea

brain circuit consisting of neurons and the circuit regulates panic-like symptoms in mice. Their findings were published Thursday in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The findings of the researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California have been published in the journal 'Nature Neuroscience'. Now the scientists would map the regions, neurons and connections in the brain that mediate panic attacks. It may pave the way for the treatment of panic attacks in humans.

Piyush Goyal on Friday urged the automobile industry to set a target of increasing the share of vehicles being exported to 50% of all passenger vehicles produced in the country by 2030 from 14% in the last fiscal. “With our arbitrage in labour costs and skilled manpower pool, India should have 50% export share in the auto sector. The auto industry should not limit itself to achieving a 25% export share and instead aim for at least a 50% export share,” Goyal said at the curtain raiser of Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2024, which is scheduled to be held from February 1-3 February. India’s contribution to the world is increasing rapidly with share of vehicles being exported from 14% at present, to about 25% of all passenger vehicles produced in India by 2030.

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Investing.com -- Shipping giant Maersk (CSE:MAERSKb) has said it would divert its vessels away from the Red Sea region for the «foreseeable future» in response to «significantly elevated» security risks posed by recent attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis.

central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) are likely to cross ₹50,000 crore during the current fiscal for the third year in a row. It has already exceeded the Budget Estimate (BE) during the current fiscal year, reported Business Line. However, disinvestment proceeds from CPSEs are likely to remain below the Budget Estimate.

Union Budget 2024-25: Four income tax benefits you could expect from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Details here The target will be between 5.2% to 5.4% of gross domestic product for the year starting April 1, according to officials with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be named as the deliberations are private. A final decision will be taken closer to the budget presentation, due Feb.