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Manu Tuilagi will be absent from the initial stages of the Six Nations as a result of a groin injury sustained during Sale's Premiership triumph over Saracens last week. During the second half of the match, Tuilagi had to exit prematurely, and subsequent assessments have indicated a six-week rehabilitation period, ruling out the necessity for surgery.

A Palestinian journalist posted pictures of Israeli tanks near a mosque in a built-up area of Bureij which had apparently advanced from orchards on the eastern outskirts. Further south, Israeli forces struck the area around a hospital in the heart of Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip's main southern city, where residents feared a new ground push into territory crowded with families made homeless in 12 weeks of war. Palestinian health authorities said 210 people were confirmed killed in Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours, raising the toll of the war to 21,320 dead — nearly 1 percent of the enclave's population. Thousands more dead are feared to be buried or lost in the ruins. Israel has escalated its ground war in Gaza sharply since just before Christmas despite public pleas from its closest ally the United States to scale the campaign down in the closing weeks of the year. It launched the war to destroy the Hamas movement that runs Gaza after fighters rampaged through Israeli towns on Oct.

By Shubham Batra and Amruta Khandekar

Alex Garland upcoming action epic "Civil War’’, depicting a near-future United States in turmoil, actually runs for a confirmed 109 minutes, not the inaccurately listed 3 hours and 15 minutes. A24 has clarified this to Variety. Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jesse Plemons, and Nick Offerman lead the cast in a film immersing audiences in the intensity of a fresh American civil conflict. The trailer picks with glimpses of widespread destruction and news announcements declaring the secession of «19 states.”

Plane manufacturing giant Boeing (NYSE:BA) has urged airlines to inspect more recent 737 MAX aircraft for a possible loose bolt in the rudder control system, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.

By Jonathan Landay

₹6,094 per bbl, having swung between ₹6,068 and ₹6,200 per bbl during the session, against a previous close of ₹6,211 per barrel. -Denmark's Maersk will route almost all container vessels sailing between Asia and Europe through the Suez Canal from now on while diverting only a handful around Africa, a Reuters breakdown of the group's schedule showed on Thursday.

«You can't fight the Fed» is a famous refrain repeated by most market participants throughout the years. Unfortunately, it is just not true. The truer statement is that «you can't fight the market.» Along these lines, I just read a bearish article and saw this comment, which also received a high number of «likes:»

Wedbush raised its price target for tech giant Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to $450 from $425 in a note to clients Thursday, maintaining its Outperform rating on the stock. Analysts declared in their note that Microsoft's "'iPhone moment' is here."

By David Shepardson and Valerie Insinna

The year 2023 can be marked as notably successful for gold, boasting a return rate of just over 14%.

After the Bank of Canada held its benchmark interest rate steady in its final three decisions of 2023, the tone of conversations in markets has shifted firmly away from further rate hikes and staunchly into the camp of when cuts could begin.

Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh in a defamation case over his remarks regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's educational degree. The court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate SJ Panchal issued the production warrant against Singh after his lawyer informed the court that he had not received any instruction from his client because the Aam Aadmi Party leader is behind bars in Delhi's Tihar jail. Singh was arrested on October 5 in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam in Delhi.

₹6,600 crore, allowing them to receive bids. These include two mega projects – a network expansion scheme in Navinal (Mundra) area of Gujarat and the eastern region expansion scheme, which will cost ₹2,383 crore and ₹2,898 crore, respectively. The NCT has recommended these two projects for implementation to the union power ministry.

Israeli firm NSO Group, is used to gain access to someone's phone messages and emails, peruse photos, eavesdrop on calls, track locations and even film the owner with the camera Notably, the Pegasus spyware is only sold to governments or security agencies -- against journalists and activists in dozens of countries, including India. The investigation revealed that the Pegasus spyware had been extensively used against journalists and activists in dozens of countries, including India.

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Nirav Karkera, Head of Research, Fisdom, says: “I am not quite sure if 2024-25 will actually turn out to be the year of passives per se but definitely largecaps are expected to make a comeback. But at the same time, it is not expected to make a comeback at the cost of small and midcaps. So, there are a few good things that have been going in favour of small- and midcaps as a segment and we expect a lot of this to be carried forward into the New Year as well.” Before I ask you how you think midcap and smallcaps would be faring in 2024, let's just analyze the performance in 2023 where we have seen Nifty Small-Cap growing beyond 40%, Nifty Mid-Cap close to 38%, beating Nifty-50. Also, midcap and smallcap funds have given returns beyond 35%. It has been said that 2024 and 2025 are going to be years of passive funds and specifically focusing on large cap category. But then what is going to be the trajectory of midcaps and smallcaps going ahead? Nirav Karkera: Definitely one thing that is very clear that largecaps are once again gaining a lot of investor favour and investor interest and this comes on the back of a very stellar run-up in the mid- and smallcap segments. In fact, the run-up has been so good that it has pushed many investors to the edge of their seats, worried about what lies ahead after such a rally. Does it fizzle out from here or what is it that can keep the rally sustaining going ahead?

Gautam Shah, Founder & Chief Strategist, Goldilocks Premium Research, says “now our high conviction bet is SBI. It can do something special in 2024 if you want to just pick one stock among the largecaps. So given this view, banking as a space should do well and that should keep the entire market safe. You know, if the banks are strong, the Nifty is strong. If the Nifty is strong, generally the entire market is steady.” Shah further says: «On the Nifty itself, our working target is about 22,300. As we get close to that number, it might make sense to take some profits off the table and maybe work with a trailing stop-loss of 21,200 or even, if somebody's comfortable, 20,900. So while the index might not be so relevant right now, there are opportunities in a lot of sectors, banks, IT, pharma, metals, infra, power where one should focus on without looking at the index much.» Looking at your latest report, it says a new high is quite a feat. But going by what you have put out in the report, you are talking about the Nifty Bank and IT sector batting for the bulls and therefore it becomes easy for the Nifty to rally. So given the kind of rally that we have seen at 21,700 levels, is that going to only sustain as per your analysis? Gautam Shah: Well, when we put out the message that new highs being quite a feat, we meant after what happened last Wednesday because there was so much talk and chatter around the market fall of a single day.

Mint takes a look into previous incidents targeting the Israeli embassy in India, and possible reasons. On the evening of 26 December, a loud blast occurred near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi. There were no casualties but the incident has heightened fears of possible attacks on Israeli citizens in India.

Interim Budget: India's fiscal deficit might surpass the government's 5.9% target for FY24 due to escalated revenue expenses and a lower-than-expected nominal GDP, according to India Ratings and Research. The agency predicts that despite increased tax and non-tax revenue, an anticipated second supplementary demand for grants could escalate the deficit to 6% of GDP, slightly exceeding the budgeted limit. “Higher-than-budgeted revenue expenditure triggered through the first and likely second supplementary demand for grants in combination with lower-than-budgeted nominal GDP will push the fiscal deficit to 6.0% of GDP, 10bp higher than budgeted 5.9%,” said Ind-Ra researchers. While announcing the federal budget for this fiscal year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India aims to narrow the fiscal gap to 5.9% of gross domestic product from 6.4% in the last financial year. There are mushrooming speculations that the Narendra Modi-led government will soon have to unleash various fiscal measures and particularly so as to rein in galloping inflation rate. India's fiscal deficit for the first seven months of this fiscal year through October stood at 8.037 lakh crore rupees, or 45% of annual estimates, government data showed today. The fiscal deficit marginally narrowed from 45.6% reported in the comparable year-earlier period.

Budget 2024: What will the market look for in Vote on Account? Mint collated the views of 10 experts on what they expect from the upcoming Budget. Here's what they said: The Budget will largely be a non-event as it will be a Vote on Account and hence largely a report card with the election commission not permitting any major announcements on account of the ensuing general elections. That being said the fiscal numbers are likely to be in line with the budget estimates.