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RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said that people on earth talk loudly on secularism but in reality, Bharat has been practising it since ages. Addressing a public meeting in Majuli on Friday, Bhagwat said, “We have to develop our nation on the basis of Bharat’s time-tested selfhood. “ He added, “Our “Swa” should be based on generational requirements backed by our time tested traditional knowledge and also, the best knowledge from across the globe.

Michael Vaughan said on Friday that the Indian cricket team has not achieved the results to match its talent and resources at its disposal. Vaughan said India's performances have not been noteworthy because they failed to land any global trophy in the last decade. While talking in a Fox Sports panel discussion during the second Test between Australia and Pakistan at the MCG, Vaughan started the conversation thread on the Indian team, posing a question to former Australian batsman Mark Waugh.

the successful liftoff, SpaceX tweeted, "Falcon Heavy launches USSF-52 to orbit from Florida." According to AFP, the US released little information about the space drone and its mission, which was initially scheduled for December 7. Meanwhile, SpaceX only cited the Pentagon's mission code name -- USSF-52 -- in its statement on the launch. The X-37B US space drone is about the size of a small bus and resembles a miniature space shuttle.

The UK government has recently made a significant stride in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency. On December 18, 2023, they announced the introduction of the Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS) as part of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023. This groundbreaking initiative, set to become operational on January 8, 2024, is designed to foster innovation in the financial sector by allowing crypto firms to test their products and services within a controlled environment in the UK.

Shiv Sena (UBT) would contest in 23 of the 48 constituencies in Maharashtra in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. "...discussions on the seats won by the Shiv Sena, the Congress and NCP will be held later," he was quoted by PTI as saying. "This is Maharashtra, and Shiv Sena is the biggest party here.

The toy sector is a small part of the local manufacturing industry India is now trying to build to take advantage of global supply chains shifting from China, generate jobs for its huge youth population and become self-reliant in manufacturing as well as an export powerhouse. From telecom to auto to defence to semiconductors, India is subsidising local manufacturing in more than a dozen sectors. According to a BCG study on global manufacturing shifts, India enjoys a strong advantage in direct manufacturing costs as an export platform.

UltraTech Cement, ACC, Shree Cements, Ambuja Cements, Ramco Cements and Dalmia Bharat ended 2-6% higher for the week. Benchmarks Nifty 50 and Sensex gained up to 2% each, testing record highs during the week. “We upgrade our view on India’s cement industry on account of potential stronger sales volume growth, better pricing discipline, and roll forward our valuations to FY26F,” Nomura India said in a note to its clients on Wednesday. Demand between Oct-Mar is likely to be 11% higher as compared to Apr-Sep, and 13% higher as compared to the same period the previous year, the brokerage said, raising target prices for the companies under its coverage by 11-28%. Shares of most of these companies, except for ACC and Ambuja, have had a strong run in 2023, gaining between 23-51% so far in the year helped by demand from infrastructure and housing projects. Sales volume for the industry is likely to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 5% between 2023-26 (Apr-Mar), a 100 basis points higher than the 4% growth seen over the last decade, the brokerage said.

Biomedical startups are using artificial intelligence to predict the response patients will have to cancer treatments, aiming to increase the success of drugs in clinical trials and tailor therapies to individuals. As data accumulate from clinical trials and fields such as gene and protein research, AI is helping scientists sift through large volumes of information to uncover signatures that correlate with response—or resistance—to treatment. Startups are using it to predict which drugs are likely to work in clinical studies and create tests to help doctors choose treatments.

South Korea's defense minister said, amid suspicions that the North may use it as a new source of fissile materials for nuclear weapons. Concerns about North Korea's nuclear program deepened recently as the UN atomic agency and foreign experts said they've detected signs indicating that North Korea had begun operating its light-water reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear complex. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said last week that his agency had observed increased levels of activity at and near the reactor and since mid-October, a strong water outflow from its cooling system.

ANI. Safdarjung Hospital has reserved 50 beds for isolations and 9 ICU beds along with arrangements related to oxygen, PPE kits and Covid testing. In Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, separate help desks has been set up for Covid-19 patients.

Lt Governor and the bureaucracy and a short-lived promise of authority after a Supreme Court verdict on control over Services-related matters marked an action-packed 2023 for Delhi's AAP government. Hardly a week after the Supreme Court on May 11 granted Delhi's elected AAP dispensation executive control over Services-related matters, including appointments and transfers of bureaucrats, the BJP-led Centre brought legislation to again tilt the balance in favour of the Lt Governor.

We spoke to Sudeep Shah, Deputy Vice President and Head of Technical & Derivatives Research, SBI Securities, on how one should trade stocks that were in focus in the previous trading sessions based on derivative and technical data: SAIL gives trendline breakout Steel Authority of India’s (SAIL) stock has given a horizontal trendline breakout on the daily scale. This breakout was accompanied by robust trading volume, signalling substantial market enthusiasm. Moreover, the stock showcased a sizable bullish candle, reinforcing the optimistic momentum in the recent price action. At present, the stock is positioned above both its short and long-term moving averages, both of which are on an upward trajectory and align favourably.

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funding drought to continue in the first six months of 2024, according to ETtech's annual State of Startups survey. Nearly 80% of the respondents to the survey conducted among 80 of India’s top founders, investors and internet executives, said they would not accept a lower valuation for their companies, while 74% said the funding freeze would only start to ease up in the second half of next year.

Perception of riskiness of the Indian banking system has improved in relation to the global financial system, but the contagion risk has risen due to a merger in the sector though it is not a cause of worry, the RBI said without naming HDFC and HDFC Bank that merged this year. «Macro stress tests for credit risk showed that SCBs (scheduled commercial banks) have sufficient capital buffers and even under adverse stress scenarios their capital ratios will remain above the regulatory minimum,» said the RBI's 28th Financial Stability Report. «Wider adoption of technology in the financial system amidst a new wave of innovations also poses new challenges for financial stability that would require suitable risk mitigating regulatory and supervisory actions.» Indian banks are making record profits with rising income from lending and sliding provisions for bad loans.

asset-liability positions by trimming dependence on short-term borrowing and increasing preference for long-term funding sources, but in case of extreme liquidity conditions, 34 firms may face stress, the Reserve Bank of India said. «The results (of stress scenarios) indicate that the number of NBFCs, which would face negative cumulative mismatch in liquidity over the next one year in the baseline, medium and high-risk scenarios, stood at 6, 17 and 34, respectively,» the RBI said in its December 2023 Financial Stability Report. Under the RBI's stress scenario, six NBFCs represent 1.3% of the asset size of the sample, 17 non-bank firms represent 10.4% and 34 firms account for 15%, respectively. Based on five-year data, a study of the asset-liability management profile of the top 50 NBFCs showed that 76% of bonds issued by the non-bank lenders had a residual maturity of up to five years in September 2023, down from 88% in September 2018. This indicates elongation in the maturity of bonds, the RBI said.

₹50,000 had at least one overdue personal loan. Das said the health of the financial system is steadily improving on the back of multi-year high earnings, low level of stressed assets, and strong capital and liquidity buffers at financial institutions. “We have made significant progress since the onset of the covid-19 pandemic in steering the economy and the financial system.

MUMBAI : The production-linked incentives (PLI) scheme for the automotive sector has hit another speed breaker due to lack of clarity about the process to apply for subsidies, multiple industry executives said. The government is still working on the standard operating procedures (SoPs) for claiming incentives, nearly two years after the scheme became operational, the people said on the condition of anonymity. The SoPs are expected to outline the process for verifying sales and investments made as part of the scheme and the format of various certificates, undertakings and documents that applicants need to produce.

Centurion. Virat Kohli played a ball to Dean Elgar in the off side and set off for two runs. Jasprit Bumrah, having run two the previous ball, and far from the most fleet-footed between the wickets, had almost no chance of getting back.

Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss, Persi Diaconis et al, SIAM Review, 2007) That is, if a coin is tails-up when flipped, it has a slightly higher chance of landing tails, rather than heads—0.51 to 0.49. Now this is so slightly higher that it makes no real difference on a single coin toss, like the one that starts off a tennis or cricket match. But instead, let’s say you have a bet with a friend that depends not on one, but a thousand tosses.

The solvency ratio for public sector non-life insurers’ group is sub-optimal with three of the four PSU insurers recording the ratio below the baseline prescription, the RBI said in its report released on Thursday. The minimum solvency ratio requirement set by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) for insurance companies in India is 150 per cent. The higher the solvency ratio, the better will be the ability of the insurer to meet its liabilities The report also noted that the solvency ratio for life insurance companies has been above the prescribed threshold for both public sector and private sector at an aggregate level. In case of mutual funds, the regulator’s analysis revealed stress including credit risk, interest rate risk, and liquidity risk in the case of 17 mutual funds.