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With regular momentum now coming back to the real estate business after Corona-led large scale disruption, the Delhi/NCR market has once again become one of the most happening turfs. And the action is quite broader in nature covering all realty segments.

Dinesh Kumar Khara, Chairman, SBI, says “I am quite confident that with the kind of plough back which we have, we will be in a position to generate adequate plough back to take care of this increased capital requirements which have been prescribed by RBI. We are very closely watching whatever is the situation and we will be ensuring that the bank should be very well capitalised. It is already well capitalised, but it should stay well capitalised and meet all the regulatory requirements because RBI prescription is one, our board prescription is invariably over and above that.” Should we start with new year resolutions? Dinesh Kumar Khara: Yes, new year resolution is to continue to improve upon where we left the year 2023.

Priya is a committed investor, who has put together a diverse pool of investments over time. She is confident about her product selection, having mitigated risk by spreading her investments across numerous products, with small amounts. Despite her strategic approach, Priya realises that her portfolio isn’t delivering substantial returns and lacks protection from market volatility. Additionally, accessing funds when needed proves challenging, and managing the portfolio becomes a time-consuming task. Priya is left wondering where she has gone wrong and how to realign her investments. Priya’s portfolio exhibits signs of over-diversification, a condition characterised by numerous, small, fragmented holdings that reduce the impact of successful investing.

The Dogs of the Dow is a popular strategy getting much attention now that the year-end is here. The theory assumes that this year’s losers will be next year’s winners, which is often true. Dow Dogs offers value and above-average yield, with Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) being a primary example. Walgreens is 2023’s worst-performing Dow stock, down 30% YOY but now trading at a deep value while paying more than 7% in yield. The value and yield alone are an attractive force, add in the new CEO, a potential sale of Boots and the outlook for turnaround, and it’s a viable if speculative investment for income seekers.

₹2 crore; others raised rates for bigger deposits. Top lenders State Bank of India (SBI ) and Bank of Baroda (BoB) increased rates on fixed deposits by 25-50 basis points (bps) and 10-125 bps, respectively, for different tenors on 27 and 29 December. A basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point.

The year 2024 promises to be a breakout one for India’s hearables and wearables industry, a rapidly growing segment within Indian electronics. Driven by domestic adoption, this sector witnessed modest growth in 2023 and anticipates robust growth.

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₹10 lakh in the western suburb of Jogeshwari here, an official said on Sunday. According to details, quoted by Hindustan Times and news agency PTI, the head of the crime branch unit 10 – Inspector Deepak Sawant – donned the uniform of a food delivery agent to apprehend the accused in the SV Road area in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. The accused, identified as Faisal Akbar Makhanoja, was nabbed by Sawant and his team after a chase.

Dhruva Space said it will launch its LEAP-TD satellite nanosatellite Monday morning aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation's PSLV-C58 rocket from Sriharikota. ‍The LEAP-TD (Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Payloads — Technology Demonstrator) mission features a derivative of the company’s P-30 satellite platform integrated to ISRO’s PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM), which allows in-orbit scientific experiments using the spent PS4 stage as an orbital platform.

London on Sunday of potential delays after flooding forced the cancellation all Saturday trains. The first Eurostar train left London St Pancras International shortly after 8:00 am (0800 GMT).

quality of their sleep is better or worse. Surveys show that some countries are peopled by night owls, but others by early birds. But why this is so remains an open question.

law ministry which saw a change of guard this year as Arjun Ram Meghwal took over the reins from Kiren Rijiju. The year saw the Law Commission working on a formula to synchronise all assembly polls by extending or reducing the tenure so that all state elections can be held along with the Lok Sabha polls from 2029 onwards.

FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) companies have a lot going for them: rising disposable incomes, rapid pace of urbanisation, growing aspirations and lower penetration of branded products. However, despite a vast growth opportunity, the FMCG companies struggled with various challenges in 2023 and hope to have a better 2024. Weaker-than-expected festive demand, rainfall deficit that hampered rural growth, unseasonal rains that dampened sale of beverages and higher commodity prices constituted a daunting landscape for India's FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) companies in 2023. When inflation was at a record high, the FMCG industry had a high price-led growth in the last five-six quarters, though the volume was under stress. However, the trend has started reversing with the cooling of commodity prices. While volume growth for the FMCG industry in urban India has been on a positive trajectory since April-June last year, rural markets have grown marginally this calendar year, according to market researcher NielsenIQ. In the September quarter, urban markets grew 10.2% year-on-year while rural grew 6.4%, it said. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, rural markets were driving overall growth, growing twice as fast as urban markets. But the demand has slowed down in the current quarter. Overall sales of apparel and electronic products have been languishing for over a year now, while those of mass-segment electronic products have been low since the pandemic outbreak. According to researcher GfK, there was a slight pick-up in mass segment during Diwali. Below are some of the challenges faced by the FMCG companies that attracted attention in 2023:

index touched a 33-year high, Hong Kong rounded out its fourth straight year of decline and India emerged as a leader in IPOs, Nikkei reported. One of the biggest drivers behind this divergence was disappointment in China's post-Covid recovery. Hong Kong's flagship Hang Seng Index (HSI), which tracks 80 blue chip stocks, has dropped 13.8 per cent this year, its first four-year losing streak since its launch in 1969, Nikkei reported. As investors shift away from greater China, their attention is moving to Japan, India and the tech hubs of Taiwan and South Korea. The major indexes in these markets rose by more than double digits in 2023, with Japan's Nikkei 225 leading the pack at nearly 30 per cent, Nikkei reported. The comeback of Japanese shares was a result of multiple factors, including improved corporate governance, something the country's regulators have been working on for over a decade in hopes of stimulating investment from abroad. BlackRock this month reaffirmed its «overweight» position on Japanese equities for the next six to 12 months.

software engineer accidentally fell to his death from the 33rd-floor balcony of his friend's flat at Bhattarahalli near KR Pura, east Bengaluru, on Friday morning. The deceased, identified as Divyanshu Sharma, had been partying late into the night before the incident occurred, a TOI report stated. According to the police, Divyanshu had been partying with his friends until late in the night on the new year.

iPhone 15 comes with many improvements over its predecessor including almost doubling the peak outdoor brightness to an impressive 2,000 nits. The iPhone comes with a 6.1-inch display along with the new Dynamic Island technology that offers a more intuitive way to interact with their iPhones. The smartphone which was launched in September this year at the Wonderlust event for a price of ₹79,990 is now listed on a discount of ₹5,000 at all major e-commerce platforms.

January

Birthdays are when we take stock, replenish, and make a tentative plan to move forward. I say tentative because the future, we know, is always uncertain. We inhabit the same planet, and yet each country is mired in its own gook, whether it's the news cycle, the arts, festivals, religion, politics, or sport.

V of BTS marked his birthday with a noteworthy surprise! At 2 p.m. KST on December 30, UMI, the American singer-songwriter, dropped her latest track featuring V, titled «Wherever U R.» BIGHIT MUSIC revealed that V and UMI had previously admired each other's music, and this collaboration allowed them to share messages with their fans through music.

Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated a slew of projects in the city of Ayodhya, including the first phase of a brand new airport, christened the Maharishi Valmiki International Airport. Part of a major move by the Centre to increase connectivity to the home of the soon-to-be inaugurated Ram Mandir, the first phase of the airport cost an estimated Rs 1,450 crore to build.

India’s еconomic ascеnt prеsеnts еxciting opportunitiеs for invеstors. Oncе rеliant on forеign manufacturing and tеchnology, thе country is еxpеriеncing a rеmarkablе transformation, spеarhеadеd by advancеmеnts in domеstic capabilitiеs and a thriving еntrеprеnеurial spirit. This articlе еxplorеs two kеy sеctors poisеd for robust growth: manufacturing and tеchnology.