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Indian Railways, in collaboration with the Uttar Pradesh State Bridge Corporation, has undertaken a project to elevate railway tracks to remove level crossings before next year's Maha Kumbh, officials said on Sunday. The initiative is set to ease traffic congestion, save travel time, and provide significant relief to city residents, they added. Celebrated in a cycle of 12 years, the Maha Kumbh will be held in Prayagraj from January 13 to February 26. Rail under bridges (RUBs) and rail over bridges (ROBs) are ready on almost all the level crossings in Prayagraj where movement will start fully before the mega event, officials said.

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The path ahead for Toronto-Dominion Bank is rocky, but analysts at Jefferies Financial Group Inc. are predicting a recovery in the stock’s valuation as they turn bullish on the outlook for the Canadian lender and name it a top pick for 2025.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The department of consumer affairs is preparing to launch a “future-ready" platform to redressing consumer grievances through a new e-Jagriti app and an updated portal, which is expected to streamline the resolution of complaints, two people aware of the matter said. The new system looks to take into account changes in consumer behaviour resulting from, among other things, the launch of quick deliveries across segments, from groceries and medicines to cosmetics and fashion, they added.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shares of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) have surged about 15% from their recent low of ₹855 apiece seen on 13 November, outpacing the sub-4% gain in the benchmark Nifty 50 index. The outperformance is attributed to the company’s relative advantage, thanks to its greater presence in the long steel production.

Asian shares have tracked Wall Street’s decline in response to potentially discouraging data on the U.S. economy

Rohit Sharma's elegance and Virat Kohli's class will face the ultimate 'Test' when India take on an Australian team eager to set the record straight on a spicy Gabba track in the third game of the Border-Gavaskar series, starting Saturday. With the series locked at 1-1, Brisbane could well decide the course of the rubber and whether Rohit's men would continue to be the master of their fate in the ongoing World Test Championship. For India, the biggest hope remains in Australia's batting vulnerability which can lead to an implosion if a certain Travis Head doesn't decide to be the marauder. Steve Smith is currently sailing in the same boat as Kohli if inconsistent batting form is taken into consideration.

«Investors are kicking some of the themes that they felt were worth backing, especially in the wake of Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election,» says Cameron Brandt, EPFR Global How you are looking at the trajectory that we have seen play out on Wall Street and how you have read into the producer price index report that we have seen, what the expectation is now from the US Fed. Cameron Brandt: Well, what we have seen from a fund flow perspective is an enormous flood of money come in to US mandated funds since the beginning of November really eclipsing pretty much every other fund group that we track.

Global growth is forecast to moderate, partly due to the heightened uncertainty surrounding U.S. trade policy, and key economies like China, Europe and Canada are expected to loosen monetary policy significantly.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. has eased for the third week in a row

Fund (AIF), the ASK Index Plus Fund, which requires a minimum investment of Rs 1 crore. The fund is ASK Hedge Solutions' second offering under the Category III Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) structure. ASK Index Plus Fund is aimed at high-net-worth individuals (HNIs) seeking innovative portfolio management solutions, the company said in a press release.

passive funds: Mirae Asset Nifty India New Age Consumption ETF and Mirae Asset Nifty India New Age Consumption ETF Fund of Fund. The new fund offer or NFO of Mirae Asset Nifty India New Age Consumption ETF and Mirae Asset Nifty India New Age Consumption ETF Fund of Fund are open for subscription and will close on December 20 and December 26 respectively. Also Read | Mutual funds see Rs 8,995 crore inflow in mid and small cap funds in November. Should you allocate more?

Australian dollar got a much-needed fillip on Thursday after surprisingly strong jobs data pushed back on wagers for an earlier cut in interest rates, lifting bond yields. The figures showed a surprise drop in unemployment, hitting an eight-month low of 3.9% in November and wrong-footing analysts who had forecast a 4.2% jump in jobless claims.

Senate Democrats failed in their bid to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after the Senate rejected a razor-thin vote that hinged on the pivotal rejections of independent Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Si...

U.S. stocks are rising after the latest update on inflation appeared to clear the way for more help for the economy from the Federal Reserve

Legal tech startup Legitquest has raised $660,000 (Rs 5.5 crore) in an ongoing funding round from its existing investors InfoEdge and WaterBridge Ventures. The company, in a statement, said that with more commitments in the pipeline, it is set to close the funding round soon. “We are excited about the continued trust and support of our investors, which allows us to accelerate our vision of leveraging generative AI to transform the challenges faced by legal stakeholders,” said Karan Kalia, founder of Legitquest.

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Greater Coochbehar People's Association (GCPA) at Jorai railway station in Alipurduar division of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) started at 6.45 am, and was withdrawn around 11.45 am, following which normal train movement was restored, he said. The agitators said they were holding the «indefinite» rail blockade to press for their demand for the creation of 'Greater Coochbehar'. Thousands of protesters had assembled at the station in the morning and blocked tracks, prompting the deployment of a large number of RPF, GRP and local police personnel to prevent any untoward incident, the NFR official said.

Sunil Subramaniam, Market Expert, says if a fund manager is getting, let us say, Rs 1,000 crore per month as SIP, he knows for the next 12 months, he can plan his purchases and so he tracks a good quality stock. He continuously keeps buying it because he is assured of the flow for a long time. The consistency of the SIP book gives a lot of comfort to fund managers also as they can acquire stocks steadily. In effect, fund managers are themselves doing an SIP in the stock market. Subramaniam also says that Rs 25,000 crore is just the tip of the iceberg. He would not be surprised if this doubles to Rs 50,000 crore in a year's time because the penetration of mutual funds in India is still in single digits in our 144 crore population. SIP inflows are near record high levels; equity inflows are at three-month high levels, coming in at near Rs 36,000 crore marks. How should one read into this data because in November, we saw real divergent moves in markets? Sunil Subramaniam: This indicates the maturity of the domestic investor, especially the ones using mutual funds as a vehicle and using distributors to advise them.