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BHIM or Bharat Interface for Money will soon become available on the government-backed nonprofit Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), with an aim to counter the dominance of Google Pay and Walmart-backed PhonePe in India’s digital payments sector, people aware told ET. BHIM, developed by the apex group for digital payment systems in the country — National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), will foray into the ecommerce arena on ONDC through a separate division, they added.

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BENGALURU : When the fundraising route for startups began drying up a couple of years ago, several emerging companies turned to venture debt. With the macroeconomic environment becoming tougher, a few of those startups, including the Good Glamm Group, are now negotiating extensions for repaying those loans. Venture debt backers, typically loath to accept such requests, are faced with a quandary: which one to honour, based on which startups are more likely to survive.

Also read | Input costs, election, Chinese imports to weigh on steelmakers' Q4 Similarly, the manufacturing process of engineering goods involves heat-intensive processes. Casting, forging, and welding are common processes used to shape and assemble metal components—all of which require high temperatures. Plastic materials, too, are melted at high temperatures and then moulded into desired shapes.

With blue-chip cryptocurrency markets recovering on Friday as macro traders price back in multiple rate cuts for 2024 following the latest US jobs report, traders looking for top crypto gainers today continue to turn to the highly illiquid and volatile on-chain markets for opportunities.

OMAHA, Nebraska — Warren Buffett's annual shopping event, the pregame to Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, is wowing shareholders flocking to Omaha this weekend.

Okay, so maybe small-caps won’t get their day in the sun. At least not yet.

aircraft-manufacturing plants in the Seattle area Friday night unless the workers accept the company's last offer on wages. The company said the two sides were far apart in negotiations. It described the lockout as a precautionary move because the union could go on strike at any time once the current contract expires at midnight local time.

general election season in India has been in peak summer since 1991, when temperatures soar so much that it's possible to fry an egg on an SUV bonnet. While some may glean schadenfreude (pleasure derived from another person's misfortune) in the Election Commission making cossetted politicians sweat it out for their place in the 18th Lok Sabha, summer polls provide the perfect opportunity to observe their election fashion statements and understand the timeless logic of Indianwear. The appropriateness of traditional desi garments becomes most blindingly evident in summer. A woman parliamentarian, who is the darling of the cosmopolitan set for her chic urban style and cutting articulation, becomes a cotton-encased Bharatiya Nari on the election trail. Handloom saree draped loosely and demurely covering her head, full-sleeved blouse encasing arms and midriff, only her outsized designer sunglasses set her apart from the similarly cocooned women listening to her campaign spiel. They are united in their battle against the unrelenting sun. Ditto for her male counterparts who tend to ditch their international fashion brands at election time to make common cause with the more vernacular style of hinterland habitues. Their sartorial preference veers towards long-sleeved, billowing cotton kurta-pajamas and, in many cases, voluminous headgear that serves both as insulation from the searing sun as well as a shade for the eyes. Even their footwear is focused on keeping toes cool and free from gravel.

Warren Buffett will command centrestage at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting on Saturday, but someone who won't be there is his influential sidekick Charlie Munger. The meeting is Buffett's 60th since he took over Berkshire in 1965 and the first since the death of his longtime friend, business partner and foil Munger at age 99 in November.

The relegation tussle still involves three. And the contest for the remaining European qualification positions contains as many as five.

celestial spectacle this weekend as the Eta Aquarid meteor shower graces the night sky with its dazzling display of shooting stars. Expected to reach its peak on Saturday night and early Sunday, stargazers can witness up to an impressive 50 shooting stars per hour… The American Meteor Society predicts increased meteor rates this year, possibly attributed to the gravitational influence of Jupiter. Phenomenon of «Shooting Stars»

Sharad Pawar of the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar faction) had roped in Dhangar (shepherd) community leader Mahadev Jankar to contest from the Madha seat against BJP MP Ranjitsingh Nimbalkar. With Jankar being a Dhangar leader and the constituency having 5 lakh Dhangar voters, Jankar would have a strong chance of victory if he had contested. However, the BJP lured Jankar to its side and got him to contest from Parbhani, supported by its two allies — the Shiv Sena and NCP (Ajit). Sharad Pawar then managed to poach Vijaysinh Mohite Patil and his nephew Dhairyasheel Mohite Patil to his faction of the NCP. The latter has now been given a ticket to contest against BJP's Ranjtsinh Nimbalkar.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) has recovered 268 bitcoins coins worth ₹138 crore from a Haldwani resident whose premises were raided last week on the instance of US authorities investigating his alleged involvement in an international drug trafficking group. ET arrested Parvinder Singh last week after it raided his residence in Haldwani, Uttarakhand. ET had reported on April 27 that in a rare instance, ED, while teaming up with the US authorities, carried out a search in Haldwani to assist the US sleuths unravel Singh's involvement in an international drug racket. After Singh's arrest, Parvinder was remanded to ED's custody till May 4. His interrogation led to the recovery of 268 bitcoins worth ₹138 crore, said a senior official on the condition of anonymity.

Supreme Court on Friday verbally observed that it could consider granting interim bail to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal due to the Lok Sabha elections. A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta made the oral observation after observing that the arguments on Kejriwal's plea, challenging his arrest in the Delhi excise scandal, may take time to conclude. The bench enquired about the date of polling in Delhi. «This may take time. But if the case takes time, we may consider the question of interim bail due to elections,» justice Khanna remarked orally. However he made it clear, repeatedly that the bench has not decided anything in this regard and was merely posing a query to the ED counsel to be answered on Tuesday.

Customer is king Shiv Sena MLA Sandipan Bhumre has always been targeted by his rivals for running liquor stores. But Bhumre, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar's Lok Sabha candidate, has no qualms about it. While delivering a speech in his constituency this week, a drunk person created a stir. Bhumre, however, asked his party workers not to harm the person and said «he is our customer», much to the amusement of the audience. Bhumre laughed and added: «Why lie? We have a lot of customers everywhere.» Laughing it out In Kagal, one of the speakers campaigning for Shiv Sena's Sanjay Mandlik was trying to tell the crowd that Congress' Rahul Gandhi was no match for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asked who should lead the country. Since BJP and Sena supporters were expected to say Modi, the crowd was stunned when a youth near the stage said Rahul. Whether it was a gaffe or deliberate, it led to laughter not just from the audience, but even from those on the stage.

BJP is working hard and will win all 11 Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh, sayschief minister Vishnu Deo Sai. In a conversation with ET in Korba, he says his government is examining all Congress schemes and may discontinue some and why Naxal attacks and encounters have increased since BJP assumed power. Excerpts: On prospects in LS polls We are considering all 11 seats as tough and working hard everywhere. We will win all 11 seats.

Kolkata Knight Riders in an Indian Premier League match on Friday. Incidentally, it was KKR's first win over MI in Mumbai after 12 years. Opting to bowl, Jasprit Bumrah (3/18) was at his best as MI bowled out KKR for a modest 169. Sri Lankan medium pacer Nuwan Thushara (3/42) blew the top-order while Bumrah was menacing at the back end with skipper Hardik Pandya (2/44) also getting a couple of wickets.

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The Ontario Securities Commission is planning to toughen up — and make more visible — its response to capital markets misconduct and build the regulator’s reputation as an effective enforcer by vigorously prosecuting serious financial crimes, taking on novel and sophisticated files, and increasing the collection rates for penalties imposed.

The most important inflation metric, the CPIX, which excludes the eight most volatile segments of the index, is running at 2.1 per cent on a year-over-year basis. That is pretty well on target, barely higher than the pre-COVID-19 trend, and less than half the pace of a year ago.