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Razorpay on Tuesday launched its own Unified Payments Interface (UPI) infrastructure, or UPI switch, in partnership with Airtel Payments Bank. The infrastructure is designed to handle up to 10,000 transactions per second, at any given time, and enable five times faster access to UPI innovations for businesses, Razorpay said in a statement.

American Climate Corps. The first batch of job listings under the program went live on Monday, timed to Earth Day. So far the website features 2,000 positions at organizations across 36 states and territories. It will be updated regularly with new openings, the White House said. The first class of participants will begin their work this summer. Launched in September, the American Climate Corps seeks to recruit more than 20,000 young people and train them up in skills needed to tackle climate change, before funneling them into clean energy trades or federal service. President Joe Biden pledged to create such an initiative in an executive order soon after taking office in 2021.

Shares of Biocon Ltd.(up 3.32 per cent), Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd.(up 1.76 per cent), Natco Pharma Ltd.(up 1.71 per cent), Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.(up 1.58 per cent) and Divi's Laboratories Ltd.(up 0.84 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

Tata Consumer Products' board of directors on Tuesday recommended a dividend payment of Rs 7.75 per share for the year ended March 31, 2024. The decision was taken in a board meeting held today to approve the company's January-March quarter earnings and the announcement was made after market hours. Tata Consumer shares today ended at Rs 1173 on the NSE, up by Rs 0.80 or 0.07% from the Monday closing price.

Authority (UP-RERA) has fined a homebuyer for repeatedly filing complaint with the authority after getting the relief. UP RERA said that instances of some allottees filing repeated complaints in the same matter and misusing the process of law, are also surfacing. “When such a matter came for hearing before the NCR Bench of Chairman UP RERA, he noticed that this allottee had not approached RERA with clean hands and was misusing the process of law and wasting the time of the bench. It was the fourth complaint of the allottee in the same matter,” UP RERA said.

On the BSE, Riddhi Corp. Service(down 17.32 per cent), Supershakti Metaliks(down 13.04 per cent), Clariant Chem(down 11.49 per cent), KM Sugar Mills(down 9.99 per cent) and Shree Bhavya Fabric(down 9.99 per cent) stood among the top losers in today's trade.

SYDNEY—Elon Musk criticized an order by Australian authorities to remove a video of the stabbing of a religious leader, with the billionaire owner of social-media platform X arguing it sets a dangerous precedent that effectively allows one country to control the entire internet. The row has intensified in recent days, with Australia’s eSafety commissioner—the official in charge of monitoring social media for harmful content—taking X to court for not doing enough to remove the content after it received a formal notice to take it down. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also weighed in, arguing that Musk is fighting for the right to show violent videos on his platform.

₹30,000 price segment in India. Realme 12 Pro+ 5G features a 6.7-inch OLED screen with a screen ratio of 93% and a resolution of 2412 x 1080. This device comes with 120Hz refresh rate and 240Hz touch sampling rate and is powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 chipset.

Mission drift, a phenomenon wherein an organization starts focusing on activities that do not align with its foundational mission, has severe consequences for organizations. In his book Good to Great, Jim Collins highlights how companies can falter by straying from their core values and missions, a concept linked to Aristotle’s idea of “telos," or an entity’s ultimate purpose. Aristotle believed that losing sight of this purpose leads to dysfunction and unrealized potential, mirroring the effects of mission drift seen in modern organizations.

It seemed to be a great deal at the time: Swap an aging townhouse and a small piece of farmland for five apartments and two stores. Bella Zhao’s family grabbed that offer in 2009, when property developers led by Wanda Group moved into their sparse, snow-capped village in China’s northeastern Jilin province. Wanda planned to spend $2.8 billion to turn the area into a high-end resort replete with ski slopes, golf courses, hunting spots and five-star hotels.

Following its initial case from October 2022, representing roughly 3,000 claimants, RGL is preparing a second claim for a further 4,000 investors, who have since joined the class action. Woodford investors set for first Link settlement payment as ACD makes distribution The claims are based around allegations that investors suffered losses as a result of HL continuing to recommend the WEIF right up to its suspension, despite the platform «being aware of the fund's longstanding portfolio diversification and liquidity issues». RGL is also claiming damages for the loss of opportunity t...

In a stock exchange notice today (23 April), the £3.8bn trust said the offer would be made for up to 37.9 million shares, or 3.4% of issued share capital, at 214p per share. This represents a premium of 15% to the closing price of 186p on Monday (22 April). The move offers an exit route for shareholders, as the FTSE 250 trust contends with a double-digit discount to net asset value. According to the Association of Investment Companies, Petershill Partners is trading at a 45.9% discount. Pershing Square Holdings manager slashes performance fee as Ackman eyes US launch The tender off...

Employbridge’s Joanie Bily explains what the March jobs report says about the state of the U.S. economy on 'Making Money.'

Trident Realty has raised ₹1,200 crore through sale of assets, including Shipra Mall in Ghaziabad and a land parcel in Gurugram, as part of plans to focus on its residential business and exit non-core assets, said people close to the development.

TBO Tek received regulatory nod from Sebi to raise funds through an IPO. The issue includes fresh equity of Rs 400 crore and an offer for sale of up to 1.56 crore shares. The company had filed a draft prospectus in November last year.

The Sensex has given a 1-year return of approximately 25%. in FY24 and currently is around 74,000, after touching lifetime highs of ~75,000.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's promise of wealth redistribution has kicked up a huge controversy. While the idea itself has been controversial — right from the bloody revolutions of the past century that promised the poor the wealth amassed by the rich to contemporary debates in economics on how to address inequality and poverty — a comment on Rahul's plan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought the issue to the headlines. PM Modi alleged on Sunday that «Congress wanted to confiscate people's wealth and redistribute it to Muslims». Yesterday, adding that opposition parties had done nothing for Muslims, he reiterated his allegations, saying that the Congress was «looking to survey earnings and wealth of people, including their vehicles, property, and houses to redistribute it in line with a communist ideology that INDIA wanted to implement in the country». What did Rahul Gandhi say

Razorpay on Tuesday launched its own UPI infrastructure with 'UPI Switch', a cloud-based innovation in partnership with Airtel Payments Bank, and said the solution is geared to ensure smoother and faster transactions. Boosting success rates by 4-5 per cent, the solution is designed to handle up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) at any given time, according to a release. The 'UPI Switch' will also enable 5 times faster access to UPI (Unified Payments Interface) innovations for businesses, it added.

U.S. stocks have clawed back some of their losses from last week

#ldnont ^cs pic.twitter.com/siT6uuzfnm— London Fire Department (@LdnOntFire) April 22, 2024The London Fire Department said multiple 911 calls came in from residents in the west end of the city at 10:49 p.m. The train continued travelling, heading eastbound to downtown, before coming to stop at Waterloo and Pall Mall streets.“At the height of the incident, we had about 28 firefighters and 10 apparatus on scene,” Shewell said.Crews focused on protecting the Drewlo Holdings building from smoke and fire damage and used about 250 litres of foam to get the fire down.By 12:30 a.m.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that was struck down by lower courts