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Best geysers in India: Choose from top 10 energy efficient options for every budgetWater storage geysers or heaters are a great way to ensure you always have hot water on hand, making them perfect for bigger families or when you need hot water. They keep heated water in insulated tanks, so the temperature stays steady for longer and helps save on electricity.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Shares of National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) hit a new 52-week high of ₹227.39 on the National Stock Exchange on Tuesday, driven by rising alumina prices amid a supply shortage. The global aluminium market has been experiencing widespread disruption across the entire bauxite-alumina-aluminium supply chain.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : There's a real buzz on the Street about nuclear power as investors are beginning to look beyond renewables for carbon-free energy sources. In the US, Microsoft Corp.

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Mexico are investigating the daylight shooting of a man outside a luxury beach resort in Cancun in what prosecutors are calling a “targeted attack.”The man, a Mexican national, was killed after two people approached him in Cancun’s Hotel Zone and shot him to death, the attorney general’s office for the state of Quintana Roo wrote in a press release.A blurred photo of the crime scene published by Riviera Maya News shows the man’s body lying in the sand. Witnesses told police that the two suspects walked up to the man on the beach, shot him several times, then boarded jet skis and fled.The identity of the deceased man has not been released by authorities.A spokesperson for RIU Hotels & Resorts told Global News that the incident occurred in front of the Riu Palace Las Americas hotel.

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Asian shares are mixed after worsening tensions in the Middle East sent shares lower on Wall Street

Bank of Baroda (BoB) are expected to remain in focus when markets resume trading on Friday as the state lender reported an 11.60% year-on-year growth in its global advances at Rs 11.43 lakh as on September 30, 2024, while global deposits of the state-run lender shot-up by over 9% to Rs 13.63 lakh crore, the company stated on Thursday as part of its quarterly update. Lender's global business grew by 10.23% YoY to Rs 25.06 lakh crore, the company filing said.

Mayuresh Joshi, Head Equity, Marketsmith India, says the markets are fearing a possible escalation in the Middle East conflict. In the Indian context, earnings might be a tad bit soft going into this quarter's numbers as well. But with good monsoon, expectations of rural recovery, second half should be relatively better as far as India Inc is concerned. So, Joshi is not looking at a structural downside. Liquidity remains strong and for any fall in the market that comes through, liquidity might come back and cushion them. It is getting bad in the market, could it get ugly? Mayuresh Joshi: There are two-three angles. One, obviously, in terms of how global macros are shaping up. The expectations in terms of the China stimulus has clearly buoyed sentiments in terms of foreign flows towards China. Again, undervalued, under-owned and therefore, the kind of move that we saw on the Chinese markets because of the stimulus was something to be watched out for.

Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com, says the first level of buying could be looked at on the largecap side. If Reliance falls 5-7% from current levels, it could be a decent stock to buy for a 15-20% upside over a year's time. If markets correct, typically banks have a higher beta. If they correct more than 10% from current levels, they can be considered. If L&T it falls near Rs 3,200-3,300, then we could have a look at it among the largecaps. These could be the opportunities. Markets were due for a fall. The selling has come. Could this accelerate further? Is it time to put money to work now? Sandip Sabharwal: It is too early to put money to work because of the fact that, one, there could be global factors at play and globally markets could correct and that could lead to some sort of fall coming in India also. Secondly, if you look at economic data which has been coming out starting right from the core industrial data, information where core output was actually down last month and some impact was there of heavy rains, etc, which was down.

tractor trolley in this Uttar Pradesh district in the early hours of Friday, police said. The incident took place around 1 am on G T Road, between Kachhawan and Mirzamurad on the Mirzapur-Varanasi border, Superintendent of Police (Mirzapur) Abhinandan said. «The tractor trolley, carrying 13 labourers who were returning from construction work in Bhadohi district, was hit from behind by the truck that had gone out of the driver's control,» the SP said. On being alerted, the SP and other senior officers rushed to the scene to oversee the rescue operations.

U.S. ports from Maine to Texas have been closed due to a strike by the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Investment banks reaped a record harvest in terms of underwriting fees in the first nine months of 2024, a year that saw companies such as Ola Electric, FirstCry, Awfis and Ixigo march to the market. Thanks to a flurry of initial public offerings, block deals and private placements, underwriting fees in the equity capital markets (ECM) rose 110% from a year earlier to touch $471 million, data from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) showed, the biggest nine-month haul since records started in 2000.