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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Zydus Wellness Limited, the parent company of brands such as Complan and Nycil talcum powder, has said it could invest up to ₹200 crore in new-age direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands as trends in the wellness space prompt it to explore new categories. In an interview with Mint, Tarun Arora, chief executive of Zydus Wellness, said the company could invest in both international and domestic markets.

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian commander Nilforoshan as well as Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh? Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said that Iran made a big mistake, and it would pay for it. It is clear that Israel is going to strike Iran hard, and many think it could be targeted assassinations as well as air strikes. Israel’s war cabinet has not decided exactly what form the response will take, Axios reported, and wants to first discuss its options with the United States. “We have a big question mark about how the Iranians are going to respond to an attack, but we take into consideration the possibility that they would go all in, which will be a whole different ball game,” an Israeli official told Axios. Naftali Bennett, a former Israeli prime minister, has urged Israel to attack “destroy [Iran’s] nuclear project, destroy their major energy facilities and critically hit this terrorist regime.” Any Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites can potentially be dangerous as Iran's nuclear capabilities are not fully known even though it denies it has any nuclear weapon. Any such strikes by Israel can prompt similar tit-for-tat strikes by Iran.

Joe Biden will survey the devastation in North and South Carolina on Wednesday as rescuers continue their search for anyone still unaccounted for after Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic damage across the Southeast and killed at least 166 people. Many residents in both states were still without running water, cellular service and electricity as floodwaters receded and revealed more of the death and destruction left in Helene's path. «We have to jump start this recovery process,» Biden said Tuesday, estimating it will cost billions. «People are scared to death. This is urgent.»

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Fund managers are hailing financial stocks as their next big theme, but as the saying goes, “the proof is in the pudding". Despite the bold proclamations, the data paint a more cautious picture.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Gold is what you buy when everything isn’t goldilocks. Inflation, deflation, war, pestilence—gold is a certain anxious state of mind made tangible in a seductive but mostly useless metal.

Dhan has reported gross revenues of Rs 380 crore in financial year 2024, up 600% from Rs 54.2 crore a year prior, according to a note the company has shared with its shareholders. ET has seen a copy of the note. The 2021-founded startup reported net profit of Rs 155 crore in FY24 compared to a net loss of Rs 22 crore in the year prior.

Coal India Ltd is exploring options to monetise its four old washeries by leasing out those assets and plans to bundle lease contracts with long-term coal supply agreements. The move aims at optimising asset utilisation. «We are exploring the monetization of four old washeries,» Coal India Ltd (CIL) said in a report. The company which accounts for over 80 per cent of domestic coal output is diversifying its portfolio by setting up a non-coking coal washery at Ib Valley, Lakhanpur in Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) — one of the subsidiaries of CIL.

railway stations and religious places in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh was received at the Hanumangarh railway station, police said on Wednesday. Additional SP, Hanumangarh, Pyare Lal Meena said the letter was delivered by post to the Hanumangarh station master and the local police was informed on Tuesday evening. «It was threatened in the letter, which was in the name of Jaish-e-Mohammed, that the railway station and places in Ganganagar, Hanumangarh, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Kota, Bundi, Udaipur, Jaipur will be blown up by bombs on October 30,» he said. The sender also threatened bomb blasts at religious places in Rajasthan as well as in Madhya Pradesh on November 2.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the sleepy village of Dawra in Solan district, often overlooked as the poorer cousin of Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, a new resort for the uber-rich opened earlier this year. This property, Amaya, spread over 20 acres, has just 15 villa rooms or chalets.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Russia’s leaders stopped most of the country’s gas deliveries to the EU in 2022, they thought themselves smart. Prices instantly shot up, enabling Russia to earn more despite lower export volumes.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Saudi oil minister has said that prices could drop to as low as $50 per barrel if so-called cheaters within OPEC+ don’t stick to agreed-upon production limits, according to delegates in the cartel.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It’s an important global event when the world’s third-largest economy and a significant ally of the United States gets a new leader—even when that country is Japan. Tokyo has a history of producing a parade of bland, largely anonymous Prime Ministers with the occasional star.

China has driven its technology industry off a cliff. The number of startups fell by 50,000 between the peak in 2018 and 2023, with this year on track to be even lower. The market capitalizations of the biggest tech companies, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., have shrunk to the tune of hundreds of billions, and pale in comparison to US peers. There is no sign that the sector will ever rebound to what it was before a government crackdown that kicked off in late 2020, even as policymakers have signaled it’s over. Becoming a billionaire entrepreneur has become something to be feared, rather than celebrated. It’s easy for US policymakers to see this with vindication and yet more evidence of a superior tech landscape at home. And from their vantage point, they are correct: President Xi Jinping strangled a generation of entrepreneurs who could have benefited consumers and made investors a lot of money.

Oracle plans to invest more than $6.5 billion to set up its first public cloud region in Malaysia, the company said on Wednesday, the latest major investment by a global tech firm into the Southeast Asian country. Technology giants including Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet unit Google and China's ByteDance have announced billions of dollars worth of digital investments into Malaysia since last year, mostly in cloud services and data centres, powering an infrastructure boom driven by growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI). A cloud region is the physical, geographic location where a company's public cloud facilities are located. Oracle's venture is set to be one of the largest single tech investments so far, outpacing the $6.2 billion planned spending by Amazon's cloud unit AWS announced last year.

Reliance Infrastructure on Tuesday said its board has approved a proposal to raise ₹2,930 crore by issuing unsecured foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) to VFSI Holdings. In a regulatory filing, the company said FCCBs will be unsecured and will have ultra-low cost interest of 5% per annum with a long maturity of 10 years.

gold loan companies lost sheen on Tuesday after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) called for these companies to take corrective measures for the lapses in loan sanctioning practices in the next three months. Muthoot Finance fell 3.9% and Manappuram Finance declined 1.9% as analysts see the central bank's action weighing on their ROAs (return on assets) — a key profitability ratio for lenders. The issues highlighted by RBI include improper valuation, breaches of loan-to-value (LTV) ratios, and inadequate governance in partnerships with fintech entities, said Shrikant Chouhan, head of equity research at Kotak Securities.

Zero brokerage as a service perquisite could well be a thing of the past as regulatory changes, such as Tuesday's new measures aimed at curbing the F&O frenzy, push up transaction charges and cause trading volumes to decline. Angel One, India's third-largest brokerage by client count, introduced a flat fee of ₹20 or 0.1% of turnover (whichever is lower) on cash market transactions starting November 1, anticipating a drop in revenues from the derivative segment. Previously, these transactions were free of charge.

Adani Enterprises is likely to raise up to $2 billion through a qualified institutional placement (QIP) by the middle of next week, sources aware of the development said. Meanwhile, the Adani Group along with Wilmar will also launch the sale of around a 13% stake in Adani Wilmar by the end of this month or early in November, to cut down the promoter stake in the company to comply with listing regulations, sources said.