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Democracy and markets share a belief in the ‘wisdom of crowds,’ a thesis presented well by James Surowiecki in a book by that title which offers various examples of how numerous minds put together are smarter than a few. The antithesis of it, though, glares out from every news report of a stampede. Can a clash of that crowd thesis with its antithesis yield a synthesis? Say, the ‘common sense of crowds’? The question has arisen again as India mourns the 120-plus lives lost to another crowd crush, this time in a slushy field near Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, where an estimated 250,000 devotees had turned up at a religious gathering, although local authorities said approval had been given for just 80,000.

By James Day, University of California, San Diego San Diego: Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites — rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together — only 385 or so stones came from the planet Mars. It's not that hard for scientists to work out that these meteorites come from Mars. Various landers and rovers have been exploring Mars' surface for decades. Some of the early missions — the Viking landers — had the equipment to measure the composition of the planet's atmosphere. Scientists have shown that you can see this unique Martian atmospheric composition reflected in some of these meteorites. Mars also has unique oxygen. Everything on Earth, including humans and the air we breathe, is made up of a specific composition of the three isotopes of the element oxygen: oxygen-16, oxygen-17 and oxygen-18. But Mars has an entirely different composition — it's like a geochemical fingerprint for being Martian.

Mint looks at the key aspects of the latest Hindenburg post: The show-cause notice dated 26 June 2024 was sent to Hindenburg and Kingdon Capital Management, the only investor with which the US short seller shared the damning report on the Adani Group before publishing it. The notice details how Hindenburg violated some regulations, including inadequate disclosures on how it traded and profited. It estimates Hindenburg made $14.7 million from taking a short position in Adani.

MUMBAI : Temasek, the private equity (PE) arm of the Singapore government, is the front runner to acquire significant minority stake in Tynor Orthotics, a Mohali, Punjab-based medical equipment maker, according to three people with knowledge of the development. The manufacturer and exporter of orthopaedic and fracture aids, which is backed by consumer-focused PE firm Lighthouse Funds, is being valued at ₹3,000 crore, three people with knowledge of the development said. “The final bids have come in and Temasek is the front runner," the first person cited above said on condition of anonymity, adding that the other bidders who made it to the final round include global PE firms Warburg Pincus and Norwest Venture Partners.

Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company Ltd. traded at Rs 1397.55 on BSE at 02:00PM (IST) on Tuesday, down 2.56 per cent. The stock quoted a 52-week low price of Rs 997.4 and a high of Rs 1475.95. Earlier in the day, the stock saw a gap up opening.

Stocks closed mixed on Wall Street after testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in front of Congress provided little new guidance on the Fed’s plans on when it might lower interest rates

Owning an ultrarare Scotch whisky, like the Macallan Fine & Rare 1961 that sold for $32,500 at Bonhams in February, is out of reach for the average tippler. But that doesn’t mean spirits collecting is only for the wealthy. Demand for fine, or luxury, spirits has leapt over the past several years, led by tequila and American whiskey/bourbon.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels conducted the largest number of attacks on commercial ships so far in 2024 in June, fresh proof that the group’s threat to trade intensified in recent weeks. There were 16 confirmed attacks on ships in June, according to figures published by the naval forces operating in the region. That’s the most for any single month in 2024, and was only eclipsed in December when more vessels were still sailing through the region. Separate figures published by the Washington Institute show a similar trend. Attacks by the Houthis ramped up in June, having shown signs of diminishing in the preceding months. The incidents included the second confirmed sinking of a vessel, as well as the first successful attack with a seaborne drone. The attacks are helping to contribute to the second-largest increase in a gauge of global sea transport on record as vessels sail thousands of miles extra around Africa.

Drivers for ride-hailing companies in Massachusetts are pushing ahead with what they describe as a first-of-its-kind ballot question that could win them union rights if approved by voters

petroleum products rose 2.6% year-on-year in June, helped by growth in petrol and jet fuel. Petrol sales grew 4.6% on-year in June while diesel sales expanded only 1%, according to the oil ministry data. Diesel accounts for 40% of the sales volume of petroleum products in the country. Petrol makes up 17% while LPG accounts for 12%. LPG, used mostly as cooking gas in the country, grew 3.2% in sales in June. Jet fuel consumption grew 10%, helped by a rise in holiday travel in June. Sales of bitumen, used mainly in building roads, grew 4.2% while the use of polluting petcoke rose 2%. Petrol sales were helped by strong new vehicle sales and increased holiday travel. Diesel is used mainly in long-haul transport, mining, irrigation, and backup generators.

Adani Power Ltd. gained 5.11 per cent to Rs 733.65 in Tuesday's trade. It hit a high of Rs 745.0 and low of Rs 696.0 during the session. On the technical charts, the 200-DMA of the stock stood at Rs 542.15, while the 50-DMA was at Rs 693.57. If a stock trades above 50-DMA and 200-DMA, it usually means the immediate trend is upward. On the other hand, if the stock trades below 50-DMA and 200-DMA, it is considered a bearish trend and if trades between these averages, then it suggests the stock can go either way.

property sector in crisis and deflation fears. Here AFP looks at the main challenges facing the world's second-largest economy:

Mint. Bhargava said incentivizing EVs is good, but only incentivizing EVs alone will slow down our “national carbon reduction goals".He added that the dominance of petrol and diesel vehicles has to be reduced in favour of vehicles with alternative fuels which offer lower emissions. He expressed that the Uttar Pradesh government's directive to waive road tax on hybrid cars would negatively impact the sales of petrol and diesel cars.

But with her husband gone, eliminating his wages as a server, she was forced to earn money. She took a job at a nearby factory run by a company called All Time Plastics in Silvassa, a city about 100 miles north of Mumbai. A dozen years later, she is still there, plucking newly molded food storage containers and other household implements off a conveyor belt, labeling them and placing them in cartons bound for kitchens as far away as Los Angeles and London. Pawar earns about 12,000 rupees per month (about $150), a meager sum by global standards. Yet those wages have allowed her to keep her daughter in high school while transforming their everyday lives.

Britain's new government is prioritising avoiding job losses in talks with Tata Steel over government backing for a transition to lower-carbon technologies, business minister Jonathan Reynolds said on Sunday. Tata, Britain's biggest steel producer, started closing one of its carbon-intensive blast furnaces on Thursday while the shutdown of its other one is slated for September, resulting in the loss of up to 2,800 jobs at Port Talbot in South Wales. The new government will need to sign the 500 million pound ($635 million) support package the previous government agreed with Tata Steel to help build a lower-carbon electric arc furnace, but unions are hoping for an improved deal with Tata, which could prevent some job losses.

RateGain Travel Technologies with a target price of Rs 900. The current market price of RateGain Travel Technologies Ltd. is Rs 809.75. RateGain Travel Technologies Ltd., incorporated in the year 2012, is a Large Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 9477.98 Crore) operating in General sector.

pan (betel nut) from his hand"—a quite literal enactment of eating humble pie. The sultan was prepared to swallow this too but things got worse. On the appointed day, Ramaraya received him seated, refusing to rise even as Husain kissed his hand.

Mint's queries on the subject. A validated KYC status is like a golden ticket. It signifies that the KYC documents you submitted, such as PAN and Aadhaar, have been successfully verified by the issuing authorities and you can invest in any mutual fund company hassle-free.

Taylor Morrison CEO Sheryl Palmer discusses the headwinds facing the housing market after a drop in August on existing home sales on 'The Claman Countdown.'

Aveek Mitra, Aveksat Financial Advisory, says they are spreading bets a little thinner so that they can get into ideas beaten down stocks and also into areas with some momentum. So they mix and match things. They are not sitting on too much cash, maybe about 5% to 6% cash and at the same time do not have that kind of conviction that they will bet big on some ideas. Correction can always be there. The investor community is waiting for a correction and the markets are waiting for market man's patience to go dry. Who will win? The patience of the investors or will the market win, Mr Market? Aveek Mitra: First of all, the patience of the investor is not there because, on any kind of small fall, people are putting in more money than they were doing yesterday. Every month, the flow goes up. So. how can you say that investor patience is not there?

₹200 a pop (well, it was the 1990s, things were a lot cheaper then.) Very soon, students started walking out one by one simply because they had only prepared for the questions that had been leaked and no more. On top of that it was a difficult paper—not of a kind where one could just vomit what one had mugged up, which is how most school and college exams were back then. After the exam was over, the explanation offered was that the administrators had come to know that the paper had been leaked and so had changed it to the backup question paper, which apparently had also been prepared and printed.