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opposition bloc, has forced a contest for the post of the Lok Sabha speaker which has been decided with consensus for decades. While the NDA has fielded former Speaker Om Birla, INDIA has picked Congress leader and senior-most Lok Sabha MP Kodikunnil Suresh. As per the Lok Sabha Secretariat, the first such contest was in 1952 between GV Mavalankar and Shankar Shantaram. Mavalankar won with 394 votes whereas Shantaram got 55. The second such fight happened in 1976 between Baliram Bhagat and Jagannath Rao. Bhagat won with 344 votes while Jagannath Rao got 58. NDA candidate Birla was unanimously elected as the Speaker of the previous 17th Lok Sabha. Birla's name was proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was supported by all major opposition parties, including Congress, TMC, DMK, and BJD. The YSRCP and TDP also supported Birla's candidature.

₹2999 for the basic blender and jar you can add additional accessories for an increased bundle price and avail discounts as well.I recently got my hands on the BlendJet 2 Next-Gen Portable Blender along with its attachments and carry case. I tinkered with it and tried out multiple recipes. So is it worth the hype? And does the BlendJet price get justified when compared to other portable blenders available in India? I am here to answer all your questions and more in this review of the Blendjet 2 Next-Gen Portable Blender.

Lounge asked four yoga practitioners and trainers to share their daily yoga rituals, and a few they’d recommend to a yoga novice. Also read: The benefits of doing yoga everyday‘Yoga gave me this magical second life’– Anshuka Parwani, certified yoga and wellness expert and founder, Anshuka Yoga, Mumbai How my journey into yoga began: I used to be a pilot and a near-fatal accident had left me immobile with multiple fractures. I was bedridden for long and that’s when yoga came to me as therapy.

electricity cleanly to address climate change has been quietly advancing and on Tuesday it hit a milestone. A California utility is backing the largest new geothermal power development in the US — 400 megawatts of clean electricity from the Earth's heat — enough for some 4,00,000 homes. Southern California Edison will purchase the electricity from Fervo Energy, a Houston-based geothermal company, Fervo announced. The company is drilling up to 125 wells in southwest Utah.

“We are very excited with the way we have gained market share in recent times for our biosimilars in the US. We have always been sort of aiming for a 20% market share for our insulins globally and it is happening. I mean, it has happened in the US even sooner than we anticipated largely because of this huge demand. That has kind of created a large opportunity for us in insulins and I think we are benefiting from that, sort of windfall,” says Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Executive Chairperson, Biocon. Wanted to begin by asking you about India because I think that is, of course, the biggest talking point at the IGF as well. Clearly it seems like a Goldilocks scenario for India, but the question to you is, is this optimism actually being shared and felt by corporate India as well?

arrest warrants for Russia's chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, and former defence minister Sergei Shoigu. Warrants were issued for the alleged war crimes of directing attacks at civilian objects and causing excessive incidental harm to civilians, as well as the crime against humanity of «inhumane acts» in Ukraine, the ICC said in a statement. ICC judges said there were «reasonable grounds to believe that the two suspects bear responsibility for missile strikes carried out by the Russian armed forces against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure from at least 10 October 2022 until at least 9 March 2023.»

₹1,350 (premised on 2.5x FY26E ABV). This indicates an over 15 percent potential upside.The stock hit its record high of ₹1,199.35 and its market cap crossed $100 billion in intra-day deals today. The stock has now risen over 33 percent from its 52-week low of ₹898.85, hit on October 26, 2023."While we estimate margins to remain range-bound in the near term, the operating leverage is emerging as a lever to support earnings growth.

DALIAN, China — Cisco is «very optimistic» about its growing business with Chinese electric car companies as they expand overseas, the company's Greater China head told CNBC on Tuesday.

There is a famous saying, «A pet is a man's best friend.» This is absolutely true, isn't it?

Also Read: Quant Mutual Fund: How many days will it take to to liquidate its portfolio?Additionally, the push for affordable housing has led to increased construction activities, further boosting the demand for construction equipment and machinery. Rural electrification initiatives have also contributed to the sector's growth.

Multibagger stock: MosChip Technologies' share price has experienced a remarkable surge over the past month. This IT stock has catapulted from approximately ₹136 to ₹295 per share, delivering a staggering 115 percent return to its positional shareholders.

IPO) of Luxury furniture maker Stanley Lifestyles was booked 9.64 times so far on the third day of the bidding process. The issue closes today. The category reserved for NIIs was subscribed by a little over 22 times while the retail investors subscribed the issue by over 8 times. Meanwhile, the QIB portion of the issue was booked at just 1.6 times.

Last week, a PE consortium led by CVC Capital Partners made a second offer to acquire HL and take it private for 1,140p per share – which included a final dividend and an «equity rollover option» for shareholders to remain invested in the company post-acquisition. Hargreaves Lansdown receives second bid from PE consortium for £5.4bn However, Hanbury and Spalton, who joined Lancaster from Odey Asset Management subsidiary Brook Asset Management, set out several issues with the bid itself, as well as with HL's backing of the offer and its recommendation to shareholders to support it. ...

«I would definitely advocate one to move into safe bets as well as defensive sector. It can be in IT or one can even look at FMCG, one can even have positions in pharma, so I will definitely advocate at current level. Definitely one has to be careful. You have to move into defensive sector,» says CA Rudramurthy BV, MD, Vachana Investments. Yes, the divergent moves are coming in for the broader markets, but you have Nifty Bank charting new territory altogether 52,000. CA Rudramurthy BV: See, for me, both Nifty and Bank Nifty now is consolidating closer to the all-time highs only and whatever clues we get now from the result season as well as budget will hold the key. I feel at current level, one has to have a wait and watch kind of approach. You have to be very-very sector specific and stock specific. I would definitely advocate one to move into safe bets as well as defensive sector. It can be in IT or one can even look at FMCG, one can even have positions in pharma, so I will definitely advocate at current level. Definitely one has to be careful. You have to move into defensive sector. Wait for result season to pan out. Let us see how even budget comes out and then take aggressive position. So, for sure, this is not the time to take aggressive position, not to be in high beta and one has to have reduced leverage and risk management will hold the key if you are a very short-term trader.

The stakes are high for Joe Biden and Donald Trump for Thursday's first presidential debate

«Speciality chemical is a very different ball game. I mean, it has been struggling and there are intermittent signs of it reviving, but still it is very difficult as China is dumping and the competition across the globe is huge,» says Samit Vartak, SageOne Investment Advisors. For a lot of sectors we are at the peak of optimism, they are baking in the best in terms of order inflows, etc. A couple of places where there is still sort of a lack of belief or a bit of disbelief are those like IT, FMCG, chemicals, etc. Are you saying that perhaps it is time to bet on the underperformers? Samit Vartak: I am looking at companies where I am expecting close to 25% kind of earnings growth. A lot of companies in the IT sector or FMCG will never give you that, even half of that, so they are never really part of my portfolio.

MintGenie, Singhal said that equity investments are always accompanied by higher risks and related volatility. A Special Opportunities Fund is no exception.The market is currently at valuation multiples which may not be called attractive, more so, for mid caps and small caps where the valuation premiums are above long-term averages. We don’t see a case for multiple expansions over the next couple of years (especially for mid caps and small caps).

In a heartbreaking defeat, the Edmonton Oilers’ bid to pull off one of the greatest comebacks in sports history fell one win short.

«I think this is going to be a story for most of the midcap stocks, that if you missed out something, probably the valuations are going to be far more expensive and that is what the case here as well,» says Deven Choksey, MD, DRChoksey FinServ Pvt. Ltd. Let us begin by discussing Amara Raja Batteries because that stock has been charged up per se. It has doubled so far on a YTD basis and its other peer, even Exide, has managed to show a gain of around 80%. There is a latest announcement of another tie-up coming in from Amara Raja, but the big question is if you have missed out on the rally so far, is it good even for a fresh buy? Deven Choksey: Well, I think this is going to be a story for most of the midcap stocks, that if you missed out something, probably the valuations are going to be far more expensive and that is what the case here as well. I think the stock has already done the run-up in my viewpoint. Maybe I think the fundamentals are not doubted at this point of time. The growth and the prospects are also not doubted. But the fact remains that I think we are already scaled up on the valuation.

Amar Kalkundrikar, Fund Manager, Nippon India Mutual Fund, says at Nippon the consumption thematic is about investing into companies that provide branded goods and services to consumers. It is a play on rising incomes, aspirations, and brand consciousness of Indian consumers. As their incomes rise, consumers are interested in premiumising their experiences across categories; they go for branded products and are willing to pay for it. That is the sort of behaviour we want to capture in our portfolios. Kalkundrikar further says Nippon MF has increased exposure to sectors where mass consumption revival should benefit, that includes basic FMCG, QSR, automobiles, where we have seen recovery already starting and of course, some of these home improvement categories.

Happiest Minds Technologies fell 9.5% to the day’s low of Rs 830.20 on BSE after the company’s promoter Ashok Soota reportedly sold off 6% stake and approximately 91.3 lakh shares in the company through a block deal. The official buyers and sellers of the transaction are not yet known.