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LPG prices go up, 19-kg commercial cylinder now costs Rs 2,355.50

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Amazon ends Covid paid leave for US workers

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Khadi sales soar 43%, hit record high of Rs 5,000 crore

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Railways' daily coal loading up 20% over last year

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Rs 5,500 crore deposits of Xiaomi seized for 'forex violations'

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The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday "seized" Rs 5,551 crore in the bank accounts of Chinese mobile manufacturing company Xiaomi for alleged violation of Indian foreign exchange rules. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/In5HU3y via IFTTT

Yes Bank-DHFL case: CBI raids 3 top realtors' sites in Maharashtra

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Yes Bank posts net profit of Rs 367 crore in Q4; returns to full-year profitability in FY22

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Yes Bank on Saturday said it returned to full-year profitability in the fiscal ended March 2022, registering a profit of Rs 1,066 crore during the year.The private sector lender had posted a net loss of Rs 3,462 crore in the previous fiscal year ended March 2021 and a loss of Rs 22,715 crore in FY20.FY22 is the first full-year profit since FY19, Yes Bank said in a regulatory filing. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/AJLPb5u via IFTTT

DHFL-Yes Bank case: CBI searches premises of prominent realtors

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The CBI on Saturday began searches at the premises of some prominent builders, including Ashwini Bhonsale, Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka, at eight locations in Mumbai and Pune in connection with the DHFL-Yes Bank corruption case, officials said. It suspects that their companies were used to channel alleged illicit money in the Yes Bank-DHFL loan case, they said. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/aKCBzbD via IFTTT

Union Bank 1st PSU to join account aggregator platform

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Union Bank of India has become the first public sector lender to go live on the account aggregator ecosystem, a part of the government's digital initiatives to improve credit delivery. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/q508KFi via IFTTT

Apple reports solid Q2, but warns of $4-$8 bn hit from Covid

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In the March quarter, the technology giant reported earnings of $25 billion, up 5.8 per cent from the year-ago period as revenues rose nine per cent to $97.3 billion. The strongest growth by region was the Americas, with the company also reporting moderate revenue increases in Europe and Greater China. Revenues fell in Japan and other Asian markets. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/2NQiAXS via IFTTT

Musk sells Tesla shares worth $4 bln, says no more sales planned

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Tesla Inc lost ground on Thursday amid investor concerns that Musk may have to sell Tesla shares to fund his $21 billion equity contribution to his $44 billion buyout of Twitter Inc. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/ZXhVuSq via IFTTT

'Chip demand may hit $110 billion by '30'

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India will be the fastest-growing semiconductor consumption market in the world with annual domestic demand expected in excess of $110 billion by the end of the decade, minister of state for IT & electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said, adding that top global chipmakers have evinced "serious interest" in bringing in large-scale investments into the category. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/fTLXpDg via IFTTT

ONDC pilots start today, want small business on board

ONDC has roped in eSamudaay, ERP player Gofrugal, digital business platform for enterprise business Digiit, digital marketing outfit Growth Falcon and automation and data insights outfit sellerapp to work with sellers, while Paytm will be on the buyers. The platform seeks to board 150 sellers in Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Bhopal and Shillong during the test run. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/HzGMBdY via IFTTT

Amazon top sellers Cloudtail, Appario Retail face CCI raid

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'Volatile gold prices could dampen demand in Q2'

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India's gold demand is likely to remain soft in second quarter after falling 18% in the first quarter as retail purchases during a key festival early next month could be below normal because of volatile prices, the World Gold Council (WGC) said on Thursday. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/ASC7RXa via IFTTT

Govt to launch open network for digital commerce in 5 cities

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The commerce and industry ministry is all set to launch the pilot phase of open network for digital commerce on Friday, a senior official said. The Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) is an initiative of the government to promote an open platform for all aspects of the exchange of goods and services through electronic networks. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/xMfqePG via IFTTT

Maharashtra to provide subsidy to crush surplus cane

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Maharashtra will provide a transport subsidy to sugar mills to crush surplus cane in the marketing year ending on September 30, the state government said in a statement on Thursday. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/Cmi7K42 via IFTTT

India may launch e-currency in 2023, says FM

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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that India is looking to launch the proposed central bank digital currency (CBDC) in 2023 with the government and the RBI planning to use it beyond financial inclusion. "The government and the RBI are looking into its several commercial use purposes and not just financial inclusion, which is largely achieved through the JAM trinity," the minister said at an event organised by Ficci and USISPF in California. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/7hniECH via IFTTT

Twitter funding: $126 billion Tesla mcap gone

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SC relief for LIC: 12,000 temp staff to get cash, no jobs

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LIC 3.0 to boost shareholder value after listing, says chief

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India approves $8bn subsidy for phosphate-based fertilizers

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India will provide a subsidy of Rs 60,940 crore ($7.96 billion) for phosphatic and potash-based fertilisers over the coming months to insulate farmers from higher global prices, information and broadcasting minister Anurag Singh Thakur said. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/AlLp6mg via IFTTT

Tata's Air India proposes to buy AirAsia India

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Tata Group-owned Air India has proposed to buy the entire equity share capital of low cost carrier AirAsia India, in which Tata has a majority stake, to merge into a single airline, according to an application with the competition commission of India (CCI). from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/GRVxKvO via IFTTT

'ONGC struggling to move Russian oil to Asia as sanctions bite'

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Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is struggling to find a vessel to ship 700,000 barrels of crude from Russia's Far East, in a growing sign that complex trades involving one of Moscow's biggest partners are being interrupted by Western sanctions, sources say. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/KFYw6S1 via IFTTT

Tesla loses $126 billion in value amid Musk Twitter deal

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Tesla is not involved in the Twitter deal, yet its shares have been targeted by speculators after Musk declined to disclose publicly where his cash for the acquisition is coming from. The 12.2% drop in Tesla's shares on Tuesday equated to a $21 billion drop in the value of his Tesla stake, the same as the $21 billion in cash he committed to the Twitter deal. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/rh5E6My via IFTTT

Make 30% bank biz agents women: SBI

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A report from the State Bank of India (SBI) has called for mandating that 30% of the business correspondent (BC) workforce comprise women. According to the report, while the majority of the Jan Dhan Yojana accounts (55%) belong to women, the usage of these lags those of men and remain inoperative most of the time. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/EnHdPNp via IFTTT

Droom set to launch Rs 3,000cr IPO in next 2 months

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Auto marketplace unicorn Droom is set to launch its Rs 3,000-crore IPO by offloading an 18% stake in next two months. The IPO comprises fresh issuance of equity shares worth Rs 2,000 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) to the tune of Rs 1,000 crore, according to the draft red herring prospectus (DHRP) filed by the company in November last year. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/HWxmryJ via IFTTT

Wipro acquires SAP consulting co for $540 million

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Wipro is acquiring Rizing Intermediate Holdings, a global SAP consulting firm, for $540 million (about Rs 4,140 crore). Rizing is the latest in a series of big acquisitions by Wipro under CEO Thierry Delaporte, who joined the company in July 2020. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/BuH7UiE via IFTTT

LIC IPO price band fixed at Rs 902-949, issue size Rs 21,000 crore

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Gadkari to EV bike makers: Be cautious

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Sitharaman asks US chip industry to invest in India

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Adani 5th richest with $124bn, overtakes Buffett

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Adani Group chief Gautam Adani has become the 5th richest person in world by surpassing Berkshire Hathway CEO Warren Buffett. According to the Forbes rich list, Adani has reached the 5th position with a total net worth of $123.7 billion, about $2 billion higher than Buffett's $121.7 billion. Adani entered the $100-billion wealth club on April 4 and now holds a place among the top 5 richest people in the world. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/76R0bTa via IFTTT

Devise contracts to allow price adjustments: Tata Steel's MD

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Tata Steel managing director T V Narendran, who leads industry lobby group CII, suggested on Monday to devise contracts that allow for price adjustments, a move that will help cushion the impact of inflation on companies, particularly small and medium enterprises. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/i9xIgMX via IFTTT

RBI moves SC to consolidate co-op bank pleas

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Devise contracts to allow price adjustments: Tata Steel's MD

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Elon Musk to buy Twitter for $44 billion

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Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter Inc for $44 billion on Monday in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders to the world's richest person. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/2n5ag14 via IFTTT

India's Russian oil purchases more than double 2021 total

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India has bought more than twice as much crude oil from Russia in the two months since its invasion of Ukraine as it did in the whole of 2021, according to Reuters calculations, as Indian refiners snapped up discounted oil that others have shunned. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/kGsFPZS via IFTTT

Govt clears Rs 1.6L crore reforms for power discoms in 12 states, J&K

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The Centre has approved assistance of more than Rs 1. 6 lakh crore for 12 states and the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir for implementing measures in power sector. These include installing smart meters, cutting line losses and erasing gap between cost of supply and revenue realisation, with the aim of restoring financial viability of discoms (distribution companies). from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/qlEg6ZB via IFTTT

Centre’s spend may rise by Rs 2 lakh crore in current fiscal

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Just three weeks into the new financial year, the Centre is staring at additional expenses of around Rs 2 lakh crore, primarily on account of higher food and fertiliser subsidies. What’s more, further pressure is building up due to a surge in commodity prices following the Russia-Ukraine conflict. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/IfNkcPD via IFTTT

As private players pay more, govt wheat buy may hit a 10-year low

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Aggressive buying by private players with higher price offers, coupled with a fall in production, have put the government’s target for wheat procurement in a tight spot. Going by the trend, there is a high possibility that this season’s wheat procurement by government agencies may hit the lowest in the past decade, sources said. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/gOmLjpi via IFTTT

Double-digit inflation for a year: 6th spell since 1953 & 1st in 25 years

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In March this year, India completed 12 successive months of double-digit wholesale price inflation (WPI inflation). This is the sixth occasion when inflation has remained over 10% for a year or longer, and it came more than a quarter of a century after the last such episode — between March 1994 and May 1995. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/nG9eP3T via IFTTT

Centre puts BPCL privatisation on the backburner for now, SCI sale review to be undertaken

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The Centre has put the privatisation of state-run refiner BPCL on the backburner for now while a review of the sale process of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) will be undertaken shortly to move forward with the transaction, officials said. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/OqioVIp via IFTTT

Ola Electric likely to recall faulty batches of EVs

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ONGC commissions Rs 6,000 cr projects to boost oil, gas output

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Coal stocks at non-pithead plants low at 26% of normative level

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Coal stocks at non-pithead thermal power plants remained consistently low during the last week till Thursday at 26 per cent of the normative levels, showing shortage of the dry fuel amid rising electricity demand due to scorching heat. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/0fiIM3B via IFTTT

Birla Group’s apex body to get its 1st woman director

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The Aditya Birla Group’s apex body Aditya Birla Management Corporation (ABMCPL) will soon get its first woman director Vishakha Mulye. The Group has appointed Mulye of ICICI Bank as the next CEO of its financial services holding company, Aditya Birla Capital. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/S9Tj2DA via IFTTT

Future could face bankruptcy issue after RIL deal failure

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Reliance Industries (RIL) said on Saturday that it has called off the proposed deal to acquire Future Retail’s (FRL) assets for Rs 24,700 crore. At meetings of shareholders and creditors of Future Group companies comprising FRL and other listed entities involved in the scheme held on April 20 and 21, the companies intimated the results of the voting. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/LE3wvXV via IFTTT

Times uncertain, rescue those in debt jam, FM tells World Bank

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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said India remains concerned about the risks to global recovery due to rising uncertainty amidst enhanced geopolitical tensions. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/U8yrlnd via IFTTT

In tit-for-tat move, India suspends tourist visas for Chinese nationals

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Global airlines body IATA says India’s “tourist visas issued to nationals of China are no longer valid”. Top government officials said India is still giving business, employment, diplomatic and official visas to Chinese nationals. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/BEaqyiJ via IFTTT

Govt accepts Rajiv Kumar’s resignation as Niti Aayog V-C, appoints Suman Bery

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Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar has stepped down from his post after nearly five years at the helm and will be replaced by economist Suman Bery. “Yes. I have stepped down,” Kumar told TOI when asked about the sudden development, without elaborating further.The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet accepted the resignation of Kumar with effect from April 30. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/lmh8SnQ via IFTTT

Booster dose can save lives in future waves, says Poonawalla

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Monetary policy needs to be nuanced, nimble: Das

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Indicating that there can be no clear road map of policy action, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das has said that the central bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) needs to constantly re-assess the situation and tailor response accordingly as the situation is dynamic. from Business News: Latest News on Business, Stock Markets, Financial News, India Business & World Business News https://ift.tt/ly5cmJi via IFTTT