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Source: Reuters International and domestic gold prices ended flat to marginally lower this week as a rebound of the US dollar and lack of progress of the US stimulus bill weighed on rates. The yellow metal ended with a mild loss of Rs 34 or 0.07 percent for the week. While the white metal surged […]

Image: Reuters On three hours of sleep a night and with no time to eat, one New York-based hedge fund manager overseeing billions in assets called last week the most stressful of his life. “Nothing was making sense anymore,” he said, as he watched the stock of GameStop Corp soar, while he bet it would […]

Natasha Sikdar*, an assistant professor at a Kolkata-based engineering college adopted a six-month-old girl child in 2020. She presumed that she would be entitled to maternity leave by her institute but was denied one citing the law. “Since I had some reproductive issues and had reached the age of 36 years, I decided to go […]

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File image: FAU-G game poster One of the key names in India’s PUBG (Player’s Unknown Battlegrounds) world, Animesh Agarwal, has tried the recently launched online game ‘Fearless and United Guards’, better known as FAU-G. Soon after its launch in India, PUBG had become synonymous with mobile gaming. The game’s growth was due to many key stakeholders and […]

IOC holds a 51.89 percent stake in CPCL. The expansion was to originally cost Rs 27,460 crore but is now estimated to cost Rs 31,500 crore. He said the project will be funded in a 2:1 debt-equity ratio. PTI January 30, 2021 / 12:11 PM IST Source: Reuters ‘); $ (‘#lastUpdated_’+articleId).text(resData[stkKey][‘lastupdate’]); //if(resData[stkKey][‘percentchange’] > 0){ // […]

Experts expect further correction towards 13,200 if it fails to hold on to 13,720. The index formed a long bearish candle on the daily and weekly charts as the closing was lower than the opening level. The index lost 5.1 percent during the week. Experts see further correction towards 13,200 if it fails to hold […]

Representative image: Wall Street Read this in the little voice in your head and tell me it doesn’t sound familiar: Is this for real? It’s got to run out of steam. It can’t just keep going like this. How is this even happening? What comes to mind? Maybe a recent event in politics, or perhaps […]

The bank’s one-time restructuring book for COVID-19 related stress stood at Rs 16,725 crore. PTI January 29, 2021 / 10:07 PM IST ‘); $ (‘#lastUpdated_’+articleId).text(resData[stkKey][‘lastupdate’]); //if(resData[stkKey][‘percentchange’] > 0){ // $ (‘#greentxt_’+articleId).removeClass(“redtxt”).addClass(“greentxt”); // $ (‘.arw_red’).removeClass(“arw_red”).addClass(“arw_green”); //}else if(resData[stkKey][‘percentchange’] = 0){ $ (‘#greentxt_’+articleId).removeClass(“redtxt”).addClass(“greentxt”); //$ (‘.arw_red’).removeClass(“arw_red”).addClass(“arw_green”); $ (‘#gainlosstxt_’+articleId).find(“.arw_red”).removeClass(“arw_red”).addClass(“arw_green”); }else if(resData[stkKey][‘percentchange’] 0) { var resStr=”; var url = ‘//www.moneycontrol.com/mccode/common/saveWatchlist.php’; $ […]

The Commissioner for Cooperation and Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Maharashtra has also been requested to issue an order for winding up the bank and appoint a liquidator for the bank, it added. PTI January 29, 2021 / 10:27 PM IST The RBI on Friday said the licence of Maharashtra-based Shivam Sahakari Bank has been cancelled […]

Referring to the agreement between Future Coupons Private Limited (FCPL) and Amazon, eminent lawyer Harish Salve argued that the real intention of Amazon – as it shows – was to blow smoke in the eyes of the Indian authorities. Representative Image ‘); $ (‘#lastUpdated_’+articleId).text(resData[stkKey][‘lastupdate’]); //if(resData[stkKey][‘percentchange’] > 0){ // $ (‘#greentxt_’+articleId).removeClass(“redtxt”).addClass(“greentxt”); // $ (‘.arw_red’).removeClass(“arw_red”).addClass(“arw_green”); //}else if(resData[stkKey][‘percentchange’] […]

Kishore Biyani, while referring to the Amazon-Future Retail deal, said this was a corporate battle being fought for supremacy over Indian customers. Future Group Chairman Kishore Biyani. ‘); $ (‘#lastUpdated_’+articleId).text(resData[stkKey][‘lastupdate’]); //if(resData[stkKey][‘percentchange’] > 0){ // $ (‘#greentxt_’+articleId).removeClass(“redtxt”).addClass(“greentxt”); // $ (‘.arw_red’).removeClass(“arw_red”).addClass(“arw_green”); //}else if(resData[stkKey][‘percentchange’] = 0){ $ (‘#greentxt_’+articleId).removeClass(“redtxt”).addClass(“greentxt”); //$ (‘.arw_red’).removeClass(“arw_red”).addClass(“arw_green”); $ (‘#gainlosstxt_’+articleId).find(“.arw_red”).removeClass(“arw_red”).addClass(“arw_green”); }else if(resData[stkKey][‘percentchange’] 0) { var resStr=”; […]

Advertisers have complained for years that big social media companies do very little to prevent ads from appearing alongside hate speech, fake news and other harmful content. Reuters January 29, 2021 / 08:54 PM IST Reuters Facebook Inc said on Friday it would soon start developing “topic exclusion controls” on its platform to give advertisers […]

However the company net headcount declined by 2,357 in the quarter ending December 2020, a significant portion of them in business process outsourcing (BPO). Tech Mahindra’s net headcount stood at 121,901 in Q3FY21, down from 124,258 in the previous quarter. ‘); $ (‘#lastUpdated_’+articleId).text(resData[stkKey][‘lastupdate’]); //if(resData[stkKey][‘percentchange’] > 0){ // $ (‘#greentxt_’+articleId).removeClass(“redtxt”).addClass(“greentxt”); // $ (‘.arw_red’).removeClass(“arw_red”).addClass(“arw_green”); //}else if(resData[stkKey][‘percentchange’] = […]

Johnson & Johnson’s long-awaited vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19 with just one shot – not as strong as some two-shot rivals but still potentially helpful for a world in dire need of more doses. J&J said Friday that in the U.S. and seven other countries, the single-shot vaccine was 66% effective overall at preventing moderate […]