The number of active cases rose to 16,354. Active cases now comprise 0.04 per cent of the total infections in India.

Fresh incidents of stone pelting by locals on police was witnessed in the area on Friday afternoon following which prohibitory orders were imposed in the area and internet services were suspended. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged that the BJP and other right-wing organisations were behind the violence in Howrah's Kazipara area during a procession on Ram Navami.

According to the former president's campaign, over 25 per cent of donations came from first-time donors to the Trump Campaign, further solidifying his status as the clear frontrunner in the Republican primary. The grand jury on Thursday voted to indict Trump, a Republican, for his role in paying money to porn star Stormy Daniels in an attempt to buy her silence over an alleged affair.

Former US President Donald Trump faces criminal charges in a New York courtroom, marking a significant moment in the democratic history of the US. He is expected to turn himself in on 2 November, with charges including at least one felony offence relating to hush money payments to women during his 2016 campaign. The indictment pierces the cloak of invisibility that seemed to follow Trump through his decades in business and in politics.

Trump, who was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday, becoming the first US president ever to face criminal charges, will surrender at a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday, his lawyers said.

The company said that the JioCinema app registered over 2.5 crore downloads, a record for the most installed app in a single day.

IPL will be played in India after three years where spectators are allowed as well, who were a big miss in recent Covid-stricken years. The razzmatazz is crazy for the fans and the players, who along with support staff and franchisee members, will be travelling across the country over the next 52 days till May 28 playing a total of 74 matches. The money-spinner is also set to earn big bucks for franchises as sponsors pour in sackful of money.

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) on Thursday said it has entered into a one-time settlement agreement with Standard Chartered Bank for the loan taken by Siti Networks, a part of the Essel Group.

"The biggest advantage that AVOD platforms enjoy over SVOD (subscription video-on-demand) is the sheer availability of content across genres for audiences criss-crossing all demographic segments on almost all devices," said LV Krishnan, CEO, TAM Media.

Zomato’s decision to exit 225 small cities earlier this year shows that the company is seeing signs of a slowdown in its core business of food delivery. Will diversification into quick commerce and B2B kitchen supplies help it maintain hyper growth?

India’s cryptocurrency and Web3 ecosystem is small and hence exposure to the US banks is limited. However, industry insiders believe that the sheer magnitude of the event could have a delayed impact on the industry including a pause in funding.

Mike Hanley, chief security officer and senior vice-president of engineering at code repository GitHub, discusses AI for developers, cybersecurity, two-factor authentication, his unique mix of designations, and more.

A decade ago, Sanjeev Bikhchandani recruited a fresh-out-of-college graduate as the first hire for his venture-investment business. Kitty Agarwal, in her early thirties, is now leading the USD370 million Info Edge Ventures and its portfolio of four dozen startups, including big bets like Zomato and Policy Bazaar.

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India and Malaysia can now settle trade in Indian rupee (INR) in addition to other currencies, according to the Ministry of External Affairs. The decision follows Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approval last year for international trade settlements in INR. The move aims to support trade growth, with Kuala Lumpur's India International Bank of Malaysia having opened a Rupee Vostro account with India's Union Bank of India to facilitate the INR settlements.

Making India a developed nation by 2047 is our second freedom struggle, and we must unite and work hard to get freedom from being a lower-middle-income country to become a ‘Viksit Bharat.’

Quality engineering is required when firms companies plan to maintain the quality of their products.

South Korea's exports are seen as a barometer of global trade as the country sells products including chips, refined oil etc.

From speaking on the Adani-Hindenburg episode to being vocal about the need for protecting depositors post-the Silicon Valley Bank crash, Bill Ackman has put forth his views quite strongly. For him, saving depositors is also a prerequisite to prevent financial apocalypse. Will that be easy? Unfortunately, it’s a policy choice, much similar to the current high inflation scenario.

Indian valuations are now closer to the fair zone, and China opening is good from a global perspective, says Lakshmi Iyer, CEO -- investment and strategy, Kotak Investment Advisors. In conversation with Ami Shah, she discusses how we are living in an era of hope and fear, and why one mustn’t treat their investments as social-media likes.

Come March 30 and the DNE facility for stock options will be withdrawn. This means, if clients fail to square off their position before expiry, they will have to exercise buy/sell of stocks that are in the money. Unlike index options, stock options are required to be settled with physical delivery of shares. Will the move impact retail segment?

As per the Finance Bill 2023, debt funds held over three years will no longer enjoy indexation benefits and the LTCG will go away. The amendment spells bad news for the MF industry as debt funds are one of the means to garner AUMs. However, experts believe the move brings debt funds on par with traditional debt instruments.

“It has now been decided that mandatory testing through ATS for fitness certificates, of these categories of vehicles, will be applicable from October 1, 2024,” an official statement said adding that this relaxation is in light of present status of readiness of the ATS across the country.

In February, Citroen, which is a part of Stellantis Group, inked a pact with Kamarajar Port, which is located 24 km north of Chennai Port in the city, for shipping out vehicles to the overseas market.

In an interview to ET, Aggarwal said Ola's electric two-wheeler business, which commenced commercial operations in 2021, is ebitda (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) positive. "We have scaled the fastest, and we have gotten to profitability the fastest," he said.

Sales of passenger vehicles in the domestic market increased 29.5% to 3.46 million units in the first 11 months of FY23. Commercial vehicle sales, meanwhile, grew 46% to over 683,000 units in the first nine months of the fiscal year, as per the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers.