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Gautam Adani world’s biggest wealth gainer
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Gautam Adani world’s biggest wealth gainer

NEW DELHI, March 12: Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani has achieved a remarkable milestone amid the Covid-19 pandemic, as he added the highest wealth to his fortune in the world, as per the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed that so far in 2021, Adani has...
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India's stand on OPEC+ prod. cuts ensures full oil supply for Saudi

New Delhi, March 13: India's strong resistance to the OPEC+ move over continuation of unilateral oil production cuts going into April has bore some results with the world's largest oil producer, Saudi Arabia, ensuring full monthly supplies of crude to the country even as it reduced supplies to other...
Bank unions call strike on March 15-16
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Bank unions call strike on March 15-16

Proposed privatisation of PSBs NEW DELHI, March 11: United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), an umbrella body of nine unions, has given call for a two-day strike from March 15 to protest against the proposed privatisation of two state-owned lenders. In the Union Budget presented last month, Finance...
Sensex rises 500 points; banking, metal stocks rise
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Sensex rises 500 points; banking, metal stocks rise

Mumbai, March 12: The key Indian equity indices opened on a positive note on Friday with the BSE Sensex surging over 500 points.Sensex rose as much as 542 points to touch an intraday high of 51,821.84 points.Healthy buying was witnessed in metal, banking and oil and gas stocks.Around 9.18 a.m.,...
Market turns red, Sensex down 600 points
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Market turns red, Sensex down 600 points

Mumbai, March 12: The Indian stock market gave up all its gains to trade in the red on Friday afternoon with the BSE Sensex falling around 600 points.On an intra-day basis, it has traversed over 1,200 points from the day's high of 51,821.84 points and the low of 50,587.62 points.Around 2.20 p.m.,...
Deepika Padukone, Borosil India head in WEF’s new list
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Deepika Padukone, Borosil India head in WEF’s new list

NEW DELHI, March 10: Actor Deepika Padukone and several Indian citizens and India-origin persons today joined the list of the Young Global Leaders (YGLs) compiled by the World Economic Forum. Announcing its 2021 class of YGLs, the WEF said these are the world’s most promising 112 of tomorrow’s...
Seamless Indo-Bangla transport link can boost national income of both countries: WB report
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Seamless Indo-Bangla transport link can boost national income of both countries:...

Spl Correspondent NEW DELHI, March 9: Seamless transport connectivity between India and Bangladesh has the potential to increase national income by as much as 17 per cent in Bangladesh and 8 per cent in India, a new World Bank report said. The World Bank report titled ‘Connecting to Thrive:...
Market opens in green, Sensex rises 400 points
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Market opens in green, Sensex rises 400 points

Mumbai, March 10: The key Indian equity indices opened on a positive note on Wednesday with the BSE Sensex rising over 400 points during the initial trade.It surged as much as 404 points to touch an intraday high of 51,430.43 points.Healthy buying was witnessed in auto and IT stocks.At 9.28 a.m.,...
Online + offline retail can help add 12 mn new jobs: Report
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Online + offline retail can help add 12 mn new jobs: Report

NEW DELHI, March 8: The ‘Online + offline’ model – resulting from convergence of retail channels and evolution of capabilities via tech-enabled collaborations – is expected to help in addition of 12 million new jobs and $125 billion in retail exports, a report by Nasscom-Technopak said. The report,...
iPhone 12 production to soon start in India: Apple
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iPhone 12 production to soon start in India: Apple

New Delhi, March 9: In yet another fillip to the Make in India and domestic manufacturing dream of the Indian government, Apple said on Tuesday that its flagship and environment-friendly iPhone 12 smartphone will soon be produced in India for the local customers.The news comes at a time when the...
Sensex rallies 584 pts, private banks shine
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Sensex rallies 584 pts, private banks shine

Mumbai, March 9: Equity benchmark Sensex rallied 584 points on Tuesday tracking gains in HDFC twins, ICICI Bank and Kotak Bank amid positive cues from global markets. The 30-share BSE index ended 584.41 points or 1.16 per cent higher at 51,025.48, and the broader NSE Nifty surged 142.20 points or...
Equity indices open in green, Nifty above 15,000
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Equity indices open in green, Nifty above 15,000

Mumbai, March 8: The stock market opened in the green on Monday with the Nifty50 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) reclaiming the 15,000 mark.The BSE Sensex too surged over 300 points during the initial trade.Healthy buying activity was witnessed in metal and oil and gas stocks.Around 9.25 a.m.,...
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