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Gold loans expanded 88.1% year-on-year to Rs 5.52 lakh crore according to data released by Reserve Bank of India up to July 31, as compared with 136.4% rate seen a year back. The outstanding gold loans of banks do not reflect gold-backed agriculture loans as banks except one clas

The company allotted 77.92 lakh equity shares at Rs 177 apiece to anchor investors, according to a circular uploaded on the BSE website. Apart from Motilal Oswal Finvest and WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund, other participants in the anchor round included Tata Mutual Fund, CP Capital

The exchange commanded a 99.9 per cent market share in the CAS, with more than 98,000 unique investors participating in the session, NSE said in a statement. The turnover in Monday's session was around 42 times the turnover recorded in the previous trading session. The session co

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution’s “development, maintenance, [and] documentation.” The new policy on AI acknowledges that “responsible” use of AI can improve developers’ productivity, and goes on to say, “generativ

The sharp movement in these stocks came on a day when changes in constituents for the MSCI Global Standard Indexes took place as of the close of August 31, 2026. Four companies -- Adani Energy Solutions, Billionbrains Garage Ventures, Laurus Labs and Lenskart Solutions -- were ad

John Galliano exhibition at New York Met cancelled after backlash - Published John Galliano has cancelled an upcoming major exhibition celebrating his work as a fashion designer after it prompted criticism due to his previous conviction for making antisemitic remarks. The Metropo

Dive Brief: - Macy’s named Maya Dukes as its senior vice president and executive creative director, effective Monday, the company said in a press release on Tuesday. - Dukes oversees the company’s creative strategy and branding and collaborates with the marketing, merchandising a

Save $240 on a four-item gaming build combo from Newegg – $1,113 buys a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM, a Gigabyte X870E Motherboard, plus a free 240mm AIO and AMD game bundle Get 32GB of RAM for only $260 in this 3-item Newegg combo. Newegg is constantly updating its

Off the Wire Press Releases REHOVOT, Israel, Aug. 31, 2026 — CollPlant Biotechnologies Ltd. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LightSolver Ltd., an Israeli deep-tech company pioneering a fundamentally new computing architecture based on lasers. T

Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post that went viral within the cybersecurity community. Green, who has long been a close observer of the debate around the use of hacking tools by governments to fight cri

Messi retires from Argentina duty with 'nothing left to give' - Published Argentina great Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from international football, saying it was a decision that "hurt" but "the time has come". The 39-year-old, who captained Argentina to World Cup glo

Broadcom introduced VMware Private AI Cloud at VMware Explore, a private cloud architecture designed to run AI models close to enterprise data. Rather than moving sensitive data to external model providers, the platform is intended to bring models to the data within an organizati

Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. As part of the deal, MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s technology that will help it design custom chips for AI companies and hyperscalers that can be plugged directly into Nvidia-based data centers. The deal comes as

Insurance broker Aon announced on Monday it will purchase rival USI Insurance Services from private equity firm KKR. The $17 billion deal, which will be funded by Aon with new debt, is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter, subject to regulatory approvals. CEO Greg Case in a

At VMware Explore, Broadcom introduced comprehensive security, identity, and open-source supply-chain solutions designed for enterprise AI deployments. As organizations move from static model querying to autonomous agentic architectures, workloads increasingly use emerging commun

FPIs were net buyers for a second consecutive month, with their purchases in August being the largest since September 2024, National Securities Depository data showed on Friday. Still, they remain on course for the highest-ever annual outflows from the country, with net sales wor

Jensen Huang and Lisa Su snubbed by TIME’s 2026 list of top 100 AI leaders — Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck, among others, make the list as ‘Architects of AI’ inexplicably not listed Nvidia’s sole representative on the fourth annual TIME100 AI is its head of sustainability, who sit

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on August 27 said the market regulator was close to clearing the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) filed by NSE, the world’s largest derivatives exchange by trading volume. NSE filed its draft prospectus

'She slipped out of my hand' - children missing after ferry sinks off northern Cyprus - Published Ayten Bicer felt her 12-year-old daughter slip from her grasp and disappear as the ferry they were travelling on capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday, killing eight pe

Recently listed logistics company LEAP India’s net profit jumped 30% to ₹24.7 Cr in the first quarter (Q1) of the fiscal year 2026-27 (FY27) from ₹19 Cr in the year-ago period. Sequentially, the company’s profit dipped 8.5% from ₹27 Cr. Operating revenue for the quarter increased

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts There has never been an investing environment like what we’re living through right now. Normally, investors hope and pray to catch the beginning of one generational S-curve of technology adoption. Today we’re watching at least six mega-

Off the Wire Press Releases PARIS, Aug. 31, 2026 — Bull, a leader in advanced computing and AI, has been selected by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the LUMI AI Factory consortium to deliver LUMI-AI, a €387.8 million AI supercomputer that will significantly expand

Nvidia's latest driver update breaks mVolt+ overclocking functionality — Nifty, open-source app allowed users to increase the power limit to 700W on their RTX 50-series GPUs without hardware mods Using the app results in a driver crash. Nvidia's current-gen Blackwell family inclu

Nvidia, MediaTek Bring Custom Chips to AI Racks Nvidia is opening its rack-scale AI systems to custom chips, giving hyperscalers more flexibility as they seek alternatives to off-the-shelf GPUs. Nvidia is opening its rack-scale AI infrastructure to custom accelerators from hypers

Tom's Hardware Verdict The xTool F2 Ultra UV is a fast UV laser that cuts and engraves wood without char, engraves plastic, and does amazing things with crystal and glass. xTool has excellent software and support for the business of selling your works of art. However, a premium p

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Muthoot Finance is the country's largest gold loan company, with Rs 1.80 lakh crore in assets under management. Muthoot Money is also primarily a gold loan lender, with Rs 10,345 crore in AUM. Also Read: Higher funding costs, rising competition may weigh on Muthoot Finance The bo

Following the finalisation of allotment for the Skyways Air Services IPO, which received a bumper response during its four-day bidding period, investors have now shifted their focus to the stock’s potential listing gains. The shares are scheduled to debut on the Indian stock mark

Bed Bath & Beyond wants to take care of everything in your home. The company has been embarking on a turnaround that aims to redefine itself as more than a retailer through its push into home services and home ownership. “What we're building is far bigger than a retail company,”

The penalty imposed on Omprakash Basantlal Goenka, Prakash Ganpat Utekar and Venkatraman Natarajan has to be paid jointly and severally within 45 days. The regulator found that Citrus continued to collect installments from existing investors despite Sebi's interim order of June 3

For the past six-plus months, almost no one at SaaStr has logged into Salesforce. The data is all still there. We still pay for it. We still depend on it. We just stopped using the UI as the primary way to get at any of it. Some context on why we did this. SaaStr runs today on a

Warsh, attending his first international economic policy meeting since taking office in May, told the G20 opening plenary session that he was looking forward to learning more about growth prospects among member economies. Warsh said that during past G20 meetings, even before the

Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. It’s an election year, after all, with a shocking amount of tech policy at stake, and Governor Hochul has taken strong positions on almost every major tech issue there

US stocks slipped on Monday as renewed military strikes between the United States and Iran sent crude oil prices higher, reviving concerns that rising energy costs could add to inflationary pressures. As of 1:20 p.m. Eastern Time, the S&P 500 index fell 0.5%. The Dow Jones Indust

Alexis’s view Insecurity was a major issue during Nigeria’s 2015 election, my first as a Reuters correspondent there. It still is today, ahead of presidential polls in January — on a far larger scale, with implications for the country’s economy greater than ever before. That 2015

Listen to this article in summarized format Traders now see more than a 60% probability of a Federal Reserve rate hike at the September meeting, according to CME’s FedWatch tool, up sharply from 41.4% a week earlier. Expectations rose after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said borrowing co

The growing threat posed by advanced artificial intelligence models could trigger a disorderly correction in global financial markets, according to Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey. In a two-page letter published Monday to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors, B

The growing threat posed by advanced artificial intelligence models could trigger a disorderly correction in global financial markets, according to Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey. In a two-page letter published Monday to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors, B

When someone patronizes you, it's easy to feel slighted. Maybe they assumed you didn't know what you were doing because you're new to an organization, or you're younger. Maybe they figured you wouldn't be able to use new technology because you're older. It's not always easy to kn

US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Frank Garcia is on his second official trip to the continent since taking the job in June. It is the latest bid to underscore the Trump administration’s commercial diplomacy push with African policymakers. Garcia will visit Zamb

OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT’s impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That’s because ChatGPT is now considered a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU’s Digital Services

Enflame is China's latest AI chipmaker to go public as Beijing steps up its tech self-sufficiency drive, with the United States banning exports of high-end chips and advanced chip-making technologies to China to curb the country's AI ambitions. Domestic rivals Moore Threads Techn

Valterra Platinum, the world’s largest platinum group metals miner, is betting that China’s push into hydrogen-powered freight trucks will deliver a fresh wave of demand for the metals, an executive said. PGMs are vital to hydrogen technology, acting as catalysts in fuel cells to