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The company had posted a profit of Rs 375 crore in the April-June quarter a year ago, according to a regulatory filing from ACC, a subsidiary of Ambuja Cement. Its revenue from operations was also down 7.75 per cent to Rs 5,790 crore in the June quarter. It was at Rs 6,277 crore

The consolidated net profit stood at Rs 4,465.71 crore in the quarter ended June 2025, according to an exchange filing. Total income of the company decreased to Rs 14,469.49 crore in the reporting quarter from Rs 14,823.98 crore recorded in the same period a year ago. Interest in

Steel Authority of India (SAIL), one of the country's largest steelmakers, announced its June quarter (Q1 FY27) results on Friday, post-market hours, reporting a 138% year-on-year (YoY) jump in consolidated net profit to ₹1,636 crore from ₹685 crore in the corresponding quarter l

'When will the EA greed end': Fans vent their fury as company announces $150 version of FC 27 — annual game release comes in three editions, but top-tier option is 50% more expensive than GTA VI Ultimate The $150 version comes with a lot of goodies, but it still delivers sticker

Its net profit stood at Rs 675.1 crore in the year-ago period. Total income rose to Rs 5,096.7 crore during the first quarter of this fiscal from Rs 3,624.7 crore in the corresponding period of the preceding year, according to a regulatory filing. During the entire 2025-26 fiscal

Oil spike knocks markets to sharpest weekly fall since mid-May Indian equities recorded their steepest weekly decline in ten weeks as escalating tensions in West Asia, rising crude oil prices, a weakening rupee and the uncertainty over corporate earnings prompted investors to cut

The company had posted a net profit of Rs 33.60 crore in the April-June quarter of the previous fiscal, according to a regulatory filing from V-Mart, a value retailer. Its revenue from operations was up 23 per cent to Rs 1,088.81 crore in the June quarter of FY27. It was Rs 885.2

An anticipated wealth transfer from baby boomers to their descendants is failing to materialize as elder care spending eats into seniors’ finances. Boomers are the largest-ever generation, and thanks to rising house prices and strong economic growth control more than half of US h

US stock markets rose on Friday as oil prices eased, amid corporate earnings and a fresh round of US tariffs. At 11:58 a.m. the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 358.97 points, or 0.70%, to 52,073.03, the S&P 500 gained 43.50 points, or 0.59%, to 7,451.80 and the Nasdaq Composite

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The fatal shooting of a mayor in the eastern Mexican state of Morelos this week brought to 14 the number of city leaders who have been killed nationwide since President Claudia Sheinbaum took office in 2024. Being a mayor in Mexico is dangerous: 26 were murdered in the six-year r

Investors are increasingly buying the debt of tech companies instead of US Treasurys, pushing up government bond yields. The quantity of US government debt is already sky-high — $31 trillion, compared to $4.5 trillion in 2007 — equivalent to more than 100% of GDP. But lenders suc

Listen to this article in summarized format The fall has come even as Netflix remains the world’s dominant paid streaming platform and continues to report higher revenue and profit. The issue for Wall Street is no longer whether Netflix is a strong company. It is whether the next

US lawmakers introduced a bill requiring a “kill switch” for advanced AI, after an agent went rogue and hacked into another company’s database. OpenAI disclosed this week that its models had attacked AI startup Hugging Face to access answer sheets as part of a cyberoffense evalua

The Trump administration is quietly considering a rule change that could make it easier for polluters to build facilities—including certain gas plants and diesel generators that power data centers—with little to no notice to the public. On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection

OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days Anthropic's Fable 5 and Opus refused to analyze the attack logs, so Hugging Face turned to China's GL

Cash collections is a topic we haven’t discussed much on SaaStr, but boy, it can be important all the way until you have a strong VP Finance / CFO. And often after. What’s the issue? The issue is that most B2B start-ups are terrible at collecting cash that doesn’t come from a pay

Listen to this article in summarized format The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were on track for a second straight weekly loss, while the Dow was set for a third consecutive week of declines. Intel added to this week's key earnings reports, forecasting quarterly profit and revenue above

The bank said the quarter included an exceptional item of $600 million, equivalent to Rs 5,680 crore. Excluding the settlement payout, net profit would have stood at Rs 5,528 crore. Profit before tax fell 71.2% year-on-year to Rs 1,804 crore from Rs 6,270 crore. Tax provision sto

OpenAI on Thursday said it has updated its ChatGPT desktop app to add support for ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to talk to the app to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer. The new feature taps OpenAI’s new family of voice models called ChatGPT-Live, which it laun

Futures contracts for oil slumped by more than 3% today, on 24 July, but are on track to record weekly gains amid worsening situation in the Middle East and disruptions in the Red Sea, according to a Reuters report. Brent futures fell $3.59, or 3.57%, to $97.10 a barrel at 1240 G

The IPO will comprise a fresh issue of Rs 117 crore and an offer for sale of up to 12.90 lakh equity shares. The face value of each equity share is Rs 10. The company plans to use the proceeds from the fresh issue to fund the development of Digital Workers, pay sub-contracting fe

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa secured a reprieve after a court decision on Friday temporarily halted a parliamentary impeachment probe into the leader of Africa’s biggest economy. The order pauses what threatened to be a damaging political spectacle over the theft of $5

A Russian attack on an energy facility in Ukraine's northern city of Chernihiv and surrounding district on Friday cut power to around 150,000 residents, according to the regional electricity distribution company. Workers were actively seeking to restore power supply to consumers

South Africa’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate on hold, resisting market expectations for another hike after June inflation surged past its target. The decision triggered a market sell-off, sending the rand down more than 2% — making it the world’s worst performing

Backed by the country's largest lender SBI, the credit-card firm said its profit after tax rose 19.5% to 6.64 billion rupees ($68.76 million) for the quarter ended June 30 Card spending rose as demand for credit remained strong after picking up in the second half of the previous

Ghana’s booming illegal gold mining sector poses a national security threat that risks opening the country up to terrorist activity, a new analysis warned. Revenue generated by small-scale gold mining in Ghana topped $11 billion last year, compared to $9 billion for large-scale m

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Former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy joins Mixed Signals to make the case that America’s loneliness crisis is a public health emergency — and that social media is a bigger driver of it than almost anything else we’re paying attention to. Max and Ben ask Vivek why he chose to fo

Verbal efforts to support the yen have had limited effect, and some analysts believe even intervention would, at best, only buy policymakers some extra time. Unless the Bank of Japan raises rates more quickly, the structural forces weighing on the currency were likely to remain i

It had reported a net profit of Rs 349.16 crore in the same period a year ago, the company said in an exchange filing. The company's total income rose to Rs 4,144.91 crore from Rs 3,586.52 crore in Q1 FY26. The board also approved the acquisition of an additional 51 per cent equi

US stock futures traded with modest gains on Friday, 24 July, as crude oil prices retreated from recent highs, while a 4% jump in Intel shares in pre-market trading following its second-quarter results helped lift sentiment after Wall Street suffered one of its steepest declines

This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. When OpenAI's rogue models initiated a cyber attack against startup Hugging Face last week, the company fought fire with fire, using another AI model to defend against it. It'