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The News The Democratic establishment couldn’t get some of its candidates over the line. The party’s rising left wing couldn’t win some key races. Republicans in two red states couldn’t convince voters to change election rules to make their party stronger. Tuesday’s primaries ref

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The benchmark Indian 6.94% 2036 bond yield was at 6.7807% as of 9:40 a.m. IST, after closing at 6.8152% on Tuesday. The policy decision is due at 10:00 a.m. IST. The RBI is widely expected to keep its key interest rate unchanged, according to a Reuters poll, with most economists

AI - EDGE AND IOT Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontrollerNearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like? - Security This one time,

By the midday break, China's blue-chip CSI300 Index had climbed 1%, while the Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.3%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was also in positive territory, rising 0.1%. Chip stocks lead market gains Semiconductor stocks emerged as the biggest winners after Reu

GIFT City-based insurtech startup InRisk Labs has raised $27 Mn (about ₹256 Cr) in a Series A funding round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Northpoint Capital. The fresh capital will be used to strengthen the startup's underwriting, actuarial, catastrophe modelling and AI

RBI MPC Meeting: Rate-sensitive sectors witnessed strong buying interest on Wednesday after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept policy rates unchanged and raised its economic growth forecast for FY27. The Nifty Auto index touched a fresh record high, while the Nifty Realty index

In the domestic market, MCX silver futures for September 2026 delivery were up Rs 3,495 at Rs 2,25,110 per kg. Gold futures for October 2026 delivery gained by Rs 1,378 to Rs 1,45,677 per 10 grams. With today’s increase, the two are up by Rs 8,400 (4%) and Rs 3,000 (3%) in two se

Hybrid long-short strategies under the newly launched Specialised Investment Funds (SIFs) are beginning to challenge popular mutual fund categories such as arbitrage funds and balanced advantage funds (BAFs). Fund houses are increasingly marketing these products as "arbitrage-plu

Offshore trusts have long been used by China's ultra-rich to tuck away hundreds of billions of dollars outside the country. Now, a move by Beijing to tax them has set off a rush to lawyers and a scramble for cash. For decades, the legal structure has been a favored vehicle of Chi

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Arsenal set to sign Newcastle captain Guimaraes - Published Arsenal are set to complete their protracted move for Newcastle United captain Bruno Guimaraes. BBC Sport reported on 30 July that Guimaraes was expected to move to the Premier League champions following a breakthrough i

According to a filing with the exchange, India’s leading deeptech digital map data, geospatial software and location-based IoT products, platforms, APIs and solutions company announced a year-on-year jump of 14.9% in its revenue from operations to Rs 139.7 crore in Q1FY27 against

Market barometers, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, continued to exhibit divergent movements for the third consecutive session on Wednesday, 5 August. The Sensex jumped over 600 points, or nearly 1%, during the session, while the Nifty 50 declined by 0.20%. In the previous session, t

Despite a muted start, DLF is confident of achieving pre-sales or bookings target of ₹20,000 crore in FY27, largely flat year-on-year. Absence of project launches in the June quarter (Q1FY27) dragged pre-sales 94% down year-on-year to ₹657 crore. Collections fell year-on-year and

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Backward integration is set to drive the newly-demerged company’s next earnings cycle, as per the brokerage’s note, following a threefold year-on-year jump in its consolidated net profit to Rs 5,629 crore in the June quarter of FY2026. The brokerage believes that VAML is well pos

However, the company’s shares dropped nearly 9% in extended trading as investors appeared to expect an even stronger outlook following a sharp rally in the stock this year. AMD’s results highlighted the growing importance of AI infrastructure spending, but the market reaction ref

NSE SME stock Agarwal Toughened Glass India surged as much as 8% on NSE in Wednesday's trading session after the company released their April-June quarter 2026 business update on Tuesday. The stock rally came despite muted trends on Dalal Street. On Wednesday, the Indian stock ma

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The company's Rs 9,275.22 crore IPO was subscribed 4.92 times overall. The public issue comprised a fresh issue of 13.56 crore equity shares worth Rs 8,000 crore and an offer for sale of 2.16 crore shares aggregating Rs 1,275.22 crore, taking the total issue size to Rs 9,275.22 c

The SoftBank Group Corp.-backed company is working with Axis Capital Ltd., Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Citigroup Inc. to help prepare for the potential listing, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. The company is aiming to

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Nasdaq-listed SaaS firm Freshworks reported a 16% year-on-year increase in revenue to $237.4 million in the second quarter ended June 2026, while achieving its first quarterly GAAP profitability this year. The company posted a GAAP net profit of $3.2 million in Q2 CY26, compared

Q1 financial performance and margin pressure Despite solid expansion in operational revenue, the company's consolidated net profit after tax plunged 75% year-on-year to Rs 6 crore in the first quarter, down from Rs 24 crore in Q1 FY26. Consolidated EBITDA also declined 38% year-o

India's central bank on Wednesday held interest rates at 5.25% for a fifth time in a row, even as the country's retail inflation has crossed the Reserve Bank of India's medium-term target of 4%. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the policy rate would remain unchanged. The

The new CAS system was introduced on Monday, following which Nifty recorded a sharp surge of 200 points in the last two minutes of the session, while Sensex comparatively escaped the sharp volatility. Tuesday's session saw a mixed opening on Nifty’s expiry day, although both the

Vingo, a consumer-to-consumer marketplace for buying and selling pre-owned products, has raised Rs 10 crore ($1 million) in a seed funding round led by IndiaQuotient. Inuka Capital and Credgenics founder Rishabh Goel also participated in the round. The proceeds will be used to st

What happens next with Rashford and Man Utd? - Published The unlikely Manchester United reunion is close to completion. When Marcus Rashford was unveiled by Barcelona in July 2025, at the start of a season-long loan, no-one expected he would find himself back at Old Trafford 12 m

According to an exchange filing, the company's profit before tax rose 4.4% YoY to Rs 718 crore from Rs 688 crore, while total income increased about 9% to Rs 2,265 crore. Expenses for the quarter rose 11% to Rs 1,547 crore. The lender's net interest margin (NIM) for the quarter c

Personal assistance and concierge platform Hulp has raised $2.6 million (around Rs 25 crore) in a seed funding round co-led by Sparrow Capital and BITKRAFT Ventures, with participation from DeVC (Z47) and angel investors, including PB Fintech co-founder and chairman Yashish Dahiy

(Bloomberg) -- A key options trade particularly popular in India to bet on volatility on the day equity derivatives expire showed an unusual pattern on Tuesday, highlighting a potential trading opportunity as market players grapple with a new mechanism for determining closing pri

Imagine an AI agent at an Indian bank tasked with reconciling a failed transaction. In trying to complete the job, it quietly scans the internal network for credentials, jeopardising the bank’s security and integrity. Now, imagine a coding agent at an IT services firm tasked with

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Why Liverpool are ready to make Barcola third £100m signing - Published Liverpool have twice paid more than £100m for players - midfielder Florian Wirtz and striker Alexander Isak - and could be about to pay that much once again. Paris St-Germain and France winger Bradley Barcola

Australian teen who killed UK woman has reduced sentence overturned - Published An Australian teenager who murdered a British woman after breaking into her Queensland home has had his reduced sentence overturned in court. Emma Lovell, 41, was stabbed to death in Brisbane when she

The CSI300 Telecommunication Services Index dropped as much as 9% in early trade, led by heavy losses in export-oriented optical module manufacturers. The proposed restrictions added to pressure on China's AI hardware sector, which has already witnessed heightened volatility in r

The Nikkei advanced 3.16% to 65,979.02 as of 0101 GMT, while the broader Topix index gained 1.52% to 4,022.18. According to Reuters, U.S. equities ended at record highs on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising after earnings from AI-linked companie

Nasdaq-listed SaaS major Freshworks reported a net profit of $3.2 Mn in the second quarter ended June 30 (Q2 CY26) as against a net loss of $1.7 Mn in the corresponding quarter last year. Sequentially, Freshworks swung to profit from a GAAP net loss of $4.8 Mn in Q1 CY26, as grow

RBI MPC Meeting 2026: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its August policy meeting outcome on 5 August, Wednesday, revised its FY27 GDP growth forecast upward to 6.7% from 6.6% amid the Middle East crisis, reflecting confidence in the domestic growth outlook. The RBI Governor Sa

Kate Nash on Irish history, heritage and covering Sinéad O'Connor - Published Singer-songwriter Kate Nash believes many English people are disconnected from parts of their own history, and her latest single is an attempt to start a conversation about why. She has recorded a cover

Dewormer and scabies drugs being sold as cancer treatments, BBC investigation finds - Published Animal dewormer and a drug used to treat scabies are being sold and promoted as unproven cancer treatments, a BBC investigation has found. Following a tip off, an undercover journalist