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The rupee consolidated in a narrow range and settled for the day lower by 7 paise at 83.55 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on Thursday even as both the domestic equity benchmark indices touched all-time high levels. Forex traders said rupee was seen resilient against the dollar, even after volatility witnessed in the dollar index,…
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty hit their fresh record levels on Thursday after lower inflation numbers raised hopes of an interest rate cut by the RBI. Besides, heavy buying in capital goods, consumer durable and industrial stocks also helped the indices, traders said. Retail inflation continued its downward slide to reach a one-year low…
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Smoke from a fire rises into the air in the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, June 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The scorched carcasses of monkeys, snakes and caimans dot the charred expanses of the once-green Brazilian Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands. As night falls,…
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Inspiration4 crew Jared Isaacman, Sian Proctor, Hayley Arceneaux, and Chris Sembroski chatting with St. Jude patients from space in this handout photo released on September 17, 2021. | Photo Credit: Reuters When pediatric cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux and a trio of crewmates spent three days in space in 2021 as part of SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission,…
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nirmala Sitharaman arrives to assume charge as the Union Finance Minister, at the Ministry of Finance in New Delhi on June 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI The Centre has decided to convene a meeting of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on June 22, eight-and-a-half months after its last…
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A general view of installed solar panels at the Khavda Renewable Energy Park of Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL), in Khavda, India, April 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters With just five months to go before this year’s U.N. climate summit, countries cannot agree on the size of a global funding bill to help the…
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Investors and brokers react after monitoring thestock prices on a digital screen. File photo | Photo Credit: ANI Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty hit their fresh record high levels in early trade on Thursday, June 13, 2024, after retail inflation slipped to one-year low in May along with buying in IT stocks. The 30-share…
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FILE PHOTO: A security guard walks past the logo of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) inside its building in Mumbai, India, May 28, 2019. | Photo Credit: FRANCIS MASCARENHAS The activity of the stock market as the general elections drew to a close has been a subject of controversy. Indian stocks hit record highs after…
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Federal Reserve Bank Chair Jerome Powell announces that interest rates will remain unchanged during a news conference in Washington, DC. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP The US Federal Reserve left its key lending rate unchanged on Wednesday and penciled in just one rate cut this year, down from the three expected in March…
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A false-coloured scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding (in green) from cultured lymphocyte, 1984. HIV has more variants circulating in a single patient at any given point of time than influenza cumulatively generates in one year in all influenza patients around the world combined, creating a vaccine development nightmare. | Photo Credit: U.S. CDC In…
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