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3 weeks, 5 days ago

15 NFOs lined up while the market is on a downswing. Should you invest now?

With the stock market undergoing a correction mode with 10 percent fall behind it, investors are not radiating too much enthusiasm about the valuation of stocks and mutual funds. Among these new fund offers, there is one healthcare fund, a realty index fund, an auto index fund, one IT sector fund and one transportation fund. Some of the new themes …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

It is yesterday once more as nostalgia overwhelms the Bollywood box-office

The Hindu

Mohit Kumar, a 35-year-old business executive in Noida, is impulsively scrolling on a ticketing app on his mobile to find the right film to watch with his spouse over the weekend. Interestingly, Akshay Kumar’s Khel Khel Meinand John Abraham’s Vedaa, the two latest releases have gotten only four and three shows respectively in their second week and none have a …

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11 months ago

'Like before and after Christ, you can divide his career...': Ashwin backs ‘Yuvraj Singh lite’ Dube for T20WC squad

Hindustan Times

India head Rahul Dravid did not want to give away the 2024 T20 World Cup plans yet. But veteran Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has backed Shivam Dube for a role in the World Cup squad after the all-rounder's series-winning performance against Afghanistan last week. Ashwin feels Shivam Dube should be part of India's T20 World Cup squad Dube, who made …

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11 months, 1 week ago

China's population declines for 2nd year in a row, and so has its workforce; surge seen in elderly people

Hindustan Times

China has reported a downward trend in its population growth for the second consecutive time in 2023, giving rise to its deepening demographic challenge, which is likely to burden its economy – the second largest in the world. The birth rate saw a record drop of 6.39 births per 1,000 people from 6.77 a year earlier. According to China's National …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Dow plunges to its lowest level since 2020 to end another dismal week

CNN

New York CNN Business — US stocks fell sharply in Friday trading as investors continued to worry about even more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve that could land the US economy in a recession. Investors don’t have many places to make money at the moment: In addition to sinking stocks, the bond market is also selling off, sending US …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Kejriwal’s education model: Are Delhi government schools witnessing a downswing under AAP rule

Firstpost

In the academic years 2013-14, the number of student population in private schools was 27 per cent of the total school-going children in Delhi. While letting the law take its own course on the charges of corruption being levied against various departments on a daily basis, it’s important in this context that the veracity of the claims made by the …

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2 years, 6 months ago

US S&P 500 ‘bear market’: How did it happen, what will it mean?

Al Jazeera

As investors grow increasingly worried about inflation and higher interest rates, Wall Street has fallen into a bear market. A bear market is used to describe when a stock index such as the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average drop by 20 percent over a sustained period after a recent high. The most recent bear market for the …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus Today: Will COVID-19 take a summer vacation?

LA Times

I’m Karen Kaplan, and it’s Tuesday, June 14. Clearing the air in schools While we’re on the topic of schools and COVID-19, let’s look at one of the pandemic’s potential silver linings — cleaner classroom air. “We haven’t had that amount of money coming from the federal government for school facilities for the last hundred years,” Anisa Heming, director of …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Strictly Come Dancing week 7 talking points: AJ Odudu swivels to top on another high-scoring night

The Independent

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3 years, 5 months ago

With over 40k daily cases, Indonesia surpasses India to emerge as Asia's Covid hotspot

India Today

The motorcycle riders weave through the jammed vehicles, honking their horns as they flank ambulances trying to find their way through the traffic-choked streets of Indonesia’s capital region. Senior minister Luhut Pandjaitan said President Joko Widodo had ordered ministers to take action over the oxygen situation, Luhut told CNBC Indonesia the country was importing 40,000 tonnes of liquid oxygen and …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Australian MP Craig Kelly lauds Yogi Adityanath for Covid-19 management

India TV News

Australian MP Craig Kelly has heaped praise on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for the works during the second wave of Covid pandemic. Lauding the leadership of Adityanath, he said that the Uttar Pradesh administration effectively provided ‘Ivermectin’ to the people of the state. Any chance they could loan us their Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to release the Ivermectin …

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3 years, 6 months ago

COVID updates: Second wave on downswing, but numbers still high, says Centre; MHA extends guidelines till 30 June

Firstpost

Globally, COVID-19 deaths crossed 35 lakh on Thursday with the US being the worst-affected country with 5,91,957 deaths, followed by Brazil with 4,54,429 and India with 3,15,235 deaths As India’s COVID-19 infection tally climbed to 2,73,69,093 with 2,11,298 more people testing positive for the disease in a day, the Centre on Thursday said that the country is noting a downswing …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Top news of the day: Government says second COVID-19 wave is on the downswing; seven non-BJP-ruled States seek GST loss compensation, and more

The Hindu

“A steady decline in new COVID-19 cases has been recorded in India for the last 20 days. Twenty four States have also reported decline in active COVID-19 cases since the last week,” the Health Ministry said. Dr. Paul, India’s top COVID-19 adviser, has said the States had coerced the Centre into expanding the availability of vaccines despite being aware of …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Mahisyas and the new caste question in West Bengal politics