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FPIs withdraw Rs 21,272 cr from equities in Feb; total outflow nears Rs 1 lakh cr in 2025
Vipul Bhowar, Senior Director - Listed Investments, Waterfield...
India to form Deregulation Commission: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi "It is my conviction that there should...
India reports over 2.47 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases, 27 pc higher than y’day
380 COVID-19 infected patients lost lives in India in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 4,85,035, the Union Health Ministry said. Of the 69.73 crore total tests conducted so far, a daily positivity rate of 13.11 per cent was reported in the country. Further,...
Maharashtra likely to see rise in COVID-19 hospitalisations by Jan-end or early Feb: Health dept
Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 46,723 fresh coronavirus cases, a jump of 12,299 infections from a day ago, and 32 fresh fatalities. The new cases included 86 Omicron infections Mumbai:Maharashtra is expected to see a spike in hospitalisation of COVID-19 patients in...
Natural disasters cost $120bn of insured losses worldwide in 2021, relatively low losses in Asia-Pacific: Munich Re
Torsten Jeworrek, member of the Board of Management,Munich Re The costliest natural disaster in 2021 was Hurricane Ida, causing $65bn of economic losses and US$ 36bn of insured losses Torsten Jeworrek, member of the Board of Management,Munich Re, said the images of...
India reports 1,94,720 fresh COVID-19 infections, 442 fatalities
``Plateauing of hospital admissions is an indication that the wave may have peaked. We may see a decline in cases in two to three days.Cases have started declining in Mumbai and Delhi is likely to follow the same trend,'' Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said New...
Goldman Sachs says bitcoin will compete with gold as “store of value”
Citing bitcoin's $700 billion market capitalization, compared to the around $2.6 trillion worth of gold owned as an investment, Goldman Sachs said that the cryptocurrency currently has a 20% share of the "store of value" market The term "store of value" usually...
China’s Omicron Outbreak Is Bad News for the Global Supply Chain
“The reality is that China remains the center of global manufacturing,”said Thomas O’Connor, a supply chain expert at Gartner Inc. in Sydney. “If there was significant manufacturing or logistic shutdowns in China associated with covid-related challenges, that would...
Equity MFs inflow surges to Rs 25,000-cr in Dec on strong SIP book
Equity schemes have been witnessing net inflow since March 2021 and the segment has received a net inflow of Rs 1.1 lakh crore during this period highlighting the positive sentiments among investors Mumbai: Flows into equity mutual funds more than doubled to Rs 25,000...
Climate failure and social crisis top `Global Risks 2022”:WEF Report
The Global Risks Report 2022 explores four areas of emerging risk: cybersecurity; competition in space; a disorderly climate transition; and migration pressures, each requiring global coordination for successful management Geneva: Climate risks dominate global...
7-day home quarantine mandatory for all international arrivals in India, Covid test on 8th: Govt
Contacts of the suspect cases are the co-passengers seated in the same row, three rows in front and three rows behind along with the identified cabin crew, the guidelines said Also, all the community contacts of the travelers who have tested positive (during home...
Global food prices rose ‘sharply’ during 2021
The consistently high cost of inputs, the ongoing global pandemic and ever more volatile climatic conditions “leave little room for optimism about a return to more stable market conditions even in 2022 The UN’s benchmark food and commodity prices index rose sharply on...