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Sebi finalising draft discussion paper over guidelines for ‘finfluencers’
''We are crystalising a discussion paper to regulate financial influencers. The paper should be ready for public comments in the next couple of months,'' said Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch With the number of such people thriving on social media platforms like...
Reliance Cap lenders vote in favour of Hinduja Group firm
However, according to sources, any decision on the resolution of Reliance Capital by the CoC will be subject to the outcome of the SC's judgement in the appeal filed by Torrent Investments. The resolution process of Reliance Capital was mired into litigation after the...
Canara HSBC Life Insurance reports 9-fold jump in profit at Rs 91 cr in FY23
Indian embedded value of the company stood at Rs 4,272 crore, and the solvency margin at 252 per cent as of March 31, 2023 New Delhi: Canara HSBC Life Insurance on Thursday reported a nearly 9-fold increase in net profit at 91.2 crore during the 2022-23 financial...
Star Health makes key managerial appointments
Exclusive health insurer Star Health and Allied Insurance has informed that Dr. S Prakash will be appointed as a strategic management executive of the company after he quit the position of managing director of the company and as director of the board. The insurer has...
Indian firm used toxic industrial-grade ingredient in syrup
Sources said the syrup was made with industrial-grade PG, a toxic material widely used in liquid detergents, antifreeze, paints or coatings, and to enhance the effectiveness of pesticides. NEW DELHI: The Indian manufacturer of cough syrups that Uzbekistan said last...
Businesses criticize new EU data rules, consumer group sees missed opportunity
DIGITALEUROPE, whose members include Airbus, U.S. tech giants such as Amazon and Google, GFK, Nokia, Qualcomm, Philips, SAP, Siemens and Sony, said the data agreement fell short of businesses’ expectations “The Data Act will place European industry at a disadvantage...
Anti-ESG movement in U.S. feeds anxiety among UK investors
In the US, there’s evidence that anti-ESG rhetoric has led some financial firms to tone down their commitments to ESG in their conversations with clients. And pension funds have been caught in a long-running battle between the Biden administration and Republicans over...
Global initiative launched to rate corporate carbon offset claims
The Claims Code of Practice launched by the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI), backed by the British government, seeks to help investors establish whether claims made by companies using carbon offsets are credible A standard to assess companies’...
Caffeine only makes you alert, coffee makes you ‘ready to go’, say scientists
"There is a common expectation that coffee increases alertness and psychomotor functioning," said Nuno Sousa of the University of Minho, Portugal, and corresponding author of the study published in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience If you want to feel...
IRDAI alerts against fraud company `Bhartiya Cooperative General Insurance Limited’
The general public are hereby advised not to undertake any transaction related to insurance business with “Bhartiya Cooperative General Insurance Limited”((www.bharatinsurance.org), said the IRDAI Hyderabad: The IRDAI has brought to general notice that no registration...
India ranked 67th on Energy Transition Index, Sweden on top: WEF
Achieving universal access to electricity, replacing solid fuels with clean cooking options and increasing renewable energy deployment have been primary contributors to the improvement of India's performance NEW DELHI: The World Economic Forum on Wednesday ranked...
Govt drops plans to levy TCS on overseas credit card spends
The Finance Ministry has also deferred by three months the implementation of a higher Tax Collected at Source (TCS) rate of 20 per cent on expenditures made under LRS and overseas tour packages till September 30 New Delhi: The government on Wednesday dropped plans to...
Indictment details plan to steal Samsung secrets for Foxconn China project
The unreleased 18-page indictment, reviewed by Reuters, provides details in the case against former Samsung executive Choi Jinseog, including how he is alleged to have stolen Samsung's trade secrets and details about the planned Foxconn plant. SEOUL: When former...
Audi ex-boss becomes first VW board member sentenced over diesel scandal
The case is among the most prominent in the aftermath of the diesel scandal, when parent group Volkswagen and Audi admitted in 2015 to having used illegal software to cheat on emissions tests Former Audi boss Rupert Stadler was handed a suspended sentence of one year...
Equity investors become richer by Rs 3.43 lakh crore in two days of market rally
Infrastructure has been improving consistently, corporate balance sheet strength has improved, and the financial system is in a robust state to fund the potential growth. Despite the recent rally, fundamentals point to the possibility of strong earnings growth in the...
Delhi has become India’s electric vehicle capital: CM Arvind Kejriwal
We introduced the Electric Vehicle Policy in August 2020. Our target was that by 2025, at least 25 per cent of all the new vehicles bought in Delhi should be EVs. As of now, 13 per cent of all the new vehicles that are bought in Delhi are EVs. The national average at...