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Mobile Premier League raises $95mn, nears unicorn status
New Delhi: E-sports and mobile gaming platform Mobile Premier League on Thursday said it is now valued at $945 million after raising $95 million (approximately Rs 693 core) in a Series D round.
The latest round was led by Composite…
Sensex Surges past 51,000 points
Mumbai, Feb 5 (UNI) The equity market on Friday remained strong as the Sensex shot up by 330 pts to 50,944.73 till noon session, the apex bank kept the key rates unchanged in its last bi-monthly policy. The Nifty too rose by 79.45 pts to…
Elon Musk’s tweet after ‘break’ raises Dogecoin’s value
San Francisco, Feb 4 (IANS) Back on Twitter after a two-day break, tech billionaire Elon Musk triggered a surge in Dogecoin's price with a single word tweet "doge" on Thursday.
Dogecoin surged by over 50 per cent in the past 24 hours,…
Banking stocks lift markets, Sensex breaches 50,55O-mark again
Mumbai: India's equity indices continued on their northward trajectory during the mid-afternoon trade session on Thursday.
Accordingly, buying momentum was triggered after the market opened on a flat note due to profit booking.…
SBI Q3 FY21 net profit down 7% YoY
Mumbai: Lending major State Bank of India (SBI) on Thursday reported a decline of 6.93 per cent in net profit for the third quarter of 2020-21 on a year-on-year basis.
Accordingly, the bank's net profit fell to Rs 4,574 crore from Rs…
Rs 6K Cr given to states to meet GST compensation shortfall
New Delhi: Finance Ministry has released the 14th weekly instalment of Rs 6,000 crore to the states on Wednesday to meet the GST compensation shortfall.
Out of this, an amount of Rs 5,516.60 crore has been released to 23 states and an…
Lending Re-boot: Bad Bank expected to absorb Rs 2 lk cr NPAs
New Delhi: India's growth is set to further accelerate on the back of the path breaking plan to set up a 'Bad Bank', which is expected to absorb Rs 2 lakh crore worth of non-performing assets (NPA).
Accordingly, the process is expected…
Over Rs 124 cr spent to promote tourism in 2017-20: Centre
New Delhi: The Centre informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that more than Rs 124 crore was spent in the last three years on media campaigns for tourism promotion in the country.
The information was given through a reply by Union…
3 in 4 Indian professionals to look for new job in 2021: LinkedIn
New Delhi: More than three in four professionals in India will consider changing jobs or actively look for a new role in the next 12 months, said a new survey by professional networking platform LinkedIn on Wednesday.
But the new "Job…
RBI releases circular on risk-based internal audit for NBFCs, UCBs
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday released a circular on risk-based internal audit (RBIA) for non-banking finance companies (NBFC) and urban co-operative banks (UCB).
The circular covers all deposit taking and…
Kerala govt approves investment of Rs 1,500 cr in Technocity
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 3 (UNI) The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday approved the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Technopark and Tata Consultancy Services to set up a new centre of TCS in Technocity at Pallipuram, on the…
RBI appoints external IT firm for special audit of HDFC Bank’s IT infra
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed an external professional IT firm to carry out a special audit of the entire IT infrastructure of HDFC Bank.
The development follows recent outage in the bank's internet banking and…
India’s Jan YoY merchandise exports rises over 5%
New Delhi: India's January merchandise exports rose over 5.37 per cent on a year-on-year basis, preliminary data showed on Tuesday.
Accordingly, the country's merchandise exports during the month under review grew to $27.24 billion…
Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO
Washington, Feb 3 (Sputnik) Amazon's Jeff Bezos in an email to employees said he is stepping down from his role as Chief Executive Officer of the company. "I’m excited to announce that this Q3 I’ll transition to Executive Chair of the…
PFC raises $500M Senior Unsecured US$ Bonds with 10 Yr Term
Kolkata, Feb 2 (UNI) Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC), the leading NBFC in power sector, has successfully raised USD 500 million on January 29 through issuance of USD denominated Bonds under Reg S route with a fixed maturity of May 16,…
Union Budget: Rs 4.78 lakh crore allocated for defence; nearly 19 per cent hike in capital outlay
NEW DELHI: In a marginal hike of around 1.4 percent, the defence budget was increased to Rs 4.78 lakh crore for 2021-22 as against last year's allocation of Rs 4.71 lakh crore while it has emerged that the armed forces spent an additional…
Budget 2021: AC, refrigerator to be costlier; gold, silver to be cheaper
NEW DELHI: A large number of commonly used items, including refrigerators, air conditioners, LED lights and mobile phones, will become more expensive due to hike in customs duty on imported parts, as proposed by Finance Minister Nirmala…
Railway Board chairman lauds Rs 1.10 lakh cr Budget allocation, calls it ‘path-breaking’
New Delhi , February 2 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Indian Railway Board (Ministry of Railways) Suneet Sharma on Monday lauded the Centre's allocation of Rs 1,10,055 crore to Indian Railways, calling it…
Foreign exchange reserves rise by USD 109 crores
Mumbai, Jan 31(UNI) India's foreign exchange reserves for the week ended January 22, rose by USD 109 crores to reach USD 58,533 crores.
Prior to this for the week ending January 15 India's Foreign Exchange Reserves had decreased by USD 184…
GST collection for Jan almost touches Rs 1.20 lakh crore
New Delhi, Jan 31 (UNI) The Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue collection for January has almost touched Rs 1.20 lakh crore, the Ministry of Finance said here on Sunday.
'The gross GST revenue collected in the month of January till…