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Friday, October 4, 2024
TopicBloomberg wire

Topic: Bloomberg wire

Queen Elizabeth shows how to make Boris Johnson’s ‘Living With Covid’ plan work

The monarch tested positive for Covid with mild symptoms days before the plan rolled out, but she continued “light duties” over Zoom and neatly modelled a picture of how it could work.

IDFC CEO gifts over $500,000 worth of shares to his driver, trainer and helpers

V. Vaidyanathan gave 900,000 shares or 3.7% of his holding in the private sector lender. The recipients will use the funds to buy homes, according to an exchange filing.

Reserve Bank of India plans to manage liquidity via forex swap before LIC IPO

RBI will enter into sell-buy swaps worth $5 billion with banks on 8 March to elongate the maturity profile of its forward dollar book, it said in a statement Monday.

Putin recognises self-proclaimed separatist republics in eastern Ukraine, sends forces

The decrees signed by Putin included an order to send what he called 'peacekeeping forces' to breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in a dramatic escalation in standoff with the West.

Ignoring inflation may bite back, it will not purchase India extra growth

Policy makers seem to believe that by not raising interest rates and letting prices bubble up will encourage investment but the link between output, jobs and prices may be more complex.

Early instances of harassment in the Metaverse may hinder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams

Several women including a beta tester have reported incidents of harassment, one was virtually groped by a stranger and another was virtually gang-raped within 60 seconds.

Shares for clinical labs fall out of favour with investors as India sees fewer Covid cases

Top operators Metropolis Healthcare & Dr Lal PathLabs have each plummeted at least 30% this year in a rout that gathered pace after their December quarter earnings trailed expectations.

Oil, gold whipsawed as Biden-Putin agree to ‘principle’ of Ukraine summit proposed by France

Global commodity markets have been in thrall due to standoff over Ukraine, which comes at a time of already robust demand, surging prices & concern over fast-depleting inventories.

Hinduja Global Solutions wins ‘biggest ever’ public sector contract for health services in UK

The contract, worth 21 billion rupees, from U.K. Health Security Agency, is to provide customer support to UK citizens for Covid-19 contact tracing.

‘Tedious and complicated’: Big firms ask SEBI to reverse related-party rule

Last year, the market regulator tightened rules on related-party transactions to curb siphoning of funds by founders and ensure better corporate governance.

On Camera

I met Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2005. He told me he was an admirer of MK Gandhi

Shuttle diplomacy at a high level is indicated, along the lines of the famous Kissingerian shuttles following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

#ByeByeAP to #LuluBackInAP: Naidu’s moves to make Andhra ‘business friendly’ & woo back investors

The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.

IAF chief AP Singh red-flags Tejas delay, says China ahead in technology & production capacity

Air force chief says HAL needs to churn out 24 aircraft per year. It is important for IAF to have indigenous weapons systems to deal with any security challenges, he says.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?