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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

The math is clear — buying Russian oil is now a losing deal for India

India’s Russian oil purchases have effectively meant a transfer of gains from millions of workers in labour-intensive sectors to a few large refiners.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Doctor-led terror module behind Delhi blast was in phase 2 of ops, planned serial bombings in December

While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.