Power Finance Corporation Q2 Results: Net profit jumps 27% YoY to Rs 6,628 crore

Consolidated Loan Asset Book crossed Rs 9 lakh crore mark and stood at Rs 9,23,724 crore as of September 30, 2023, versus Rs 7,71,119 crores as of September 30, 2022, registering an increase of 20%.

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​Market Trading Guide: Titan, ONGC among 4 stock recommendations for Thursday

​The S&P BSE Sensex closed 0.05% higher at 64,975, while the NSE Nifty 50 index closed near the 19,450 level.​

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What would be the cost of a global Internet outage for one day? You would be surprised to know

If an internet outage occurs just for a single day, the US alone would face huge losses of around $11 billion. China is estimated to lose nearly $10 billion, according to the VPN service provider AtlasVPN. Meanwhile, the UK would lose around $3 billion, and Japan is expected to lose approximately $2.7 billion. An internet outage in Germany will likely cost up to $1.5 billion.

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Colombia's quest for a multi-billion-dollar sunken treasure amid legal dispute

Colombia faces a legal quagmire in its quest to recover the Spanish galleon San José, a sunken treasure valued at up to $20 billion. President Gustavo Petro aims to expedite the retrieval before his term ends in 2026, calling for a public-private partnership. The heart of the issue lies in determining the legitimate discoverer of the treasure. Glocca Morra (now Sea Search Armada) claims they found it in 1981, offering the coordinates to Colombia, while the government asserts it discovered the wreck in 2015, sparking a $10 billion legal battle.

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Wall St inches up as markets await Fed speakers amid rate-cut hopes

The economic-data calendar for this week is light, with weekly jobless claims numbers due on Thursday and University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment report on Friday. Walt Disney, Instacart and Biogen are among major companies reporting earnings this week. A total of 403 companies in the S&P 500 have reported profits to date in the third quarter, with 81.6% surpassing analyst estimates, per LSEG data.

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BJP planning criminal cases against me: Mahua Moitra

"Also BJP - before you push out women MPs with fake narrative remember I have EXACT transcript of record in Ethics Committee verbatim. Chairman's cheap, sordid, irrelevant questions, Opposition's protests, my protests - all there in official black & white," the Krishnanagar MP said.

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Chhattisgarh election: Conflict in slain Salwa Judum leader Karma's family puts BJP in fight

Dantewada, the hotbed of Naxalism, reveres the memory of Mahendra Karma, the slain Congress leader and Salwa Judum founder, even a decade. Dantewada remains a Karma family stronghold, now contested by his son Chhavindr, against BJP's Chetram Arami and former aide Amulkar Nag, who is running as an independent. The Karma family's internal competition has also been a challenge.

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