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Professor Venugopal Pingali left XLRI Jamshedpur after 33 years to a guard-of-honour farewell. Students and faculty lined the corridor as he walked out with a bouquet.
Project Insight 2.0, launching Jan 27, 2028, uses AI to cut income tax refund delays from the current 35-day average. Over 27 lakh refunds took >90 days in FY26.
Elbert Hubbard's quote on self-discipline is a masterclass for traders. Sticking to the plan, not the impulse, is the edge that separates consistent winners from the rest.
Bitcoin and Ethereum are flat at $63,004 and $1,879, total market cap at $2.25T, and BTC dominance at 56.2%. LEO gains 6% while traders split on whether the calm signals stability or hidden weakness.
Mark Cuban says high-end AI chips will become an investable asset class like crypto. The billionaire sold most of his Bitcoin in May, calling it a failed macro hedge.
Waymo holds 15% of ride-hailing bookings in San Francisco and LA, Yipit data shows. Driver impact appears as longer waits and fewer trips, not layoffs.
SSY pays 8.2% against PPF's 7.1%, a 1.1-point gap worth about ₹3.4 lakh over 15 years of maximum deposits. Who qualifies, and what the Oct. 1 reset changes.
Bybit's synthetic TradFi perpetuals pass 200 products as Unitree's $6.1B IPO tests whether pre-IPO perpetual pricing converges with the real market. MOONSHOTUSDT remains speculative.
Goldman Sachs reports S&P 500 Q2 earnings up 31%. AI infrastructure firms drove half of growth. Only 2% of companies quantified AI earnings impact. Enterprise spending rising fast.
ITAT said the NRI's bank statements and documents proved payments. The ruling clarifies how NRE funds can be used for property purchases without triggering tax queries.
FitFlop Philippines teams with Pantone on an eight-style footwear line, The Colour of Comfort, available now in 10 stores. The partnership blends biomechanical tech with color psychology.
GTRI says the Red Sea crisis has made India-Europe trade slower and more expensive for 1,000 days, with freight rates 25-40% above normal and MSME exporters hit hardest.
Surge in fear language across social platforms often precedes BTC upside, Santiment Intelligence says, as XRP negativity hits bearish extreme alongside on-chain activity spike.
A quote commonly attributed to Mark Twain warns against the regret of inaction. Scholars say he never wrote it. For investors, the misattribution feeds a costly bias.
Polymarket odds on the CLARITY Act have fallen to 19% from 82%. Galaxy Digital puts the chance at 10%. SEC and CFTC are moving on crypto through existing authority while the bill stalls.
Rebel Creamery filed Chapter 11 after a judge ordered it to pay $23.8M for copying Van Leeuwen's packaging. The ice cream maker listed $10M-$50M in assets and debts.
Moscow's chief economist says Russia may not win a war of attrition; sanctions and strikes could slow growth and trigger social crisis.
Cuban warned the one-time wealth tax on billionaires could push startup founders out of California and said he would make not being in the state a condition for investments.
Six in ten Gen Z investors on Binance hold equity ETFs as their top choice, and one in five have never sold. Data shows a generational divide in trading style.
Indian Bank's MD Binod Kumar said the lender will raise $400M via ECB this week under the RBI's swap window, with another $600M planned before the Dec. 31 deadline.
India's largest stainless steel maker targets higher-value auto and appliance markets with capex, reports record sales volume of 2.57 MT and EBITDA up 19%.
Crude oil above $80 and mixed global cues drove the selloff, with TCS losing ₹34,263 crore in market cap. Five top firms lost ₹1 lakh crore last week.
Aug. 2, 2027: 6 minutes 19 seconds of totality over Luxor, the best weather on the eclipse path, and the richest archaeological setting — here’s why eclipse chasers call it the eclipse of the century.
Makhachev outlasts Garry in a five-round war; White blasts title challenger for showing sportsmanship before the final frame.
Former Bybit co-CEO Helen Liu's U.S.-compliant platform ABFinance suspended operations before launching. The closure joins a wave of crypto project shutdowns in 2026.
Pre-IPO perpetuals on Hyperliquid imply Unitree worth $38B — more than four times its STAR Market IPO. Bybit adds Moonshot AI contracts as tokenized equities hit $2.38B.
Germany's tax authority confirmed every crypto card payment is a disposal. The one-year holding period, 1,000-euro threshold and record-keeping rules apply.
Members can now withdraw 75% of PF balance for medical, education, housing, unemployment. Minimum membership standardised to 12 months. The move could boost household liquidity.
German manufacturers lost €2.5B in one heatwave last year. Standard policies don't cover it. Parametric insurance is the workaround.
Six companies, including Blackstone-backed Horizon Industrial Parks and Lalithaa Jewellery Mart, plan to raise nearly ₹5,600 crore via IPOs starting August 17.