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The teams have been ranked according to their performances in the group stages, with Gujarat leading the table.

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Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Steel on Friday said its consolidated crude steel production rose by 2.3 per cent to 7.03 million tonnes (MT) in the third quarter of the current fiscal.
The company's steel output was 6.87 MT in the year-ago period, JSW Steel said in a filing to BSE.
The company's Indian operation's crude steel production rose by 3 per cent to 6.82 MT, over 6.63 MT in the year-ago period, the filing said.
Capacity utilisation at Indian operations excluding trial run stood at 91 per cent for the third quarter of the ongoing financial year.
"Production and capacity utilisation for the quarter was affected due to temporary maintenance activity at one of the Blast furnaces at Dolvi in the month of October, which resumed normal operations in the first week of November," the company said.
JSW Steel's 5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) integrated steel project at Vijayanagar, set up by wholly owned subsidiary of the company, JSW Vijayanagar Metallics Ltd (JVML), is progressing ...

Global trade is expected to grow by 3.2% in 2025, slightly down from 3.4% in 2024. However, tensions in trade policies and geopolitical uncertainties pose risks

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The sectoral and thematic fund category, which witnessed the closing of 12 new fund offerings (NFOs) in December, contributed Rs 15,332 crore to the equity inflow tally

mutual funds

The company's net profit climbed about 27 per cent year-on-year to Rs 425.4 crore in the December quarter of financial year 2025 (Q3FY25), from Rs 335.5 crore in the same quarter a year ago (Q3FY24)

IREDA

Revenue for the company grew 5.6 per cent to Rs 63,973 crore in Q3 FY25. Sequentially, the firm's revenue declined by 0.4 per cent

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Veteran writer, poet and filmmaker Pritish Nandy breathed his last on Wednesday at the age of 73

Pritish Nandy

On a sequential basis, the profit after tax (PAT) grew 10 per cent over Rs 387.75 crore reported in Q2FY25

Analysts expect Q3FY25 to report continued weakness in O2C earnings

Reliance industries, Reliance oil business

Shares of Goldiam International hit a new high of Rs 483.80, as they rallied 16 per cent on the BSE in Tuesday's intra-day trade amid heavy volumes on expectation of healthy earnings.

The bigger the diamond and the better the quality, the higher is the price. A one-carat stone will cost upwards of Rs 1.5 lakh, a five-carat will set you back by Rs 15 lakh. Source: Adobe Stock

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Ahead of his trip, the State Department said that Blinken wanted to build on the momentum of US-Japan-South Korea trilateral cooperation

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Two-wheeler growth was driven by better supply, new models, and strong rural demand, though finance constraints and rising EV competition posed challenges

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The projected saleable carpet area is around 5.85 lakh sq. ft generating a projected turnover of Rs 2,150 crore

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At least five cases of HMPV have been reported in India, all of them among children

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Challenging the decision of the Biden Administration to investigate the activities of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies, an influential Republican lawmaker on Tuesday said such selective actions risk damaging critical alliance partners.
In a strongly worded letter to US Attorney General Merrick B Garland, Congressman Lance Gooden, member of the House Judiciary Committee, demanded answers on the Justice Department's selective prosecution of foreign entities and the potential harm such actions pose to US's global alliances and economic growth and that if there is any Geroge Soros connection to it.
The Department of Justice's selective actions risk damaging critical alliances with key partners like India, one of America's strongest allies in the Asia-Pacific region, Gooden said in his letter dated January 7.
Instead of pursuing cases with tenuous jurisdiction and limited relevance to US interests, the DOJ should focus on punishing bad actors at home, rather than chasing

Gautam Adani, Adani

The temporary work permits are the only real way to employ Indian immigrants in the US, since national caps make it nearly impossible for them to get a green card

H-1B Visa

An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 shook Tibet, with strong tremors felt in neighbouring Nepal, India, Bhutan, and parts of China

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Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Tuesday that we should do away with the VIP culture, particularly in temples, as the very idea of VIP darshan militates against divinity.
He also called upon the people to rise above the politics of disruption and help the country reach its objective of a developed India by 2047.
"When precedence is accorded and priority is given to someone -- when we label it as VVIP or VIP -- this is belittling the concept of equality. VIP culture is an aberration. It is an incursion. When viewed on the anvil of equality, it should have no place in society, much less in religious places," said Dhankhar.
The Vice President was launching the country's largest 'queue complex' at Sri Manjunatha Temple here. The facility is known as 'Shri Saanidhya'.
While delivering his keynote address, Dhankhar criticised the tendency prevailing in today's political milieu, where people, instead of engaging in dialogue, disrupt democratic values.
According to him, the politic

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