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NEW DELHI: Investment management firm Fidelity International has acquired a 6.3% stake in e-commerce firm Meesho, according to regulatory filings. Fidelity’s stake is valued at around Rs 3,155 crore based on the issue price of Rs 111 apiece. Meesho shares listed at over a 53% premium on Wednesday. Agencies Source link
AGRA: Two persons died and five others were grievously injured after a basement wall of an under-construction house collapsed at Vijkauli village in Bah sub-division of Agra on Sunday morning.One Jodh Singh was constructing his house and was building a basement. The basement floor was filled with a layer of soil and water was poured…
SULTANPUR LODHI: Joginder Pal Singh and Manjit Kaur, both in their sixties, have already lost four sons to drug addiction. Now, they fear they may lose their fifth as well.Their 32-year-old son, Sonu, lies critically ill on a bed at their home in Pandori Mohalla, near the Sultanpur Lodhi police station. On Sunday, the distraught…
The war drama ‘Border 2’, starring Sunny Deol, Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh, Ahan Shetty in lead roles, has seen a considerable slowdown at the box office on its first Tuesday. The film that made the most of the extended Republic Day weekend witnessed a huge drop in collections on Day 5, which also happened to…
The company had postponed maintenance work at its 20 million tonnes-per-year Vadinar refinery in Gujarat. (AI image) Russia’s Rosneft-backed Nayara Energy is planning to halt operations for around 35 days starting early April, a move that could temporarily take nearly 8% of India’s refining capacity offline and tighten domestic fuel availability, according to people familiar…
JAMMU: Parties across the political divide in J&K have welcomed the announcement on Tuesday by railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw that three proposed railway projects in the state have been put on hold for now following opposition from the state govt and MPs, who have argued that the track alignments could damage apple orchards.Vaishnaw said there…
BENGLURU: The Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar) is now systematically scanning the Indian landmass, offering a new way to track one of agriculture’s most critical but invisible factors: soil moisture.Using advanced radar instruments operating in S- and L-bands, the satellite images the country every 12 days, covering wide swathes at high resolution. Scientists have demonstrated…
Every December 22, India celebrates National Mathematics Day as a comfortable tribute to Srinivasa Ramanujan: A genius remembered, a nation proud, a few school competitions, a poster or two. But Srinivasa Ramanujan is not a comfortable story. He is the rare kind of life that forces a blunt question on any education system: What do…
US President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed that 48 Iranian leaders have been killed in ongoing US-Israeli military strikes, describing the operation as progressing faster than expected.“Nobody can believe the success we’re having, 48 leaders are gone in one shot. And it’s moving along rapidly,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. In a…
Representative image (AI-generated) NEW DELHI: Flight operations at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport were severely disrupted on Monday as dense fog and low visibility led to the cancellation of around 228 flights, with five others diverted, airport authorities said.According to Delhi Airport, the cancellations included 131 departing flights and 97 arriving flights, as visibility levels…
