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The combined market valuation of eight of the top 10 valued firms jumped by a whopping Rs 4.55 lakh crore last week, with Reliance Industries emerging as the biggest winner, in line with a remarkable rally in equities.
Last week, the BSE benchmark surged by 2,857.46 points or 3.53 per cent.
From the top-10 pack, Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, State Bank of India, Bajaj Finance, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), and Hindustan Unilever were the gainers, while Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys saw their valuations erode.
The combined market valuation of the eight firms was Rs 4,55,336.36 crore.
Reliance Industries added Rs 1,41,887.97 crore, taking its market valuation to Rs 19,63,358.79 crore.
LIC's valuation zoomed Rs 64,926.1 crore to Rs 5,70,198.54 crore. The market valuation of Bharti Airtel surged Rs 52,516.39 crore to Rs 11,62,288.64 crore and that of ICICI Bank jumped Rs 52,476.97 crore to Rs 10,06,258.82 crore.
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Overlooking the Arabian Sea and just a 15-minute ferry ride away from leading beachside resorts, a 4,000-seat convention centre has been built in pristine south Goa to host large conferences and marquee events, including Filmfare-scale award functions.
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has an Advanced Training Institute (ATI) at Betul in South Goa for training its personnel in safety and HSE practices. Its campus is spread over 1 million square metres, or roughly 250-270 acres, with the training centre being housed in a small portion.
Back in 2023, a make-shift conference centre at the unused portion of the vast land at ATI hosted a second edition of India Energy Week, as convention centres that could hold an event of that size elsewhere in the country were unavailable. And there germinated the idea of building a permanent facility to add another chapter to Goa's tourism.
Before the fourth edition of IEW at the end of January this year, the convention centre was ...

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Walmart-backed PhonePe, which aims to float its initial public offering (IPO) in April, plans to deepen its presence in India's digital payments market while expanding into financial services and new consumer platforms.
In its draft papers, the company said digital payments will remain the core driver of growth, supported by investments to expand its user base, addressable market and platform scale.
India's total addressable market for digital consumer payments stood at Rs 301 lakh crore in fiscal 2025 and is projected to grow to Rs 602-681 lakh crore by fiscal 2030, the company said, citing industry estimates.
According to sources, PhonePe is aiming to launch its IPO in April.
The proposed offering will be entirely an offer for sale of 5.06 crore shares by Walmart, Microsoft and Tiger Global, with no fresh issue component.
In January, the company received regulatory approval from the Sebi to proceed with its maiden public offering, following its confidential filing in September.

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India has always negotiated with a "clear mindset" on sectors that are "very" sensitive for the country in trade pacts and has protected all those key segments under the interim trade agreement with the US, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said.
He also said that both teams are working to convert the joint statement into a legal agreement, which is expected to be finalised and signed before the end of March.
"India has always negotiated all agreements with a clear mindset, anything that is very sensitive to India, anything where we feel our farmers, fishermen, dairy, they are going to be impacted, we have been very clear to our partner countries that India can not open up or provide access," he told reporters here.
"If you look at all the agreements that we have done in the last year, five trade agreements that we did --  all the sensitive sectors have been protected. In the US, all the key sensitive sectors have been protected. Wherever there is a little sensitivity, we have used 

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The Board of Intermediate Education, Andhra Pradesh, will soon be releasing the AP Inter Hall Ticket 2026 for the 1st and 2nd year. Once out, students can download it from the official website

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Several private schools in Punjab's Mohali received bomb threat emails on Wednesday, triggering evacuation.
Police deployed anti-sabotage teams and checked the school buildings.  School authorities sent messages to parents, declaring a holiday.
Manav Mangal School and Shivalik Public School were two of the schools which received the emails.
The latest scare comes close on the heels of similar incidents in Chandigarh, Amritsar, Jalandhar, and Patiala, Haryana, where similar threats made to the schools turned out to be hoaxes.

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