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Saudi oil giant Aramco tops own record with $48-billion profit in Q2

The company is using the windfall to reduce debt and invest in a huge expansion of its production capacity, rather than boost payouts to shareholders

Salman Rushdie 'off the ventilator; talking and joking' a day after attack

Rushdie, 75, suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye, Wylie said on Friday evening. He was likely to lose the injured eye

Rushdie's son says author off ventilator, retains 'feisty sense of humour'

The Mumbai-born author was stabbed in New York in what US authorities described as a 'targeted, unprovoked, preplanned' attack

Centre asks states and UTs to monitor trader stocks as tur prices rise

In the initial stages, tur sowing dropped due to delayed onset of monsoon over the major-growing states

Opec cuts oil demand forecasts as economic growth slows, says report

The Vienna-based producers' group cut its forecasts for global oil demand this year by 260,000 barrels to 100.03 million barrels a day, citing the impact of slowing global economies

Jet Airways sees over two-fold rise in standalone net loss to Rs 390 crore

Jet Airways had posted a revenue of Rs 73.83 crore in the same quarter last year, according to a regulatory filing

Disney lowers subscriber target after IPL streaming rights loss

The firm revised its subscriber count to 80 million by the end of fiscal 2024 from the projected 100 million

Govt to remove domestic fare caps imposed on airlines Aug 31 onwards

The fare caps were imposed on domestic airlines in 2020 during the pandemic

Hindalco posts highest ever quarterly profit in Q1 at Rs 4,119 cr, up 48%

The company's net debt fell 19% from a year earlier to Rs 42,193 crore at the end of June, it said in the earnings presentation

Linktree sacks 17% of employees in latest round of tech pink slips

With a reported 300-strong workforce, the mass layoff amounts to about 50 staff members

CM Adityanath receives death threat on UP police's WhatsApp helpline

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath received a bomb threat over emergency WhatsApp helpline

PowerGrid Q1 consolidated net profit declines 37% to Rs 3,801 crore

Q1 PAT dropped by 8.55 per cent from ₹4,156.44 crore in the preceding quarter

Commonwealth Games 2022: Sindhu wins elusive gold, India finishes fourth

Shuttlers win all three titles on offer on last day of the Commonwealth Games, Sharath Kamal most decorated athlete with 4 medals, hockey team disappoints

'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

Zuckerberg noticed that it was getting harder to get all the employees to attend a meeting as they were sometimes taking time out in a day for personal work

68 China jets, 13 warships cross median line: Taiwan defence ministry

Beijing cancels US defence talks, slaps sanctions on Pelosi for Taiwan visit

Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra, other Congress leaders detained amid protest

Congress MPs including Rahul Gandhi were detained at Police Lines Kingsway Camp during their protest against the Centre

Facebook's parent Meta Platforms set to make first-ever bond offering

Meta did not disclose the size of the offering, but said it would use the proceeds for capital expenditures, share repurchases, acquisitions or investments

Ukraine under pressure in east as NATO chief says Russia must not win

Ukraine's southern army command stated in a earlier replace on Wednesday that it believed Russia was making a army "strike group in the Kryvyi Rih region"

IndiGo to add a third ramp to help passengers get off from planes faster

IndiGo on Thursday announced it would disembark passengers from three doors of the plane, allowing the flyers to quickly get off the aircraft.

China slaps curbs on Taiwan as Pelosi vows 'ironclad' defence of democracy

Restrictions range from fruit and fish imports to export of natural sand