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Covid-19 report did not adequately analyse possibility of a lab leak: WHO

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said even though the international team of scientists determined that a leak is the least likely hypothesis for the origin of the pandemic, it requires furt

FTSE puts India, Saudi on watchlist for inclusion in its bond index

FTSE Russell's semi-annual country classification review said market accessibility level of Indian and Saudi bonds will be considered for reclassification to 1 from 0

Easy Trip co-founder upbeat despite public listing at worst time for travel

Easy Trip Director Prashant Pitti is sanguine, even though his firm, which operates EaseMy­Trip.com, gets more than 90% of its revenue from selling airline tickets

China-US tensions can boost India's tech dreams: Hinrich Foundation report

Tech giants like Apple, Amazon, and Samsung that have relied on China for years are shifting production to India and Southeast Asia

FTSE puts Indian govt bonds on watch for possible index inclusion

The FTSE announcement is an acknowledgment of India's efforts to liberalize its sovereign bond market

How one of world's greatest hidden fortunes was wiped out in days

US billionaire Bill Hwang and his private investment firm, Archegos Capital Management, are at the centre of one of the biggest margin calls of all time.

Covid-19 origin likely from bats, animal hosts as pathway: WHO study

A spillover from bats via another animal is the most likely scenario in the report, followed by direct spillover.

With ID.4, Volkswagen has electric SUV that whispers, not shouts

Capable, well-equipped and nice-looking, VW's entry into the growing field of electrified utility vehicles will fit in with a lot of families

Zoom, other WFH tech darlings risk user exodus as the world reopens

Many well-known apps are losing ground, or usage has stabilized

Billions in secret derivatives at the centre of Archegos blowup

Goldman U-turn put Bank on verge of margin call

GameStop soars to erase $4-billion hole as meme stocks roar

The company has made "significant changes" to its board since June 2020

Sequoia Capital India closes $195-million seed fund to foster start-ups

69 startups in four cohorts have received a combined $172 million

Two from India in Asia's 50 best restaurants: Check details here

The Chairman in Hong Kong was named the No 1 restaurant in the region by World's 50 Best Restaurants, which is owned by William Reed Business Media Ltd

How Covid-19 has taught valuable lessons about pursuit of peak efficiency

As the former Morgan Stanley strategist Gerard Minack noted last year, our pre-pandemic world was primed to maximize financial returns on the assumption that nothing would go wrong

Bitcoin slide adds to signs of step back in retail trading mania

Bitcoin is about $9,000 below a record of $61,742 set earlier in March

Suez canal blockage: Snarl halts $9.6 billion a day worth of ship traffic

So far efforts by tugs and diggers to dislodge the Ever Given -- the 400-meter long vessel that became wedged in the canal on Tuesday -- have failed

Suez Canal blockage is a signal of what's ahead as ships get bigger

The 200,000-ton cargo ship currently lodged in the Suez Canal, bringing 13% of the world's trade to a halt, may be the biggest vessel to get stuck in a major waterway

India grabs new oil supply to cut Mideast reliance as Opec+ keeps a check

Indian purchases from the U.S. more than doubled in January on-month, government data show. The country's sophisticated refineries can process almost every kind of crude

Adani looks beyond coal: Biggest wealth surge heralds rise of next Ambani

The group's six listed units added a combined $79 billion to their market value in the past year at the height of a pandemic, capping the best 12 months in their history

Trading app Robinhood Markets says it filed confidentially for IPO

Robinhood became immensely popular during the coronavirus pandemic, particularly as homebound young people turned to online trading to pass the time and make money