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BPCL to sell entire stake in Numaligarh Refinery for Rs 9,880 cr

BPCL will sell its 61.65% holding in Numaligarh Refinery to a consortium of Oil India and Engineers India and may also include the state govt of Assam

Wall Street won't intimidate retail giant Walmart this time around

Walmart announced in January that it formed a partnership with Ribbit Capital to create a new financial technology startup

UK tries to trace mystery person infected with Brazilian Covid variant

Six cases of the mutation, which originated in the Amazonian city of Manaus, have been detected in the UK, Public Health England said on Sunday

Gold bounces back after worst month since late 2016 as bond yields steady

Last week's sell-off in global bonds stabilized after central banks from Asia to Europe provided reassurance that policy support remains in place

Bitcoin's long-term value doubted due to ESG, tighter regulation

Bitcoin is still up more than five times over the past year, a divisive rally pitting believers in a new asset class against naysayers who see a speculative bubble

Indian biggest fuel retailers gearing up for rural-led economic rebound

The increasing economic importance of India's hinterlands is influencing business expansion plans and accelerating a trend of more service stations being opened in the countryside

Rishi Sunak plots tax raid to plug UK deficit, risking Tory rage

Sunak's answers will shape his own fortunes, the Conservative government's political identity, and the UK economy's chances of making a full recovery from its deepest recession for 300 years

UK's Covid-19 variant trackers led the way, now others are following

Each genome analysed by the UK operation looked similar to the last.

Warren Buffett won't take the Reddit bait, suggests his Berkshire letter

No mention of Bitcoin, Robinhood or WallStreetBets in Buffett's latest annual letter but plenty of homespun value-investing wisdom

Saudi Prince implicated in Washington Post columnist Khashoggi murder: US

The report builds on classified intelligence from the CIA and other agencies after Khashoggi's murder in October 2018 inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul

European Union told to back vaccine passports or Google may do it anyway

Europe's leaders have been anxious to find a response after facing criticism for a vaccination program that lagged behind the US and UK

G-20 nears consensus on boosting IMF reserve amid Covid-19 pandemic

Talks focused on a proposal for a $500-bn allocation of the IMF's special drawing rights

Mukesh Ambani is again richest Asian as China's Zhong loses $22 billion

With a net worth of about $80 billion, Ambani is again richer than Zhong Shanshan, whose bottled-water company tanked a record 20 per cent this week

India beats China at its own game in Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy

Competition among poorer nations to get cheap or free vaccines to fight the pandemic had given China a golden chance to strengthen ties in emerging markets it has been courting for years

India's sudden peace push with nuclear rivals China, Pak shows Biden impact

The detente in South Asia shows all three countries responding to initiatives from the Biden administration

Judge in Google case disturbed that company tracks even 'incognito' users

Weighing Google's attempt to get the suit dismissed, judge said she finds it "unusual" the firm would make "extra effort" of data collection if it doesn't use it to build user profiles or targeted ads

India looks set to beat recession even as new coronavirus cases loom

India will become one of the few major economies to post growth in the last quarter of 2020, with any improvement in the economy's performance inversely tied to a drop in Covid-19 infections

Standard Chartered CEO's pay drops by 29% amid 2020 profit miss

Winters' total renumeration dropped to £3.8 million, down from £5.4 million in 2019

US' biggest crypto bourse Coinbase files IPO papers for Nasdaq listing

The company won't raise any proceeds in the transaction, Coinbase said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.

If you've less money than Musk, watch out: Bill Gates on bitcoin

For Gates, it's not something Main Street should buy into - plus it's bad for the environment as mining the coins requires a lot of energy.