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US slams use of AI to personalise airline ticket prices, would investigate

Delta Air Lines told lawmakers it will not and has not used AI to set prices for individual consumers

Britannia Q1 profit misses estimates, sees early signs of urban recovery

Britannia had previously flagged rise in popular demand for packaged food and confectionery items such as croissants, wafers and flavoured shakes

Putin doubts potency of Trump's ultimatum to end the war: Report

Putin's goal is to fully capture the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, which Russia has claimed as its own, and then to talk about a peace pact, one of the sources said

Digital health company eMed taps former X boss Linda Yaccarino as CEO

Yaccarino, one of Elon Musk's top deputies, stepped down from her role at the social media site in July

Castrol India Q2 results: Net profit rises 5% to ₹244 cr on higher demand

The engine oil and industrial lubricants maker, majority-owned by BP, posted a profit after tax of ₹244 crore ($27.8 million) for the quarter ended June 30, up from ₹232 crore a year ago

Tax dept probing Jane Street over possible tax treaty misuse: Report

Searches at the US trading firm's India offices by the income tax department have been underway since last week, sources have said

India's Nayara Energy ships out first gasoline exports since sanctions

Oil tanker Tempest Dream, carrying about 43,000 metric tons of gasoline, sailed out on August 4, according to the sources and shipping data

China's services growth hits 14-month high in July on export demand: PMI

S&P Global China General Services PMI rose to 52.6 in July from 50.6 the previous month, marking the fastest pace since May last year

Rupee at risk of all-time low after Trump ups tariff threat on India

Sentiment on the rupee has been fragile due to the hefty tariffs on Indian goods. On Monday, the pressure intensified, with the rupee falling despite the dollar weakening broadly

Asian shares rally, dollar lower against yen on Fed rate cut bets

US shares rallied on Monday on generally positive earnings reports and increasing bets for a September rate cut from the Fed after disappointing jobs data on Friday

Oil dips to one-week low as Opec+ output boost stokes oversupply fears

Brent crude futures fell 91 cents, or 1.3 per cent, to settle at $68.76 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate crude declined by $1.04, or 1.5 per cent, to close at $66.29 a barrel

Tesla's brand loyalty collapsed after Musk backed Trump, shows data

That industry-leading brand loyalty rate started to nosedive in July, that data showed, when Musk endorsed Trump following an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on the Republican nominee

Escorts Kubota Q1 results: Net profit increases 19% as margins improve

The company, majority-owned by Japanese tractor maker Kubota, logged profit before exceptional items and taxes of ₹418 crore ($47.70 million) in the April-June period, compared with ₹350 cr last year

Ather Energy Q1 results: Loss narrows to ₹178 cr on higher Rizta demand

The company, founded in 2013, said its loss narrowed to ₹178 crore ($20.31 million) for the quarter ended June 30 from ₹183 crore a year ago

Marico Q1 results: Net profit rises 9% to ₹504 crore on steady demand

Domestic volumes rose 9 per cent, led primarily by its Saffola brand cooking oils and hair oils

VinFast in talks to boost local sourcing as first Indian plant opens

The firm is in discussions with several of its current component suppliers, and some want to shift part of their production to the industrial park in India, VinFast Asia CEO Pham Sanh Chau said

Asia shares sideswiped by US economic jitters, retreat in oil prices

Some early resilience in US stock futures and a continued retreat in oil prices did help limit the losses, but the bleak message from the July payrolls report was hard to ignore

Top Trump aide accuses India of financing Russia's war in Ukraine

Miller's criticism was some of the strongest yet by the Trump administration about one of the United States' major partners in the Indo-Pacific

India's renewable projects without supply deals double in 9 months: Report

Renewable projects that won tenders to generate power but are yet to sign power purchase agreements with buyers have surged to over 50 gigawatts

Oil falls $2 a barrel on worries about Opec+ supply, US jobs data

The US Labour Department said the country added 73,000 jobs in July, lower than economists had forecast, raising the national unemployment rate to 4.2 per cent from 4.1 per cent