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The RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee on Friday kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.25%, while continuing with its 'neutral' stance. Governor Sanjay Malhotra assured proactive liquidity management

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With President Donald Trump saying he believes Iran wants to make a deal on its nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to arrive at the White House on Wednesday with his own urgent message: Expand the talks further.
The visit from Netanyahu - their seventh meeting in Trump's second term - comes as both Tehran and Washington are projecting cautious optimism after holding indirect talks in Oman on Friday about how once again to approach negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.
"We'll see what happens. I think they want to make a deal," Trump said in an interview Tuesday with Fox Business Network's Larry Kudlow. "I think they'd be foolish if they didn't. We took out their nuclear power last time, and we'll have to see if we take out more this time."
He added, "It's got to be a good deal. No nuclear weapons, no missiles."
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Netanyahu's office has said he wants those talks

Trump points his finger towards Israeli PM Netanyahu as they shake hands during a press conference after meeting at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach | REUTERS

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Grover Jewells traded at Rs 100.80 on the NSE, a premium of 14.55% compared with the issue price of Rs 88.

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ZF Commercial Vehicle Control Systems India added 3.60% after its consolidated net profit jumped 11.72% to Rs 140.17 crore in Q3 FY26, from Rs 125.46 crore in Q3 FY25.

A Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia study warns that HbA1c, the gold-standard diabetes test, can misdiagnose or delay diabetes in Indians due to widespread anaemia and blood disorders

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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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On August 15, 1854, a five-coach train pulled by a British-made locomotive left Howrah at 8:30 am for Hooghly without any fanfare -- signalling an engineering triumph and the beginning of eastern India's first railway.
However, this historic milestone achieved by the then-East Indian Railway (EIR), whose massive network would eventually reach Delhi by the 1860s, was preceded by a series of unfortunate events that delayed its arrival on the country's landscape and in people's consciousness.
A new book on the birth and evolution of the EIR and the East India Railway Company that established it, based on multiple 19th-century-era accounts drawn from a range of archives, has endeavoured to offer an "unbiased narrative" of this railway and the men who built it, brick by brick and steel by steel.
"Before the inaugural run, the EIR had already stirred public curiosity in Bengal with its first locomotive-only trial on June 29, 1854, from Howrah to Pandooah, followed by an experimental run o

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