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Mumbai: Financial inclusion must extend beyond opening bank accounts and enabling digital payments to ensure access to affordable credit, insurance and pension coverage, particularly for rural households, women and small entrepreneurs, said Shri Jishnu Dev Varma, Hon’ble Governor of Maharashtra, at the 21st Annual Summit & Awards of the ASSOCHAM National Council for Banking and Financial Sector Lending Companies in Mumbai on Friday. Held under the theme “Resilience, Reinvention and India’s Rise,” the summit brought…

Bengaluru : As homes light up and families come together, Diwali is a time for thoughtful gifts, familiar traditions and moments worth celebrating. Making its festive debut just two months after its landmark launch in Bengaluru, Amrut Kranthi brings a fresh spirit to the season. Bottled at 40% ABV, Amrut Kranthi is shaped by years of research and the distillery’s decades of experience in whisky-making. Drawing on its expertise in maturation, flavour development and technique, the expression reflects Amrut’s pioneering…

MUMBAI: Hospital chain operator Paras Healthcare has reduced the size of its initial public offering (IPO) to Rs1,450 crore from the Rs1,800 crore proposed in its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP), primarily by cutting the offer-for-sale (OFS) component. The issue will open for subscription on October 21 and close on October 23.The Haryana-based company, which operates eight hospitals across North India, Bihar and Jharkhand, has fixed the price band at Rs660–Rs693 per share. At the upper end of the price band, the…

New Delhi: Bharti Real Estate, the real estate arm of Bharti Enterprises and owner of the Worldmark brand, continued its industry-academia engagement initiative Abhigyan with a field visit for students from Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW), New Delhi, at Worldmark Aerocity. Launched as an experiential platform to bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world application, Abhigyan brings students closer to the processes, technologies and expertise involved in conceptualising and…

Manipal: As drug-resistant infections spread, climate change reshapes disease patterns and lessons from COVID-19 remain fresh, some of the world’s leading infectious disease experts spent three days at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), an Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University, searching for answers. The second Nature Conference in India, ‘Meeting the challenge of infectious diseases in a changing world’, concluded today. Held from 14 to 16 October and organised by Nature Medicine, Nature…

Mumbai: IMDbPro, the essential resource for entertainment industry professionals, today announced the launch of Connections and Endorsements. These new features empower members to build professional relationships and earn peer recognition directly alongside the credits, projects, and career data that power their careers. With Connections and Endorsements, IMDbPro is providing members with enhanced visibility and recognition, giving industry professionals a richer, more complete picture of who they are researching. The new…

Hyderabad: Raghu Vamsi Group has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), a leading institute in super alloys and single crystal castings. The agreement will strengthen the Group’s manufacturing footprint in the UK and India as well as support its diversification into the aerospace & defence sector, while helping build the know-how for the Group’s planned Super Alloys facility in Telangana. The collaboration brings together…