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As demand shoots up, banks strengthen gold loan muscle

Indian Bank has identified 725 branches as Gold Shoppe branches with dedicated staff and enhanced customer service facilities. The bank has added 982 empanelled appraisers in the past six months, taking the total to 3,538. CHENNAI/MUMBAI: Banks are strengthening branch-level gold loan capabilities by adding appraisers, investing in testing equipment and digitising processing as demand…

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Hezly Rivera becomes first US woman after Simone Biles to win back-to-back gymnastics titles since 2012 | More sports News

Hezly Rivera has shown that she is no longer the young newcomer who surprised everyone at the Paris Olympics. The 18-year-old Olympic gold medallist won her second straight US women’s gymnastics title after overcoming a fall on the uneven bars earlier in the competition. Rivera finished with a two-day total of 111.950 points, more than…

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Government mulls raising CCEA approval threshold for FDIs

CCEA is a high-level committee headed by PM Modi. The government is considering a proposal to raise the threshold for foreign direct investment proposals requiring approval from the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) to Rs 15,000 crore from Rs 5,000 crore at present to further improve the country’s investment climate, according to sources. CCEA…

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‘Compliances major friction point for companies’

Citing an example, it said a typical firm operating in India currently navigates an archaic and disconnected web of regulations consisting of 1,536 distinct Acts, which collectively impose 69,233 separate compliance requirements and mandate 6,618 independent statutory filings across the three tiers of govt. NEW DELHI: Stakeholders have informed a parliamentary committee that despite multi-phased…

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Maruti Suzuki chairman seeks faster reforms

In his message to shareholders in the company’s annual report for 2025-26, the veteran industry leader also requested all political parties to support reforms and programmes NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki India chairman RC Bhargava has urged the Centre and state govts to proceed faster on the road of reforms and increase efforts to make doing…

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Foreign funds invest 12.9k cr in Aug 1st week

FPIs had withdrawn Rs 49,340 crore in June, Rs 32,963 crore in May, Rs 60,847 crore in April and a massive Rs 1.2 lakh crore in March. Prior to this selling streak, they had invested Rs 22,615 crore in Feb, according to CDSL data. NEW DELHI: Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) sustained their buying momentum in…

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CERT-In: Cyber threats for fin, healthcare stay elevated

The healthcare sector recorded another 18,855 instances in the first six months, equivalent to nearly 55% of the 34,480 detected and mitigated during all of 2025. NEW DELHI: Cyber threat activity targeting India’s finance and healthcare sectors remained elevated in the first half of 2026, with detections already crossing 60% of the levels recorded during…

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