PM Modi unveils India’s first commercial private rocket Vikram-1; inaugurates Skyroot’s new Infinity campus

HYDERABAD: Prime Minister on Thursday virtually inaugurated Hyderabad-based spacetech startup Skyroot Aerospace’s Infinity campus on the outskirts of Hyderabad and also unveiled Skyroot’s first commercial orbital rocket, Vikram-I, that will ferry satellites to into low Earth orbit (LEO).The state-of-the-art facility is spread over 2 lakh sq ft for designing, developing, integrating and testing multiple launch…

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Asahi cyberattack: Japan’s beer giant delays earnings; claims shipments resuming in stages as systems recover

Japanese beer giant Asahi on Thursday delayed the release of its full-year financial results as it continues to grapple with a major cyberattack that began in late September.“While the Company is making every effort to restore the system as quickly as possible, it has decided to postpone the announcement of financial results for the fiscal…

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IMF reclassifies India’s forex regime amid pressure on Rupee

IMF has reclassified India’s exchange-rate regime, two years after the Washington-based lender suggested the country’s central bank was intervening too heavily in the currency market. The IMF labelled the country’s de facto currency regime as “crawl-like arrangement”, marking a change from the previous “stabilised” classification, the agency said in a report released on Wednesday.A crawling…

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Asian stocks: Markets extend global rally on Fed cut bets; Japan’s beer giant Asahi dips

Asian stocks rose for a second straight session on Thursday, extending this week’s global rally as investors grow increasingly confident that the US Federal Reserve will deliver a third consecutive interest rate cut next month.The renewed optimism has pushed concerns over stretched valuations into the background for now, allowing risk appetite to strengthen across global…

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RBI dy guv defends inflation forecasts

MUMBAI: RBI deputy governor Poonam Gupta defended the central bank’s inflation projections, saying there is “no systematic bias” in forecasts issued by the Monetary Policy Committee. Speaking at a workshop here on Wednesday, she said inflation forecasting is difficult everywhere, “equally challenging in India, if not more so”, because of the high food weight in…

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