As the sixth and penultimate phase of polling for the Lok Sabha elections got underway at 7 am on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged voters to come out in large numbers and exercise their franchise.

In a post on X, the Prime Minister said "I urge all those who are voting in the 6th phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections to vote in large numbers. Every vote counts, make yours count too! Democracy thrives when its people are engaged and active in the electoral process. I especially urge women voters and youth voters to vote in large numbers."

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has initiated discussions about selling existing shares at a price that could value the closely held company at roughly $200 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

SpaceX is discussing a tender offer — a transaction that enables employees and insiders like investors to sell shares — that may kick off in June, said some of the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is confidential.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge urged people to cast their ballot in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday and vote against the politics of hatred, rhetoric and distraction.

Kharge said that in the last five phases, the "dictatorial forces" were "deeply shaken".

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (SEZ) will replace Wipro in the benchmark 30-share Sensex, index tracker Asia Index said in a notification on Friday.

This is the first time a Gautam Adani-owned company will be added to the widely tracked Sensex index. The change will become effective from June 24.

A depression in the Bay of Bengal is likely to concentrate into a severe cyclonic storm and make landfall between Sagar island in West Bengal and Khepupara in Bangladesh around May 26 midnight, bringing heavy rain in the coastal districts of the state, the Met department said on Friday.

The system, which lies over central Bay of Bengal, about 810 km south of West Bengal's Canning, is likely to concentrate into a cyclonic storm by May 25 morning, the Met said.

Generative AI (GenAI) will not result in job losses at Infosys. The company has no plans for job cuts, such as rightsizing or downsizing due to the adoption of GenAI, Infosys CEO Salil Parekh has said in an interview.

“Infosys is not looking at rightsizing, downsizing, or any kind of job cuts as has happened with others in the industry due to GenAI,” he said, while speaking to CNBC-TV18.

Shares of Adani Enterprises Ltd., the flagship of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s group, have erased all the losses inflicted by a scathing short-seller report in early 2023, after the conglomerate cut debt and landed major projects.

The stock clawed back losses of more than $30 billion that came after US-based Hindenburg Research alleged wide-ranging corporate malfeasance and share-price manipulation at the ports-to-power conglomerate in January 2023.

JK Lakshmi Cement shares rose as much as 7.16 per cent to hit an intraday high of Rs 851.50 per share.

The surge in JK Lakshmi Cement share was fuelled by robust Q4FY24 results, which came in line with street estimates. JK Lakshmi Cement’s profit rose over 41 per cent to Rs 162.1 crore in the March quarter of financial year 2024, as opposed to Rs 114.8 crore in the same quarter a year ago.

Public sector Indian Overseas Bank has drawn up plans to set up 88 new branches across India this financial year, a top official has said.

The city-headquartered bank under its expansion drive recently inaugurated a new branch in Nagapattinam and the 126th ATM in neighbouring Puducherry.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said he is not interested in becoming the Prime Minister if the INDIA alliance wins the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief said his goal is to protect the country and democracy from "dictatorship".

“I have no such intention. We [AAP] are a very small party contesting only 22 seats," said Kejriwal on Wednesday.

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