The Founder and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, on Wednesday announced that WhatsApp Channels has now exceeded a monthly active user base of 500 million.

“500 million monthly activities on WhatsApp Channels in the first 7 weeks! Great to see the WA community so engaged,” said Mark Zuckerberg, while announcing the news on his WhatsApp Channel.

Tata Technologies has set the price band of its initial public offer at Rs 475-500 per share. At the upper end of the price band, the size of the Tata Motors' arm's IPO will stand at Rs 3,042.5 crore, while the company will be valued at Rs 20,283 crore.

The minimum lot size for an application is 30 shares.

The ICC Mens Cricket World Cup 2023 is gaining momentum. With Virat Kohli achieving his 50th One Day International century on Wednesday in the semi-finals against New Zealand, cricket fans in the country are in a frenzy.

As the pitch heats up for a grand finale, restaurants and eateries are capitalising on the World Cup frenzy.

Shares of Apollo Micro Systems (AMS) hit a new high of Rs 133.90, and were locked at the 10 per cent upper circuit on the BSE on Wednesday at 11:15 AM; on strong earnings and healthy business outlook.

In the past one month, the stock price of private aerospace & defence company has more-than-doubled or zoomed 104 per cent. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was down nearly 1 per cent during the period.

The Burman family, which runs Dabur Group, has denied any involvement or role in an illegal cricket-betting app as alleged by the Mumbai police in a complaint filed last week.

The family said vested interests were behind the police complaint and they wanted to scuttle their (Dabur’s) move to acquire Religare Enterprises, a financial services company.

The price of 24-carat gold rose Rs 110 in early trade on Wednesday, with ten grams of the precious metal selling for Rs 60,600, according to the GoodReturns website. The price of silver jumped Rs 600, with one kilogram of the precious metal selling at Rs 73,000.

The price of 22-carat gold also rose Rs 100, with the yellow metal selling at Rs 55,550.

India's Tata Technologies' initial public offering will open for subscription on Nov. 22, its parent Tata Motors said late Monday, in what will be the first Tata Group IPO in nearly two decades.

Tata Technologies, which provides engineering and product development digital services, said its IPO would comprise an offer for sale of 60.9 million shares, representing 15% of its paid-up capital.

US electric car maker Tesla Inc is planning to double the number of components it imports from India, Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday through a post on social media platform X.

"Proud to see the growing importance of Auto component suppliers from India in the Tesla EV supply chain. It is on its way to double its components imports from India," Goyal posted on X, earlier called Twitter, after visiting Tesla's manufacturing facility at Fremont, California.

Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy passed away on Tuesday due to a cardiorespiratory arrest after a prolonged illness, a company statement said. He was 75.

Having created a huge business empire across retail, real estate and financial services sectors, Roy was at the centre of a huge controversy and faced multiple regulatory and legal battles in connection with his group firms that were accused of circumventing regulations to create multi-level marketing schemes.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) attacked Congress and said that the party ruled the state for more than five decades, driving it into a state of famine, Deccan Herald (DC) has reported. CM KCR said that common people did not have access to water and electricity during the Congress regime.

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supremo was addressing a public gathering in the Aswaraopet and Pinaka Assembly segments of Khammam and Nasrampet Assembly segment of Warangal on Monday.

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