US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) signed an executive order allowing American investors to buy video-sharing app TikTok’s US operations from its Chinese owner ByteDance, in a $14 billion deal with national security safeguards.

In the order signed at the White House, Trump declared that the deal complies with the 2024 law mandating ByteDance to divest control or face a prohibition in the US, Bloomberg reported.

The US is investigating whether Waaree Energies Ltd., India’s largest solar panel maker, evaded anti-dumping and countervailing duties on solar cells from China and other Southeast Asian nations.

US Customs and Border Protection has started a formal investigation of Waaree and Waaree Solar Americas Inc.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) hosted Pakistan’s Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif for talks at the White House, signalling a warming of relations between Washington and Islamabad.

The meeting comes days after Trump and Sharif had an informal exchange on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Leader of the Opposition in Bihar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday promised to launch the "Mai Bahin Maan Yojana" across Bihar if his party comes to power, declaring that "change is bound to happen" in the poll-bound state.

While interacting with reporters, Tejashwi said, The Maa Yojana will be started, and the Beti Yojana will be started.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) unveiled a sweeping new set of import tariffs, including a 100 per cent duty on branded and patented pharmaceutical products, effective October 1, 2025. The tariffs will not apply to companies that are actively building pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in the US.

The Election Commission has rolled out an e-verfication procedure to ensure that the provision to seek deletion of names from voters' list is not misused.

Those seeking removal of names or claiming objection to inclusion of names in the electoral roll will get a one-time password on their registered mobile phones.

The Donald Trump administration has proposed to amend the regulations governing the process by which the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) selects H-1B applications, days after his government imposed a fee of $100,000 on fresh applications from next year.

As part of the new process, a proposal would weight registrations (or petitions) for selection generally based on each beneficiary’s equivalent wage levels.

Gautam Adani, founder and chairman of the Adani Group, addressed the fallout from the Hindenburg report in a letter to shareholders, after earlier seeking a “national apology” from the US short-seller on social media.

In January 2023, US-based short seller Hindenburg Research published a report alleging stock manipulation and accounting fraud involving Adani and several group firms, including Adani Power and Adani Enterprises. The report precipitated a sharp fall in the shares of listed Adani companies, with some hitting lower circuit limits.

Ola Electric on Tuesday announced a festive campaign with prices of its S1 scooters and Roadster X motorcycles starting at ₹49,999 for nine days starting September 23.

Under Ola Muhurat Mahotsav, the customers now stand a chance to own Ola's scooters and motorcycles daily at never-before-seen prices, the Bengaluru-based electric two-wheeler maker said in a statement.

CarTrade Tech shares rose 4.2 per cent on BSE, logging an intraday high at ₹2,488.5 per share. At 12:35 PM, CarTrade Tech's share price was trading 3.21 per cent higher at ₹2,463.6 per share on BSE. In comparison, the BSE Sensex was down 0.09 per cent at 82,082.98.

The market capitalisation of the company stood at ₹11,728.2 crore. The 52-week high of the stock was at ₹2,754 per share, and the 52-week low was at ₹838.9.

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