Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have struck the Hezbollah "military infrastructure" in Lebanon as a retaliatory move to Sunday's fire, The Times of Israel reported.

The attacks were in reaction to Sunday's fire from Lebanon that was directed against Israel.

Notably, on Sunday morning, six anti-tank guided missiles were fired towards an Israeli town and military outposts near the Lebanon border, killing at least one civilian, according to The Times of Israel.

Six months of war between Sudan's military and a powerful paramilitary group has killed up to 9,000 people and created "one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history," the United Nations humanitarian chief said Sunday.

Sudan has been engulfed in chaos since mid-April, when simmering tensions between military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and the commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, exploded into open warfare.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued directives to tax officials that may prevent them from scrutinising funds raised by recognised start-ups under the new angel tax regime.

In a recent communiqué to senior officials, the direct tax administration said that no verification would be done by any assessing officer if a start-up has been recognised by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and the case is selected under scrutiny for pending angel tax assessment.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board has accepted a proposal to include T20I Cricket along with squash, lacrosse, flag football and baseball / softball in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

It will now go for a final vote in the 141st IOC session starting Sunday.

The Adani Group's $1.1 billion greenfield copper facility in Gujarat's Mundra will start operations in March 2024 and mark the group's entry into the industry, the company said in a statement today.

Kutch Copper is a greenfield refinery project with an annual capacity of 1 million tonnes.

The Madhya Pradesh Industrial Development Corporation (MPIDC) has canceled the allotment of several plots that were done between 2016 and 2018 in the Bagroda Industrial Area near Bhopal. The move came after industrialists failed to set up plants in the allotted plots even after five to seven years. According to the rules, they had to start operations within two years.

However, industrialists in the region say that the state should give some extra time to set up plants since the government takes years to develop industrial areas.

The launch of passenger ferry service between Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam and Sri Lanka's Kankesanthurai is "truly a big step" for people-to-people contacts between India and Sri Lanka, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday.

Jaishankar virtually joined the launch of the ferry services that was flagged off today by Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Ayush Sarbananda Sonowal at Nagapattinam.

Tata Motors Limited (TML) is selling 9.9 percent stake in its IPO-bound subsidiary Tata Technologies (TTL) for Rs 1613.7 crore as part of its plan to de-leverage. TTL has been valued at Rs 16300 or approximately $2 bn.

This transaction furthers TML’s de-leveraging agenda and is expected to close in the next two weeks on completion of customary closing procedures, the company said. As of June 2023 Tata Motors net automotive debt stood at Rs 41,700 crore. Analysts expect TML net debt to reduce to Rs 23000 crore by end of fiscal 2025.

Shares of Eimco Elecon (India) continued their northward movement, hitting a new high of Rs 1,325, up 6 per cent on the BSE in Friday’s intra-day trade in an otherwise weak market after winning an order worth of Rs 38.96 crore for supply of coal mining equipment. The stock of industrial products company was quoting higher for the eight straight day, zooming 51 per cent during the period. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 0.56 per cent at 66,034 at 11:33 AM.

Oil major Indian Oil Corporation will invest Rs 1,660.15 crore for its 50 per cent stake in a joint venture with NTPC Green Energy Pvt Ltd announced earlier this year, it said in a regulatory filing on Friday. The two companies had in March announced a JV IndianOil NTPC Green Energy to develop renewable energy power plants.

"The board at its meeting held today on 13 October 2023 has accorded approval to the investment plan of the JVC for setting up Renewable Energy Power Plants and approved the equity contribution of up to Rs 1,660.15 crore towards IndianOil's share of 50 per cent in the equity share capital of the JVC," the filing read.

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