Air India has entered into a codeshare partnership with Japan's All Nippon Airways.

With the codeshare, effective for travel from May 23, Air India and All Nippon Airways passengers can fly to their desired destination by combining those flights between India and Japan with a single ticket.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday staged a dharna here protesting against the delay in release of drought relief funds by the Centre and criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah over the issue.

Siddaramaiah said the protest -- held in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the premises of Vidhana Soudha which houses the Legislature and State Secretariat -- was aimed at drawing public attention towards the "injustice" done to Karnataka and its people by the BJP-led government at the Centre.

Fintech major Razorpay, in partnership with Airtel Payments Bank, has ventured into UPI infrastructure service by offering UPI Switch to its customers.

The solution can handle up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS), and enables five times faster access to Unified Payments Interface (UPI) innovations for businesses, the company said.

Missing analysts’ estimate, Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) on Monday reported a 1.8 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) decline in its consolidated net profit (attributable to the owners of the company) for the quarter ended March 2024 (Q4FY24) because of higher tax expenses. At Rs 18,951 crore, the net profit, however, was nearly 10 per cent higher sequentially.

The energy-to-entertainment conglomerate’s revenue in Q4 increased by 11.1 per cent from a year ago to Rs 2.37 trillion, which was up 5.1 per cent quarter-on-quarter. The reported profit after tax in the March quarter at Rs 21,243 crore was almost flat Y-o-Y.

Oman LNG and TotalEnergies, one of its shareholders, have signed a sale and purchase agreement to supply 800,000 metric tons per year of liquefied natural gas, the companies said on Monday.

TotalEnergies, which owns 5.54 per cent of Oman LNG, will be supplied by the company for 10 years from 2025, they said in separate statements.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on the plea filed by the mother of the slain television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan against the Delhi High Court order granting bail to four convicts serving life imprisonment in the 2008 murder case.

A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal asked the Delhi government and four convicts to file responses on the plea in four weeks.

Hong Kong prohibited the sale of Indian spice brands, MDH Pvt and Everest Food Products Pvt, following the detection of carcinogenic pesticide ethylene oxide in multiple spice blends, according to a report in the Hindustan Times (HT).

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region said that there was presence of ethylene oxide in MDH Group's madras curry powder, sambhar masala powder, and curry powder, the HT report said.

The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea requesting the release of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on “extraordinary interim bail” for all criminal cases registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the state until the completion of his tenure.

The court emphasised that nobody is above the law or the Constitution of India, affirming that Kejriwal is in custody as per court orders.

Shares of Vodafone Idea were down 6.1 per cent at Rs 12.13 on the BSE in Monday’s intraday trade amid heavy volumes. The drop in the stock prices came amidst the last day of subscription for its follow on public offering (FPO).

Vodafone Idea's Rs 18,000-crore follow-on public offer (FPO) opened for subscription on Thursday, April 18. The three-day FPO will close today. The FPO price band was set at Rs 10 to Rs 11 per share with the minimum lot size for an application being 1,298 shares.

Following an impressive Q4FY24 performance, HDFC Bank announced an ex-gratia payment of around Rs 1,500 crore to its staff. The bank’s decision came as a gesture of appreciation for the employees’ dedication during the merger with HDFC Ltd as well as address attrition, said Sashidhar Jagdishan, the managing director & chief executive of the largest private sector lender.

The lender, which announced its January-March earnings on Saturday, reported a 37.1 per cent growth in net profit, boosted by a one-time gain from selling a majority stake in HDFC Credila – an education loan company.

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