Laying thrust on Project Tiger, which completed its 50 years recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that it is the result of the pioneering conservation initiative that 70 per cent of the world's tigers are found in India.

In a video message to the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Ministerial Meeting in Chennai on Friday, the Prime Minister said that Project Lion and Project Dolphin are in the pipeline.

The price of 24-carat gold rose Rs 330 during Wednesday's early trade, with ten grams of the precious metal selling at Rs 60,490 according to the GoodReturns website. Silver price remained unchanged with 1 kg of the precious metal selling at Rs 77,400.

The price of 22-carat gold rose Rs 300 and the yellow metal was selling at Rs 55,450.

Adani Group-owned Mundra port in Gujarat handled over 5,300 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in July 2023.

With this the handling has crossed the pre-Cyclone Biparjoy levels of around 4,900 TEUs, Adani Group said in a statement on Thursday.

Electric vehicle (EV) service platform Zypp Electric became the first company in the segment to offer employee stock ownership plan (Esop) buyback. In a statement on Thursday, it said that 15 employees, who have been a part of the company for over a year, have been allocated Rs 1.5 crore under the plan.

"I have always been selling ESOPs within the team, however as expected it had few takers on the concept. This realisation of the monetary value of ESOPs among employees was to make them feel the power of this amazing wealth-creation tool.

The Centre has taken decisions in the interest of farmers for nine years and created arrangements from seed to market for them, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday and dedicated 1.25 lakh PM Kisan Samriddhi Kendras to the nation.

Addressing a rally in this Rajasthan town, he described the Kendras as one-stop centres for farmers that would pave the way for their prosperity.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, citing still elevated inflation as a rationale for what is now the highest U.S. central bank policy rate in 16 years.

The rate hike, the Fed's 11th in its last 12 meetings, set the benchmark overnight interest rate in the 5.25%-5.50% range, and the accompanying policy statement left the door open to another increase.

Jio Financial Services Limited (JFS) and BlackRock on Wednesday announced an agreement to form Jio BlackRock, a 50:50 joint venture, to enter India's asset management industry, BlackRock said in a statement.

The joint venture aims to deliver tech- enabled access to affordable, innovative investment solutions for millions of investors in India.

At Rs 3,08,732 in 2022-23, Telangana leads the list of Indian states with the highest per capita income at current prices, data released by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) showed. It is followed by Karnataka with a per capita income of Rs 3,01,673 and Haryana at Rs 296,685.

Telangana saw a big jump in the per capita income since last year. Last year with a per capita income of Rs 2,65,942 Telangana led the list among all the big states.

The Indian rupee may weaken a tad on Wednesday, weighed down by the move higher on U.S. yields on the possibility of a hawkish Federal Reserve outcome.

Non-deliverable forwards indicate the rupee will open marginally lower to the U.S. dollar, compared with 81.87 on Tuesday.

Tata Motors on Tuesday recorded a consolidated net profit of Rs 3,202.2 crore in the quarter that ended on June 30 as compared to a loss of Rs 5,006.6 crore in the same quarter last year. As compared to Rs 5,407.79 crore in the quarter that ended on March 31, the net profit was down 40.7 per cent.

The revenue from operations for the quarter at Rs 1.01 trillion was up 42.6 per cent as compared to Rs 71,227.76 crore in the same quarter last year.

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