Rescuers pulled more survivors from beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings Thursday, but hopes were starting to fade of finding many more people alive more than three days after a catastrophic earthquake and series of aftershocks hit Turkiye and Syria, killing more than 16,000.

The earthquake that razed thousands of buildings in Turkiye and Syria has become one of the deadliest quakes worldwide in more than a decade.

Piramal Pharma on Thursday reported a net loss of Rs 90 crore on a consolidated basis for the third quarter ended December 31, 2022.

The Mumbai-based company had reported a net profit of Rs 163 crore in the October-December quarter of last fiscal.

Revenue from operations stood at Rs 1,716 crore for the third quarter, while the same was at Rs 1,539 crore in the year-ago period.

A unit of Adani Wilmar in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh was raided by the Himachal Pradesh State Excise Department, according to a report by the Indian Express (IE). The officials inspected a carrying and forward unit of the company.

The company had failed to deposit Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection for 'several years' and this reportedly led to the inspection. According to IE, the officials checked the company's accounts and goods. A report will be prepared and future action will be decided based on it.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that after 500 years, Lord Ram would adorn the throne of Ram temple in Ayodhya even as the CPI-M and the Congress do not believe in the existence of Lord Ram or Krishna.

Addressing an election rally at Majlishpur in western Tripura on Wednesday, the Chief Minister added that the Ram temple would be ready within a year and Lord Ram after sitting in his throne would give all of us his blessings.

-ONGC Videsh (OVL) Ltd, the overseas exploration arm of India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp, is looking for exploration and production investment opportunities in Africa and Latin America, such as in Ghana and Surinam, managing director Rajarshi Gupta said.

The company already has a presence in both continents through stakes in projects in Mozambique, Brazil and Venezuela among others.

Coca Cola may soon take two of its India-made brands, Thums Up and Maaza, to the global markets, a report by the Economic Times (ET) said, quoting the company's president for international development, Henrique Braun. Thums Up recently crossed $1 billion in sales in India, and Maaza is expected to achieve the milestone by 2024.

"What we are doing on global platforms is looking at possibilities to import or export brands to the rest of the world," Braun told ET. He added that the company is being very "open-minded" about two other India-created flavours, Maaza Aam Panna and Fanta Apple Delite and an idea that can "fly" in India can work in foreign markets as well.

The CBI has arrested a Hyderabad-based chartered accountant (CA), understood to be the auditor of BRS MLC K Kavitha, in connection with the Delhi excise policy case, officials said on Wednesday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation had called the CA, Butchibabu Gorantla, to Delhi for questioning in connection with the excise policy case. He was arrested on Tuesday evening as he was non-cooperative and his responses were found to be evasive, they said.

New Jersey headquartered $2.1 bn Amneal Pharmaceuticals is now betting on specialised and differentiated products to build its presence in the Indian pharmaceutical market (IPM), as it eyes $ 1 bn revenues by 2030 from non-US geographies.

Founded by two Indian-origin brothers Chirag and Chintu Patel in 2002, Amneal is the fifth largest generics player in the US market by prescriptions, and has begun commercial operations in India from October last year.

Indian startups fired 6,000 employees in the third quarter of the current financial year (Q3FY23) and an additional 4,000 in January alone, according to a report by CIEL HR Services, as reported by the Economic Times (ET).

Several startups, including unicorns like Byju's and Swiggy, have slowed down their hiring and also laid off thousands of employees.

Adani Total Private Ltd expects to receive 2.2 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at its terminal at Dhamra on India's eastern coast during the year ending March 2024, the company's chief executive told Reuters on Tuesday.

Adani Total has a 20-year take-or-pay contract to provide regasification services to state-run Indian Oil Corp for 3 million tonnes of LNG per annum at the Dhamra terminal. Government-run gas distributor GAIL (India) Ltd has a similar 1.5 million tonnes per annum deal.

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