Ten gram of 24-carat gold is selling at Rs 50,950 on Wednesday, down Rs 330 since the last trade as demand dipped for the safe-haven bullion.

Ten gram of 22 carat gold is selling at Rs 46,700, down Rs 300 from Tuesday according to the Goodreturns website. One kg of silver is selling at Rs 65,000, down Rs 200 from the last trade.

Shares of Quint Digital Media were locked at 20 per cent upper circuit at Rs 483.40 on the BSE in Wednesday's trade after the company announced that Adani Group will acquire a minority stake in Quintillion Business Media Private Limited (QBM), an indirect subsidiary of Quint Digital.

"The proposed transaction with the Adani Group is only for QBM which is a digital business news platform and not in relation to other digital media/ media tech properties owned by Quint Digital viz. The Quint, Quintype Technologies, thenewsminute and Youthkiawaaz," said Quint Digital in a stock exchange filing without quantifying the stake Adani was taking.

Hindustan Unilever (HUL) hiked prices across its portfolio of products by 3-13 per cent in multiple tranches in February, with the sharpest increase of 13 per cent seen in the 100 gm Lux soap pack, the price of which increased to Rs 35 from Rs 31 earlier.

The price of the 125 gms soap pack of Lifebuoy was hiked from Rs 31 to Rs 33, a rise of 6.5 per cent. In January, the company had hiked the price of the same stock-keeping unit from Rs 29 to Rs 31.

The groundwork for making L&T Finance Holding (LTFH) a retail credit-driven entity had begun before Larsen & Toubro (L&T), its parent, said its subsidiary would get out of wholesale and real estate funding.

Soon after declaring results for the third quarter of FY22, it articulated a roadmap to grow the share of retail loans from 50 per cent now to 80 per cent by the end of March 2026.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) will invest Rs 2,650 crore in a joint venture with Bengaluru-based realty firm RMZ Corp to develop and acquire commercial projects across India.

RMZ Corp and CPPIB announced that they have entered into their second joint venture to develop and hold commercial office space in key cities across India.

Reliance Retail Ventures (RRVL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries and the holding company of all retail companies within the group, has invested in Abraham & Thakore Exports for a majority stake.

RRVL seeks to leverage its subsidiary Reliance Brands’ (RBL’s) deep understanding of the affluent Indian customer and their heft across digital, retail operations, marketing, and supply chain platforms, to build Abraham & Thakore’s global appeal in the fashion and lifestyle category, Reliance Industries said in a press release.

Two weeks after he was appointed Air India chief executive officer, Ilker Ayci has declined the offer to join the Tata Group-owned airline. Ayci’s departure, even before taking charge, comes in the backdrop of a controversy around his security clearance prospects.

Ayci, former chairman of Turkish Airlines, had earlier served as advisor to Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. His closeness to Erdogan drew criticism on social media given the frosty relations between India and Turkey.

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 435.1 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.94 million and vaccinations to over 10.48 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Monday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the death toll stood at 435,174,068 and 5,948,306, respectively, while the total number of vaccine doses administered has increased to 10,486,610,798.

A fifth flight carrying 249 Indian nationals who were stranded in Ukraine landed in New Delhi on Monday morning. The flight running as part of Operation Ganga had departed from Romania's Bucharest in the early hours today.

Government has helped us a lot. All possible support was provided by the Indian Embassy. The main problem is crossing the border. I hope all Indians are brought back. There are several more Indians still stranded in Ukraine, said a student who arrived in Delhi from Ukraine

The single-day rise in coronavirus infections fell below 10,000 after two months, with 8,013 cases taking India's total tally to 4,29,24,130, while active cases have declined to 1,02,601, according to Union health ministry data updated on Monday.

On December 28 last year, 9,195 people were infected in a day.

The death toll has climbed to 5,13,843 with 119 daily fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

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