(Representative Image) Jewellery chain Senco Gold is looking at 15-20 per cent growth in revenue and profit in the current fiscal, despite rising prices of the yellow metal and global uncertainties. The jeweller is also planning to add 15-20 stores in the current 2024-25 financial year (FY’25), of which around 50 per cent will be…
Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd has reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 266.35 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 2024. The company had posted a net loss of Rs 194.54 crore during the January-March quarter a year ago, according to a regulatory filing from Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd (ABFRL). Its…
Omnichannel jewellery retailer Bluestone is in talks to raise around $100 million in a pre-IPO round at a likely valuation of more than $1 billion, catapulting the startup to the unicorn club, three people aware of the matter said. This would be more than double its previous valuation of around $450 million in September 2023,…
The Directorate General of Foreign (DGFT) has put on hold its recent decision on changes in maximum permissible wastage norms for gold, platinum, and silver content in jewellery exports, according to a media release issued by Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) on Tuesday. In a virtual meeting on 28th May GJEPC urged DGFT…
NEW DELHI: National Commission for Women (NCW) has sought urgent intervention and action from DGP Punjab to investigate allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct involving AAP Punjab minister Balkar Singh in a video call with a 21-year-old woman seeking a job.The video has since stirred a political storm with BJP functionary Tajinder Bagga and national spokesperson…
On July 2, 1918, towards the end of WW-1, a British ship named ‘SS Shirala‘ sank in the English Channel. Its ‘killer’ was the dreaded German submarine UB-57, commanded by Oberleutnant Johannes Lohs who destroyed dozens of enemy ships with a combined capacity of over 1.5 lakh tonnes before he died aged 29. The Shirala…
PATNA: RJD president Lalu Prasad on Tuesday claimed there was no chance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi returning to office and that INDIA bloc would form the next govt at the Centre.“Modi gaye ab (Modi is gone now),” the former Bihar CM told media on Tuesday as he stepped out of his home to campaign…
KOLKATA/DUMKA: PM Narendra Modi announced on Tuesday that the Centre has successfully recovered and returned Rs 17,000 crore of “scam money” to people across India. He also reiterated his commitment to specifically give back Rs 3,000 crore to Bengal citizens allegedly defrauded by Trinamool govt.“Will get the money out from scamsters and return it to…
NEW DELHI: Two people were killed and nine others were injured on Wednesday after a bus overturned near Phiringia in Odisha. The accident occurred at a turning in Phiringia as confirmed by Chittaranjan Mahanta, SDM, Phulbani. The injured have been admitted to the hospital for treatment and there were around 50 passengers on the bus…
BENGALURU/SHIVAMOGGA: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Hassan sleaze videos allegedly invovling Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, Tuesday arrested two men – Naveen Gowda and Chetan – in their 30s and both from Sakaleshpur in Hassan. They were accused of leaking the sleaze videos.The arrests were made in the morning when the two had come…
