Dubai, A total of 190 countries will take part in Expo 2020 Dubai, it was announced here on Monday.

The announcement comes on the opening day of Expo 2020's third International Participants Meeting (IPM), which will see hundreds of delegates from around the world gather in Dubai to receive information and updates on the delivery of the biggest event to ever be held in the Arab world.

Mumbai, India's key equity indices surrendered the gains, extending losses for a third straight session on Thursday amid uncertainity due to the ongoing state elections.

The BSE Sensex has lost close to 800 points in the past three days.

Heavy selling pressure was witnessed in the metal, power and banking stocks, which fell over 1 per cent each, whereas the index pivotal finance counters declined 0.83 per cent.

Mumbai, Nearly 50 per cent of the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) may be shut down by March 2019 due to unviability of operations, hitting hard both urban and rural population, the Confederation of ATM Industry (CATMi) warned on Wednesday.

Currently, India has approximately 2,38,000 ATMs, of which around 1,13,000 ATMs including 1,00,000 off-site and more than 15,000 white label ATMs are expected to down their shutters, said a CATMi spokesperson.

Bengaluru, Leading food ordering and delivery start-up Swiggy on Tuesday said it would engage about 2,000 women as delivery personnel by March 2019.

"About 2,000 women will join our delivery team by March next year. Over the last few months, we have been working on training women for opportunities in this growing food delivery sector," the city-based online food delivery platform said in a statement here.

Mumbai,  The benchmark Sensex jumped 760 points on Monday to reclaim the 34,000-mark, as investors stepped up purchases after a bout of declines last week.

Healthy buying was witnessed across all the 19 sectors on the BSE, led by banking, finance and healthcare stocks.

At 3.16 p.m., the S&P BSE Sensex traded at 34,111.19, up 761.88 points or 2.28 per cent from its previous close of 33,349.31.

New Delhi, The current four-slab GST rate structure is likely to be reduced to three as the process of rationalising India's new indirect tax regime proceeds further, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman Bibek Debroy said on Friday.

In his address at the launch here of "GST: Explained for Common Man" written by former Central Board of and Excise and Customs Chairman Sumit Dutt Majumder, the PMEAC Chairman noted that only very few countries that have implemented GST follow the principle of "dual GST" (Goods and Services Tax) whose "terminal role from an economists point of view is to have a single tax structure."

Mumbai,
Negative global cues along with an worrying macro-economic situation and mixed start to the corporate earnings season subdued key domestic indices during the afternoon trade session on Tuesday.

"The weakness in the market is because of the overall negative trend in the market, domestic as well as globally. The quarterly results are mixed adding to the negative sentiments among the investors but its just the start of the results season..," Astha Jain, Hem Securities told IANS.

San Francisco, Electric car maker Tesla has announced a version of "Model 3" with a new 'mid-range' battery pack for $45,000 before incentives.

The new version, which was never announced, is coming as a surprise and it changes the whole pricing structure of "Model 3", Electrek reported on Thursday.

"Costs $35k after federal and state tax rebates in California, but true cost of ownership is closer to $31k after gas savings," Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter.

Mumbai, Lower crude oil cost pulled the prices of key domestic transportation fuels -- petrol and diesel -- lower in the national capital on Thursday by 21 and 11 paise respectively.

According to the IndianOil Corporation's data, petrol was priced at Rs 82.62 per litre in the national capital, down from Rs 82.83 on Wednesday.

New Delhi, Taiwanese smartphone maker ASUS on Wednesday launched ZenFone "Lite (L1)" and "Max (M1)" at the introductory price of Rs 5,999 and Rs 7,499, respectively, in India.

Both the online-focused smartphones support dual SIM, are powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 Octa-core Processor and run on Android Oreo with Zen User Interface (UI) 5.0, the company said in a statement.