Friday, August 14
United Nations: Asserting that the UN Charter is not "a la carte menu", UN chief denounced nations for brazenly violating international law, saying when leaders "pick and choose" which rules to follow, they undermine global order and set a "perilous" precedent.As Guterres enters the final year of his tenure as UN Secretary General, he told the 193-member General Assembly on Thursday that he will make every day of 2026 count and remains fully committed and determined to keep working, fighting, and pushing for a better world.Against the backdrop of the recent US military action in Venezuela, the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as other geo-political challenges, Guterres said the world is brimming with conflict, impunity, inequality and unpredictability."A world marked by self-defeat
Shares of Billionbrains Garage Ventures, the parent company of stockbroking platform Groww, surged 4% to their intraday high of Rs 170.95 on the BSE on Friday, January 16, as brokerages remain optimistic on the stock even as the company reported a 27.8% year-on-year decline in consolidated net profit for Q3 FY26. Profit fell to Rs 546.93 crore from Rs 757.11 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.The decline in profit was attributed to a one-time tax-adjusted gain of Rs 315 crore in Q3 FY25. Meanwhile, the company reported a 24% rise in operating PAT to Rs 546.93 crore from Rs 442 crore.Revenue from operations in the quarter increased 24.8% year-on-year to Rs 1,216.07 crore, compared with Rs 974.53 crore in the corresponding quarter of FY25. However, standalone net profit fell 36.7%
