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Ecommerce retailer The Hut Group Ltd said on Thursday it was planning an initial public offering in London, planning to raise at least 920 million pounds ($1.21 billion), as it looks to tap pandemicaccelerated investor appetite for the sector.

Asian shares touched twoyear peaks on Thursday in the wake of Wall Street's record run as cheap cash drove up bigcap tech darlings, although SinoU.S. tensions caused caution to creep in as the session progressed.

Alibaba is in talks with YTO Express Group's founders to raise its stake in the Chinese courier company with an aim to become the top shareholder, two people told Reuters, as it accelerates consolidation in the world's largest express delivery market.

Oil tanker group Frontline reported a big jump in secondquarter earnings on Thursday as energy traders paid to store crude that went unsold amid the COVID19 pandemic, the company said on Thursday.

Novacyt said its “Winterplex” test panel included two gene targets specific to COVID-19, as well as gene targets for influenza A&B and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

El Al Israel Airlines swung to a loss in the second quarter with commercial operations still suspended due to COVID19, while cargo flights and cutbacks were unable to offset the loss in revenue from passenger flights.

The United States has a responsibility to lead in the Pacific and "won't cede an inch" to other countries that think their political system is better, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Wednesday in a thinlyveiled swipe at China.

Oil prices held steady on Thursday as a massive hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico raced towards the heart of the U.S. oil industry, which has forced oil rigs and refineries to shut down production.

The U.N. childrens agency says at least a third of children couldnt access remote learning when the COVID19 pandemic closed schools, creating a global education emergency.

Indian shares rose for a fifth straight session on Thursday, ahead of the expiry of derivative contracts for August, with financials leading the gains and real estate stocks jumping after a state in the country reduced a tax on property.

Google employees, just like us, also do not understand or appreciate under what conditions Google collects your location data, for instance.

Dancer-actor Punit J Pathak confirmed his engagement to girlfriend Nidhi Moony Singh.

Repeated calls for armed vigilantes to travel to Kenosha to protect businesses following the police shooting of Jacob Blake spread across social media in the hours before two people were shot to death and a third was wounded during a third night of unrest...

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Kapil Sharma feels comedy can help people forget about their problems for a while, and so he says there should more shows in the genre right now.

The SC had last week dismissed a plea seeking postponement of the NEET (UG) and JEE exams amid a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases, saying precious year of students "cannot be wasted".