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Hospitals Chain Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. confirmed to the exchanges on Friday, August 22, that one of its promoters, Suneeta Reddy, was indeed the seller in the large trade that took place on the stock earlier in the day. here

India’s aviation sector, despite a steady rise in passenger demand, continues to reel under financial stress. Provisional figures tabled in Parliament reveal a worrying picture for some airlines. here

OpenAI on Friday (August 22) announced plans to open its first India office in New Delhi later this year, marking a major expansion in one of its fastest-growing markets. The move comes as India emerges as the second-largest user base for ChatGPT globally, after the United States. here#CNBCTV18Market | Nifty below 25,000; top losers are #SBILife, #AdaniPorts, #HeroMoto, #AsianPaints & #Grasim pic.twitter.com/dOkXDP4nGE

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Paytm (One 97 Communications Limited) has introduced a feature allowing users to link their RuPay Credit Cards to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). The move enables credit-backed UPI payments at a wide range of offline and online outlets, including kirana stores, fuel stations, food vendors, and e-commerce platforms. here

L&T Finance Ltd. (LTF), one of India’s leading non-banking financial companies, on Thursday, partnered with Google Pay to offer personal loans directly through the payments platform. here

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Market Watch: Siddhartha Khemka, Head of Research-Wealth Management, Motilal Oswal Financial Services

On Apollo Hospitals: “We remain positive and it is among our top picks within the healthcare space, even Q1 results are pretty strong. They are enhancing their integrated healthcare model by expanding hospitals, growing their offline pharmacy network, as well as optimising the GMV, reducing the OPEX in the online pharmacy. So, all these initiatives are expected to drive a 15% revenue, 28% net profit CAGR over the next two years. So, we remain positive. We have a buy rating and a target price of ₹9,000 on Apollo Hospitals.”

On Vedanta: “We see Q1 performance for Vedanta coming in largely in line, management maintains a strong growth outlook led by the increasing capacity, which should produce higher value-added products. They are firm on the deleveraging plan going forward, higher cash flows with support expansion, plus the consistently coming in cash flows. So, for some of the high-risk investors, Vedanta continues to remain attractive, both in terms of valuation and the consistent dividend cash flows that keep coming in.”

Kavin Bharti Mittal’s gaming platform Rush will shut down operations in India following the government’s move to impose a blanket ban on real-money games (RMG) under the newly cleared Online Gaming Bill. here

Centrum Capital signs SPA to sell entire stake in Centrum Housing Finance for ₹430 crore to Weaver Services.

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