( Reuters)-Alphabet-owned Google said on Wednesday it will pause all ads containing content that exploits, dismisses or condones the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. The move follows many major social media platforms that have announced new content restrictions around the conflict, including blocking Russian state media RT and Sputnik in the European Union.... Earlier this month, the search giant said it had stopped selling all online ads in Russia.... ( Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru;

India's gasoil demand contracted by about a fifth during the first fifteen days of November from the pre-COVID levels, after a festive season led brief recovery last month, preliminary sales data of state-run refiners showed. India's gasoil consumption, which accounts for about two-fifths of the country's fuel demand, typically rises during a month-long festival season that ended earlier this month with the celebration of Diwali as diesel-guzzling trucks hit the road and industrial activity gath

( Reuters)-U.S. food delivery firm DoorDash Inc held talks over the past two months to buy grocery delivery company Instacart for a likely price of between$ 40 billion and$ 50 billion, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the situation. The talks have fallen apart in recent weeks, the report added, partly over concerns whether the deal would get antitrust regulators' approval.... https:// bit.ly/ 3CFoWUVInstacart, which plans to list in the next few months, initiat

Oct 20( Reuters)-Global ratings agency SP on Friday downgraded Egypt's long-term sovereign credit rating by one notch to" B-", citing the country's mounting funding pressures. Egypt is battling an economic crisis that has triggered a string of currency devaluations, record inflation, and pushed more of its citizens to seek risky routes out of the country.SP said the downgrade reflects the recurring delays to the implementation of monetary and structural reforms in the country, among other factor

( Reuters)-Facebook Inc's Instagram said on Monday it is testing a feature to notify users of outages or technical issues directly on the photo-sharing app, days after two outages disrupted the social media giant's services. The test will run in the United States and will go on for a few months, Instagram said in a blog post.( https:// bit.ly/ 3oRjLwM) On Oct.4, a six-hour long outage prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services, including What

“ Ideally, 18 per cent on the platform commission.... GST should be levied on the brokerage or exchange fees( like it happens in stock markets) and not on the transaction value.” The letter comes on the backdrop of larger tax demands being slapped on crypto companies by the GST department in the past one week.... These should ideally be treated as self-generated assets in which case cost of acquisition may be computed appropriately, ” it added....

Uttarakhand aims to get investments worth Rs 2.5 trillion from a global business summit in December, said Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday.... Investments worth Rs 25, 000 crore would have already come in before the summit in Dehradun, he said at a curtain-raiser event in Delhi.... The summit is being organised by the state as a link to achieve this goal, ” said Dhami....

By Reuters Staff4 Min Read( Reuters)-Shanghai authorities appealed to residents to keep cooperating with tight curbs imposed to stop COVID-19 spreading, saying they recognised their frustrations as China’s most populous city entered the fourth day of a two-stage lockdown on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: A nurse puts on her protection suit before entering a COVID-19 patient's ward, amid the coronavirus disease( COVID-19) pandemic in Cascais, Portugal, January 27, 2021.... [ MKTS/ GLOB] Compiled by Rashm