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In good news for international travellers, the Bureau of Immigration (BoI) has announced that travellers can use e-boarding passes displayed on their smartphones during immigration clearance at Indian airports, as the procedure of physically stamping these documents has been eliminated. The step aims to reduce passenger inconvenience and simplify the immigration process at airports. E-boarding pass on smartphone Under the new system, passengers travelling abroad will be required to show their e-boarding pass on their smartphone for immigration clearance. This means passengers will need to store their digital boarding pass on their mobile phones.  However, this does not mean that…

If you have important bank-related work tomorrow, leave the house only after checking whether banks in your city are open or closed. Between August 26 and August 30, bank branches will remain closed for several days due to festivals and weekly holidays in different states. In such a situation, it's best to plan in advance for cash deposits, cheque-related work, or other important banking tasks. However, even when bank branches are closed, customers can still access digital banking. Many important tasks can be done through ATM, mobile banking and net banking. August 26 is a holiday in many states Bank…

New Delhi: The month of Sawan is about to end, and just ahead of the festive season, onion prices have once again gone up in the country, affecting the kitchens of ordinary people. The rise in prices of not only onions but also vegetables and Chinese imports is straining the budget of ordinary people, forcing the central government to take drastic steps to transport its buffer stock to states with high onion consumption, including running the Kanda Express. The answer to the question of why onion prices have surged is that it is not due to a sudden increase in…

Multi-speciality healthcare provider ABH Healthcare's initial public offering (IPO) is open for subscription today. The three-day subscription window for the Rs 34.98 crore initial public offering opened on Monday and will conclude tomorrow, i.e. on August 25, 2026. According to information available, the Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) portion was subscribed 8.37 times. The issue received bids for 16,66,800 shares against 1,99,200 shares on offer.   ABH Healthcare IPO listing date ABH Healthcare shares are expected to be listed on the bourse on September 1, 2026. The company's shares are proposed to be listed on the NSE SME platform Emerge, according to a…

Shares of diversified commercial services company Indiabulls Ltd are in focus as the company has entered into an agreement with a private landlord to execute a development management project on the Dwarka Expressway in Gurugram. Amid this update, the stock hit an upper circuit of Rs 28.23. The counter opened at Rs 27, up from the previous close of Rs 26.89 on the BSE. Amid a spurt in trading volume by more than 2.19 times, the stock hit a 5 per cent upper circuit. However, the stock soon erased the gain and fell to Rs 26.56. In between, it touched…

Shares of smallcap IT company Blue Cloud Softech Solutions Ltd are in focus as the company has informed exchanges that the board of directors of the firm have given in-principle approval to evaluate and negotiate the proposed acquisition of up to 100 per cent of the equity interest in CareTech AI Inc., a US-based AI-first healthcare technology and services firm. As part of this transaction, it will include CareTech AI’s two wholly owned subsidiaries -CareCareer Tech LLC and Envision NJ LLC. The acquisition will be done through a share swap, in which the company will make a preferential allotment of…

Shares of recently listed Cordelia Cruises operator Waterways Leisure Tourism Ltd are trading ex-date for its maiden 1:10 stock split. While the company has fixed August 25, 2026 as the ex-date, the record date to determine shareholders' eligibility for this corporate action is August 26, 2026. In order to be eligible for a corporate action, the investors must hold the shares of the company in their demat account on or before this date. This is as per the market regulator SEBI's T+1 settlement cycle.  Listing price of the company The stock got listed at Rs 690, a discount of 14.60…