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Asian Paints, Berger Paints and Kansai Nerolac are currently the top three players in the paints segment. Relative newcomer JSW Paints has announced plans to expand its footprint to the northern and eastern regions to become a pan-India player and has plans to make a public market debut by 2025. Competition from Grasim, according to analysts, is expected to disrupt the market share of the top three players.

The Congress of El Salvador approved in June https://www.reuters.com/technology/bitcoin-become-legal-tender-el-salvador-sept-7-2021-06-25 a proposal by President Nayib Bukele to make the country the first in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.

The acquisition is expected to help Nazara make further inroads into the real-money gaming sector, a senior company executive said, adding that the listed entity is eyeing more acquisitions in the space to fill gaps in its product and distribution lineup.

The Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2021-22 - Series VI will be open for subscription for the period August 30 to September 3, 2021.

The proposed acquisition involves indirect acquisition of shares of the four companies by trusts from promoter and members of promoter group.

Sebi had initiated an investigation to ascertain whether certain persons or entities had traded in the scrip of Zee Entertainment while they were in possession of information regarding some steps taken by Essel Group of which Zee Entertainment is a part.

Prior to the transaction, Micro Labs held 8.84 per cent stake in the pharmaceutical company.

At close of trade, the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies stood at Rs 2,43,73,800.36 crore.

Brent crude futures were $1.22, or 1.7 per cent, higher at $72.29 a barrel at 1355 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures climbed $1.36, or 2 per cent, to $68.78 a barrel.

In 2020, Sebi introduced the new margin rules for day traders under which stock brokers were now mandated to collect minimum margins on leverage-based trade upfront as against the earlier practice of collecting it at the end of the day.