Current affairs for competitive exams

*Economic Times*

📝 UN predicts 2.3% global economic growth in 2023

📝 SEBI to widen definition of qualified buyers for bonds

📝 Shemaroo's Q4 Results: Net profit skyrockets 136.5% YoY to Rs. 4.8 crore

📝 Max Healthcare Q4 Results: Net profit jumps 85% YoY to Rs 320 crore

📝 Exporters see 11-13% growth in FY24

📝 US retail sales miss expectations, but core sales strong

📝 SPML Infra lenders start Rs 2,000-crore debt sale based on anchor bid from NARCL

📝 GIC buys Phoenix's Hyderabad IT Park for Rs 1,050 crore

📝 Logistics-tech startup Agraga raises $8.5 million in funding

📝 SaaS startup RevenueHero raises $5.1 million in funding from existing investors

📝 Front-end DevTools startup Locofy.ai raises $4.25 million

*Business Standard*

📝  Tata Sons set to earn record dividend worth nearly Rs 33,350 cr in FY23

📝  Bharti Airtel Q4 results: Net profit surges 50% to Rs 3,006 crore

📝  Monsoon rains to be 'slightly delayed', hit Kerala on June 4: IMD

📝  HDFC Life declares highest ever bonus of Rs 3,660 cr on participating plans

📝  VIL still needs additional liquidity to survive, says Vodafone Group

📝  US investor Baron Capital slashes Swiggy's valuation by 34% to $7.1 bn

📝  Chemplast Sanmar Q4 results: Net profit declines 80% to Rs 46 crore

📝  Bank of Baroda makes Rs 500 crore provision for Go First exposure

📝  Zomato inks partnership with ICICI Bank to launch its own UPI offering

📝  LIC's new business premium drops 50% to Rs 5,810.1 crore in April

📝  Murugappa's Coromandel International plans Rs 2K cr investment by 2025

📝  Biz activity for Shopify's Indian sellers up 9.8% to Rs 30,100 cr in 2022

📝  IRDAI lowers the solvency requirement for surety bonds to 1.5 times

*Financial Express*

📝 Infosys, bp ink MoU on application service

📝 Sonata to consolidate office spaces, double global IT biz in 3 years

📝 MCA proposes time-bound approvals for M&As

📝 Kotak Bank, Federal Bank hike MCLR by 10 bps across tenures

📝 MakeMyTrip posts profit at $5.4 mn in Q4, sees ‘robust recovery’ in travel demand

📝 Jindal Steel and Power Ltd Q4 net profit falls by 70 pc to Rs 465.66 cr

📝 India-EU Agree To Speed Up FTA, Work on WTO Issues

📝 Import of laptops, PCs, medical devices, solar cells from China fall in FY23: GTRI

📝 Sebi mulls expanding definition of QIB for debt securities

*Mint*

📝 SEC Issues $279 million whistleblower award, its largest ever

📝 Indonesia in talks with Indian firms for big-ticket infra investments

📝 Inox Air plans to tap markets for green hydrogen business

📝 Shadowfax taps Newquest for $30 mn

📝 NHAI awards 6,003 km of highway projects in FY23: report

📝 TV Today Network Q4 net profit down 84% to 5.85cr, revenue down 10.3% to ₹217c

📝 LIC Housing Finance Q4: Net profit up 5% to ₹1,180 crore, dividend declared

📝 FIIs invest ₹1,406.9 crore in Indian market on 16 May, DIIs sell ₹886 crore.