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In a boost to the London Stock Exchange, which has suffered a number of setbacks in recent years, Canal+ could gain a listing on the exchange as part of Vivendi's exploration of whether to split its business in three, the group said in a statement on Monday (22 July). The group said the choice to list in London highlights Canal+'s growing international operations, as it undertakes a $2.9bn (£2.2bn) acquisition of Multichoice, Africa's largest pay-TV operator. FCA introduces overhaul of UK listings regime to bolster stock markets With close to two-thirds of its subscribers outside o...

Visitors, campers and residents of Jasper National Park were told to get out late Monday night as high temperatures and winds fanned the flames of a wildfire threatening the national park in western Alberta.

HUL, Bajaj Finance, Suzlon Energy, Federal Bank, Gensol Engineering among others will be in focus due to various developments and quarterly earnings HUL, Bajaj Finance

Google is planning to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, it said on Monday, after years of pledging to phase out the tiny packets of code meant to track users on the internet.

British Royal family and tarnish its image. After «Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal», an alleged sex scandal involving Prince Philip, Duke Edinburgh and the husband of Queen Elizabeth II may surface. According to the 'Mail on Sunday', Prince Philip’s name appeared in top-secret FBI documents related to one of the greatest British sex scandals of all time. It was called the so-called Profumo Affair. The documents reveal that the FBI came to know about a rumor that Philip was “involved” with two women.

China’s central bank has cut key interest rates in a surprise move aimed at injecting pep into the economy, while the ruling Communist Party released a 50-page roadmap addressing long-term challenges

European planemaker Airbus plans to show off its newest passenger jet with daily flight demonstrations during one of the world’s biggest aviation trade fairs

As the world continues to recover from massive business and travel disruptions caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, malicious actors are trying to exploit the situation for their own gain

When excluding one-off special payments, regular dividends reached £32.5bn, also representing a new record and a 1% increase year-on-year on a constant currency basis, according to Computershare's Q2 UK Dividend Monitor.  This low underlying growth rate of just 1% can be attributed to a volatile mining sector which saw a second consecutive year of cuts, reaching £2bn in Q2. Had the mining sector been excluded from the data, growth would have been recorded at 8.6%. Growth was notably broad-based too, with 16 out of 21 sectors seeing increased payouts. HSBC regains crown as top UK...

Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2023-24 in the Parliament today. The Survey, authored by Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran and his team, highlighted the initiatives taken by India to address climate change and energy security.

Under the plans the chancellor said billions of pounds of investment could be unlocked in the UK economy from defined contribution (DC) schemes alone and pension pots for savers in defined contribution schemes could be boosted by over £11,000. The review will also look at how to unlock the investment potential of the £360bn Local Government Pensions Scheme (LGPS), which manages the savings of those working to deliver vital local services, as well as how to tackle the £2bn that is being spent on fees. Pension Schemes Bill announced in the King's Speech The announcement comes ahead o...

Bluelearn has shut down operations and will return 70% of the capital it raised to its investors.

18-year-old Lexi was down with E.Coli. She was admitted in a ward and Amanda and her husband Chris were looking after her. A few weeks back Lexi was schedule to appear in the A Level examinations but she complained of stomach cramps and bloating. Meanwhile, Amanda was in Spain for the work purpose.

Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets prices have always hogged the limelight. With the Eras Tour shows set to resume in August, here is the last chance to grab tickets in cheap price. Swift will perform across multiple cities in Europe. She will conclude the European leg with five concerts in London. One of Swift's shows will be at Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna on August 10. Fans can grab two tickets by spending just £10 (USD 12.92). Wowcher is offering the lucrative deal for Swift fans to witness the Vienna concert. One needs to visit Wowcher UK website for cheap tickets, as per a report in Mirror. Swift fans can also purchase Eras Tour Tickets from traditional websites. However, some ticket prices are ranging between £400 and £600, Mirror reported.

Here’s everything you need to know about catching the finale and the remaining couples vying for love and the grand prize of $100,000.

chicken for himself but told the waiter to bill it as a vegetarian dish. This was treated as quite routine. I was reminded of this while reading Avay Shukla’s memoir of IAS life, 'The Deputy Commissioner’s Dog and Other Colleagues'. Since liquor is not allowed at government dinners, it is simply billed as chicken, he wrote: “A peg of single malt is worth a whole chicken, a Scotch two legs, a shot of rum is equivalent to a wing…” This kind of creativity comes up whenever people find consumption habits constrained. Yes Minister, the British TV serial, depicted this with an episode set in a Middle Eastern country with strict prohibitions on alcohol. So, at an official reception, the British set up a secure communications room where the booze is stored and periodically, the minister and bureaucrats visit it for a ‘message’ from “Mr Johnny Walker from the Scotch Office”, “Mr Smirnoff from the Russian embassy” or “a delegation of Teachers”.

free trade agreement negotiations are set to be defined this week as UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy is expected in India on Tuesday, the first high-profile visit under the newly elected Labour government in Britain. The free trade agreement (FTA) talks began in January 2022, under the then Conservative government, with a target to significantly boost the GBP 38.1 billion a year bilateral trading partnership but hit a block in the fourteenth round of negotiations to make way for general elections in both countries. A report in 'The Daily Telegraph' on Sunday quotes a New Delhi source to claim the Indian side would seek clarity on whether the Labour government intends to pick things up from where they were left off or start afresh in some way. «India is keen to resume talks on a positive note, but the date needs clarity,» the source told the newspaper.

inflation in its services sector last month, retail sales weakened and the budget deficit exceeded estimates — highlighting a host of challenges for UK policymakers. Money markets see about a 40% chance that the Bank of England will lower interest rates next month, as officials balance signs of a weakening labor market with stubborn price pressures. The European Central Bank, meanwhile, left interest rates unchanged after last month’s landmark cut. The ECB is weighing whether euro-zone inflation is cooling sufficiently to allow further monetary loosening.

Mini: 60 Years. The Mini raced to the front in competitions as well, winning the Monte Carlo Rally four times from 1964 to 1967. At Turf Tavern, Kevin McMahon, the barkeep and a Mini aficionado, is extremely knowledgeable—and chatty.

online shopping experience increasingly frustrating. “Every app I visit has some form of dark pattern,” says the 26-year-old media and entertainment lawyer from Mumbai. “I can’t find a single safe app that lets me pay only for what I want,” he adds. What is a dark pattern? It refers to manipulative or deceptive tricks—such as hidden fees, subscription traps and sneaking items into online baskets—that get users to perform an action they would not have otherwise done had they understood it well or had a choice. Harry Brignull, a UK-based UX (user experience) designer coined the term in 2010, referring specifically to digital platforms.