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Canada has recently announced a two-year cap on new international student visas amid an escalating housing crisis, a move likely to impact Indian students. Nearly 40 percent of the total number of international students in Canada are from India. Among all the foreign destinations, Canada ranks at number one for Indian students studying overseas. 

NEW DELHI : Planned job cuts in Britain by India's Tata Steel were the "least bad option," and the company will continue to hold talks with unions and hopes to reach a conclusion over the next two months, CEO TV Narendran said. The steelmaker will close its two blast furnaces in Britain by the end of this year, axing up to 2,800 jobs at its Port Talbot steelworks in Wales.

The UK Parliament and the Bank of England (BOE) continue to “um and ah” over whether a state-backed digital pound also known as “Britcoin” or a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is needed.

Charlotte Simmons (pictured) is set to join from UBS Global Wealth Management, where she has been chief investment officer of its UK wealth management business since 2020.

Last year, banks overtook any other sector in terms of dividend payments, something that has not happened since before the Global Financial Crisis, Computershare noted.

As Co-CIOs, O’Reilly and Rizova will lead a team of more than 300 investment professionals across six countries.

Investors have been topping up their investments in US and global equity funds.

St James's Place CEO Mark FitzPatrick

Republic Day holds a significant place in India's national calendar, observed annually on January 26th. This day marks the adoption of the Constitution in 1950, symbolizing India's transformation into a republic. As we commemorate this historical event, it's crucial to understand its origins and the values it represents. The chief guest for this year's Republic Day is French President Emmanuel Macron.

Saudi doctor saw his fortune close in on $12 billion on Thursday as shares of his healthcare firm rebounded, returning him to the ranks of the Middle East’s wealthiest private individuals. Shares in Sulaiman Al Habib’s eponymous company have surged 30% since hitting a one-year low in October. That’s made Al Habib — who founded the firm and holds a 40% stake — the third-richest person in the Middle East who’s not a member of a royal family, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Project Hertha will explore how network analytics could help identify financial crime patterns utilising a minimum set of data points.The project will map current and emerging financial crime typologies in real-time payment systems, drawing upon lessons from instant payment systems and digital asset networks. It will also build a synthetic dataset to test how the typologies could be identified accurately while reducing false positives.The project takes its name from the pioneering British scientist, prolific inventor, and suffragette Hertha Ayrton.

Bakkt Holdings, crypto trading and custody platform, announced the expansion of its crypto operations in several crypto-friendly international jurisdictions.

NATO defence chiefs' meeting drew to a close, NATO Military Committee Chairman Admiral Robert Bauer outlined the steps he believed households within the alliance should already be taking in the event of war. «You need to have water, you need to have a radio on batteries and you need to have a flashlight on batteries to make sure that you can survive the first 36 hours,» he said, adding that in any major conflict member nations might need to introduce conscription to keep their militaries in the fight. The shifting «tectonic plates of power», he warned, were producing the most dangerous world in decades – and risks that could only be tackled by the private sector, industry and governments together to deliver greater resilience. «We need public and private actors to change their mindset from an era in which everything was plannable, foreseeable, controllable, focused on efficiency… to an era in which anything can happen at any time,» Bauer said. «An era in which we need to expect the unexpected.» Alongside what now appears to be an ongoing U.S.-UK military campaign in Yemen, the first weeks of 2024 have brought a much greater focus on the mounting risk of war in both Europe and the Pacific – as well as an awareness that the U.S.

Canadian authorities say the death toll from a small plane crash in Canada's Northwest Territories is six

Project Hertha will explore how network analytics could help identify financial crime patterns utilising a minimum set of data points.The project will map current and emerging financial crime typologies in real-time payment systems, drawing upon lessons from instant payment systems and digital asset networks. It will also build a synthetic dataset to test how the typologies could be identified accurately while reducing false positives.The project takes its name from the pioneering British scientist, prolific inventor, and suffragette Hertha Ayrton.

NEW DELHI, MUMBAI : India’s free trade talks with the UK and European Union (EU) may skip the vexed carbon tax matter in an attempt to fast-track the trade deals, three people aware of the matter said. The absence of any agreement on the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) casts a cloud over Indian steel exports to the region, as it would raise the cost of exports and eat into profits. India is negotiating separate free trade agreements (FTAs) with the UK and EU.

A major nuclear plant that Britain’s government hopes will generate affordable, low-carbon energy could cost up to 46 billion pounds, or $59 billion, and the completion date could be delayed to after 2029

Officials say that two U.S.-flagged ships carrying cargo for the Defense and State departments have come under attack off Yemen

British billionaire Joe Lewis has pleaded guilty to insider trading and conspiracy charges in New York

Rio Tinto Group said a number of its staff heading to the company’s Diavik diamond mine died in a fatal plane crash near Fort Smith, N.W.T.