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Bengaluru recently took to social media to highlight the plight of international travelers from India when their tickets are arbitrarily canceled by airlines. According to the woman, she had recently booked a Delhi-San Francisco flight, but Air India canceled it without notice and offered passengers the option to fly on a different date. When passengers objected, they were offered seats on an alternate flight with a 10-hour layover. The woman claimed that Air India refused to provide the passengers with tickets for a flight departing directly from Bengaluru.

Will Breaking return in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics? Breaking's popularity was off the charts in the Paris Olympics 2024 that just ended on August 11, with a grand Paris Olympics closing ceremony, that saw Hollywood stars, sports veterans and IOC officials set the stage ablaze at the Stade de France.

Every day, around the clock, a small group of cybersecurity professionals scours Facebook, looking for the face of their boss, an Australian billionaire who is determined to take the social-media giant to court. Like American financiers such as Bill Ackman, Andrew Forrest says he has spent years trying to get Facebook-parent Meta Platforms to do more to stop scam advertisements that use his likeness to promote fraudulent investment schemes. Yet unlike other Meta adversaries, the mining executive has pledged to spend vast sums on his legal campaign.

lawsuit accusing Google of unlawfully dominating web search on smartphones, but said the consumers should get another chance after a Washington, D.C. court separately ruled the tech giant spent billions to create an illegal monopoly. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco on Friday dismissed the consumers' antitrust lawsuit against Google, finding they had not provided enough factual evidence showing any harm from the Alphabet unit's market dominance. Lin said the plaintiffs could file an amended lawsuit, citing the D.C. court's blockbuster Aug. 6 ruling that found Google's exclusive contracts with Apple and other companies helped it create an illegal monopoly over search engines.

Indian rupee weakened to a record low versus the US dollar on Monday, as Asian currencies fell due to risk aversion ahead of the US consumer price inflation numbers expected this week. The rupee was also pressured by a rise in crude oil prices. The rupee closed at 83.9725 versus the US dollar on Monday, as against its last close of 83.955 versus the US dollar, LSEG data showed. The currency was trading in a tight three paisa range of 83.95 and 83.97

The November election is still months away but with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz recently named as Kamala Harris’ political partner, the future of drug policy looks bright. As do the formerly “risky” investments and alternative sources of capital retention, like cannabis.

Gold prices rose by Rs 200 to Rs 72,350 per 10 grams while silver prices rallied by Rs 1,000 per kg in the local market here on Monday amid firm global trends. In the previous session, the yellow metal of 99.9 per cent purity had closed lower at Rs 72,150 per 10 grams on Saturday, according to the All India Sarafa Association. Silver prices jumped by Rs 1,000 to Rs 83,500 per kg from Rs 82,500 per kg in the previous close.

Foreign investors pulled a record amount of money from China last quarter, likely reflecting deep pessimism about the world’s second-largest economy.

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sports betting. Asher, who asked that the Thomson Reuters Foundation use a pseudonym to protect the privacy of his recovery group, was drawn into gambling by online poker. «It is just so easy to open these gambling accounts online,» he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. «At one point I lost over $500,000 to this addiction and almost lost my family.»

The market volatility we’ve seen over the past week and a half has been astounding. The VXX, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the VIX volatility index, rocketed higher as investors sold equity positions across the board, with more speculative assets such as U.S. tech and cryptocurrencies getting hit the hardest.

Bank of Nova Scotia agreed to buy a minority stake in KeyCorp, which was among the U.S. regional banks hit hardest in last year’s tumult, for about US$2.8 billion as part of a focus on North America.

For years, Canadian policymakers have been sleepwalking past a growing housing affordability crisis. Now, with homes seeming impossibly out of reach to so many and voter discontent on this issue poised to roil upcoming elections, they have been jolted awake and are looking for solutions. Any action on this issue is welcome, but the biggest fix of all has yet to be raised: giving households the buying power to keep up with rising home prices today and tomorrow by boosting Canadian productivity.

Scotiabank has bought a minority stake in U.S. regional lender KeyCorp in an all-stock deal worth US$2.8 billion on Monday, as the Canadian bank pursues growth outside its saturated home market.

Nevada ranked the second highest auto insurance rates in the country, according to Insurify.

Americans across the credit rating spectrum are driving up credit card balances and utilization as they feel the pinch from the higher cost of living.

Olympic gold medals are worth more than ever at this year’s Paris games, with the raw materials that go into them having the potential to fetch about $900 each.

Family Feud, a popular game show when I was growing up, would ask contestants to guess how a group of people had answered a specific question. It served as a regular reminder of the importance of supplementing one’s thinking with external perspectives. If, in the tradition of Family Feud, we were to poll market participants about the turmoil we’ve seen since the worse-than-expected US jobs report, I suspect we would get quite specific responses on what is causing the global stock selloff as well as what would be the best circuit breaker to avoid further big losses.

If working adult children return home to live with their parents, there should be a financial benefit to the household, in theory.

Gregg Abella, a money manager in New Jersey, wasn’t expecting the flood of phone calls he got from clients this past week. “Suddenly people are saying to us, ‘Wow, do you think it’s a good time for us to add bonds?’”

Hy-Vee, Inc., a retail grocery company headquartered in west Des Moines, Iowa, has relocated to a new office location spread over 54,000 sqft in Bengaluru, further enhancing its footprint in India. Hy-Vee's move to a new space is part of its plan to leverage India's talent pool for a wide range of technical and non-technical roles, allowing the company to work on projects on a 24/7 basis. The new facility, situated in Karle Tech Park on the Outer Ring Road, under a 10-year lease, aims to drive innovation and enhance operational efficiency. «We are excited to see the HST Global team's growth over the last year and a half and look forward to this new space supporting them as they continue to help move Hy-Vee forward as a retail leader,” said Travis Hoover, Chief Data Officer at HyVee.