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After two years of deliberations, the Federal Court has granted approval for a class-action lawsuit alleging price-fixing and anti-competitive practices to proceed against the real estate industry in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

Chase UK, JP Morgan’s British digital bank, says it will bar customers from making cryptocurrency transactions starting next month — citing an uptick in scams and fraud

A federal judge in Atlanta is allowing a venture capital firm to continue offering a grant program only to Black women entrepreneurs

A judge has ruled that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House

London | When Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones sat down with reinsurance execs in their HQs in London and Munich, he was surprised to find them bringing up an inland Queensland town with a population of just 7000 people.

Canada's allegations has been «firm and direct», outgoing Sri Lankan high commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda said, adding that Colombo supports New Delhi on the matter. Addressing a meeting at Foreign Correspondents' Club on Monday night, he said the people of Sri Lanka have suffered due to terrorism, for which his country has zero tolerance. «I think India's response has been equitable and also firm and direct,» Moragoda said. «And, I think, as far as we are concerned, we support India on that.

government on Tuesday sought a week's time to apprise the Supreme Court of the status of pending transfers of 26 high court judges and the appointment of chief justice to a «sensitive» high court. The appointment of nine high court judges, which the Supreme Court collegium has recommended, is also pending with the government. A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul deferred the matter after attorney general R Venkataramani requested for a week to seek instructions.

Compound market returns: During bullish markets, there is inevitably a regurgitation of this myth that was contrived to extract capital from retail investors and place it in the hands of Wall Street.

Companies spend a lot of time making sure employees know the rules regarding cybersecurity. They cajole, they beg, they threaten. They make them take classes, sign forms, watch videos.

Supreme Court on Tuesday took note of the «urgent need» to ensure filling up of 275 vacancies for the post of junior civil judge in Haryana and directed the state to take necessary steps within two weeks to ensure that the recruitment is conducted. A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said the recruitment be conducted by a committee consisting of three judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court nominated by the chief justice there, the state's chief secretary, the Advocate General of Haryana and the chairperson of the Haryana Public Service Commission.

Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas have reached an interim agreement regarding the custody of their two children, as per court documents filed on Monday. The famous couple has mutually agreed to keep their daughters Willa, who is 3 years old, and their other unnamed daughter, who is 14 months old, in the Southern and Eastern boroughs of New York, according to the arrangement, which was first published by People.

Barauni-Guwahati Pipeline will provide gas in Guwahati by the end of the year, and Assam will be linked with the National Gas Grid. Gas conclave a day-long brainstorming workshop on the prospects and challenges of the usage of natural gas, was organized by the Department of Industries, Commerce & Public Enterprises, Government of Assam on Tuesday in Guwahati. Minister, Industries, Commerce Bimal Bora while commending the pioneering role of Assam in the petroleum and natural gas sector in the country, noted how the Hydro-carbon Vision 2030 for North-East India of the Central Government has opened up several vistas of economic development through natural gas; and further noted how Assam has so much reserves of natural gas that it can fuel its economy based on this clean and green fuel. In this regard, he stressed on evolving synergy among the different stakeholders of the entire value chain of natural gas. GAIL India Limited representative announced that the Barauni-Guwahati Pipeline shall be able to provide gas in Guwahati by the end of the year, thereby marking a major milestone in the linkage of the State with the National Gas Grid.

Chase UK, the British challenger bank brand of JPMorgan, has blocked customers in the U.K. from purchasing crypto assets.

Investment marketplaces — particularly the volatile cryptocurrency market — move at lightning speed and operate around the clock. It’s not surprising that crypto traders would consider leveraging trading bots, which can monitor the market 24/7, analyze ever-inflowing and changing data and follow established instructions to automatically buy and sell crypto. Bots don’t need sleep and won’t make mistakes due to fatigue, impulse or emotion, and they can react in a fraction of a second.

The digital bank's customers will not be able to make crypto transactions using their debit cards or via outgoing bank transfers starting mid-October. "Customers will receive a declined transaction notification if they do attempt to make a crypto-related transaction," a spokesperson for the firm confirmed on Tuesday.

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Here's how analysts read the market pulse: «Nifty remained largely range-bound throughout the day as traders appeared uncertain. However, the short-term sentiment remains bearish as Nifty closed below the 21EMA.

Kuki bodies have expressed disappointment over the Supreme Court Panel advising the Manipur Government to identify dead bodies and dispose of unclaimed bodies respectfully and urged the committee to reconsider its stances looking into the ground reality. A three-member committee constituted by the Supreme Court to look into the violence in Manipur had recently advised the Manipur government to publish a list of those who have died, and if no one comes to claim the bodies, to dispose of them in a “respectable manner.” The Kuki Inpi Manipur, the apex body of the Kuki tribes and the Kuki Students' Organization-General Headquarters stated that it is pertinent to recognize that the state of Manipur has been clearly separated on ethnic lines.

V Muraleedharan and Congress MP K Muraleedharan on Tuesday took digs at each other's political careers. While V Muraleedharan alleged that K Muraleedharan keeps changing his statements based on prevailing circumstances, the Congress MP hit back by challenging the BJP leader to contest and win even one poll — be it panchayat, assembly or Lok Sabha — from Kerala.

antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com on Tuesday, charging the online retailer with harming consumers with higher prices in the latest U.S. government legal action aimed at breaking Big Tech's dominance of the internet. The lawsuit had been expected after years of complaints that Amazon.com and other tech giants abused their dominance of search, social media and online retailing to become gate keepers on the most lucrative aspects of the internet.

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