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Donald Trump and some other defendants are waiving their right to seek a speedy trial in the Georgia case in which they are accused of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election. The filings are part of the legal maneuvering as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis seeks to try all 19 defendants together starting next month. Most of the defendants have sought to separate their cases from some or all of the others, with many saying they will not be ready by Oct.

₹3,300 crore, across Andhra Pradesh. officials believe this project has caused the state an excess loss of ₹300 crore. CID investigators claim that most of the ₹371 crore advanced by the state was channelled to shell companies using fake invoices.

The move to expand the programme follows an earlier pilot in 2022 conducted by EY and a subsequent 'Discovery Phase' held in consultation with market participants, including Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC, Santander and Visa. It follows a recent PoC run by the Federal Reserve with a clutch of top banks that demonstrated the feasibility of an interoperable network for wholesale payments operating on a shared multi-entity distributed ledger. While the UK Discovery Phase explored the delivery of a RLN for wholesale paymnts, the PoC will track the retail consumer market. This would test the use case for a RLN that would provide commercial bank money with the equivalent programmability of a future digital pound, in this way ensuring competitive consistency in the event of a full scale CBDC roll out. The importance of this was emphasised in a speech given in July by Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, who stated: "We want to encourage more thinking and action in the world of enhanced digital bank deposits - sometimes call tokenised deposits.

Biden administration «won't hesitate» to impose more sanctions on Russia and North Korea if they conclude any new arms deals, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller issued the warning at a briefing in response to questions about the meeting in Russia between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. «We have taken a number of actions already to sanction entities that brokered arms sales between North Korea and Russia and we won't hesitate to impose additional actions if appropriate,» Miller said. It was troubling that Russia and North Korea are discussing increased cooperation that could violate U.N.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday said food security, reform of the multilateral trade watchdog, development agenda, moratorium on ecommerce transactions, and fisheries subsidies agreements are the deliverables for the ministerial conference (MC) next year. She also said that work is on to introduce «deliberative sessions» at the MC13 for ministers to discuss issues related to carbon taxes, climate, MSMES, women, industrial subsidies and trade. «For MC13, we're trying to get a breakthrough in food security and agriculture but the issues are tough. Some members want to look at trade distorting subsidies and others want to work on stockholding (issues) like India,» she said. Public stockholding is a policy tool used by governments to purchase, stockpile and distribute food when needed.

MUMBAI : Lenders to Go First have turned wary of extending more loans to help the grounded airline return to skies, two people aware of the matter said, given the protracted legal battle between the company’s lessors and the resolution professional. The banks had agreed to grant an interim financing of ₹600-700 crore to help the low-cost airline take off with a lean fleet and stay afloat. “The lenders have already disbursed an interim financing of ₹100 crore to Go First," one of the two people said on condition of anonymity.

Reliance Capital’s resolution plan till the Supreme Court passed a final order. In April, the Hinduja Group emerged as the sole bidder for turning around the debt-laden firm, after the lenders completed the extended challenge process. The NCLT must now approve the Hindujas’ resolution plan, to complete the process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.

Buddy Games, hosted by actor Josh Duhamel, is set to debut on CBS at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, September 14, 2023. The show features six teams of four participants, competing in physical and mental challenges for a chance to win $200,000. Duhamel drew inspiration from his own annual tradition with friends to create this unique series.

Edith Cowan University has moved to terminate a contract with PwC to manage its $853 million campus project in Perth amid concerns the work was scheduled to be moved to the big-four firm’s public sector consulting spin-off, Scyne.

auditor that they have been overcharged. The telcos need to refund the amount within 3 months of the receipt of the audit observation, the sector regulator said. The measures are part of quality of service (code of practice for metering and billing accuracy) regulations, 2023, notified by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on September 11.

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Talks between the United Auto Workers union and the Detroit automakers are facing a looming deadline with the labor agreements at General Motors, Ford Motor and Jeep-maker Stellantis set to expire at 11:59 p.m. ET Thursday. If a deal hasn’t been reached, UAW President Shawn Fain has made clear he is ready to strike with plans to target specific U.S.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have banned vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory as part of the European Union’s recent new interpretation of sanctions against Moscow over its war on Ukraine

Qantas Airways has lost its challenge to a court ruling that the Australian flag carrier had illegally fired 1,700 baggage handlers, cleaners and other ground staff at the height of pandemic travel disruptions

The Japanese boys-band production company at the center of an unfolding sexual abuse scandal, Johnny & Associates, has selected three former judges to head its effort to compensate hundreds of victims

The CEO of Binance’s U.S. affiliate is leaving the crypto trading platform amid another round of job cuts

Mykhailo Podolyak has kicked up a controversy by saying India and China have “weak intellectual potential” and that they “do not analyse the consequences” of their actions. The comments, coming days after the G20 summit hosted by India, may dent bilateral ties which are currently are limited in nature. «What’s wrong with India, China, and so forth. The problem is that they are not analysing the consequences of their steps, these countries have weak intellectual potential, unfortunately,” Podolyak said in an interview to Ukrainian media on Tuesday. “Yes, they invest in science.

Emkay Investment Managers (EIML) has announced the appointment of Manish Sonthalia as its Chief Investment Officer. Sonthalia joins EIML, the asset management arm of Emkay Global Financial Services, from Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company, a company release said. A qualified chartered accountant and company secretary, Sonthalia served as an Executive Director and CIO for PMS, Alternates, and Offshore Investments in Motilal Oswal AMC and managed assets worth nearly Rs 6,500 crore, the release said. “Emkay Investment Managers has built great prowess in offering a diverse set of equity investment opportunities for clients seeking prudent wealth creation in the Indian capital markets.

Another month, another suspenseful inflation number. India’s 6.8% rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Tuesday was lower than expected because of slower-rising vegetable prices that however still jumped 26%. The US’s August inflation number released on Wednesday, meanwhile, disrupted the cheery view that the US economy is managing to avoid a recession while inflation does the Federal Reserve’s bidding without needing more interest rate hikes.

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Here's how analysts read the market pulse: «The domestic indices resumed their upward trajectory despite weak global cues. The cooling of domestic CPI inflation to 6.83% in August and the rise in industrial production data reaffirmed the robustness of the Indian economy.