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The competition watchdog's plans to double payments to whistle-blowers who leak information about rule-breakers have been delayed over poor internal planning.

Diversity, equity and inclusion programs have been abolished from Walt Disney World’s governing district, which is now controlled by appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis

Reservation Dogs, the hit Indigenous American TV drama, premieres on Wednesday, August 2. The show follows the Rez Dogs, a group of four Oklahoman teens who are mourning the loss of their friend and are eager to move from their Reservation to California. It has been recognized as the first-ever series to feature an entirely Indigenous creative cast and has garnered numerous awards since its debut in 2021. In the previous two seasons, the Rez Dogs attempted to leave their Reservation and even succeeded in doing so, but now they find themselves questioning whether their initial decision was the right one. Don't miss the last hurrah of the Rez Dogs as they navigate their final journey in the much-anticipated season 3 of Reservation Dogs. Viewers in the US can catch the show on Hulu, while it is not yet available for streaming in the UK.

PAC Capital, a Sydney-based fund manager that promotes itself as an expert in computer gaming, took down performance updates and other information from its website on Tuesday after The Australian Financial Review raised questions about some of its accuracy.

NEW DELHI : The government is considering a proposal to allow existing advanced chemistry cell (ACC) battery storage projects to apply for unutilized capacity under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for the sector, two people aware of the matter said. At a 24 July meeting, some industry executives proposed allowing brownfield projects to apply for the capacity not allotted to greenfield projects, according to the people cited above. Currently, only greenfield projects are eligible for the scheme.

cricket to the backyard, new format of cricket is evolving. It is ‘The Hundred’. As the name suggests, each team plays a hundred balls and it is expected to complete in 65 minutes.

BJP on Tuesday slammed the government in a series of tweets, calling it anti-Kannadiga, a rhetoric which ironically the Congress had employed in the recent assembly elections towards the then-incumbent BJP. The saffron party called out the government over several decisions, from cancelling the construction of a statue of Karnataka’s goddess Bhuvaneshwari devi in Bengaluru to getting government school uniforms stitched by a Maharashtra-based company rather than a Kannadiga one.

A former NatWest manager who was dismissed after getting cancer has been awarded £87,699 by an employment tribunal.

Aditya Birla Group's hospitality arm, Aditya Birla New Age Hospitality (ABNAH) has announced a strategic deal to add four restaurant brands including Michelin starred Hakkasan, the award winning Yauatcha and Nara Thai to its portfolio. ABNAH has acquired a 100% stake in KA Hospitality Private Limited (KAH), the company that owns the home-grown brand CinCin and franchise rights of the other three global restaurant brands. The four brands are positioned across the customer value pyramid, spanning the mid market to premium segments, the company said.

Modi on Tuesday shared stage with NCP chief Sharad Pawar at the Lokmanya Tilak National Award ceremony in Pune. Before the ceremony commenced, the two leaders were seen exchanging jovial banter, with Pawar patting Modi's back, as others, including the NCP chief's estranged nephew and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, looked on.

Using artificial intelligence (AI) in creative industries is not an entirely new phenomenon. Whether in color-correcting images or cleaning up vocals, the technology has been deployed for years. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared the stage with NCP chief Sharad Pawar at an award ceremony on Tuesday. Visuals from the event showed the duo exchanging jovial banter as members of Maharashtra's ruling coalition - including his estranged nephew Ajit Pawar - looked on.

One of the country’s largest forest-carbon firms is launching a platform to enable Southern-timberland owners to sell carbon offsets on properties as small as 40 acres, expanding a market that has mostly been limited to owners of vast wooded tracts. Finite Carbon, which is majority owned by energy giant BP, said it would begin this month to enroll landowners in 13 Southern states in the program.

Finance Commission has allocated a total corpus of Rs 1,28,122.40 crore to the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) in all States for the Award Period (2021-22 to 2025-2026), Union Minister for State (Home Affairs) Nityanand Rai informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Nityanand Rai, in a written reply to Lok Sabha on the question of IUML MP Abdussamad Samadani, said that the successive Finance Commission (set up under Article 280 of the Constitution from time to time), determines the allocation of the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for all States for each of the financial years for the entire award period.

Narendra Modi on Tuesday was conferred Lokmanya Tilak National Award in Pune. The Prime Minister alsong with Ajit Pawar, Eknath Shinde, Devendra Fadnavis shared stage with NCP chief Sharad Pawar at the ceremony. During the event, PM Modi and the NCP supremo shared a candid moment on the stage.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who shared stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Lokmanya Tilak National Award ceremony in Pune, could have turned his back on the event to clear doubts about him among those who have taken a dim view of it. An editorial in the Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece 'Saamana' claimed PM Modi accused the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) of corruption and then engineered a split in the party and muddied the politics in Maharashtra. «Still Sharad Pawar will welcome Modi and this has not gone down well with some people.

Congress and the Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena have disapproved of Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar handing over Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Lokmanya Tilak National Award at a meeting in Pune on Tuesday. The MVA constituents said that it would send the wrong message to the people. Modi's BJP had weaned away a faction of NCP recently.

Magnus White died in a training accident at the age of 17. White was struck by a vehicle while he was training in Boulder, Colorado. Magnus White is survived by his mother Jill and father Michael and brother Aero. His friends and relatives set up GoFundMe, which collected USD 60,000 Monday. Magnus White won Junior 17-18 Cyclocross National Championships 2021, before taking part in USA Cycling National Team for a full season of European Cyclocross racing. He finished the year 2022 with UCI Cyclocross World Championship in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He was selected for Mountain Bike World Championships team in 2023. White was scheduled to participate in UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow on August 10. Confirming the death, USA Cycling said in an online press release, «White fell in love with cycling at an early age through Boulder Junior Cycling. He was a rising star in the off-road cycling scene and his passion for cycling was evident through his racing and camaraderie with his teammates and local community.» The cycling association said in the statement, «White was focused on his final preparations before leaving for Glasgow, Scotland to compete in the Junior Men’s Mountain Bike Cross-Country World Championships on August 10, 2023.» Cycling USA said further, «We offer our heartfelt condolences to the White family, his teammates, friends, and the Boulder community during this incredibly difficult time.»

₹579 crore along with accrued interest to the airline’s former promoter Kalanithi Maran. The bench presided over by Justice Chandra Dhari Singh also rejected the airline’s plea for interest waiver on the arbitral award, besides dismissing Singh’s challenge against the award in favour of the Marans. The dispute pertains to the transfer of Maran and KAL Airways’ entire 58.46% stake in the airline to Singh in February 2015.

NEW DELHI : The government is considering lowering the minimum capacity threshold for bids under a fresh round of the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for advanced chemistry cells (ACC) that are used for battery storage and are key to the electric vehicle ecosystem. The government is looking to allocate 20 GWh (gigawatt hour) capacity to new participants in the scheme, and held consultations last week with a diverse set of firms that included Panasonic, Minda Corp, Ather Energy, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, Tata Motors’ Agratas, NTPC and M&M.

Mint had earlier reported that the government is looking to raise highway-construction to an all-time high this year. “The pace of construction of highways has gone up from 11.6 km a day in 2014 to around 30 km a day now. Though the government has been trying to raise this to 50 km per day, the slowdown in the past two financial years has pushed back the targets a little.