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Google and Indian internet companies have agreed to a four-month extension in the timeline for payment of service fees to the Android maker. The development marks a pause in the acrimonious face-off between Indian internet firms and Google over the US firm’s billing policies that finally prompted the Indian IT ministry to step in to play peacemaker.

By Karen Freifeld

CIBIL scores are one of the primary factors considered by lenders when evaluating borrowers' creditworthiness for home loans. A CIBIL score is a three-digit numeric summary of an individual's credit history and repayment behaviour, ranging from 300 to 900, with 900 being the highest score.

Bills on time: Payment history is a significant factor in your credit score. Ensure you pay all your bills, including credit card bills, EMIs, and utility bills, on time. Setting up automatic payments or reminders can help you stay on track.

By Julie Steenhuysen

SmartAsset, an online platform connecting consumers with financial advisors, is stepping up its advisor growth game.

TikTok, the short-video platform owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance, is facing renewed political pressure in the U.S. from a draft bill that could lead to a ban of its popular video-sharing app. The bill, introduced in Congress on Tuesday, calls for Beijing-based ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok or face the platform being banned from app stores and web-hosting services in the U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The American Civil Liberties Union said a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would force Chinese-based ByteDance to divest short video app TikTok or face a U.S. ban is unconstitutional.

₹12 lakh and getting cashback worth two flight tickets to Singapore. Well, you can make it happen. The only rider is that the purchase has to be made with a credit card.

₹71 to ₹75 per share. The company plans to raise ₹52.34 crore at the upper end of the price band from the book-built issue which is entirely a fresh issue of 69.79 lakh equity shares. The IPO lot size is 1,600 shares and the minimum investment amount required by retail investors is ₹120,000.

Cashfree Payments, on Wednesday, launched a platform centric payment solution‘Embedded Payments’. This solution equips software platforms with the tools to facilitate seamless payment experiences for businesses. The solution aims to revolutionise the way software platforms like enterprise resource planning (ERPs), customer relationship management (CRMs), SaaS or billing platforms and similar solutions, provide payment experience to their end users. Currently, software platform developers struggle with integrating payments into the tools they build for online businesses due to complexities, poor user experience, operational overhead and limited knowledge of compliance. As a result, online businesses or merchants separately integrate payment systems themselves. With the integration of ‘Embedded Payments’, software platforms can enable their end users to make payments for products or services directly on the platform, eliminating the need for redirection to another page or site for the payment process. This will eliminate any disruptions and drop-offs caused due to external payment redirections.

Rishi Sunak’s controversial deportation bill gets rejected in UK House of Lords The UK Prime Minister said, "I will be irritated if it's not made". While Murty said she is not a morning person and is "not the most organised". Further Murty said when they were studying at Stanford, she used to eat in bed and Sunak would find plates in her bed.

WHAT ARE OVERNIGHT AND LIQUID FUNDS? Overnight and liquid funds are a category of debt mutual funds. Overnight funds have a portfolio that invests in securities that mature in a single day, while liquid funds invest in debt and money market securities that mature within 91 days. They buy short-term instruments like treasury bills and government securities. Combined, these schemes manage close to Rs 5.73 lakh crore of assets. WHY ARE THE TYPICAL RETURNS FROM THESE FUNDS?

Shares of Paymentus (PAY) surged 27% on Tuesday, a day after the cloud-based bill payment technology provider reported better-than-expected Q4 results and issued robust guidance for full-year EBITDA.

Cairo talks have been billed as a final hurdle to reach the first extended ceasefire in the war between Hamas and Israel- a 40-day truce during which Israeli hostages would be freed and aid pumped into Gaza — ahead of Ramadan, which is due to begin at the start of next week. «The delegation will remain in Cairo on Tuesday for more talks, they are expected to wrap up this round later today,» a Hamas official told Reuters. Egypt's Qahera television also reported the talks had been extended for a third day, but said they were «facing difficulties». Earlier, senior Hamas official Bassem Naim told Reuters the militant group had presented its proposal for a ceasefire agreement to the mediators, and was now waiting for a response from the Israelis, who have stayed away from this round. "(Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu doesn't want to reach an agreement and the ball now is in the Americans' court" to press him for a deal, Naim said.

N Biren Singh announced on the floor of the legislative assembly that the state government will consult and take appropriate steps for the implementation of The Manipur Hill Areas (Acquisition of Chiefs' Rights) Act, 1967. Passed in 1967, the act is yet to be implemented, thus enabling the chieftains to continue establishing villages as per their hereditary practices. Elaborating on the same, BJP legislator Rajkumar Imo Singh said, «A very important statement by the CM that the state government will consult and take appropriate steps for the implementation of The Manipur Hill Areas (Acquisition of Chiefs' Rights) Act 1967. This Act was passed by the Assembly on Jan 10, 1967 to abolish the hereditary chieftainship. The President of India gave assent to the Bill on 14th June 1967. One can see the exponential growth of villages in these places. Manipur is the only state where this act isn't implemented. Even a state like Mizoram had implemented a similar act for abolishing chieftainship way back in 1954 when it was a part of Assam.»

Investors have closely monitored electric vehicle (EV) pricing, as recent price cuts by automakers have raised concerns over demand elasticity, profitability, and how these adjustments affect EV affordability and their market share relative to internal combustion engine (ICE) and hybrid vehicles, Goldman Sachs analysts said in a Monday note to clients.

HETTA, Finland (Reuters) — In the snows of Finland, Swedish and Finnish soldiers take part in NATO's biggest exercise since the end of the Cold War, intended to test the military alliance's ability to reinforce places such as the Nordic far north.

The flow of millions of small parcels into the U.S. from China thanks to the explosive growth of online shopping has caught the attention of Congress

Lawmakers in at least seven states are taking big legislative swings to regulate bias in artificial intelligence

Former senior executives of Twitter are suing Elon Musk and X Corp., saying they are entitled to a total of more than $128 million in unpaid severance payments