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Retirement savers, take note: more employers have added a Roth savings option to their workplace 401(k) plans.

NPS Vatsalaya, NPS via Bharat Bill Payment System, reduced timeline of contributions and more.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mining and steel companies are caught between a rock and a hard place. A lingering concern is that the Karnataka (Mineral Rights and Mineral Bearing Land) Tax Bill 2024—which proposes to impose tax on a retrospective basis from 2005 and rates up to 3x the existing royalty rate—could significantly erode their profitability.

U.S. military woman claimed that she did not join the military to serve her country, but rather to access benefits such as the VA home loan, the GI Bill, and student loan forgiveness. In his post, Chip S expressed concern over the statement, questioning whether other service members, who are supposed to protect the country, feel the same way. This sparked a range of reactions from both military veterans and the general public.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ondrei Ronhaar, a 40-year-old energy broker, said that last week a friend suggested he switch banks to grab a higher-yield savings account. He didn’t bite.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing significant backlash from Republican lawmakers specifically from Senator Rand Paul over a recently passed short term funding bill that critics argue favors Democrats and includes excessive spending, reported Miami Herald.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Earlier this year, a nine-member committee led by former president Ram Nath Kovind presented an 18,626-page report recommending simultaneous assembly and Lok Sabha elections, popularly being referred to as ‘One Nation, One Election.’ It also recommended local body elections within 100 days of Lok Sabha and assembly elections. There have been recent debates around the proposed One Nation, One Election bill, officially titled The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment Bill), 2024.

NDA alliance are scheduled to meet at BJP president JP Nadda's residence on Wednesday to attend the prayer programme to commemorate former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birth centenary year.

Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a defense bill that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China's growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895 billion despite his objections to language stripping coverage of transgender medical treatments for children in military families.

Indian rupee weakened to a life-time low- closing at 85.12/$ on Monday due to strong dollar demand by corporates to help meet month-end payment obligations, traders said. It previously closed at 85.01/$1. Last week, the rupee had touched a record low of 85.08/$1 on a closing basis. «The Reserve Bank of India likely intervened in the currency market to prevent the exchange rate from depreciating further from the 85.12 levels. There were dollar sales from public sector banks, likely on behalf of the RBI,» a currency trader from a state-run bank said.

US President- elect Donald Trump has been cautioned that the severe resistance from the Republicans regarding the significant government spending limits could eventually jeopardize his ambitious mass deportation plans, reported The Telegraph.

The economic and technological rivalry between the U.S. and China has come to the drone market, where Chinese-made flying devices are a dominant player in America

Digital Vishwavidyalaya Bill — a budget 2022 promise to set up a digital university — has gone through legal vetting but is yet to be approved by the Union Cabinet. The other is the plan to set up a single higher education regulator under the National Education Policy 2020. Temple Run Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren was on a temple-visiting spree after taking oath as chief minister.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Christmas came early for energy nerds with the arrival of a dense 136-page document detailing how the UK government plans to decarbonize the nation’s electricity supply by 2030.

US government has just narrowly avoided a shutdown — and the speculation, confusion and concern around tech titan Elon Musk’s power in Washington is rampant. So rampant that President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming press secretary was forced to clarify. “As soon as President Trump released his official stance on the CR, Republicans on Capitol Hill echoed his point of view,” Karoline Leavitt explained about the plan to keep the government funded, known as a continuing resolution.“President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. Full stop.” This was not entirely convincing. It was not convincing because Musk, who gave Trump’s reelection effort a quarter of a billion dollars, has emerged as an unexpected, unelected and uncontrollable political powerhouse. He derailed the bipartisan plan to keep the government open and put Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s job in jeopardy by posting to his 200 million followers on X, the platform he owns.

Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early hours of Saturday, narrowly averting a pre-Christmas government shutdown. The president-elect successfully pushed House Republicans to jettison some spending, but he failed to achieve his central goal of raising the debt limit. It demonstrated that despite his decisive election victory and frequent promises of retribution, many members of his party are still willing to openly defy him. Trump's decision to inject himself into the budget debate a month before his inauguration also showed that he remains more adept at blowing up deals than making them, and it foreshadowed that his second term will likely be marked by the same infighting, chaos and brinksmanship that characterized his first.

Johnny Zuagar says he’s tried to hide his worries about a potential government shutdown from his three boys as he weighs how much to spend on Christmas presents

'President Musk' has captured the attention of users on social media and has spread like a wildfire. The development comes after Democrats alleged Tesla CEO and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader is leading the GOP and is the real president, rather than US president-elect Donald Trump. A number of hilarious memes have surfaced online, showing Musk's power. A user on X identified as 'The Lincoln Project' posted a video calling 'Trump' the «vice president» and Musk the «president.» The video also mentions Trump «admiring the assets of other men,» hinting towards Musk. The user captioned the video, «Everyone knows who is running this show: President-elect Musk.»

Seth Meyers, host of NBC's ‘Late Night,’ took aim at the dynamic between Elon Musk and Donald Trump during his Thursday segment, ‘A Closer Look.’ The American comedian has said that US President-elect's friendship with the Tesla CEO is destined for failure. Meyers didn’t really believe in the duration of their relationship; he was certain that there was no way the relationship could last long before it would burst at the seam. “It’s just a question of how and when,” he remarked. ALSO READ: Elon Musk challenges government with a cryptic post after US House passes urgent funding bill to avert shutdown