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The National Transportation Safety Board’s daylong hearing on a 2023 Ohio train derailment near the Pennsylvania border is giving stakeholders plenty to think about

Laffer Tengler Investments CEO and CIO Nancy Tengler explains why she's recommending investing in equities over bonds for the long term.

Police have clashed with protesters in Kenya’s capital Nairobi before planned protests against a contentious finance bill

One of President Joe Biden’s signature laws aimed to invigorate renewable energy manufacturing in the U.S. It will also help a solar panel company reap billions of dollars

Kenya's president says he won’t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes that prompted thousands of protesters to storm the parliament on Tuesday

Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, the newly-elected MP from Srinagar, on Wednesday urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to ensure the sanctity of the House by restraining members from making disparaging remarks or rushing legislations like the abrogation of Article 370. In his two-minute inaugural address after Birla was elected Speaker, the National Conference member made a passionate appeal and emphasised, «I would request you that from today you are neither BJP nor Congress or Samajwadi, and you have only one party, and that is the Constitution of India.» He expressed hope that the Speaker would uphold the Constitution and lead the house as a beacon of democracy. Mehdi cryptically alluded to the Speaker's legacy, stating that his actions in handling both the government and opposition voices would define his tenure.

An independent watchdog within the IRS reports that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases

Kenya’s president came to power by appealing to the common people, describing himself as a “hustler” and vowing relief from economic pain

Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has proposed a legislation to allow Americans pay their federal income tax using Bitcoin. If passed, the US Secretary of the Treasury would implement a program to allow payment of taxes using Bitcoin.

Denmark, a major pork and dairy exporter, will introduce a tax on livestock carbon dioxide emissions from 2030, making it the first country to do so and hoping to inspire others to follow, the government said on Tuesday. A tax was first proposed in February by government-commissioned experts to help Denmark reach a legally binding 2030 target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 70% from 1990 levels. The centrist government late on Monday reached a wide-ranging compromise with farmers, industry, labour unions and environmental groups on policy linked to farming, the country's largest source of CO2 emissions.

Crypto investors in South Korea will have more peace of mind starting next month, thanks to new rules that protect users’ balances in case of a crypto exchange bankruptcy.

Fintech platform Altruist has unveiled a new raft of tools to help independent advisors manage their clients’ portfolios in a more tax-efficient way.

Investors including ex-Facebook President Sean Parker are committing $80 million to take over Stability AI, an image-generation startup that took off with the artificial-intelligence boom but quickly ran into business problems. The investment group, which includes former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt and early backers of London-based Stability, has struck a deal with suppliers to forgive some $100 million owed by Stability, according to people with knowledge of the arrangement. The investors also negotiated for the startup to be released from $300 million in future obligations, largely meant to go to cloud computing providers.

June 25 is the day the capital gains inclusion rate increase comes into effect. Even though the particular legislation is not yet in a bill and thus not passed into law, it’s quite clear it will become so later this year with legal effect as of that day.

The mayor of Maui County in Hawaii wants to stop owners of thousands of vacation properties from renting to visitors

Economic Times reported how this oversight also led to additional interest and penalties due to the supposed non-payment.Dr. Bhalla’s creditworthiness was severely affected by the incident, hampering his access to credit. He pursued legal recourse and successfully resolved the case.

assembly elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC Anil Parab introduced a private member's bill proposing a 50 per cent reservation for Marathi-speaking residents in new Mumbai housing projects. The bill, pending the deputy chairperson's approval, suggests penalties up to Rs 10 lakh and/or six months' jail for developers who don't comply, TOI reported. Shiv Sena (UBT) holds 9 seats in the 78-member legislative council and 15 seats in the 288-member assembly. The opposition coalition, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), has 75 assembly members and 29 council members, while the ruling Mahayuti alliance controls 212 assembly seats and 28 council seats. The proposed bill may be presented during the monsoon session starting this Thursday. Parab introduced the bill after numerous cases where Marathi-speaking individuals were denied housing due to their food choices or religion. «Discrimination based on such grounds is unconstitutional,» he stated. Parab highlighted a Vile Parle incident where a builder refused to sell homes to Marathi people citing their food habits. Despite protests, government action was lacking, and the builder only apologized after media exposure. Parab emphasized that Marathi speakers are now a minority in Mumbai.

California lawmakers have abandoned their attempt to repeal the nation's only law requiring voter approval for publicly funded affordable housing projects

Mint looks at how trade between the two Asian giants has evolved and why it is proving to be so difficult for India to decouple itself from its neighbour. In FY24, bilateral trade grew 4% to $118.4 billion from $113.8 billion in FY23. India-US trade in the same period declined by 8.6% to $118.3 billion.

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After five months of providing what was asked of him, he was told that his claim had been rejected on the grounds of ‘serious discrepancies in the event of hospitalisation’. This, after Pal offered counter-proof for the lapses mentioned by the insurer. “I did not have the strength to pursue the case after five months of back and forth with the insurer,” says the 36-year-old. His claim amount was Rs.1.14 lakh. Pal isn’t the only one nursing a grudge against health insurance companies over claim settlements. As per the Council for Insurance Ombudsmen’s annual report 2022-23, of the 51,103 insurance complaints received by it between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023, nearly 50.6% or 25,873 complaints were related to health insurance. As high as 93.14% of the total entertainable complaints disposed of were about ‘partial and total repudiation of claims by insurer’.