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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 2022, Brian Riley opened a bicycle factory in Seymour, Ind., shifting production of his Guardian Bikes brand to the U.S. from China.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Buying Property? Don’t Forget These Extra Costs That Can Add 7-11% to Your Budget Think you’ve nailed your property budget? Think you’ve accounted for every expense in buying your dream home? Think again—overhead costs like taxes and government fees could add a hefty 7-12% to your final bill. The biggest cost is that of stamp duty, a tax levied by state governments on the sale of property.

SBI Cards and Payment Services climbed as much as 5.1% on Monday to Rs 760.15 on the BSE after two brokerage firms Nomura and Nuvama upgraded the stock’s rating to 'buy’, while increasing their target prices to Rs 825 and Rs 850, respectively, signaling potential upsides between 8.5% and 12% from current levels. Japanese brokerage firm Nomura highlighted that several near-term concerns, particularly around asset quality, are expected to diminish for SBI Cards and Payment Services. The brokerage said that it has observed a growing concentration of credit card debt in metro regions since FY23, with the share of the top eight metro cities in new sourcing showing an upward trend.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The latter half of December witnessed a flurry of groundbreaking announcements despite the holiday season, highlighting a Generative AI industry that cannot afford a pause, given the rapid developments and high costs for those who fall behind. Google raised the bar with Gemini 2.0: Google’s launch of Gemini 2.0 is a full-fledged base model upgrade from the 1.5 series.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The dollar rupee exchange rate is one of the most important economic variables that affects all aspects of the economy. Whether it is food prices that have an embedded transport fuel or fertilizer cost element, or domestic steel facing import competition, everything is influenced by that rate.

ArcelorMittal South Africa Ltd. will close its business that makes long-steel products, potentially affecting about 3,500 jobs.

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has pre-paid loans of worth Rs 56,000 crore during the current fiscal, helping the state-owned agency to save interest cost of around Rs 1,200 crore, a senior government official said on Sunday. The official told PTI that NHAI's total debt at the beginning of the current fiscal year was pegged at Rs 3.35 lakh crore, which stood at about Rs 2.76 lakh crore at the end of third quarter of 2024-25 fiscal year.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The UK’s Labour government has given serious thought to the public investment needed to get the economy back on track after 14 years of austerity, neglect of social infrastructure and capital flight triggered by Brexit and economic uncertainty. The situation demands a new strategy to tackle big problems like child poverty, health inequities, a weak industrial base and struggling public infrastructure.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It was a roller-coaster ride for Mumbai-based Sailee Satish Angane when she was studying abroad. First it was disrupted by the covid-19 pandemic and later by a medical scare.

operating profit in the October-December quarter. Several FMCG makers are likely to log a low single-digit rise in their revenue, returning to the cycle of value-driven growth. One of the reasons could be that a number of companies have opted for a price hike in the December quarter due to rising costs of input items such as copra, vegetable oil, and palm oil.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Neil Warburton was finishing up his breakfast of porridge and local honey when the armed soldiers converged. The Australian veteran mining executive had flown to southern Ethiopia in 2023 to check on progress at his lithium mine.

Jaguar’s “copy nothing” brand reboot hit late last year, one self-styled car enthusiast replied on X: “What the actual hell is this.” Jaguar’s response: “The future.” That remains to be seen. But the ad, unfamiliar and unsettling, does at least work as a portent of what’s coming for the global auto industry.

WestJet has denied compensation to a devout Taylor Swift fan whose cancelled flight triggered a 10-hour drive through the night from Prince George to make the singer’s shows in Vancouver last month.Carol Hansson says she and other Swifties on the flight incurred hundreds of dollars in costs after the cancellation less than 24 hours before Swift took the stage for the first of three concerts at BC Place.She says the Calgary-based airline told her the cancellation was due to “unplanned aircraft maintenance” and was required for safety purposes.WestJet confirms that in a written response and says Hansson is therefore not eligible for compensation under Canada’s Air Passenger Protection Regulations.The regulations say that in situations “within airline control but required for safety purposes,” airlines have obligations for a passenger’s treatment and completion of their itinerary — but not compensation.Hansson says WestJet delayed the evening flight from Prince George for about five hours, before cancelling the Dec. 5 service.Airlines are also obliged under the regulations to offer alternate travel in the same class of service for disruptions beyond three hours, but Hansson says she was offered a Dec.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When you rise to the level of self-actualization, the final stage of Maslow’s need hierarchy, the world is your oyster. For India’s 185 billionaires and some millionaires, it’s a dream house costing well over ₹100 crore.

National Judicial Academy and State Judicial Academy at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh with no cost to Bangladesh.

A vacation ahead of the holidays for a Calgary couple to relax before the Christmas chaos ended in tragedy — which triggered a bureaucratic nightmare.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With housing loan interest rates remaining reasonable over the years, many taxpayers have turned to loans to fund their residential property purchases. Tax laws, however, limit the deduction of housing loan interest for self-occupied properties to ₹2 lakh annually.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: You’re about to pay for a purchase on a popular e-commerce website from your mobile, but your bank doesn’t show up in the netbanking list. This stumbling block faced by many consumers may be fixed if a pilot rolled out by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) last month works out.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an oil industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change

World Gold Council report released today, gold rose 25.5% in 2024, likely due to its role as an effective hedge against the heightened geopolitical uncertainty.

A sleeper election issue is our sinking dollar, which fell this past year by nine per cent against the U.S. dollar, reaching its lowest level since April 2003. It nowtakes $1.44 in Canadian dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. Flipping it over, $1 Canadian dollar costs just 69.4 U.S. cents.