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A handful of airlines — Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, JetBlue Airways and United Airlines — have raised their fees for checked bags this year. But if you plan ahead, such fees are easy to reduce or avoid altogether.

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project may still be months away from completion, but industry insiders have already started speculating on how it will impact the oil sector, from a potential increase in the price of Canadian oil to the opening of new export markets.

PARIS—This time last year, Arthur Mensch was 30, still employed at a Google unit here, and artificial intelligence had just started to take off in the public consciousness as something more than science fiction. Since then, so-called generative AI that can converse—and possibly reason—like humans has become the most talked-about technology breakthrough in decades. And the startup Mensch left Google to launch, now all of nine months old, is valued at slightly more than $2 billion.

Canara Bank said on Monday that the board has given its approval a stock split, dividing each share into five shares to enhance the liquidity of the bank's shares and make them more accessible for retail investors, the company said in an exchange filing. The expected time period for the completion of the stock split is 2-3 months. "Expected time of completion is 2 to 3 months from intimation of date of Board Meeting (February 7, 2024) to Stock Exchanges, considering the time taken for receiving RBI’s approval," said Canara Bank.

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NDP has reached a deal with the Liberal government to introduce the first piece of a national pharmacare program that includes coverage for birth control and diabetes medication but it appears Alberta does not intend to be part of the agreement.It’s a critical piece of the supply-and-confidence agreement between the two parties and comes ahead of a March 1 deadline to table legislation. Some final details may still be worked out but the Alberta government says it plans to opt out.Dr.

Motilal Oswal Financial Services showed that Nifty 500 companies reported earnings growth of 25% year-on-year in Q3FY24, but this growth was largely fuelled by the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) and automobile sectors. Meanwhile, it is widely expected that the outcome of 2024 general elections in May will be favourable for the market.

Exicom Tele Systems IPO opens soon. GMP, date, price, review, other details about upcoming IPO Exicom Tele-Systems Limited's revenue decreased by 14.79 percent and profit after tax (PAT) rose by 24.07 percent in FY23. The market capitalization of Exicom Tele-Systems IPO is ₹1715.71 crore.

Ultra low-cost carrier Lynx Air will be ceasing operations after obtaining creditor protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, the company said late this week. The Calgary-based airline said operations will halt effective 12:01 a.m. MT on Monday, with flights continuing to operate until that time. The Financial Post’s Denise Paglinawan and Shantaé Campbell explain what that means for customers who are currently travelling and those who have booked tickets for future flights.

Canadians can expect the Bank of Canada to start providing some respite this spring as the central bank “slowly but surely” moves towards its first interest rate cuts, says Desjardins Group.

food delivery apps like Zomato and Swiggy, quick service restaurant operators are finding the going tough with both their revenue and margin coming under severe stress while road to recovery is longer than estimated, says a report. The report by French brokerage BNP Paribas stated that the rising popularity of food aggregators has hurt dine-in sales of quick service restaurants (QSR) and has also fragmented delivery sales. Also, with more restaurants partnering with food delivery platforms, consumers now have more options, leading to fragmented sales which are likely playing a part in the weakness in average daily sales of the QSR industry besides the general weakness in demand due to elevated inflation, the report highlighted.

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Monday referred a statement made by Leader of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri regarding electric buses to the Privileges Committee of the House. While speaking over motion of thanks on Lt Governor V K Saxena's address in the House, Bidhuri claimed that the prime minister (Narendra Modi) provided 1,650 crore electric buses free of cost to Delhi. Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot immediately objected to it and urged the Speaker to refer Bidhuri's «baseless statement» to the Privileges Committee. «This statement is completely false. It is very shameful that leader of opposition is on record making baseless statements. This matter should be referred to the Privileges Committee,» Gahlot urged the Speaker.

Smriti Irani said on Monday and questioned the Congress' silence on alleged sexual abuse of women by TMC supporters in the village. Congress people want to go there and talk but the «shehzada», who is still lost in the maze of politics, has not said a word on this matter, the Women and Child Development minister said in an apparent reference to senior party leader Rahul Gandhi. Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district has been on the boil for a month with protests against local TMC leader Sheikh Shajahan and his supporters over allegations of land grabbing and sexually abusing local women. Sheikh has been absconding since an Enforcement Directorate team that raided his house in connection with an alleged ration scam was attacked by a mob last month.

Investing.com — Domino’s Pizza (NYSE:DPZ) has hiked its dividend and gave the green light to further share repurchases, the restaurant chain announced on Monday.

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chips race, now has to evaluate $21 billion of semiconductor proposals and divvy up taxpayer support between foreign chipmakers, local champions or some combination of the two. Israel’s Tower Semiconductor Ltd. is proposing a $9 billion plant, while India’s Tata Group has put forward an $8 billion chip fabrication unit, people familiar matter said. Both projects would be in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, the people said, declining to be named as the matter is not public. Semiconductors have grown into a key geopolitical battleground, with the US, Japan and China investing heavily in developing domestic capabilities. Modi’s push to turn India into a global manufacturing hub also includes luring international chipmakers to the country — a bid to catch up in the sector to save money on expensive imports and enhance a growing smartphone assembly industry.

₹5.3 lakh crore in March 2021 to ₹17 lakh crore in February 2024. Meanwhile, the market cap of private banks over the similar period has grown just 43% to ₹30.4 lakh crore in February 2024 (despite the HDFC-HDFC Bank merger).