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On August 20, 2023, Hugo Lee, the CEO of Haru Invest, released an official statement addressing the concerns and questions raised by its members. Lee emphasized that Haru Invest is not evading accountability and remains committed to the efficient recovery of members' assets. He also clarified that the rehabilitation procedure requested by some members is deemed ineffective for the majority's asset distribution needs.

small and medium enterprises. Simultaneously, the share of farmers went up from 23.2% to 27.6%, indicating reverse migration from urban to rural India. This trend also reveals the darker side of our growth story, as it does show that job creation has lagged in urban regions and not kept pace with economic growth.

credit cards can be linked to UPI. The scope of UPI is now being expanded by the inclusion of credit lines as a funding account, Reserve Bank said in a circular on 'Operation of Pre-Sanctioned Credit Lines at Banks through UPI' "Under this facility, payments through a pre-sanctioned credit line issued by a Scheduled Commercial Bank to individuals, with the prior consent of the individual customer, are enabled for transactions using the UPI System," the RBI said. “Banks may, as per their board approved policy, stipulate terms and conditions of use of such credit lines.

NEW DELHI : With thermal power plants left with just 10 days of coal stock even as power demand soars, the union ministry of power has directed all domestic coal-based power plants to blend 4% imported coal till March 2024. In January, power generation companies (gencos) were asked to blend 6% imported coal till September in order to meet high demand during the summer. In a recent notification the power ministry noted that Grid India has projected continuation of high power demand through FY24 because of which there is a need to continue blending imported coal.

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The Federal Reserve has reached a delicate stage in its fight against inflation

Pakistani traders have staged strikes across the country against the soaring cost of living, including higher fuel and utility bills and record depreciation of the rupee against the dollar

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The United Arab Emirates has created a federal authority to potentially run a national lottery and what it describes as “commercial gaming.”

This year, bugs haven’t been the biggest problem at picnics. Summer in Denver started with almost nonstop rainfall. Rachel LeBar, owner of Colorado Luxe Picnics, had to chase down or break down several of her setups.

(Reuters) — London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSEG) is looking into using blockchain to build what it described on Monday as «an end-to-end digital market ecosystem to raise and transfer capital across asset classes».

Power Finance Corporation (PFC) on Monday signed a pact to provide Rs 1,229 crore term loan to Assam Petrochemicals to implement a 500 tonnes per day methanol plant at Namrup and 200 tonnes per day formalin plant at Boitamari in Assam. «PFC and Assam Petrochemicals Ltd (APL) signed a loan agreement on September 4, 2023, for extending a term loan of Rs 1,229 crore for the implementation of 500 Tons Per Day (TPD) Methanol Plant, including their 11 MW Captive Power Plant (CPP) at Namrup and 200 TPD Formalin Plant, including their Captive 0.90 MW power plant at Boitamari in Assam at an estimated Project Cost of Rs 1,827 Crore,» a PFC statement said. The 500 TPD Methanol Plant, including 11 MW CPP, was inaugurated by the Prime Minister on April 14, 2023, on completion. The project, including the 200 TPD Formalin Plant, is scheduled to commence commercial operation by March 31, 2024.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das highlighted the need for bringing in solutions to tackle the key challenges to existing cross border payments including high cost, low speed, limited access and insufficient transparency. To this, the governor of India's central bank suggested that Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) can play an important role in making cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more secure. «Faster, cheaper, more transparent, and more inclusive cross-border payment services would deliver widespread benefits to people and economies worldwide.

Invasive species that wreck crops, ravage forests, spread disease, and upend ecosystems are spreading ever faster across the globe, and humanity has not been able to stem the tide, a major scientific assessment said Monday. The failure is costing well over $400 billion dollars a year in damages and lost income — the equivalent to the GDP of Denmark or Thailand — and that is likely a «gross underestimation», according to the intergovernmental science advisory panel for the UN Convention on Biodiversity (IPBES). From water hyacinth choking Lake Victoria in East Africa, to rats and brown snakes wiping out bird species in the Pacific, to mosquitoes exposing new regions to Zika, yellow fever, dengue and other diseases, the report catalogued more than 37,000 so-called alien species that have taken root — often literally — far from their places of origin. That number is trending sharply upward, along with the bill for the damage multiplying fourfold per decade, on average, since 1970. Economic expansion, population increase and climate change «will increase the frequency and extent of biological invasions and the impacts of invasive alien species,» the report concluded. Only 17 percent of countries have laws or regulations to manage this onslaught, it said. Whether by accident or on purpose, when non-native species wind up on the other side of the world, humans are to blame. The spread of species is hard evidence that the rapid expansion of human activity has so radically altered natural systems as to tip the Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, scientists say. The hyacinth that at one point covered 90 percent of Lake Victoria — crippling transport, smothering aquatic life, blocking hydroelectric dam intake and