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Canada’s Flair Airlines Ltd. is in talks to raise funds that would help ease the debt burden at the budget carrier beset by aircraft repossessions, back taxes and a financial backer accused of fraud.

Global equities edged higher ahead of a key earnings release from Nvidia Corp., the $3 trillion stock at the forefront of the global artificial intelligence frenzy. 

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The move comes as part of creating a new fund management structure for the company, especially for its venture capital trusts. Court has been the lead fund manager for the Apollo VCT for five years. In the new role, he will be responsible for overseeing all investments into unquoted companies from Octopus VCTs. Octopus Ventures partner Paul Davidson will succeed Court as lead manager of Apollo VCT, while Simon King will remain as lead fund manager of the Octopus Future Generations VCT. Octopus Investments reshuffles senior leadership team in business restructure As part of the r...

Aam Aadmi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh surrendered before a special court here on Wednesday in connection with a 2001 street-protest case and was granted bail. «Sanjay Singh surrendered in the MP-MLA court here. The court granted him bail on a surety bond of Rs 50,000,» his advocate Madan Singh said. The surety was deposited on the directions of the Allahabad High court which had on August 22 stayed the execution of the sentence awarded by the Sultanpur court. The special court had on January 11 last year sentenced the AAP leader to three months of rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine for obstructing traffic and inciting violence during a protest in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district.

CBI on Wednesday began the process of conducting a polygraph test on Kolkata Police ASI Anup Dutta to decipher his alleged links with Sanjay Roy, arrested in the rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had taken permission from a Kolkata court to conduct the polygraph test on Assistant Sub-Inspector Dutta, who was earlier questioned by the agency in the case. Dutta will be the eighth person to undergo a polygraph test in this case. According to the officials, Dutta, posted in the Kolkata Police Welfare Committee, had allegedly extended a number of favours to Roy, a traffic police volunteer.

Indonesia last week was rocked by large demonstrations attended by tens of thousands in several cities against a move in parliament aimed at relaxing electoral laws. The amendment, aborted in the face of the protests, would have allowed President Jokowi’s 29-year-old son, Kaesang Pangarep, to contest regional elections in central Java.

Nifty opened slightly higher on Wednesday, driven by gains in auto and energy stocks. The BSE Sensex was up 89 points, or 0.11%, at 81,799, while the Nifty50 rose 19 points, or 0.08%, to 25,036—just 42 points shy of its all-time high—around 9:22 am.

One of Chile’s most powerful lawyers has been ordered detained pending trial after being indicted on money laundering and tax fraud charges in a case that has rocked the country’s corporate and political elite

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An appeals court has revived Tesla’s federal court challenge to a Louisiana law that prohibits automobile manufacturers from selling directly to consumers

With the U.S. Open tennis tournament beginning Monday and college football kicking into high gear, this was supposed to be the week when some expected the Venu Sports streaming service to have a soft launch at least

Home improvement chain Lowe’s is scaling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining the ranks of a few other companies who have altered their programs since the end of affirmative action in higher education and amid conservative backlas...

Siemens Corporation is facing a lawsuit over its use of forfeited assets in its nearly $9 billion US 401(k) plan.

A Vermont man who was fired from his job after he said a random drug test showed he used medical marijuana while off duty for chronic pain has lost his appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court over unemployment benefits

Suraksha Group has infused Rs 250 crore in Jaypee Infratech after acquiring it through insolvency process and has also arranged a Rs 3,000 crore loan facility, as it gears up to complete around 20,000 unfinished flats in Delhi NCR. Around Rs 1,000 crore cash is lying in the balance sheet of the Jaypee Infratech Ltd, which the bankrupt company has accumulated from real estate business and toll income of Yamuna Expressway that connects Greater Noida and Agra. According to sources, Suraksha Group has infused Rs 250 crore in Jaypee Infratech Ltd (JIL) as equity and debt after taking control of the latter in early June. JIL currently has Rs 1,250 crore fund, including Rs 1,000 crore internal cash and Rs 250 crore infusion from Suraksha group.

presidential election process, the outcome on counting day is not immediately final, although it is a critical step in the electoral process. The popular vote, the outcome of Election Day, and the Electoral College vote are two distinct mechanisms that determine the outcome of the election. Here’s an overview of what happens after Election Day and how the final outcome is determined... On Election Day, November 5, 2024, voters across the United States will cast their ballots for President, Vice President, and various other offices. After polls close, election officials begin counting the votes. This process involves tallying in-person votes, mail-in ballots, and any early votes that were cast prior to Election Day.

National Task Force (NTF), which was recently constituted by the health ministry following the directions of the Supreme Court (SC), to make recommendations on the safety of medical professionals, was held on Tuesday. The deliberations were chaired by Union cabinet secretary TVS Somanathan and home secretary Govind Mohan, the health ministry said in a communique. There were elaborate and detailed discussions on various issues by the NTF members and they also put forth their suggestions, it said. During the meeting, the members informed that they have been approached directly by various stakeholders and have individually received almost 300 to 400 suggestions. The health ministry also informed that a national portal has been created by it under the title 'Suggestions to NTF' to seek suggestions from individuals and different stakeholders across the country and added that it is operational as of Tuesday.

Police officers are starting to use artificial intelligence to help write crime reports

The largest broadcaster of regional sports networks across the country will continue to televise games for more than a dozen NBA teams and nine NHL teams through the 2024-2025 season even as it moves through bankruptcy proceedings

Supreme Court Tuesday granted bail to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha, an accused in the alleged irregularities linked to the Delhi government's now-scrapped excise policy. «Investigation is complete and chargesheet has been filed. Custody of Kavitha is not necessary,» a division bench headed by Justice BR Gavai said. «The likelihood of trial being concluded in the near future is impossible. As said in various pronouncements of this court, undertrial custody should not turn into a punishment,» it ruled. The bench took exception to the Delhi High Court's observation that an educated, sophisticated woman is not entitled to bail under the beneficiary provision for women under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The high court had made the observation while turning down the bail plea of Kavitha, an ex-MP and daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. The high court in July held that she was not a vulnerable person.