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The U.N. labor agency says illegal profits from forced labor globally have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year

The cost of hiring a real estate agent to buy or sell a home may soon change, along with decades-old rules that have helped determine broker commissions

If you thought last month’s crypto gains were impressive, brace yourself for March’s madness. Bitgert, the relatively unknown but ferociously eco-friendly cryptocurrency, is setting the charts ablaze.

—Name withheld on request In estate planning, individuals can take proactive steps to avoid common mistakes and ensure their assets are distributed as intended. Updating beneficiaries is crucial to reflect life changes accurately. For instance, failing to update beneficiaries after a divorce could result in assets unintentionally passing to the former spouse instead of current beneficiaries.

At a time of high joblessness, stagnant real rural income and slackness in consumption demand, the pensioners are facing the problem of higher rejections in the settlement of their employees’ provident fund (EPF) claims.

H-1B cap season for fiscal year 2025 is in full swing in the United States, with registrations now open and scheduled to close on March 22. However, the application procedure has undergone significant changes, making it crucial for employers and applicants to understand the new process thoroughly. The H-1B programme allows US employers to temporarily hire foreign workers in highly specialised technical occupations, including architecture, engineering, social sciences, medicine, education, mathematics, law, accounting, business specialities, arts, and others.

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Canada’s federal budget, due next month, is likely to allocate billions of dollars for investing in building homes and low cost housing programs, Housing Minister Sean Fraser said on Monday.

Donald Trump’s lawyers told a New York appellate court Monday that it’s impossible for the former president to post a bond covering the full amount of his $454-million civil fraud judgment while he appeals.A state appeals court judge ruled last month that Trump must post a bond covering the full amount to pause enforcement of the judgment, which is to begin on March 25.With interest, Trump owes $456.8 million. In all, he and co-defendants including his company and top executives owe $467.3 million.

Investment and asset management firm Alta Capital is looking to invest more than $1 billion in top cities across India over the next 3-4 years as it sharpens its focus on the country's rapidly growing educational infrastructure, said a top company official. The firm has already invested over $1 billion across warehousing, managed workspaces, student housing and educational infrastructure businesses in less than a year of operations till December, which also marked its purchase of education infrastructure development services company Cappella Educore for $200 million. Alta Capital had earlier acquired Goldman Sachs' and Warburg Pincus' 100% stake in student housing platform Good Host Spaces for $320 million in the largest-ever student housing deal in the country. «We are planning to invest $1 billion in India's burgeoning education infrastructure sector in the next 3-4 years. The market for quality education is worth $16 billion in India and is growing at 10% annually given the importance attached to education and skill development. This speaks volumes about the market size and need for private capital to shape the future of education,» Siddhartha Gupta, founder and managing partner, Alta Capital, told ET.

More than 80 per cent of newcomers who arrived in the past decade say Canada is too expensive to live in as they try to establish themselves amidst rising costs and employment-related obstacles, according to a new survey.

DJ Group of Institutionsbased on Niwari Road, Modinagar, Delhi NCR, recently conducted an event marking its 3 decade long association with Bank of Baroda. The program was conducted on the sidelines of the inauguration of a new undergraduate hostel built on the DJ College campus.Mr. Rakesh Sharma, General Manager, Bank of Baroda who currently heads the New Delhi zone presided over the event as its Chief Guest.

Mumbai, 15 March, 2024: Driven by its core value of consumer obsession, Tata AIA Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (Tata AIA), one of India’s leading life insurers, has introduced a host of funds, over time, for the benefit of consumers.

61% of adults in the USA invest in the stock market. Many worry that trying new investments means taking too much risk. They think going beyond things like savings accounts or gold is dangerous.

Xtrackers MSCI World ex USA UCITS ETF caters to investors seeking global equity exposure, but who would like to separately allocate to the US market. The fund comprises companies from 22 industrialised countries and reflects around 30% of the global market. It also reinvests the income from the companies it contains. DWS slashes fees on two Xtrackers India ETFs to 'simplify access' Countries such as Canada and Israel are not usually covered despite the corresponding portfolio components for these regions, but they are included in the ETF. Simon Klein, global head of Xtrackers sa...

Xtrackers MSCI World ex USA UCITS ETF caters to investors seeking global equity exposure, but who would like to separately allocate to the US market. The fund comprises companies from 22 industrialised countries and reflects around 30% of the global market. It also reinvests the income from the companies it contains. DWS slashes fees on two Xtrackers India ETFs to 'simplify access' Countries such as Canada and Israel are not usually covered despite the corresponding portfolio components for these regions, but they are included in the ETF. Simon Klein, global head of Xtrackers sa...

Financial planning has become crucial in today’s times to protect and secure our family’s financial well-being. And one crucial aspect of financial planning is opting for insurance. Most people, however, often think that insurance only serves the purpose of tax saving, and they should consider the tax angle first before selecting a policy, but that is not how it works.

NASA successfully transmitted a cat video from deep space, covering a distance of 19 million miles, showcasing a groundbreaking achievement in interstellar communication. This pioneering effort was part of a broader test conducted by the Deep Space Network (DSN), a network of massive radio antennas crucial for maintaining communication between Earth and spacecraft navigating distant cosmic realms.

The Dutch government says that French defense industry heavyweight Naval Group has been chosen to build four new diesel-electric submarines for the Dutch navy

A powerful real estate trade association has agreed to pay $418 million and change its rules to settle lawsuits claiming homeowners have been unfairly forced to pay artificially inflated agent commissions when they sold their homes

The European Union’s executive arm has proposed weakening even more climate and environmental measures in the bloc’s latest set of concessions to farmers apparently bent on continuing disruptive tractor protests until the June EU elections