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By Ashima Agarwal

As the year draws to an end, planning a vacation can be an exciting way to celebrate with your family and friends. Some people are quick enough to prepare their budget and plan their holidays in advance and execute it smartly while others often book their holidays at the last minute, that makes their experience costly.

A company’s group health insurance cover ceases to exist once an employee retires or resigns from the organisation. However, the employee including family members can migrate to an individual or family floater health insurance policy with the same insurer if he acts in time. For this, the insured employee has to intimate the insurer prior to leaving the employer or within five days of the date of cessation of group membership to issue a new retail health insurance policy for himself and his dependents (who were named as insured persons in the earlier policy) for cover up to his sum insured under the policy, on payment of premium in full for the new policy. After the migration, the insured can even opt for portability with any other general or standalone health insurer if needed.

tax demands for close to ₹11,000 crore on dividend income repatriated from India, following a Supreme Court ruling last week. The Supreme Court said on Thursday that the lower 5% withholding tax on dividend income of companies was not available to all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries merely on the most favoured nation (MFN) basis. The apex court held that the 5% rate would be available only to companies based in countries with which India had notified a double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) allowing it. In the absence of this, companies have to pay 10% tax on dividend income.

World Cup 2023 match at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. It would be the fifth match of both teams in the ICC ODI World Cup 2023. Pakistan are in the 5th spot with four points in the World Cup 2023 team table and Afghanistan is at the bottom of the table with two points.

DUBAI (Reuters) -An Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced two journalists to years in prison for their coverage of the death in custody of Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini last year, state media reported on Sunday.

Southern Cross Austereoexecutives are aiming to drum up wider interest to counter a takeover bid from radio rival ARN Media and private equity firm Anchorage Capital Partners lobbed last week.

NEW DELHI : The government plans to earmark ₹30,000 crore to expand the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) portal into a comprehensive platform that will extend insurance coverage beyond crops to include assets such as ponds, tractors, livestock, and palm trees, two officials said. This initiative will be driven by the AIDE app, launched in July, to ensure door-to-door enrolment, making crop insurance more accessible and convenient for farmers. Through this app, insurance intermediaries will not only enrol farmers for crop insurance, but also extend coverage to 40 million farmers for non-subsidized schemes.

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Mumbai has directed real estate developers and contractors of infrastructure-related works to follow pollution control measures in the backdrop of a deterioration in air quality in the country’s commercial capital over the last few days. Construction, including private and infrastructure work led by the government, is currently underway at 6,000 locations and sites in Mumbai. While the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) will issue detailed guidelines in the next few days, municipal commissioner and administrator Iqbal Singh Chahal has stated that projects being undertaken by both private as well as government bodies will be stopped if these measures are not followed. Following directions from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) that expressed concern over air quality index of Mumbai, Chahal interacted with state government agencies including MMRDA, MMRCL, MHADA and SRA, real estate developers’ bodies Credai and Naredco, and architects’ body PEATA on Friday. “Hardly 10 to 15 days have passed since the end of the monsoon…it is being observed that the air quality is adversely affected in the Mumbai region and also in the Mumbai metropolis,” Chahal said. The central and state governments have taken note of it and have instructed the local body to implement immediate measures, he added. “Dust is a major factor behind the increase in air pollution,” Chahal said, adding that there is a need to take measures to prevent and control dust and other factors that cause pollution. All the government agencies in Mumbai need to coordinate with each other and take urgent and mandatory measures, he said. Apart from construction, Chahal has also instructed that efforts should be made by projects related to electricity,

BJP chief JP Nadda on Sunday attacked the Congress, saying public service delivery may be an «alien concept» for it as its only interest is to keep «the poor in poverty». The reaction came on a day Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi objecting to a government order which, he claimed, stated that senior officers of ranks as high as joint secretary, director and deputy secretary are to be deployed to all 765 districts of the country as «Rath Prabharis» to «showcase achievements of the last nine years of Government of India».

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fire, writes Rutger Bregman in his book, Humankind: A Hopeful History. They even pretended to fire, and reload, to appease their superiors. The latest phase in the Israel-Palestine conflict is uniquely brutal for Israel, and brutal in a very familiar way for Palestinians.

women journalists over their coverage of the death in custody of Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini last year, state media reported on Sunday. The death of 22-year-old Amini last September while in the custody of the morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic dress code unleashed months of mass protests across Iran, marking the biggest challenge to Iran's clerical leaders in decades. Iran's state news agency IRNA said Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison respectively on charges, including collaboration with the U.S. government and acting against national security. Lawyers for the two journalists have rejected the charges. «They received seven years and six years each respectively for collaborating with the hostile U.S.

Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam were moved to different jails early Sunday, officials said. A Rampur court on Wednesday convicted Khan, his wife Tazeen Fatima and son in a 2019 fake birth certificate case, and sentenced them to seven years in jail.

The combined revenue of the companies that have declared their September-quarter financial results so far has risen 15% year-on-year, while net profits have risen 20.2%, a Mint analysis showed. However, the trend was heavily led by banking and financial services firms.

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued a warning that it will halt construction activities, regardless of whether they are on private or government properties if proper dust and pollution control measures are not implemented, a report by PTI stated. Municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said, “Construction is going on at a whopping 6,000 sites in the city currently", an official release quoted Chahal as saying on Friday.

ISACA released the report — State of Cybersecurity 2023, Global Update on Workforce Efforts, Resources and Cyberoperations — in early October, observed as cyber security awareness month. It showed that 55% of the respondents from India covered in the report have experienced more cyberattacks than a year before.

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The draft text, seen by Reuters, calls for the protection of civilians — including those who are trying to get to safety — notes that states must comply with international law when responding to «terrorist attacks», and urges the «continuous, sufficient and unhindered» delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip. It was not immediately clear if or when the United States planned to put the draft resolution to a vote. To pass, a resolution needs at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by Russia, China, the United States, France or Britain.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Aidan Lewis