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Members of a Senate committee looking into the Steward Health Care bankruptcy said they plan to vote next week to adopt two resolutions to hold Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt after he refused to attend a hearing Thursday despite being issued...

TikTok and parent company ByteDance face a key court hearing on Monday in a legal battle seeking to block a law that could ban the app used by 170 million Americans as soon as Jan. 19. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hold oral arguments on the legal challenge, putting the fate of Chinese-owned TikTok in the middle of the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election. Both Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are active on TikTok seeking to court younger voters.

Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare (DoPPW) DLC campaign 3.0, which will run from November 1 to 30, 2024, across all district headquarters and major cities in India. On September 12, 2024, a preparatory meeting was conducted to plan the DLC campaign 3.0 for district post offices. The meeting was chaired by V Srinivas, Secretary of DoPPW, and included Sanjay Sharan, Director General of Postal Services, Rajul Bhatt, Deputy Director General of Posts, and R Viswesvaran, MD & CEO of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB), among other officials. It was agreed that district post offices will coordinate with pensioner welfare associations, pension disbursing banks and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), among others, to conduct the DLC campaign 3.0 at district post offices, the statement issued by the Personnel Ministry said.

water cannons on Friday to disperse protestors demanding the demolition of a mosque built on encroached land in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi town. The protestors initially held a march in the Mandi market area and sat on a dharna at Seri manch. Later, when they made attempts to proceed towards the mosque, police stopped them and used water cannons to bring the situation under control. Security had been beefed up by the police in Mandi with the deployment of heavy force after Hindu outfits gave the call for a protest march. On Thursday, members of the Muslim community had themselves demolished an unauthorised portion of the mosque located on Jail Road in the town.

junior doctors in West Bengal have written to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting their intervention in the RG Kar hospital impasse. Copies of the four-page letter written by the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front were also sent to Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar and Union Health Minister JP Nadda. A post-graduate trainee was raped and murdered in state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Junior doctors have been on 'cease work' since then. «We humbly place the issues before your esteemed excellency, as the head of state, so that our unfortunate colleague who has been the victim of the most despicable crime shall receive justice, and so that we, the healthcare professionals under the West Bengal Health department, may be able to discharge our duties to the public without fear and apprehension.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employees received income tax notices due to a mismatch between the TDS credit in their Form 26AS, Annual Information Statement (AIS) and the amount they claimed while filing their income tax return (ITR). In the case of TCS employees, the company has proactively tried to resolve the tax issues faced by their employees. TCS has communicated to its employees that the tax authorities would be reprocessing their ITRs after which the problem of mismatch of TDS credit would be resolved. It may happen that you are facing such a scenario where you have also received a tax demand notice from the income tax department due to a mismatch in the TDS amount shown in Form 26AS, AIS, and Part A of Form 16. Here is what you can do if you have got the tax demand notice from the tax department due to mismatch of TDS with Form 26AS and AIS.

M Rajeshwar Rao, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has stated that infrastructure projects pose significant risks, complicating their financing. He advocated for a unified approach to infrastructure development, viewing projects as interconnected rather than independent. This announcement coincides with RBI's proposal for new rules requiring banks to set aside an additional 5% provision of the loan amount, up from the current requirement of 0.4%. If implemented, this would increase the cost of project financing. Rao made these comments at an infrastructure seminar organized by the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID). «High sunk costs, coupled with long gestation periods, further complicate the financing of infrastructure projects and lead to asset-liability mismatches. Delays in approvals, clearances, land acquisition challenges, and breaches of agreements also add to the risks of project financing and cause further issues like cost overruns,» Rao said. He emphasized that infrastructure projects are interdependent, so issues in one project can impact others, making coordinated planning and execution crucial.

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US State Department said Thursday it was unconditionally releasing $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt, at a time when Cairo and Washington have been working closely on a Gaza ceasefire deal. Last year, the United States had made the release of part of this annual aid conditional on progress being made on respecting human rights in Egypt, a country where ruler Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been accused of suppressing dissent. This year, however, the State Department said Egypt had made «progress» in certain areas of human rights. It also explicitly mentioned Cairo's help in mediating between Israel and Palestinian armed group Hamas on the war in Gaza.

US State Department imposed sanctions on China-based firms, for their supply to Pakistan's ballistic missile program under the missile sanctions laws on Thursday. «The Department of State is taking action against five entities and one individual that have been involved in the proliferation of ballistic missiles and controlled missile equipment and technology. Specifically, the Department of State is designating the Beijing Research Institute of Automation for Machine Building Industry (RIAMB) pursuant to Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery,» State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a press statement. Notably, RIAMB has worked with Pakistan's National Development Complex (NDC), -which the United States assesses is involved in the development and production of Pakistan's long-range ballistic missiles.

U.S. wholesale price increases mostly slowed last month, the latest evidence that inflation pressures are cooling enough for the Federal Reserve to begin cutting interest rates next week

mental health and neurology space has a massive potential to transform lives, the ET Startup Awards 2024 jury said, as it zeroed in on BrainSight AI as the winner in the Top Innovator category. While space technology startup SatSure was in contention, the potential use of artificial intelligence in reading complex MRI scans and its eventual impact on humans tilted the jury towards BrainSight AI. “The Top Innovator category gives you a sense about the moonshot ideas that entrepreneurs are chasing… It makes you feel that the world is going to be a better place,” said jury member and Caratlane founder Mithun Sacheti.

traffic disruptions. The Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for the next 24 hours, advising residents to «be prepared» for severe weather. This alert warns of possible disruptions in transport, including rail, road, and air travel, as well as potential power outages. The meteorological department forecasts light to heavy rain continuing in Delhi, with cloudy skies expected on Friday. The maximum temperature will be around 31°C, and the minimum will hover around 21°C. Winds are expected to blow at 25 to 35 km/h. While the rainfall will continue, it is expected to get lighter by the weekend. No rain is forecast from September 15-17, with only light rain expected on September 18.

The U.S. Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has filed a proposed order to permanently ban Navient from directly servicing federal student loans, which the agency says will end years of abusive lending practices

Ramsey Solutions personality Jade Warshaw breaks down how to get the most out of your Social Security check and more on The Bottom Line.

Key Advisors Wealth Management co-founder and CEO Eddie Ghabour looks ahead to the Federal Reserve’s highly anticipated rate decision on ‘Varney & Co.’

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has identified and notified the products on which the revised and more stringent public procurement norms will be applied, as the government steps up its intent to push up local value addition. The DoT has identified 36 products such as routers, ethernet switches, media gateways, customer premises equipment, GPON equipment etc, where the minimum local content has to be over 50%. On certain products, the minimum local content has to be 65%. The stakeholders including telecom operators, manufacturers etc can provide their comments within 15 days on the draft notification.

US Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), said on Thursday that the United States is ready to offer F-16 fighter jets to India. Speaking with reporters on India's defence sector and F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets, Major General Piffarerio said, "...The more options that are out there, I think the stronger the Indian Air Force is going to be in the future." He added, «We certainly want to give them the best that we have — the F-16s. But ultimately it's going to be a choice for the Indian Air Force on what they want to do with their air defence.»

Northeast Students' Organisation (NESO) on Thursday urged the Prime Minister and Home Minister to urgently intervene in the Manipur situation. NESO is an apex body of eight students' organisations representing seven NE states. The organisation claimed that the failure to address the ethnic conflict not only undermines the stability of Manipur but also poses a threat to the broader peace and security of the entire northeast region.

Slightly more Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs remain at historically low levels despite two years of elevated interest rates

The U.S. is divided when it comes to state and federal marijuana policy, but recent political developments could move the country toward greater acceptance of cannabis