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Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, the Justice Department said on Friday.

A Venezuelan subsidiary of a Spanish phone company will pay more than $85 million to resolve a U.S. Justice Department investigation into a scheme to bribe Venezuelan government officials

U.S. officials are proposing tighter restrictions on oil, solar and wind energy development across more than 6,500 square miles of federal land in the U.S. West

A former American TD Bank employee who worked in the bank’s heavily scrutinized anti-money laundering department in the U.S. has been criminally indicted in New York, the Manhattan district attorney announced Thursday.

40 monkeys' escape from the South Carolina research facility, residents were advised to close their windows and doors. Customers of Alpha Genesis, the company that runs the lab where the monkeys went missing, can purchase nonhuman primate products and bio-research service.

A former Toronto-Dominion Bank employee in its anti-money-laundering department was charged with stealing customer information and distributing it on a Telegram channel, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said.

Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of theBinance Holdings Ltd. cryptocurrency exchange, arrived at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai to rapturous applause and a long line of fans eager for a selfie with him. Deep in the pulsating crowd, a man yelled “he is a martyr” while in another part of the room a promoter of a startup boldly declared: “the king is back!”

Salman Rushdie's controversial book, 'The Satanic Verses'.

The number of Americans applying for jobless aid ticked up last week but layoffs remain at historically low levels

air quality continued to be in the «very poor» category. While the Air Quality Index at 9 am stood at 367, nine stations — Anand Vihar, Ashok Vihar, Bawana, Jahangirpuri, Mundka, Rohini, Sonia Vihar, Vivek Vihar, Wazirpur — reported air quality in the «severe» category, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

Donald Trump’s victory promises to shake up U.S. energy and environmental policy, with sweeping implications for oil production, offshore wind development and electric vehicle sales.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that students eligible for free or reduced price school meals cannot be charged processing fees beginning in 2027

IITs), starting academic year 2025-26 IIT Kanpur will also consider admitting students for its B-Tech and BS (bachelor science) programmes on the performance in international Olympiads. Currently any aspiring candidate must appear in two sets of exams- JEE Mains and JEE Advanced to get a seat at IIT Kanpur.

Pawan Kalyan, Andra Pradesh deputy chief minister and Jana Sena chief, publicly criticised state Home Minister Vangalapudi Anitha on Monday. Kalyan expressed concern over recent crimes against children and the overall law and order situation in the state. Speaking in his constituency, Pithapuram, Kalyan stated that the Home Minister should take responsibility for the current situation. He even suggested that he might take over the Home Ministry if things didn't improve. “I am telling this to Anitha," Kalyan said. «You are the home minister, I am the panchayati raj and forest and environment minister. Discharge your duties well. I can get the home ministry if I want. If the situation remains the same, I will be forced to take a decision. The situation would be different if I became the home minister.»

cancer patients in Canada seek emergency help before their diagnosis, with more than half being hospitalized following an ER visit, according to new research.A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) on Monday showed that more than a third of cancer patients in Ontario had visited an emergency department in the three months prior to their cancer diagnosis.“This study highlights how frequently patients with cancer are using the emergency department during the diagnostic phase of their cancer journey,” said Dr. Keerat Grewal, study co-author and an emergency medicine physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.“It’s almost one in three patients who are using the emergency department prior to their diagnosis and there are certain patient populations who are more likely to use the emergency department,” she told Global News in an interview.The study included more than 650,000 patients who were first diagnosed with cancer between 2014 and 2021 in Ontario.Even though the data was limited to Ontario, Grewal said it’s a trend that’s being seen across Canada.The CMAJ study showed that among the patients with emergency department visits 90 days before a cancer diagnosis, 64 per cent visited an ER once, 23 per cent visited twice and 13 per cent had three or more visits.

government prepares to notify the Digital Private Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP), law enforcement authorities are cracking down on almost every unauthorised use of personally identifiable information (PII) by technology companies. In one of the latest moves, the Union home ministry through the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) has asked to shut down any unauthorised use of Pan (Permanent Account Number) of Indian citizens by fintechs and other consumer technology companies, according to three people in the know. “This was known as a ‘Pan enrichment’ service, which would help loan distribution companies create a profile of their customers against their Pan numbers, for cross sell of credit and other financial products,” said a top executive at a fintech firm on the condition of anonymity. “Sometimes this data was also used to cross check the details put in by the customer in his or her application form,” he added.

In less than 24 hours, the United States will head to the polls to choose its next president. Amidst the high-stakes atmosphere, billionaire Elon Musk, a known Donald Trump supporter, tweeted a comparison of the top donor lists for the 2024 presidential contenders with those of the 2020 election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

Hinduja Group received the central bank's approval to acquire the financial services company, but the transaction cannot proceed until it is approved by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). The Hindujas need DPIIT's approval because IIHL (IndusInd International Holdings), the acquisition vehicle, has 600 shareholders from the UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mauritius, with 39 shareholders residing in Hong Kong, which is classified as a land-border country under PN3 due to its special administrative relationship with China, said a source. This has raised compliance questions under PN3, prompting deeper scrutiny by Indian regulators.

Michael Patra at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Patra's extended term ends in January. Applicants need to have at least 25 years of work experience in public administration or similar years of experience in Indian or international public financial institutions. Interestingly, no economics degree or experience has been made mandatory though as the head of the crucial monetary policy department, this post oversees the department of statistics, department of economic policy, and research and financial market operations and regulations. Patra has been one of the four deputy governors in the RBI for close to six years. He is on his second one-year extension which will end in January 2025.