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Bengaluru are set to go up from next month, as the state government is mulling an increase in ‘guidance value’. Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda on September 19 said that the new revised "guidance value" of properties will come into force from October 1. The guidance value is the minimum selling price of a property fixed by the government, depending on the locality and type of structure.

gender equality. Hedwig Dohm was born in Berlin, Germany in 1831 on September 20 into a large family of eighteen siblings. From a young age, she had a passion for reading and thoroughly enjoyed her time in school.

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Offline, a private members’ community for tech founders and CEOs for India, has raised $2 million from a clutch of angel investors including Groww’s Lalit Keshre, Razorpay’s Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar, Xiaomi’s Hong Feng and Alvin Tse, Ultrahuman cofounders Mohit Kumar and Vatsal Singhal, in addition to cofounders of startups such as Shiprocket, Polygon, Park+, Fashinza, GoKwik, Mosaic Wellness and others. The community platform, launched by Utsav Somani, former India head of AngelList, will build a closed-knit community of startup founders with a certain growth trajectory. “They need to meet either of these criteria to even apply – $5 million raised or $5 million in revenue or $10 million in a previous exit,” according to a statement.

The battle for Sims’ LMS Energy has been won.

Organizations representing minority journalists say they're worried that a recently-announced $500 million initiative designed to boost local news would leave them behind

Ukraine is filing a complaint at the World Trade Organization against Hungary, Poland and Slovakia after they banned grain and other food products coming from the war-torn country

Pernod Ricard, the world’s second-largest wines and spirits producer, has mandated two banks to conduct a strategic review of its Australia and New Zealand business which could lead to a sale process as early as next month, Street Talk can reveal.

public health and geopolitical instability that are impeding efforts to address pressing global issues. The theme of the 78th session of the UNGA is “Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all." Beside President Joe Biden of the United States, none of the leaders of the five permanent members of the Security Council—namely the US, Russia, China, France and Britain—are attending the UNGA session.

NEW DELHI : Monsoon rains that arrived late but then lingered for an extended period, coupled with land acquisition delays, have slowed down road-building in the country. Signs of slowdown in road construction became pronounced with the government scaling down capital expenditure for the sector in calendar year 2023. It built just about 23% of highways in the first five months of FY24 against a record target of 13,800 km.

market capitalization—is an excellent example of it. Data published recently by the Association of Mutual Funds in India—the mutual fund lobby—tells us that the number of folios of small cap equity mutual funds (MFs) as of August had shot up to 13.85 million, a jump of a little over 27% from March. To put it another way, more than a fifth of the investment folios of small cap MFs that are currently in existence were created during this financial year.

Britain has invited China to its global artificial intelligence (AI) summit in November, with foreign minister James Cleverly saying the risks of the technology could not be contained if one of its leading players was absent. «We cannot keep the UK public safe from the risks of AI if we exclude one of the leading nations in AI tech,» Cleverly said in a statement on Tuesday.

Biden appealed to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to stand with Ukraine against Russian invaders, hoping Republicans in Congress will also take notice. «Russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalize Ukraine without consequence,» Biden said in his speech to UNGA.

Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said that Canada is not looking to provoke India as he urged the Indian government to take killing of separatist Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar seriously. The Canadian government on September 19 expelled a top Indian diplomat and accused India of having links to the killing of Khalistani separatist Nijjar. However, India refused such claims and called the move «absurd and motivated.» India also expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat action after Ottawa's expulsion of an Indian official over the case, marking fresh tensions to the already frayed bilateral ties. Canadian High Commissioner to India Cameron MacKay was summoned and he was informed about the decision to expel the senior diplomat with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) saying the move reflects New Delhi's growing concern at the «interference of Canadian diplomats in our internal matters and their involvement in anti-India activities». In a strongly-worded statement, the MEA also trashed comments by Trudeau and Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, asserting that «such unsubstantiated allegations seek to shift the focus from Khalistani terrorists and extremists, who have been provided shelter in Canada and continue to threaten India's sovereignty and territorial integrity». Though New Delhi did not divulge the name of the Canadian diplomat who has been asked to leave India within five days, people familiar with the matter said it is Canadian intelligence agency's station chief in New Delhi Olivier Sylvestere. The Indian action to expel the Canadian diplomat came hours after Joly announced that a «top Indian diplomat» has been expelled from Canada.

Irdai Chairman Debasish Panda on Tuesday urged stakeholders in the infrastructure sector to take advantage offered by surety bonds, which complement bank guarantees needed for large scale funding. Surety bond is a type of insurance policy protecting parties involved in a transaction or contract from potential financial losses due to a breach of contract or other types of non-performance. He was speaking at a roundtable organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and The Infravision Foundation (TIF) on the financing of infrastructure projects in the country as part of the massive push to the sector by the government by allocating Rs 10 lakh crore towards it in the Union Budget 2022-23. The chairman of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) pointed out that India is expected to spend approx Rs 100 lakh crore on infrastructure through the National Infrastructure Pipeline in the next five years. This requires bank guarantees of approximately Rs 90 lakh crore in the next five years, which banks currently do not have capacity for, a CII press release quoted Panda as saying.

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NEW YORK—Senior Chinese officials were told that an internal Communist Party investigation found ex-Foreign Minister Qin Gang to have engaged in an extramarital affair that lasted throughout his tenure as Beijing’s top envoy to Washington, according to people familiar with the matter. Qin, once considered a trusted aide to leader Xi Jinping, was stripped of his foreign minister title in July—without explanation—after he disappeared from public view a month earlier. At one point leading up to his ouster, the Foreign Ministry said the absence of 57-year-old Qin was due to health reasons.

Advisors who fail to meet the needs of diverse investors as they become more confident, are leaving money on the table.

The Federal Reserve is confronting a familiar nemesis as it tries to pilot the economy into a rarely-seen soft landing: rising oil prices.

In recent times, the real estate market in India has witnessed a resurgence in pre-launch activities that should give any potential investor pause for thought. These practices have raised significant concerns about their legality, transparency, and the risks they pose to unsuspecting investors.

Reliance Jio, AirFiber, was launched on the ocassion of Ganesh Chaturthi on Tuesday. So far, the service will be active in eight cities. Jio AirFiber also offers subscription of popular OTTs like Netflix, Amazon, Hotstar, etc on selected plans.