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Invincible Season 2 concludes, fans are eagerly anticipating the release of Season 3. With production well underway, here's everything we know about the upcoming season.

If you thought men being paid more than women in banking is becoming a thing of the past, then today's revelation that the gender pay gap at Goldman Sachs hasin fact expanded to its widest level in six years, will come as a terrible surprise.

Hima Kohli, who heads the Supreme Court's committee for family court matters, on Saturday suggested legislative amendments to expand the jurisdiction of family courts and enhance their efficacy for smooth and effective disposal of cases. In her keynote address at a two-day regional conference for northern zone on family court matters, Justice Kohli said the Family Courts Act which came into being in 1984 is comprehensive but it has its limitations which contribute to the inefficacy of family courts. A significant limitation of the Act is its silence on granting injunctions against domestic violence, she said. «The gap was partially addressed by the Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005 but jurisdictional challenges persist,» Justice Kohli said.

Q4 Results Preview | Telecom cos to report moderate growth on ARPU upgrades; Bharti Airtel, Jio to lead the pack According to the report, banks are at an unusual junction wherein frontline names have underperformed. With outperformance by other private and mid-tier PSU banks, the valuation gap between mid-tier and frontline has narrowed. “We retain our neutral stance on banks; hereafter, the riskreward may be tilted toward frontline peers.

Voya has once again broadened its array of retirement plan solutions with the introduction of a new nonqualified deferred compensation plan offering for key employees at small businesses.

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Mortgage rates are expected to come down later this year, but any benefit to homebuyers could be muted by developments in the market for financial instruments tied to mortgages

Denise Hardesty, senior research scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, said this is the first estimate of how much plastic waste ends up on the ocean floor. «We discovered that the ocean floor has become a resting place, or reservoir, for most plastic pollution, with between three to 11 million tonnes of plastic estimated to be sinking to the ocean floor,» said Hardesty, one of the corresponding authors of the study published in the journal Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.

Bandhan Bank Ltd. traded at Rs 199.25 on BSE at 10:50AM (IST) on Friday, up 0.58 per cent from previous close. The stock quoted a 52-week low price of Rs 173.45 and a high of Rs 272.0.

Blockchain technology company Ripple said Thursday that it plans to launch a U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin in an effort to bridge the gap between cryptocurrency and traditional finance and to generate more uses and liquidity for the XRP Ledger blockchain.

Americans had better start acting like London commuters and “mind the gap” when it comes to retirement, or they could be in big trouble down the line.  

Alaska Airlines says Boeing has paid $160 million in initial compensation for losses that the airline suffered after a panel blew off one of its Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners in January

Tudor Dixon explains how President Biden’s manufacturing regulations are making the process more expensive on ‘The Bottom Line.’

ALSO READ: IPL 2024: Ravi Shastri lends support to Hardik Pandya after Mumbai Indians' third loss, says, 'just be patient...' As MI got a day gap for their clash against Rishabh Pant-led Delhi Capitals, it is expected that the booing and jeering may stop or tone down. But if by any chance, MI loses the match, it may hurt Pandya. It is still unexpected on how Sanjay Manjrekar's recent 'behave' warning created an impact, but former Australia captain Michael Clarke revealed Hardik is actually in a better space to what the belief is, adding, that MI needs to win matches.

Gourav Vallabh pilloried his former party, Congress, and said, “They should participate in constructive criticism...While continuously criticising Modi ji, the Congress party has reached a stage where it is criticising itself now...." Notably, Vallabh had said that he was resigning from Congress because he can neither raise anti-Sanatan slogans nor abuse "wealth creators" day in and day out. Vallabh had cited inability to speak against Sanatan Dharma as a reason to quit Congress, and later joined BJP and “wished Congress stopped speaking against Sanatan Dharma". Gourav Vallabh, seen as an articulate Congress spokesperson, earlier shared his resignation letter written to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on social media platform X.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 that are scheduled to take place in seven phases beginning from April 19. He Vallabh tendered his resignation from the party earlier today, saying he has not been able to “raise anti-Sanatana slogans or abuse the wealth creators". Resigning from the primary membership of the Congress, Gourav Vallabh said he does not feel comfortable with the “direction" the party is moving forward.

Max Healthcare Institute Ltd. gained 0.04 per cent to Rs 819.0 in Thursday's session as of 10:55AM (IST) even as the equity benchmark Sensex traded 357.13 points lower at 73519.69. Earlier in the day, the stock witnessed a gap up start to the session. The stock quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 909.0 and a 52-week low of Rs 412.0 on NSE. Around 10452 shares changed hands on the counter till 10:55AM (IST).

₹20.2 trillion, up 11.7%. Last fiscal year’s monthly average GST mop-up was ₹1.68 trillion, up from ₹1.5 trillion the year before. It seems we can finally close the long chapter of shortfall-compensation for states after the mid-2017 switchover to GST from multiple central and state taxes that got subsumed by this uniform levy across the country.

Coal is projected to continue as the backbone of the Indian energy system until the next two decades and its phase-down will require active policies on critical minerals, according to a report by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)- Ahmedabad. The report asserted that net zero is not possible without substantial nuclear power and renewable energy generation by 2070. The report, titled 'Synchronising energy transitions towards a possible Net Zero for India: Affordable and Clean Energy for All,' was released on Wednesday.

China to lap up the commodity at deeply discounted prices. China imported 1.82 million barrels a day (mb/d) of Russian crude by sea in March, a third more than India's 1.36 mb/d, according to energy cargo tracker Vortexa. China also receives Russian oil through pipelines.India's monthly imports of seaborne Russian crude exceeded that of China for about one and a half years. In February, however, China's 1.3 mb/d of imports from Russia, marginally surpassed India's 1.27 mb/d. In March, the gap substantially widened. «Russian Sokol cargoes, which were previously rejected by Indian refiners due to concerns of the cargoes being loaded on sanctioned vessels, were sold at heavy discounts to Chinese refiners, which explains the sharp rise in volumes into China,» said Serena Huang, an analyst at Vortexa.

Reliance Industries (RIL), Tata Motors and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) will be the key bidders for the government's pilot project for the use of green/grey hydrogen (H2) in the transport sector, according to people who are aware of the development. The initiative is in line with the government's aim to decarbonise the economy, reduce dependence on fossil fuel imports, and enable India to assume technology and market leadership in green hydrogen. «The pilot projects will help to identify operational issues (with regards to H2) and gaps in terms of current technology readiness, regulations, implementation methodologies, infrastructure, and supply chains,» stated the revised request for proposal (RFP) document reviewed by ET. The bid for the Rs 496-crore project which opened in February, closes on Thursday. It is part of the National Green Hydrogen Mission which was launched in January 2023 with an outlay of Rs 19,744 crore. One of the key criteria from the bidders is participation as a consortium or partners to ensure the entire value chain — from making hydrogen and dispensing it and running vehicles fuelled by hydrogen. The bidding consortium should include a vehicle manufacturer, hydrogen fuel supplier distributor, and other partners as required.