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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has started holding informal meetings with broadcasting industry stakeholders to discuss issues that would be part of a consultation paper that it plans to issue soon, said people familiar with the matter. The telecom and broadcast sector regulator, under its new chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti, is planning to come out with a consultation paper to take a comprehensive look at the broadcast tariff issue. On Wednesday, the regulator held a meeting with the CEOs of TV broadcasting companies. Prior to that, it held a meeting with the heads of TV distribution companies, the people.

Preamble of the Constitution in NCERT books figured in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday with Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge flagging the issue. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, however, categorically stated that these reports were false. Pradhan said: «The Constitution's Preamble, Fundamental Duties, Fundamental Rights and National Anthemc continue to be part of NCERT books and all claims to the contrary were misplaced. Kharge maintained that he has been informed of newspaper reports stating that the Preamble of the Constitution may be removed from the syllabus. »I demand from the government that it should table documents on the changes made in the NCERT syllabus," Kharge said, adding that while on the one hand Modi bows to the Constitution, on the other hand he is trying to alter it.

Lok Sabha on Thursday while Opposition parties have demanded that it should be sent to a Parliamentary panel for further scrutiny. In the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) of the Lok Sabha, chaired by Speaker Om Birla, the government informed that the bill is likely to be introduced on Thursday. In the meeting, leaders from the Congress, NCP-SCP, Samajwadi Party and Trinamool Congress strongly opposed the bill introduction and said it should be referred to a Parliamentary committee.

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In the fall, it will be two years since the compliance deadline for the SEC Marketing Rule for investment management firms, but how are firms ensuring that they stay within the rules?

Nirmala Sitharaman replied to the discussion on the Finance Bill in Lok Sabha on August 7. The passage of the Finance Bill by Parliament completes the budget process. The Appropriation Bill for the central government's expenditure for 2024-25 was passed by the House on Monday. Without drastically increasing taxes, the govt has brought in simplified taxation regime and eased compliance, the FM said.

German authorities say that part of a hotel in Germany collapsed, leaving two people dead and three others trapped in the wreckage

The British government has called on Elon Musk to act responsibly after the tech billionaire used his social media platform X to unleash a barrage of posts that risk inflaming the violent unrest gripping the country

Residents of a historic Black community in Louisiana who’ve spent years fighting against a massive grain export facility set to be built on the grounds where their enslaved ancestors once lived appear to have finally halted the project

AIA Engineering approved a share buyback of Rs 500 crore in its meeting held today, at a price of Rs 5,000, which is a premium of 12% on its current market price of Rs 4,466. “We wish to inform you that the Board of Directors of the Company, at its meeting held today, i.e., August 07, 2024, have, inter alia, approved the Buy-back of up to 10,00,000 (Ten Lakhs Only) fully paid-up Equity Shares of face value of ~ 2/- each by the Company (representing 1.06% of the total number of Equity Shares of the Company) at a price of ~ 5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand) per Equity Share payable in cash for a total consideration not exceeding ~. 500,00,00,000/- (Rupees Five Hundred Crores only),” said the company in its filing to the exchanges.

Big Tech is following a crafty playbook to hoover up AI talent: Instead of buying the hottest AI startups, the giants hire their leadership and license their intellectual property, essentially sucking the life out of them. So long as they leave behind the shell of a company, antitrust scrutiny can be avoided. Alphabet’s Google [which just had bad news in the form of a court ruling against it for its search market monopoly], is the latest to follow this template by hiring the co-founders of Character.ai, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, along with a few other employees.

Indian High Commission in Bangladesh has said that it continues to remain operational and released helpline numbers for Indian nationals who reside there. According to sources, the diplomats and officials of the Indian High Commission continue to remain in Bangladesh, while non-essential staff and their families returned on Wednesday morning. The sources said, «To reiterate all the helplines of HCI Dhaka are working. The helpline numbers are being shared again below for reference: +8801958383679 +8801958383680 +8801937400591.»

A Texas family of four is still missing after their boat capsized and sank off the coast of Alaska on Saturday while they were on a family vacation. The U.S. Coast Guard searched throughout the weekend for the family but suspended its search mission on Sunday evening after finding no sign of the missing four.

WhatsApp beta for iOS 24.16.10.70. Users will reportedly be able to choose the Meta AI voice from a set of default options to respond to user queries.However, voice chat mode will not be enabled by default and users will be able to stop this voice conversation at any time, and they can also get confirmation that Meta AI has stopped listening to their query using the privacy indicator on iOS, which lets them know when their microphone is in use.According to WABetaInfo, the personal messaging app is also working on a new feature that will allow users to manage Meta AI's voice and provide them with an interactive experience in the process.

The months long concern over interest rates that broker-dealers pay on cash clients hold in investment advisory accounts took another turn this past week, with Morgan Stanley on Monday revealing that the Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking “information” about certain accounts and Wells Fargo & Co. last week disclosing it is attempting to resolve the SEC’s investigation into such cash accounts.

Bank of Montreal has sold about £300 million (US$381 million) of Thames Water’s senior debt at an almost 30 per cent discount, according to people familiar with the transaction.

CBI) is probing Hindalco Industries Ltd (HIL) and a former director of the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) in a corruption case. According to the first information report (FIR), CBI has booked the company, Dr T Chandini, the then director of MoEF, and unknown persons under certain sections of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act and Section 120 (B) pertaining to criminal conspiracy of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). «This is an old matter pertaining to 2014-15. These mines were de-allocated as part of the government's de-allocation process. This is a matter of public record where more than 100 mines were de-allocated,» a Hindalco spokesperson told ET.

Google violated antitrust laws by maintaining its monopoly in the search engine market. Mehta found that Google's practice of paying companies like Apple to set it as the default search engine on their devices and browsers constituted an abuse of its dominant position. The antitrust lawsuit, initiated by the US Justice Dept and several states in 2020, went to trial in September 2023. In the ruling, Mehta stated, 'The court concludes that Google is a monopolist and has acted to maintain its monopoly, thereby violating Section 2 of the Sherman Act,' which prohibits individuals or businesses from 'monopolising, attempting to monopolise, or conspiring to monopolise any aspect of trade or commerce'. The search engine colossus today handles about 90% of global search queries. It has become so ubiquitous that 'to Google' is a verb synonymous with online searching, veritably making it gatekeeper of the internet for billions.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce plans to hire more than 200 employees in data and artificial intelligence over the next year as it expands its use of generative AI.