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independent system operator to ensure fair access to full capacity of natural gas pipelines for all market players, says Indian Gas Exchange (IGX) CEO Rajesh Kumar Mediratta. In an interview with Sanjeev Choudhary, Mediratta called for splitting of gas companies engaged in both marketing and transportation to end the advantage bundled entities enjoy over standalone marketers. Edited excerpts: What are some of the measures the government can take to develop domestic natgas market? If we want to develop our natural gas market, we need to bring best practices with a level playing. Bundled and unbundled marketers should have equal access to information and the same imbalance or ship-or-pay charge mechanism.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group and CF Benchmarks will offer new reference rates and real-time indices for Ripple (XRP) and Internet Computer (ICP), starting July 29.

Form 16 is a certificate issued by an employer under section 203 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, which pertains to the deduction of tax at source (TDS) from the income earned as salary during a financial year. The employer provides it to show the tax deducted from the employee's salary, which is then deposited with the government against the employee's PAN. The TDS certificate contains a comprehensive overview of the salary amount disbursed to the employee and the tax that has been deducted from it. Additionally, if an employee chooses the old income tax regime and presents investment proofs, this information will be included in Form 16. The employer must give the employee their Form 16 if the employer withholds taxes from the employee's salary.

Hyundai Motor India Ltd. plans to start gauging investor interest in the coming weeks, with a listing likely in September or October, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information isn’t public.

An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a ship in the Gulf of Aden

found Casey’s cellphone in the water but they had been unable to access its contents, reports CNN. Shortly after she disappeared, a police tracking dog picked up a scent from a yoga tent and tracked it to the water, but the scent ended there, police said.Casey’s mother, Colette Seymore, went to the Bahamas to help in the search efforts and meet with officials and the retreat leaders late last month, but she said the family is “not satisfied with how this investigation has been handled thus far.”In a news release last week, after returning to the U.S., Seymore said she felt uneasy with how the retreat leaders are handling her daughter’s disappearance, claiming that the retreat had a “cultish” feel and she felt students were being “coerced to obey” retreat leaders, “even if that meant holding back information about my child.”“It became apparent to us when we met with the Sivananda Ashram leaders that they were struggling to keep a linear and cohesive narrative regarding Taylor’s disappearance,” said Casey’s close friend, Emily Williams, who travelled with Seymore to the Bahamas.The press release claims the women were told by police not to talk to any of the resort’s guests, and that they had to “beg” to talk to students of the yoga retreat but it felt “like they were told what to say and what not to say.”Jonathan Goldbloom, a spokesperson for the retreat, told NBC News last week it has been fully cooperative with police and family and encouraged guests to speak.“All of us are distraught over Taylor’s disappearance, and our hearts go out to her family and friends,” he said in an email to NBC.

Federal Reserve officials noted a slowdown in the US economy and diminishing price pressures during their June 11-12 meeting, yet decided to maintain a cautious stance regarding interest rate cuts, as revealed in the meeting minutes released Wednesday.

₹238,168 with OAEs reporting only 127,073 per unit. That means 85% of unorganized-sector enterprises were generating around ₹10,000 per month. The situation for hired workers was no better.

Madhukar, the main accused in the July 2 Hathras stampede that killed 121 people, was arrested from Delhi's Najafgarh area by a Special Operations Group of Hathras police, officials said on Saturday. Madhukar, who was arrested late night on Friday, was contacted by some political parties recently, Hathras Superintendent of Police Nipun Agarwal said. Agarwal said Madhukar worked as a fundraiser for events of self-styled godman Surajpal alias Narayan Sakar Hari alias Bhole Baba and collected donations. The police will apply for remand of Madhukar, he said. «His financial transactions, money trails are being looked into, and call detail records also being checked,» Agarwal added.

Overseas investors purchased nearly ₹9,200 crore of banking and financial services stocks in June after selling shares worth ₹8,583 crore in May. The sector, which accounts for more than a third of the Nifty 50 weighting, had received inflows worth ₹52,900 crore in 2023. Foreign investors were buyers of Indian equities worth ₹34,027 across 17 sectors between June 16 and 30, National Securities Depository (NSDL) data showed.

NCLAT on Wednesday said it will wait for the decision of lenders on a revised settlement offer by Supertech Realtors, which is developing a residential apartment, offices, retail and luxury hotels at its Supernova project. NCLAT also directed the Interim Resolution Professional (IRP) not to constitute a Committee of Creditors. However, it said the construction work for the project would be continued under the supervision of IRP. A three-member NCLAT bench observed that Supertech Realtors submitted an one-time settlement (OTS), and the lead bank principally agreed with the proposal and the proposal is under consideration by the consortium of banks. «In the meantime, we direct that the Committee of Creditors be not constituted. However, the ongoing project may be continued under the supervision of the IRP and the IRP shall extend all cooperation by the Corporate Debtor, its officers and employees in carrying out the construction,» said the 8-page NCLAT order.

Asia is the economic engine of the world. Population growth, urbanization and industrialization are on the rise. But the region also faces a stark reality: achieving sustained economic development with the least amount of carbon emissions requires a monumental shift in energy production and consumption.

zhengbao for short). The total number of Chinese police officers is not made public, but is thought to be over 2m. Drawing on provincial, municipal and county yearbooks and publications, Mr Pei estimates that 3-5% of all police work for the zhengbao at the national and local level.

Kenya has an affordable housing problem

₹25,000 in India, providing a detailed comparison of their specifications, advantages, and disadvantages. Our goal is to assist you in finding the ideal fridge that meets your specific requirements for storage space, energy savings, and additional functionalities.Each refrigerator is evaluated based on its storage capacity for perishable goods, its energy rating to minimise electricity usage, and any unique features such as advanced cooling technologies or smart connectivity options.

Som Distilleries at Sehatganj village in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh. He calls his work “pauwa jamana”— setting the bottles upright so that alcohol falls into them. He did that for nine hours a day. Wearing jeans and tee shirt, Vineet sits with a slight stoop at his home. He says he dropped out of school. Instead of going to class, the thin boy would reach the distillery at 8 am and work till 5 pm. After a long day of strenuous, hazardous work, he would go home with Rs 350. He saw the hands of his friends had turned white, the skin had peeled. “It could have been the chemicals,” he says. He worked there only for a fortnight. Before he had to spend more days in that reeking plant, before his hands too got scalded, he was rescued. On June 15, a team of officials of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), a nonprofit founded by Kailash Satyarthi, rescued 59 children—39 boys and 20 girls—from the distillery, in the biggest busting of child labour racket in the liquor industry in the past several years. About 40 other children “escaped” during the raid, according to officials at the rescue operation.

An important person in the government requested me to write about how the subsidy from Union budgets for second-class AC train seats in India has grown since 2014, given that these fares haven’t been adjusted for rising fuel costs. I haven’t managed to figure out if there is a subsidy on these fares, let alone how fast it may be growing. Happy to be corrected, but it seems that the outgo towards this subsidy and the figures needed for computing it are not being reported in the Union Budget.

In Wednesday’s trading session, the following five stocks witnessed a build of fresh long positions. Let us first understand how this conclusion is reached whether the stock has seen a buildup of fresh long position or not. When the stock prices move up and open interest on the counter also moves upward, it is taken as a sign of a long buildup. The signal is considered more reliable if the volume on the counter has also seen an increase.

DSV A/S and CVC Capital Partners Plc are seen as the leading contenders for Deutsche Bahn AG’s logistics unit DB Schenker after AP Moller-Maersk A/S dropped out of the running, according to people familiar with the matter. Binding bids are expected to be submitted in August, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. CVC has offered to let the German government or related fund keep around a 20% stake in the unit and benefit from any future upside, according to the people. Rival bidder DSV could link DB Schenker into its freight forwarding technology system, seen as one of Europe’s largest platforms, the people said. The Danish company has made a number of acquisitions in recent years, often raising the group’s combined profit margins once a takeover is digested.

Meta has rolled out the Meta AI personal assistant across all its platforms — WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram. It offers text and image generation capabilities, which will help users in increasing productivity and be more efficient besides aiding creative assistance. The Meta AI chatbot, which is powered by the latest Llama 3 model, was announced by company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg back in September 2023. Experts say that the Meta assistant may have a deeper reach than other personal AI assistants such as the Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini, given its direct integration inside social media platforms. The tool may find a much wider reach, especially in India, the largest market for Meta, and includes 314.6 million users of Facebook, 350 million of Instagram as well as 480 million on WhatsApp.

cyberattacks and malicious attempts to steal data has increased over the past five years, which has increasingly surged the risk of financial harm of not only individuals, but also governments and financial entities spread worldwide. According to cybersecurity reports, around 10 billion passwords belonging to various individuals, be it social media or email accounts, have been released on global forums. making it one of the biggest data breaches in the world till now. Such a large bunch of passwords being accessible to hackers and scammers means that the amount of targeted attacks on account users, be it social media or emails, will increase significantly, leading to a massive privacy scare globally.