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Hindustan Times. “In all, 108 mazars have been demolished (in the state) and the state’s properties have been opened… The encroachment around Somnath has been removed. This bulldozer of Dada can enter a 20-ft wide street and an 80-m wide road," Sanghavi added as reported by HT.

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Bitcoin is trading value of $51,400 reflects a modest decrease of 1.20% on Thursday. This financial landscape is continuously shaped by various factors, including regulatory discussions and global market trends. Amidst this backdrop, the anticipation around Bitcoin price predictions gains momentum, offering insights into potential future trajectories.

Byju Raveendran, the founder and CEO of Byju's, the Economic Times reported citing sources. The move is aimed at preventing Raveendran from leaving the country, and the central agency approached BOI earlier this month for the issuance of a fresh LOC. It comes as the agency's Bengaluru office is currently investigating alleged Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violations against the start-up and its founder, the report said.

Competition Commission of India (CCI) has notified regulations governing the so-called lesser-penalty plus or, more commonly, the leniency-plus regime, which would allow companies that are under probe for cartelisation to report other cartels and get their own penalties reduced. The regulations followed a notification by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) that said the regime would come into force on February 20. This regime was proposed in the Competition (Amendment) Act 2023, modifying an earlier framework. According to the new regulations, the anti-trust regulator can reduce penalty by up to an additional 30% for a company for being part of the first cartel, besides trimming it by up to 100% for its involvement in the newly-disclosed cartel, said analysts.

Car insurance is crucial for car owners, providing financial protection against unexpected accidents. However, the process of claiming can be tricky, and having your claim rejected can be stressful. Many reasons can lead to rejection, but with proper understanding and precautions, you can reduce the risk of facing this situation.

Supportive global geopolitics: As per the brokerage India has a vibrant democracy with 57 national/regional parties. The upcoming national elections in Apr/May’24 will have 1bn eligible voters. Successive governments have adopted consistent growth & external relations policies.

Real estate is one of the favourite asset classes of investors. However, with the increase in the cost of real estate and sky-high home prices, different investment options that aim to deliver returns of underlying real estate have come up. Fractional real estate is one such concept where people can invest in a fraction of a real estate property.

Wipro: The IT services giant on Wednesday disclosed a new deal with US chipmaker, Intel Foundry. The deal with the chip development division of Intel will see Wipro engineers work on Intel’s latest ‘18A’ chip node that will be used in cutting-edge consumer electronics devices next year onward. In an exchange filing, Wipro said the deal will cater to chip designs for clients across automotive, industrial and telecommunications verticals, and be used for “generative AI-driven designs".

Twitter, has confirmed its compliance with executive orders issued by the Indian government demanding the suspension of specific accounts and posts, which are allegedly associated with the ongoing farmers' protest. Despite taking action to withhold the identified accounts and posts within India, X has expressed its disagreement with the government's directives, emphasizing its commitment to freedom of expression. As per the official Global Government Affairs account of X, the platform is acting under potential threat of significant fines and imprisonment. However, in a move to challenge the government’s demands, X has filed a writ appeal, which is currently pending. «The Indian government has issued executive orders requiring X to act on specific accounts and posts, subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment. In compliance with the orders, we will withhold these accounts and posts in India alone; however, we disagree with these actions and maintain that freedom of expression should extend to these posts. Consistent with our position, a writ appeal challenging the Indian government’s blocking orders remains pending. We have also provided the impacted users with notice of these actions in accordance with our policies,» Global Government Affairs tweeted.

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ED) has asked the Bureau of Immigration (BOI) to issue a look out circular (LOC) against Byju Raveendran, founder and CEO of the eponymous, embattled edtech company Byju's, people with knowledge of the matter told ET. The central agency approached BOI earlier this month to issue a fresh LOC to ensure that Raveendran does not leave the country. An LOC 'on intimation' has already been issued against Raveendran. It was opened more than one and a half years ago at the request of the ED's Kochi office. However, the investigation was later transferred to the Bengaluru office of the agency. The LOC 'on intimation' results in immigration authorities informing a probe agency about the individual going overseas but the person is not stopped from leaving the country.

Prosecutors say an executive at a medical device company has been convicted in Minnesota of insider trading for a scheme involving negotiations for the acquisition of the firm that was valued at $1.6 billion

A federal judge has affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell

Edmunds answers five of the most crucial questions about buying an EV

A government watchdog that wants everyone with a 401(k) plan to be able to see information on all their accounts in one place this week asked Congress to legislate a nationwide dashboard.

Investing.com-- Oil prices settled higher Wednesday as investors awaited further catalysts including a flurry of economic data and an update on U.S. crude inventories due later this week after the Federal Reserve's minutes from its January meeting reinforced expectations for higher for longer rates.

₹340 per quintal for the 2024-25 marketing season, on a day the protesting farmers marching to Delhi clashed with the police on the Punjab-Haryana border. The sugarcane marketing season runs from October to September. The “significant" increase in the procurement price of sugarcane is about 8% higher than the FRP of sugarcane for the current 2023-24 season, which is ₹315/ quintal.

AI-powered ‘answer engines’ have arrived. A few days ago, The Wall Street Journal reported how new companies like ArcSearch and Consensus are changing the rules of web search as we knew it. As compared to search engines that at best threw up a few links to relevant articles, these new AI-run search engines not only provide the most relevant information on a topic, but also intelligent summaries of various articles.

click here Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of discriminating against Dalits, and other backward classes. The former Congress president and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi took a Ram Rajya jibe and said the Centre has failed to generate enough employment opportunities for the downtrodden constituting "90 per cent of the population," in the country. For full story click here Congress Uttar Pradesh in-charge Avinash Pande announced on Wednesday that the party will contest on 17 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.

Boeing 737 MAX-8 jets in March 2019, staff at his department prepared three very different speeches.They outlined three different scenarios: restricting the aircraft from Canadian airspace, as many countries already had, declaring the MAX-8 safe to fly, as the Americans did, or allowing the aircraft to operate “only if certain standards were met.”The speeches are part of a newly released trove of internal documents on the federal government’s decision to ground the Boeing jets following a deadly 2019 crash in Ethiopia that killed 18 Canadians.Next month marks the fifth anniversary of the disaster.It’s not unusual for staff to draft multiple versions of speeches for ministers. But the fact that each of Garneau’s three prepared remarks contained vastly different decisions on the grounding of the MAX-8 illustrates the uncertainty at Transport Canada over the jets’ safety.Emails, memos and briefing notes obtained by Global News through access to information law show three days of flurried activity at Transport Canada as the agency’s position continuously evolved.