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credit program for the building industry professionals like architects, interior designers, contractors-firms to address the critical credit gap in the segment. After working with over 3,500 professionals in the building space over the past two years, the company identified that dependence on informal credit alone invariably hinders business growth for professionals and curated the credit program to address this critical gap. By participating in the program, professionals can get higher credit limits, enabling them to take on larger projects. «By enrolling in the smart credit program, professionals can achieve significant growth. We project an increase in profit margins by 8-10% and business scaling by two to three times. With a higher credit limit, professionals can take on more prominent projects and experience exponential business expansion,» Vaibhav Poddar, co-founder of Mistry.Store, said.

S N Kalyani in favour of her son Kalyani Group Chairman, Baba Kalyani, and he has nothing to do with any of the litigations that his mother had initiated during her lifetime, the group said on Monday. Refuting reports that alleged that Baba Kalyani coerced his mother and exercised undue influence, a group spokesperson said the claims made in an affidavit of late S N Kalyani as produced by Gaurishankar Kalyani, Baba Kalyani's brother «are fabricated, incorrect and denied». «Baba Kalyani will appropriately represent his case before the Pune District Court,» the spokesperson said in a statement. Late S N Kalyani and Gaurishankar Kalyani (and his family) have been staying at their residence Parvti Nivas, when she made her will in 2012. Hence, all allegations insinuating that Baba Kalyani coerced her and exercised undue influence are incorrect and denied, it added.

Lending firms using the Account Aggregator (AA) framework facilitated loans worth Rs 42,300 crores from September 2021 to March 2024, noted a report released by Sahamati on Monday. Sahamati is a market-led industry alliance for the AA ecosystem. The report on ‘Lending facilitated by Account Aggregators’ is the first of a series. It is aimed at tracking the level of adoption and usage of the AA framework. In the current report, it is noted that lending firms have used AA framework to facilitate loans worth Rs 42,300 crores from September 2021 to March 2024, with a cumulative average loan ticket size of Rs 1,00,237 for the same period. The growth in facilitating loans is indicated by total loans disbursed which is Rs 21.2 lakhs with Rs 22,100 crores in disbursements facilitated by AAs in second half of FY24.

The shooting took place on the grounds of the Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach on Sunday while 78-year-old former President Trump was at the course, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said, but officials said that Trump was safe and that the intent was unknown. His campaign communications director Steven Cheung says Trump was safe. «President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity,» Cheung said in a statement. «No further details at this time.»

In a $115 million settlement, while admitting no wrongdoing, tech behemoth Oracle has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over allegations it tracked consumer activity both on and offline

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JSW Energy on Sunday announced that its step-down subsidiary, JSW Renew Energy Two Ltd, has successfully commissioned a 300 MW wind power plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu. The ISTS-connected (Inter-state transmission system) wind power project was awarded by Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) in tranche X, a company statement said. This marks the first-ever greenfield wind power plant commissioned by the company for the SECI, it noted. The newly commissioned wind power project will contribute significantly to the renewable energy portfolio, supporting the vision of a greener and sustainable future, the company said.

online gaming sector topped the apex goods and services tax (GST) intelligence and investigation agency’s evasion list with detection to the tune of about Rs 1.10 lakh crore, involving show cause notices to 34 taxpayers, action against 118 domestic entities and 658 offshore entities. In its annual report released Saturday, the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) identified online gaming as one of the challenging sectors with offshore entities based in tax havens. “Bringing the gaming entities under tax net continues to be an uphill task,” the report said. Use of the dark web and virtual private networks (VPNs) based platforms for such have been cited as key challenges.

Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch has traded in listed securities worth about Rs 37 crore during her tenure at the regulatory body, violating its conflict-of-interest policy, Congress alleged on Saturday in a fresh salvo against her. The country's main opposition party also accused Buch of making investments abroad including in Chinese funds.

Pattan in Baramulla district of northern Kashmir. The Jammu and Kashmir police informed that the encounter started late Friday night, following the inputs regarding the presence of militants in the area. «Three terrorists have been neutralized by the security forces in the ongoing operation. Weapons and war-like stores have been recovered,» read the official statement of Srinagar based Chinar Corps.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has stated that efforts are being made to preserve the sanctity and blessings of the Narmada River, with plans to ban liquor and meat shops in religious towns across the state. Speaking to on Saturday, CM Yadav said, «By bringing together all state government departments, we have made an effort to maintain the sanctity and blessings of Maa Narmada. We will aim to ban meat and liquor shops in religious towns. I hope the decisions taken will be reviewed in November. This is not a one-day process; it is an ongoing one.» Meanwhile, the Congress party has welcomed the government's decision, calling it a sacred initiative.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. (Bloomberg) -- South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. has picked banks for a potential initial public offering of its Indian business that could raise as much as $1.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

UIDAI) has announced an extension for the free update of Aadhaar details, with the new deadline set for December 14, 2024. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been encouraging citizens to review their Aadhaar card information, particularly those who received their Aadhaar cards more than ten years ago and haven't made any updates. Nevertheless, it is not obligatory to make these updates. UIDAI posted on social media X, «UIDAI extends free online document upload facility till 14th December 2024; to benefit millions of Aadhaar Number Holders. This free service is available only on myAadhaar portal. UIDAI has been encouraging people to keep documents updated in their Aadhaar.»

conspiracy theorists, believing some of the most deeply entrenched conspiracies, such as those involving the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study has found. A team, including researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, designed the AI-model ChatGPT to be highly persuasive and engage participants in tailored dialogues, such that participants' conspiratorial claims were factually rebutted by the chatbot. For this, the researchers leveraged advancements in GPT-4, the large language model powering ChatGPT, that «has access to vast amounts of information and the ability to generate bespoke arguments.» A form of artificial intelligence, a large language model is trained on massive amounts of textual data and can, therefore, respond to users' requests in the natural language. The team found that among over 2,000 self-identified conspiracy believers, conversations with the AI-model ChatGPT lowered the average participant's beliefs by about 20 per cent.

Russian hacker groups briefly disrupted Taiwanese financial platforms including the stock exchange and lender Mega Financial Holding Co.’s website, exposing the vulnerability of the island to foreign cyberattacks. Two groups that go by the handles “NoName057” and “RipperSec” on Telegram swamped targeted websites with a so-called Distributed Denial of Service attack, which caused unstable connection issues for the platforms Thursday afternoon, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said Friday. During the incident, the Taiwan Stock Exchange detected web queries from overseas internet-protocol addresses at volumes several times bigger than usual, the bourse said in a separate text message to Bloomberg News.

Russian state media and RT with new sanctions, accusing it of playing key role in carrying out 'covert influence activities' aimed at undermining American elections and democracies. The State Department said it is starting a diplomatic campaign to alert nations about the risks associated with RT activities and disclosed declassified US intelligence findings suggesting RT is completely integrated with Russia's intelligence operations worldwide. «We took these steps based on our conclusion that Rossiya Segodnya and these five subsidiaries are no longer merely firehoses of Russian Government propaganda and disinformation; they are engaged in covert influence activities aimed at undermining American elections and democracies, functioning like a de facto arm of Russia's intelligence apparatus,» the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said on Friday.

Cristiano Ronaldo's Al Nassr will face Al Ahli on Matchday 3 of the 2024/2025 Saudi Pro League. Here is information on how to watch this game live in your nation or on TV. On September 13, Al Nassr FC and Al-Ahli Saudi FC will play in the Saudi Pro League 2024–25 at Al Awwal Park in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Russian hacker groups briefly disrupted Taiwanese financial platforms including the stock exchange and lender Mega Financial Holding Co.'s website, exposing the vulnerability of the island to foreign cyberattacks. Two groups that go by the handles "NoName057" and «RipperSec» on Telegram swamped targeted websites with a so-called Distributed Denial of Service attack, which caused unstable connection issues for the platforms Thursday afternoon, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said Friday. During the incident, the Taiwan Stock Exchange detected web queries from overseas internet-protocol addresses at volumes several times bigger than usual, the bourse said in a separate text message to Bloomberg News. Government websites and trading functioned normally on Friday. DDoS attacks are intended to overload systems rather than steal valuable information, and the stock exchange restored normal operations within a half-hour on Thursday. But the incident exposes the potential vulnerability of computing platforms in Taiwan, the world's biggest producer of advanced semiconductors and a potential flashpoint in a US-China conflict.

Piyush Goyal, minister for commerce and industry, on Friday launched two digital initiatives to resolve issues faced by exporters, bring transparency, and make exports more convenient. The Jansunwai Portal provides exporters with necessary information, clarifications, concerns, find the status of complaints and a video-conferencing facility to directly speak to officials of the various departments concerned with exports. «There wouldn't be need for running behind officials, the intention of the government is that nobody ever is required to come to commerce department's various wings,» Goyal said on the sideline of the Board of Trade Meeting in Mumbai.

Chinese authorities have banned the accounting firm PwC for six months and fined it over $56 million for its involvement in the audit of collapsed local property developer Evergrande