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Total contributions to donor-advised funds dropped 21.7% in 2023, while grants made to charities from those funds declined 1.4%, according to a new report by the National Philanthropic Trust

The Alberta government has appointed former prime minister Stephen Harper as the new chair of AIMCo, less than two weeks after ousting the fund’s board of directors and its chief executive.

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Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has proposed amendments to the Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons Regulations, 2016 and to make it mandatory to form monitoring committees to oversee implementation of resolution plans under the bankruptcy code. While the current framework under Regulation 38 of the CIRP Regulations provides certain basic recognition to monitoring committees, the proposed amendments aim to make their constitution mandatory for implementation of all resolution plans, the bankruptcy regulator said in a discussion paper. The proposed framework will empower the Committee of Creditors (CoC) to take final decisions on the constitution, composition, and functioning period of the monitoring committee, as part of the resolution plan.

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Families of victims who were murdered by notorious serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo have been barred from attending his upcoming parole hearing in person, according to the families’ lawyer.

TRAI issued directives on 13th August 2024 mandating stringent actions against violators. Penalties include disconnection of telecom resources, blacklisting for up to two years, and bans on new resource allocations during this period.As per the regulatory body, these measures have shown promising results, with complaints about spam calls reducing steadily.

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) agreed to acquire a co-control stake in Stockholm-based financial advisor Max Matthiessen from private equity firm Nordic Capital Ltd.

GNFC) on Wednesday said it will form a 50:50 joint venture with Britain's INEOS Acetyls International to build and operate a world-scale acetic acid facility in India. The joint venture will oversee both the plant's operations and coordinate marketing efforts for domestic distribution of acetic acid produced at the facility, the company said in a regulatory filing. The memorandum of understanding, signed on November 20, provides for equal representation on the board of directors and equivalent subscription rights in the new entity, the company said. A formal joint venture agreement is expected to be finalised at a later date.

Iraq has begun its first nationwide population census in decades in a step aimed at modernizing data collection and planning in a country long impacted by conflict and political divisions

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elevated corridor of approximately 34 kilometres in the Kaziranga National Park and that other stakeholders will provide full support to the wildlife-friendly measure. The Assam government informed the apex court that the elevated corridor was proposed for the National Park, which is famed for one-horned rhinoceros. It apprised a bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan that work on a detailed project report was in progress by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has placed the project as a priority (category one).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last month’s Brics summit in Kazan, Russia, was, like all summits, heavy on photo ops. And it yielded a second act that was similarly heavier on symbolism than substance: the release of a report by the Russian finance ministry and central bank on “improvement of the international monetary and financial system," by which Russian officials obviously meant “finding an alternative to the weaponized dollar." Expressions of dissatisfaction with the dominance of the dollar over global money and finance go back at least to French finance minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in 1965, who famously lamented the greenback’s “exorbitant privilege." Indeed, the desire for an alternative played no small part in the creation of the euro 34 years later.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Akshaya Patra Foundation plans to take its acclaimed midday meal scheme to Indonesia and Kenya, said two people aware of the development, as India seeks to use its soft power to deepen ties and trade. Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, is launching a free meal programme for schoolchildren.

Yes Bank has announced a partnership with Vegapay, a technology innovator in the banking software industry, to launch a hyper-configurable platform called ‘Credit Line on UPI’, Vegapay said in a press release. Yes Bank, through the platform can create customised credit programmes that suit customers' needs. The bank can decide whether to offer interest-free or interest-bearing credit, whether or not allow customers to pay in installments (EMIs), and set up rules for different situations through an easy-to-use interface. The platform includes a user-friendly dashboard and a customisable app, making it simple for banks to integrate with their existing systems.

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The ‘AI Collaboration Index’ report by Atlassian – a team collaboration and productivity software company – surveyed 5,000 knowledge workers across India, the US, Australia, Germany, and France. It outlines four stages of AI collaboration – from basic adoption as a simple tool (stage 1) to advanced usage as a strategic partner and decision-making advisor (stage 4). Even at the earliest stages of AI adoption, Indian knowledge workers are experiencing significant productivity gains. In India, those using AI as a simple tool (stage 1) report saving an average of 104 minutes per day, compared to the global average of around 45 minutes. This jumps to a whopping 127 minutes per day for strategic AI collaborators (stage 4), equivalent to more than an extra workday each week.