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The price of Pepe Coin (PEPE) has risen by 4% in the past 24 hours, although its move to $0.00000152 today still means that it's down by nearly 20% in the past week.

Dukaan has replaced 90 per cent of its customer support team with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, founder and CEO Suumit Shah informed on Tuesday. Attributing the decision to prioritising profitability, he said customer support costs reduced by 85 per cent while resolution time went down from over two hours to three minutes. «We had to lay off 90 per cent of our support team because of this AI chatbot.

BJP Tuesday slammed the Trinamool Congress government over the «state-sponsored» violence during the West Bengal panchayat polls, terming Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee «ruthless» and claiming at least 45 people have died in the clashes. Violence rocked the July 8 rural polls, leaving 15 dead while ballot boxes were vandalised, ballot papers burnt and bombs thrown at rivals in several places. Repolling was held on Monday in 696 booths across 19 districts where voting was declared void amid allegations of ballot box tampering and violence.

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PharmEasy is planning to raise around Rs 2,400 crore ($291.5 million) through a rights issue, at a 90% discount to its peak stock price, to repay a loan from Goldman Sachs. The Mumbai-based epharmacy, which also owns diagnostics firm Thyrocare, is expected to be valued at $500-600 million — down from the high of $5.6 billion two years ago.

Netweb Technologies will open for subscription on July 17 and close on July 19. The subscription will open for anchor investors on July 14. Netweb had filed its draft papers with Sebi in March this year and received regulatory approval for the same earlier this month.

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Post-pandemic, government balance sheets look shaky but the voting public continues to demand more and better hospitals, schools, public transport and even jails.

US Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded ‘The Crest’ a residential development by DLF, project of the year as part of its 2023 LEED Homes Awards, which recognises projects, developers and builders that have demonstrated leadership in the residential green building marketplace. “At a time where energy bills are skyrocketing and there are record heat waves across the world, ensuring that our homes are able to withstand the effects of climate change and extreme weather is more important than ever,” said Peter Templeton, president and CEO, USGBC and GBCI.

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National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Tuesday said India has been a melting pot of cultures and religions that have co-existed in harmony for centuries, and Islam occupies a unique and significant «position of pride» amongst the religious groups in the country. Doval's remarks came during an event here at the India Islamic Cultural Centre where Muslim World League Secretary General Sheikh Dr Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, who is on an India visit, also addressed the gathering. Doval hailed Al-Issa as an authentic global voice of moderate Islam and a profound scholar with a deep understanding of Islam. Hailing the «excellent» relations between India and Saudi Arabia, Doval the ties were rooted in shared cultural heritage, common values and economic ties. «Our leaders share a common vision for the future and have been closely interacting with each other,» the National Security Advisor said. In his remarks, Doval said India as the world's largest democracy and the mother of democracies is a land of incredible diversity.

Ukraine's Energy Minister says the catastrophic collapse of a dam in southern Ukraine has made Kyiv worried that Russia might stage an attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to foment panic and quell Ukrainian advances on the frontline

Indonesia’s top diplomat is warning of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, saying that Southeast Asia is “one miscalculation away from apocalypse” and pressing for world powers to sign a treaty to keep the region free from such arms

Saudi Arabia has deposited $2 billion into Pakistan’s central bank, a much-needed financial boost ahead of a critical meeting of the International Monetary Fund on the new bailout package for the cash-strapped South Asian country

A New Zealand prosecutor says tourists received no health and safety warnings before they landed on the country’s most active volcano ahead of a 2019 eruption that killed 22 people

Secure 2.0 gave people several new options for workplace retirement accounts, but it forces higher-income savers to use their plans’ Roth option for catch-up contributions

Kentucky racing officials have approved a rollout for sports betting, which will take effect when the NFL season begins in September

The European Union has signed off on a new agreement over the privacy of people’s personal information that gets pinged across the Atlantic, aiming to ease concerns about electronic spying by American intelligence agencies

Credit information—a record of the loan repayments made by a borrower that is collected by credit information companies (CICs)— is a critical barometer to gauge an individual’s financial health and helps address the problem of asymmetric information between borrowers and lenders. Financial institutions check the credit history or financial behaviour of an individual before taking decisions relating to credit and loan agreements. CICs also offer value-added products like credit scores.

Is it mandatory for an Indian resident studying overseas to convert bank savings account in India to non-resident ordinary (NRO) or non-resident external (NRE) account? Also, what conditions will determine one’s residency status for tax purposes?

How to check Income Tax Return processing and ITR refund status for AY 2023-24? While more than 1.5 crore taxpayers have filed their Income Tax Returns (ITRs) for Assessment Year 2023-24, many of them are awaiting faster processing of their returns and refunds.