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medical equipment and facilities, and also offered technical cooperation. Addressing the Quad leaders' Cancer Moonshot event in Wilmington, Delaware, Kishida said that such «endeavours will continue going forward.» «Regarding our support for measures against cancers in the Indo-Pacific region, Japan has offered support such as the deployment of equipment and technical cooperation, or support through international organisations and initiatives,» the Japanese PM said in his remarks.

Quad countries on Saturday announced Maritime Initiative for Training in the Indo-Pacific" (MAITRI) to enable Indo-Pacific partners to maximize tools provided through Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) and other initiatives. The Quad countries said they are proud to announce an ambitious expansion of their partnership to deliver trusted technology solutions to the broader Indo-Pacific region. «Anchored by shared values, we seek to uphold the international order based on the rule of law. Together, we represent nearly two billion people and over one-third of global gross domestic product. We reaffirm our steadfast commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific that is inclusive and resilient,» read the Wilmington Declaration Joint Statement released after the Quad Summit.

Shiv Sena leader Prataprao Jadhav on Saturday claimed his three generations, including himself, never paid farm electricity bills. «I am a farmer. We haven't paid bills for the last three generations. My grandfather's (water) pumps are still there. „Neither my grandfather and my father, nor I paid the farm electricity bills,“ said the Minister of State for Ayush and Health and Family Welfare. He was speaking at an event on a farm electricity bills waiver scheme, one of the flagship initiatives launched by the Eknath Shinde government.

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Supreme Court gave Elon Musk-owned social platform X five days to present documents validating its new legal representative in the country, a court decision showed on Saturday. X lawyers said late on Friday that it had named a legal representative in Brazil, addressing one of the demands imposed by the court to allow the social platform to resume operations in the country. In his Saturday decision, Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes gave five days for X to provide commercial registries and other documents proving that X formally signed Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao as its Brazil legal representative.

Ontario Provincial Police say they have uncovered a door-to-door sales fraud operation that victimized more than 200 older and vulnerable residents in Ontario.

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Enfusion, a U.S. software provider for asset managers, is in talks with investment bankers to evaluate options that could include a potential sale, according to people familiar with the matter. The Chicago-based company, which has a market value of $1.1 billion, decided to interview investment banks in recent weeks after receiving takeover interest from potential suitors including private equity firms, one of the sources said, requesting anonymity as the matter is confidential. Enfusion has not launched a sale process yet and it is possible that the company opts to stay independent, the sources added. Enfusion did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

MG Motor India on Saturday revealed the prices for its latest launch, the MG Windsor. The «intelligent» crossover utility vehicle, and India's first, as MG calls it, will carry a starting price tag of Rs 13,49,800 (Ex-Showroom). This price includes the battery cost as well. MG Motor India had on September 11 launched the all-electric Windsor EV, marking a significant addition to its electric vehicle portfolio. It had said the Windsor EV would be priced starting at Rs 9.9 lakh. However, that price excludes the battery. The car will have three variants: Excite, Exclusive, and Essence, priced (ex-showroom) at Rs 13,49,800, Rs 14,49,800, and Rs 15,49,800, respectively.

business setup and support services startup Arnifi has executed over 100 setups globally with USD 1.6 million annual recurring revenue within six months of operations, according to a statement The startup launched its operations this year and has expanded its presence to global markets including the US, Singapore and the UAE. Within six months of operations, Arnifi has executed more than 100 setups with USD 1.6 million annual recurring revenue, the company said in a statement. «Arnifi offers comprehensive support to both entrepreneurs and established companies. In fact, our top 10 clients are unicorns. With over 70 clients, we recently crossed a 1 million dollars,» startups founder Manu Midha said.

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Jasper will have a devastating impact on local families, Mayor Richard Ireland said.The company announced this week it aims to transfer its operations from Jasper to Hinton about 100 kilometres east in Alberta, come September 2025.A company memo sent to about 200 impacted workers on Monday says the change will improve efficiency by reducing stops between Edmonton and Blue River, B.C. on the western side of the Rocky Mountains.Ireland says CN Rail’s presence in town, which dates back over a century, is a key part of the community’s identity and he hopes the company will reconsider.“This removal will have a profound impact on local jobs and local families,” Ireland told reporters Friday at a virtual news conference.

Kamala Harris sat down with Oprah Winfrey in the key battleground state of Michigan Thursday for a “virtual rally” that saw a slate of A-list Hollywood stars join a live discussion via video chat to discuss issues in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.Winfrey hosted the Unite for America event, with activist group Win with Black Women, that aimed to register people to vote and bolster Harris in states like Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan, that are set to decide the Nov.

population data is crucial for policy formulation for any group or community. With this in mind, the British government initiated the census in India, which has continued even after independence. The first post-independence census was conducted in 1951, and since then, a total of seven censuses have been carried out until 2011, at intervals of every ten years. However, for the first time since independence, the 2021 census, which was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has yet to take place. With the approval of the Kovind Committee's report on «One Nation, One Election» by the Cabinet, hopes for conducting the census have risen, as it is crucial for the delimitation of the Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies.

income tax refund for the income tax return (ITR) filed this year i.e., FY 2023-24 (AY 2024-25). But can an individual ask for an income tax refund from the Income Tax Department for excess tax paid in the past year? Such a situation may arise if a taxpayer received excess income from an organisation in a previous year and paid income tax accordingly. However, now the organisation wants the excess payment returned.

artisans and craftspeople engaged in these trades like pottery, boat making, shoe making, etc. touch the lives of the people around them and their contribution is pivotal in the economy of the rural India. Most of these artisans and craftspeople have been a part of informal economy and work with their hands and tools. In this background, PM Vishwakarma, was launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister on Vishwakarma Jayanti on 17.09.2023 by the Government of India for transforming the lives of these artisans and craftspeople, known as Vishwakarmas through a number of positive interventions. PM Vishwakarma Scheme is a holistic scheme that provides an end-to-end support to artisans and craftspeople. Under the Scheme, the traditional trades covered are carpenter (suthar/badhai), boat maker, armourer, blacksmith (lohar), hammer and tool kit maker, locksmith, goldsmith (sonar), potter (kumhaar), sculptor (moortikar, stone carver), stonebreaker, cobbler (charmakar)/ shoesmith/ footwear artisan, mason (rajmistri), basket/mat/ broom maker/coir weaver, doll & toy maker (traditional), barber (naai), garland maker (malakaar), washerman (dhobi), tailor (darzi), and fishing net maker.

SEBI's refusal to disclose instances when its chairperson Madhabi Buch recused herself due to conflict of interest and said that this makes a «mockery» of public accountability and transparency. The cases where Buch recused herself due to potential conflict of interest is not «readily» available and collating them would «disproportionately divert» its resources, the securities market regulator said in an RTI response on Friday. In the response furnished to transparency activist Commodore Lokesh Batra (retd), the regulator also refused to provide copies of Buch's declarations to the government and SEBI Board on the financial assets and equities held by her and her family members on the grounds of these being «personal information» and that their disclosure may «endanger» personal safety. Reacting to the development, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said, «The multiple conflicts of interest of the SEBI Chairperson that have been revealed so far are shocking in themselves. Now in a move that adds more fuel to the raging fire, SEBI has simply refused to divulge information to a RTI activist on instances of the SEBI Chairperson recusing herself on issues where there have been potential conflicts of interest.»

These consultations aim to refine the proposed amendments to the Waqf Act, which governs the management of over 600,000 registered waqf properties across the country. The first stop of the JPC's nationwide consultation will be held in Mumbai on September 26. The committee will meet with representatives from the Government of Maharashtra, the Ministry of Minority Affairs and the Maharashtra Waqf Board.