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US exchange-traded funds investing directly in Ether achieved overall net inflows of $107 million on their first day of trading in launches that will provide a window onto mainstream crypto demand outside of Bitcoin.

Meta's newsroom, the AI chatbot is now accessible in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Cameroon. Additionally, the chatbot's multilingual functionality has been upgraded to include French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, with plans to incorporate more languages in the future.Enhanced Image Generation and Editing FeaturesThe latest update also brings advanced image generation and editing features to the AI chatbot.

A registered investment advisor with $2.6 billion in assets under management has secured a strategic investment to fuel its national growth.

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space sector has immense economic potential, likely to be worth Rs 35,200 crore, about 8% of the global share by 2033. On 23 July, the Finance Minister announced the creation of a dedicated “space fund” worth Rs 1,000 crore, aiming to boost India’s space economy, attract investment and in the global space industry. According to Mr. Pawan Goenka, IN-SPACe Chairman, the fund is expected to be a professionally managed entity that supports space businesses. India has showcased on the global stage its ability to innovate on a frugal budget, fulfilling the Chandrayaan-3 mission at a cost that was merely 3% of the Russian moon missions. This Budget proposal signals the Government’s intent to give a fillip to the Indian space sector by providing financial support, mentorship and guidance to emerging space startups. The establishment of the space fund marks the next step in a successful PPP collaboration aimed at advancing the technology essential for India's success in this field.

Matt Hertzog spends 50 hours a week playing Xbox. That makes the 37-year-old part of a key target market for big financial firms. Banks are seeking out millennial and Gen Z customers in the $57 billion-a-year videogame industry.

Madhya Pradesh forest department has refused to provide information under the Right to Information Act on management of cheetahs brought from Africa and their cubs born in India. In response to a request filed by wildlife activist Ajay Dubey, the department cited Section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act, which allows a public authority to withhold information if its disclosure would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security, strategic, scientific, or economic interests of the State, relations with a foreign State, or lead to the incitement of an offence.

With last week’s rumour about the political demise of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland proven greatly exaggerated, advocates of open banking in Canada can breathe a sigh of relief that this project won’t be derailed by changes to cabinet.

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central government ministries and departments have been asked to form an in-house committee for the identification of backlog reserved vacancies and fill them through special recruitment drives, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. In a written reply, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said the occurrence and filling of vacancies, along with backlog reserved vacancies, is a continuous process.

₹1.4 trillion in the previous budget (revised estimate) to an estimated ₹1.47 trillion. Boosting employment and employability was rightly given utmost priority in this year’s budget. The announcement of three employment-linked incentive (ELI) schemes for first-time workers, job creation in manufacturing and support for employers are in line with CII recommendations.

Read this | Mint Primer: The budget in 5 minutes The one thing we know is the three schemes are framed in formal-sector employment. This takes the shape of workers being registered with the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), which is mandatory for firms with 20 employees or more. In the last few years, net new EPFO enrolments have risen progressively, with first-time employees aged 25 years and below accounting for about 50% of net additions to EPFO payrolls.

reserved and backward categories have been appointed as IAS, IPS and IFS officers in the past five years, the Centre informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Of these, 233 officers were appointed in 2018, 231 in 2019, 223 in 2020, 250 in 2021 and 258 in 2022, it said in a written reply.

₹1.48 trillion for education, employment and skilling is well intended. India as a country of over 1.4 billion people needs more jobs and employable talent. The push to increase participation in the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is a critical step toward formalizing the labour market.

NITI Aayog vice chairman Suman Bery on Wednesday said the review of the direct tax and the custom's duty rates as announced by the Finance Minister in her Budget speech will prepare the ground for long term reforms. Bery further said that the Budget for 2024-25 was a structural budget, which will help in improving labour productivity by building a relationship between the workforce and the private sector.

Bank of Canada interest rate cuts may be coming too little, too late for many Canadians, two polls this week suggest.

Skill development and creation of employable youth with skills for future is one of the key themes of the Union Budget 2024. With this objective, the Government has rolled out a new internship scheme for 500 top companies in India. Though participation under the scheme is voluntary, it does have benefits that organisations may want to explore to build workforce for future.

Goods and Services Tax) GST. This relief comes in the form of a conditional scheme that allows for the waiver of interest and penalty for specified non-fraudulent GST demand notices for the financial years 2017-18 to 2019-20.

FAAD Capital has invested in four agritech startups — Godaam Innovations, VedaFit Foods, Aqin Biotech, and Mkelly Biotech — to support their growth plans. In a statement on Wednesday, FAAD Capital, a Sebi-registered Category 1 angel fund headquartered in Gurgram, said it has made a strategic investment in four innovative agritech startups as part of their AgriManch Accelerator.