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Delhi chief minister Atishi on Thursday said the new BJP government led by Rekha Gupta should provide Rs 2,500 monthly financial assistance to every woman in the national capital, a promise the saffron party made in the run-up to the February 5 assembly elections.

Samsung has urged the Tamil Nadu government to ensure 'ease of doing business' while prioritising worker safety as the ongoing worker strike at its Sriperumbudur plant near Chennai rages on.

Quantum computing stocks rose in premarket trading on Thursday after Microsoft launched a new chip that indicated the technology is not «decades away» as stated by the top boss of AI chip bellwether Nvidia.

When switching jobs, you probably focus on transferring or withdrawing your provident fund (PF), assuming your entire retirement savings are covered. But what if part of your money was stuck in limbo—unclaimed, inaccessible, and potentially lost forever?

Mark Carney promised to cap the size of the Canadian public service and undertake a program spending review if he becomes prime minister, but did not provide details of how much he would reduce government outlays overall.

The economic uncertainty stemming from U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs could compel Canada’s biggest banks to report provisions for credit losses that are higher than what analysts had previously expected when the lenders release their quarterly results next week.  

Bank fixed deposits (FDs) and the Senior Citizen Savings Scheme (SCSS) offered by India Post are two of the most popular investment options for senior citizens. Many retirees struggle to make a choice between investing in SCSS or bank FD.

Uttarakhand has made most districts out of bounds for «outsider» agriculturalists and horticulturalists. TheUttarakhand cabinet on February 20 approved a draft legislation that prohibits individuals from other states from acquiring agricultural and horticultural land in 11 of its 13 districts, with Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar being the exceptions, ToI's Kautilya Singh reported. This legislative initiative is intended to «protect the state's resources, cultural heritage, and the rights of its citizens.» The bill is anticipated to be presented during the ongoing Budget session.

Hamas on Thursday released the bodies of four Israeli hostages, said to include a mother and her two children who have long been feared dead and had come to embody the nation's agony following the October 7, 2023, attack. The militants displayed four black coffins on a stage surrounded by banners as Red Cross vehicles arrived at the scene in the Gaza Strip. The fighters then carried the coffins over to Red Cross vehicles, where staffers in red vests covered them in white sheets before placing them inside. The convoy headed back to Israel, where authorities will identify the remains.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump has dramatically shifted the direction of U.S. foreign policy in four short weeks, making the U.S.

Google Pay, one of the leading Unified Interface Payments (UPI) platforms, has introduced a convenience fee for bill payments, such as those for electricity and cooking gas, charging customers who have hitherto been using the avenue for free when making low-value transactions. To be sure, the charges apply to payments made with credit and debit cards, with fees ranging from 0.5% to 1% of the transaction value, plus the applicable goods and services tax (GST).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Another cooperative lender is now embroiled in an alleged fraud. Mumbai-based New India Cooperative Bank faces crippling curbs from RBI and its board has been dissolved, similar to what PMC Bank faced in 2019.

In the midst of United States President Donald Trump‘s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from all countries beginning next month, a consensus in Canada is emerging that parts of this country’s trade policy regarding metals are broken.

Kate Phillips will reprise her role as the main character. Filming will start this month in Belgrade, Serbia. Several returning and new cast members will be part of the upcoming season.

Federal Reserve officials in January agreed they would need to see inflation come down more before lowering interest rates further, and expressed concern about the impact President Donald Trump's tariffs would have in making that happen, according to meeting minutes released Wednesday. Policymakers on the Federal Open Market Committee unanimously decided at the meeting to hold their key policy rate steady after three consecutive cuts totaling a full percentage point in 2024. In reaching the decision, members commented on the potential impacts from the new administration, including chatter about the tariffs as well as the impact from reduced regulations and taxes. The committee noted that current policy is «significantly less restrictive» than it had been before the rate cuts, giving members time to evaluate conditions before making any additional moves. Members said that the current policy provides «time to assess the evolving outlook for economic activity, the labor market, and inflation, with the vast majority pointing to a still-restrictive policy stance.