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Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will participate in the virtual G20 Leaders' Summit, hosted by India. The Canadian Prime Minister's officer released Trudeau's schedule for Wednesday which has him joining in the meeting virtually Trudeau's attendance in the virtual meeting comes amidst a diplomatic standoff between India and Canada.

Haryana Chief Minister over the issue of stubble burning, Punjab Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said that the latter should «stop politics» and should «stand» with the farmers. His response came after CM Khattar said that the Aam Admi Party-ruled Punjab has not allegedly «paid much attention» to the crop burning residue, and «the State government should adopt the measures taken by his government as noted by a Supreme Court bench a day earlier». Speaking to on Tuesday about the issue of stubble burning, Minister Cheema said, «This time, the number of stubble burning cases has increased the most in Haryana. There was a 70 percent reduction (in stubble burning) in Punjab this season between October and November.» «Haryana CM Khattar should stop doing politics on this and should stand with the farmers.

₹16,500 crore in October. The asset management reality is that FIIs have to park their and their clients’ monies somewhere amidst the prolonged global economic slowdown. The Indian economy and its future potential is being bet on.

Fedbank Financial Services IPO opens today: The initial public offering (IPO) of Fedbank Financial Services Ltd has hit primary market today and it will remain open for bidding till 24th November 2023. This means Fedbank Financial Services IPO opens today and it will remain open for bidders till Friday this week. The NBFC has fixed Fedbank Financial Services IPO price at ₹133 to ₹140 per equity share.

U.S. fighter aircraft struck two Hezbollah operations centers in Iraq in response to attacks on U.S. bases that have escalated alongside Israel's operations against Hamas in Gaza, two defense officials said. They said attacks on U.S.

Polycab India and KEI Industries. JPMorgan maintained an overweight rating on RIL and Morgan Stanley has an underweight rating on IGL. We have collated a list of recommendations from top brokerage firms from ETNow and other sources: Goldman Sachs on Polycab India and KEI Industries: Buy Goldman Sachs initiated coverage with a buy rating on Polycab India and a target of Rs 5750 while on KEI Industries it has kept a target of Rs 2730. Both companies are in a prime position to benefit from the nation's infrastructure push.

That work, begun in the days after the hostages were taken, finally bore fruit with the announcement of a prisoner swap deal mediated by Qatar and Egypt and agreed by Israel, Hamas and the United States. The secretive effort included tense personal diplomatic engagement by U.S. President Joe Biden, who held a number of urgent conversations with emir of Qatar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the weeks leading up to the deal. It also involved hours of painstaking negotiations including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, CIA Director Bill Burns, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and his deputy Jon Finer, and U.S.

₹16,000 crore to markets watchdog Sebi to refund investors. Now with the death of its founder Subrata Roy, the Centre seems to be weighing the option of transferring the corpus to the Consolidated Fund of India. A report in The Economic Times on Monday said that the government was looking at the legality of transferring the funds to the consolidated fund with few investors coming forward to claim money even after a decade.

Among the concerns often raised in connection with the proliferation of digital public infrastructure (DPI) is the worry that nations that are reliant on digital systems for the delivery of public services will end up excluding those incapable of accessing these digital solutions from the benefits these systems were built to offer. As digitization efforts accelerate across the globe, the schism between those who can access these systems and those who cannot is only going to get more acute. Most people associate digital capacity with connectivity.

Washington H Soul Pattinson just can’t get enough of coal.

A new private equity firm backed by former Pinnacle executives is raising up to $200 million to buy up minority stakes in asset managers it hopes will emulate the lucrative returns of the founders’ previous employee.

Drought-like conditions in Maharashtra could squeeze the supply of key kitchen staples such as onions, pulses, sugar, and fruits and vegetables, pushing up their prices and threatening an inflationary spike. The state is a key producer of these farm items with a substantial share in total output. Reservoir levels in the state are currently 20% lower than they were last year at this time with the rain having been patchy.

The board of Guzman y Gomez forced its chief executive, Steven Marks, into a secret plan “involving cult-like life coaches and non-legal advisors to try to transition him to a credible, reliable executive”, the former management team responsible for the group’s expansion into North America has claimed.

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on Tuesday named a new CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange he founded, after pleading guilty to federal money laundering charges and stepping down as the company's chief.

Uranium3o8, an asset-backed token backed by uranium, has gone live on Uniswap.

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Much like playing a game of Monopoly, a recent study from Tufts University finds that when people are more wealthy, it’s because they’re lucky — a result of just pure randomness.

On November 7, 2023, Polygon Labs introduced a groundbreaking Polygon PoS v1 Testing Toolkit, designed to revolutionize devnet management on the Polygon network. The toolkit, which serves to ease the development process, makes the deployment, monitoring, and testing of Polygon Point-of-Service (PoS) devnets simpler. It also contributes to the simplification of the process. It is based on Express-CLI, which is an improved version of Matic-CLI, which it was developed on top of. It intends to do this by hastening the testing and deployment processes for crucial components such as «bor,» «erigon,» and «heimdall.»

Kazakhstan's Ministry of Culture and Information has clarified its decision to block the global cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, within the nation's borders. The ministry asserts that the trading of cryptocurrencies on Coinbase is in direct violation of the Kazakhstani law on Digital Assets. This clarification was provided in response to an inquiry from «Kursiv,» following a request from the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations, and Aerospace Industry. The request was made to block access to Coinbase, which contravened section 5 of Article 11 of the country’s Digital Assets Law.

Singapore-based Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), a global frontrunner in the cryptocurrency mining industry, has released its unaudited operational metrics for October 2023, showcasing sustained robust performance and strategic advancements. Throughout the month of October, both the hash rate and the electrical capacity remained stable, which was praised by the CEO Linghui Kong. He brought out the fact that the Gedu Datacenter in Bhutan had contributed 3.3EH/s to the overall hash rate as well as 211 Bitcoins, which accounted for more than half of the entire Bitcoin production for the month. The ongoing construction of the Tydal Datacenter in Norway, which is anticipated to be completed in the year 2025, serves as an instance of the company's devotion to the advancement of technology as well as the rise in shareholder value.

Getting on the property ladder is so tough these days more young Canadians despair of ever getting to the first rung.