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Scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia, this fight is expected to net Fury an impressive £60 million, as mentioned in a report by Mirror USA. However, should Usyk secure a second victory, Fury stands to lose nearly half of his prize money to the taxman.

Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking review of an order granting bail to Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji in a money laundering case related to a cash-for-jobs scam. A bench of justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih also dismissed a prayer for conducting open hearing on the review petition. «Application seeking oral hearing of the review petition is rejected. The review petition seeks review of judgment and order dated September 26, 2024. Having gone through the review petition and the connected papers, we do not find any ground to review the order sought to be reviewed. There is no error apparent on the face of the record,» the bench said in its order passed on December 17, and uploaded on the apex court website on Saturday. The bench noted that an application for recall of the same order is pending and is being heard by the court.

The Federal Reserve lowered its interest rate target three times in 2024.

Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced an Ambedkar scholarship for free foreign education of the city's Dalit students. Kejriwal said the Dr Ambedkar Samman Scholarship was a response to the BJP's «insult» of Ambedkar. Union Home Minister Amit Shah «insulted and made fun of Babasaheb Dr Ambedkar in Parliament. Crores of people who love Ambedkar were deeply pained,» the former Delhi chief minister said at the AAP headquarters. Ambedkar had said education was the way forward and secured a PhD from the US against all odds, Kejriwal told reporters.

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With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House has approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt lim...

Qualcomm's central processors are properly licensed under an agreement with Arm Holdings, a jury found in a trial in U.S. federal court that removed some, but not all, uncertainty around the mobile chipmaker's expansion into the laptop market. A week of courtroom arguments and deliberations ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to resolve one of three questions put before it in the trial between the two chip giants. Qualcomm said the result affirmed its right to innovate, but Arm vowed to seek a new trial. Arm's shares were down 1.8% in extended trading after the news, and Qualcomm's shares were up 1.8%.

Frank McCourt is crafting a fundamental overhaul of TikTok's business model as part of a plan to bid for the Chinese-owned short-form video app, he told Reuters. McCourt, who formerly owned the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, said he has received verbal funding commitments totaling $20 billion from a consortium of investors to rescue the app from legal purgatory as it awaits a Supreme Court decision to determine if it will be forced to sell its US operations. His vision for TikTok includes revamping the company's advertising model so that users will have control over the ads and type of content they want to see. Over time, TikTok could earn revenue through ecommerce and licensing data for artificial intelligence training models — with users' consent — which will diminish the business' reliance on ads.

Accel India, an early-stage backer of Flipkart and Swiggy, has closed its eighth fund, securing $650 million in investor commitments, people briefed on the matter said. At the same time, Accel’s global growth fund based in the US has also closed its latest fund with a $1.35 billion corpus, the people said, citing US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. A portion of the funds raised will be allocated to Indian startups in their pre-IPO rounds, the people added. Once formally closed, Accel’s latest fund will boost its total commitments in India to nearly $3 billion. It signals a likely more active strategy by Accel to deploy capital through the India and the US growth funds across various lifecycle stages of startups.

Luigi Mangione shot to the headlines after becoming the prime suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, for which a manhunt went on for days on end until Thompson was captured. NYPD officials had a few field days trying to nab a suspect in this shocking incident, and tried to use every resource at their disposal, and even federal authorities tried to assist them in the case.

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safety and security applications. The railways had sought an extra 5 MHz of paired spectrum in the 700 MHz band, free of cost, to enhance safety and security systems. Following deliberations with stakeholders, the Trai has recommended assigning an extra 5 MHz to carve a contiguous block of 10 MHz of 700 MHz spectrum for the railways.

Shares of Trump Media and Technology Group slid in midday trading Friday after President-elect Donald Trump transferred all of his shares into a revocable trust, according to a regulatory filing

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Manipur government stating that there is no organization called Kuki-Zo Council, the Council refuted stating that it acts as a common political platform for addressing shared political concerns and advocating for the collective interests of the community. Khaikhohauh Gangte, Secretary Information, Kuki-Zo Council in a statement stated, “The Kuki-Zo Council (KZC) has recently taken note of certain quarters questioning its origin and authenticity. Notably, a press release issued by the Directorate of Information and Public Relations (DIPR), dated 18 th December 2024, and circulated on social media, challenges the existence of the KZC and denounces its activities. Initially, the Council considered the DIPR’s press release to be fake, as it lacked a signatory and the designation of the responsible officer."

Supreme Court on Friday restored China Development Bank, Exim Bank of China, Asset Care and Reconstruction Enterprises and others as financial creditors in the insolvency process of Reliance Infratel Ltd, which is now acquired by Reliance Project & Property Management Services, a subsidiary of Reliance Jio Infocomm. A Bench led by Abhay S Oka struck down a 2022 order of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal that declassified these four indirect creditors of Reliance Infratel including China Development Bank, etc as financial creditors of the beleaguered telecom company. Reliance Infratel’s resolution professional had earlier admitted claims worth Rs 41,055 crore from 35 financial creditors, including Rs 10,952 crore of China Development Bank and other three creditors.

Markets regulator Sebi on Friday simplified the framework for asset management companies (AMCs) by reducing the requirement to upload draft SIDs to 8 working days from 21 days earlier. This is aimed at streamlining the process, reducing timelines, and enhancing investor protection while simplifying compliance for AMCs. Earlier, AMCs had to upload draft Scheme Information Documents (SIDs) on Sebi's website for 21 working days to receive public comments. Over time, the regulator has standardised and updated the format and content of SIDs to improve investor communication.

Raj Bhawan Cholo protest earlier this month. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma accused a few Congress leaders of attempting to create law and order issues, claiming they were trying to escalate tensions in Guwahati. «A couple of Congress leaders are trying to create problems,» Sarma said, adding that the protest was part of an effort to incite violence. Among those detained by the police were Congress State Unit President Bhupen Borah, Executive President Zakir Hussain, former APCC President Ripun Bora, APCC Social Media Chairman Ratul Kalita, and MLA Diganta Burman. They were taken to the 10th Police Battalion in Kahilipara for questioning.

TeamLease Services on Friday announced that it has acquired stakes in outsourcing services TSR Darashaw and HR Tech software solutions provider Crystal HR and Security Solutions Private (Crystal HR) for Rs 42.6 crore. TeamLease Services has acquired 100 stakes in TSR Darashaw for Rs 17.6 crore, while it bought 30 per cent stakes in Crystal HR for Rs 25 crore, a company spokesperson told PTI. «Our acquisition of TSR Darashaw's payroll processing business and Crystal HR provides crucial infrastructure for our vision of becoming India's largest Human Capital Management (HCM) service provider.

Qila said it will expand into the US markets by introducing advanced web3 solutions such as blockchain and tokenization, that serves foundational aspects of the technology, ensuring transparent and traceable systems across sectors. It aligns with the core philosophy of Qila that helps enterprises to build trust and enhance their value proposition for customers. “We are undertaking pilot projects and are in talks with different strategic partners based out of the US. Our Web3 private cloud is up and running which offers robust data security and data localisation for the enterprises. We are planning to participate in many upcoming events to promote the adoption of web3 solutions,” said Siddharth Ugrankar, founder at Qila. Qila’s solutions are cross-sectoral but are focused on particular areas such as increasing transparency and traceability in supply chain, improving data security and interoperability in healthcare, boosting customer engagement through tokenization in retail, facilitating secure credentialing and identity management in education and blockchain authentication against counterfeiting in luxury goods.