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Real estate brokerage company Compass Inc. will pay $57.5 million as part of a proposed settlement to resolve lawsuits over real estate commissions

Two crew members on a Holland America cruise ship died during an “incident” in the ship's engineering space

Estonia's defense officials say the U.S. Congress has passed a bill that involves a total of $228 million in military and defense aid to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this year under the Baltic Security Initiative

Personal loans are occasionally referred to as signature loans, while lines of credit operate more like credit card accounts. Despite the confusion among modern borrowers, these two financial products have significant differences in terms of their features and everyday usage.

Federal Bank has introduced the innovative RuPay Smart key chain, ‘Flash Pay’, which is the first of its kind in the industry and is enabled with NCMC technology. This smart key chain allows users to make contactless payments at NCMC-enabled metro stations without the need to wait in line to purchase tickets or cards specific to the metro stations. 

China on Monday for a six-day official visit during which he will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang on ways to further deepen bilateral ties. Gunawardena was received on his arrival by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister and former Ambassador to India Sun Weidong, Chinese official media reported. This will be the first visit by a Sri Lankan leader to Beijing after Colombo put a moratorium on recurring visits by Chinese research ships to Hambantota port, reportedly due to India's security concerns.

Many financial institutions like banks offer some products and services for a specific category of customers like kids, women, senior citizens, etc. Union Bank of India has also launched a credit card, Divaa, for women customers only. Let us explore the eligibility criteria, fees, features, benefits, and whether you should apply for this card. Also Read: Redefine Opulence with the Most Powerful Lifestyle Card Ever: HDFC Bank Regalia Gold Credit Card

National Pension System (Tier-1) account has given a whopping return which is in the range of 33-39 percent. As we know, there are 10 pension fund managers of NPS and their return varies from one to another. The maximum return of 39.74 percent was given by Tata-Pension Fund.

IPL 2024: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will take on Punjab Kings (PBKS) on March 25. RCB, led by Faf du Plessis, were outsmarted by Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in their first match. Punjab, on the other hand, sealed their first win in the tournament as they clinched a last-over thriller in Mohali.

March 22 this year, marking the return of the students' union after a four-year hiatus. Here are the top ten updates about the JNUSU results: 1. In the polls that happened after a hiatus of four years, Dhananjay from the All India Students' Association (AISA) won the JNUSU president's post by securing 2,598 votes against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad's (ABVP) Umesh C Ajmeera who secured 1,676 votes.

France's government increased its security alert posture to the highest level Sunday after the deadly attack at a Russian concert hall and the Islamic State's claim of responsibility. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced the decision in a post on X, saying authorities were «taking into account the Islamic State's claim of responsibility for the (Moscow) attack and the threats weighing on our country.» The announcement came after Presiden t Emmanuel Macron held an emergency security meeting prompted by Friday's attack in a Moscow suburb that killed more than 130 people. The attack was claimed by an affiliate of the Islamic State group. France has repeatedly been hit by deadly Islamic State attacks, including the Bataclan theater massacre in 2015 in which extremists opened fire on concert-goers and held hostages for hours. French troops have also fought against Islamic extremists in the Middle East and Africa.

meeting of BJP state office bearers and parliamentary candidates was held on Sunday at Dr Shyam Prasad Mukherjee Bhavan, the BJP State Office in Nampally, Hyderabad. Union Minister G Kishan Reddy, BJP National Vice President DK Aruna, and BJP National General Secretary and State Incharge Sunil Bansal were among those who attended the meeting. Other leaders and candidates who are set to contest the forthcoming elections also participated. While speaking to after the meeting, BJP National Vice President DK Aruna stated that with the election dates announced and public sentiment favouring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP is actively preparing to ensure a large voter turnout.

Gabriel Attal made this announcement after a meeting with top security and defence officials alongside President Emmanuel Macron. Attal shared on social media site X (formerly known as Twitter), that the decision to elevate the alert level was made "in light of the Islamic State's claim of responsibility for the (Moscow) attack and the threats facing our nation". "Following the attack in Moscow, a Defense and National Security Council was convened this evening at the Elysée by the President of the Republic.

United Left panel on Sunday effected a clean sweep in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) election, defeating its nearest rival the RSS-affiliated ABVP. In the polls that happened after a hiatus of four years, Dhananjay from the All India Students' Association (AISA) won the JNUSU president's post by securing 2,598 votes against Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad's (ABVP) Umesh C Ajmeera who secured 1,676 votes. Dhananjay hails from Gaya, Bihar, and is the first Dalit president from the Left after Batti Lal Bairwa in 1996-97.

IIFL Finance Ltd and JM Financial Products Ltd (JMFPL) will undergo a special audit to further probe their regulatory breaches, as the RBI has initiated the process for the appointment of auditors. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has floated two separate tenders for the appointment of auditors for special audit of these two companies. Audit firms empanelled by the Securities and Exchange Board of India for forensic audit can participate in the tendering process, and the last date for submission of bids is April 8, as per the tender document published by the RBI. The selected firms will be awarded work on April 12, as per the bid documents. Earlier this month, the RBI put a curb on these two entities for non-compliance of regulatory guidelines.

Empower, a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco US, has announced a new comprehensive suite of retirement income products for participants in its defined-contribution plans.

National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) recently adjourned the hearing of an application in cable TV distribution company Siti Networks' insolvency resolution matter to April 3. Before that, the bench, comprising judicial member Lakshmi Gurung and technical member Charanjeet Singh Gulati, observed that various applications were pending, highlighting irregularities in the process and the change in the date of the start of the resolution process. Hence, all the material decisions of the process and the committee of creditors would be subject to the tribunal's final order on the pending applications, the NCLT said. The application was moved by the suspended board of directors of the company which has contested the timeframe set by the resolution professional. Siti was admitted to the corporate insolvency resolution process in February 2023, with Rohit Mehra as the resolution professional.

terror attack in the Moscow region, evidence of radicalised Central Asian youth penetrating Russia is emerging as a threat. ET has learnt that the Russian security agency FSB had eliminated two terror groups comprising youth from Central Asia between February and early March before the third group struck at Crocus City Hall last week, killing more than 100 people. The Indian security establishment is closely monitoring the situation and the emerging pattern of terror threat in Russia and Central Asia. On Sunday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and conveyed condolences over the terrorist attack. Russian national security advisor Nikolai Patrushev has called for wider partnership to counter the terror threat and radical cells. On the morning of March 7, the FSB conducted a special operation in the village of Koryakovo, Kaluga region of Russia. Two terrorists from Central Asia were killed in the operation, according to security analysts. FSB was assisted by Kazakh security officials in the operation.

India has called for prioritising issues such as access to finance including trade finance, manufacturing concentration, food security, and reducing transaction costs in international trade and services for discussions in various bodies of the World Trade Organization (WTO). «Cross-cutting real-life trade issues which impact the developing countries disproportionately» such as access to technology, bridging digital divide, supply chain resilience, and enhancing effective aid for trade that is effective, demand driven, untied, and has recipient ownership should be taken for discussion on a priority basis," New Delhi said in its submission on 30 years of WTO and how the development dimension has progressed. «If a large part of the membership believes that their agenda is not in lockstep with the priorities of this organisation or the messaging being delivered to the external world...a sense of defeatism and decline in members' interest in the working of this organisation is imminent,» it said.

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