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India and Bangladesh commencing cross-border trade settlement in Indian rupee (INR) would promote two-way commerce by reducing transaction cost, an industry official said on Sunday. CII national committee on EXIM Sanjay Budhia said that since all exports and imports and settlement of trade transactions under this arrangement may be denominated and invoiced in INR, this would also reduce dependence on the US Dollar and would address situations like scarcity of forex reserves apart from strengthening regional currency and trade.

settlement scheme for contractual disputes with vendors or suppliers to government and has set October 31 as the deadline for submitting claims for consideration. The scheme was announced by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in budget this year.

Lawyer for Henrietta Lacks' family announces settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific over HeLa cell line

All levels of government must hold management of the Calgary Stampede to account over how it handled years of sexual abuse at a performance school it runs, says one of the city’s 10 members of Parliament.

Major League Baseball has paid its $185 million settlement of a lawsuit by minor leaguers alleging violations of minimum wage laws

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McLeod Russel India Ltd and Carbon Resources for a one-time settlement of the former's debt with lenders, officials of both companies said on Sunday. The talks will take some more time to evaluate and agree on a mutually acceptable mechanism, and thus, the timeline for an exclusive negotiation agreement needs to be extended, they said. The timeline of the exclusive negotiation expired on July 28.

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member of Parliament says he’s calling on the federal government to halt funding to the Calgary Stampede.Liberal member George Chahal, who represents Calgary Skyview, says the Stampede has lost people’s trust.A partial settlement was reached this week in a class-action lawsuit alleging the organization allowed a performance school staffer to sexually abuse young boys.Phillip Heerema is serving a 10-year sentence for luring six boys into sexual relationships when he worked for the Stampede’s Young Canadians School of Performing Arts.The lawsuit’s three dozen plaintiffs are all men who were students, employees, contractors or volunteers with the performance school.The Stampede apologized in a statement and said it takes responsibility in the hopes of helping the victims heal.Chahal said government funding should only be restored when the victims feel there has been genuine accountability.“The Calgary Stampede must recognize that they have lost the trust of many Calgarians,” Chahal said in a letter posted Thursday night on social media.“It is not about enhancing their image or salvaging their brand; it is about ensuring justice, safety and a commitment to never allow such heinous acts to happen within their ranks again.”The Stampede said it has taken steps to enhance the safety and wellness of its young participants.“Our commitment to those impacted is to do everything possible to guard against anything similar ever happening again,” it said in a statement Wednesday.

U.S. Facebook users have one more month to apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta agreed to pay late last year

Mumbai: A recent instance where a senior official of a broking firm settled a case with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for ‘mirror trading’ has sparked a debate over the legitimacy of such transactions. Mirror trading is a technique that allows an individual to copy the trade of another on a real-time basis. Mumbai-based Aequitas Investment Consultancy, a money manager run by Siddhartha Bhaiya, had alleged that Pawan Agarwal, a broker, executed trades for the fund as its broker while carrying out mirror trading.

(Reuters) -Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co said it would add three directors in agreement with Elliott Investment Management, months after the activist investor disclosed a stake and called for changes to strengthen the company's financial position.

capital market regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) announced on Monday to move to T+1 settlement cycle for all scrips from 1st October 2023. This means effective from first October 2023, all trades will be settled one day after the date of trade instead of current T+2 settlement cycle.

Delhivery, which has challenged the beleaguered airline's voluntary insolvency, its counsel informed the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Monday. «We are looking at settling with them,» the counsel submitted before the NCLT, while seeking more time to complete the talks.

₹1.58 crore from the logistics company for rendering domestic cargo consignment services. The money was paid as per the terms of an agreement that both companies entered into in 2020 and was last renewed in August 2022.

SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch discusses the recent developments with the investors. The Securities and Exchange Board of India, announced that it will move to a T+1 settlement cycle for all scrips, effective October 1, 2023. This means that trades will be settled one day after the date of the trade, instead of the current two-day settlement cycle.

(Reuters) -AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron said on Sunday the company filed a revised petition for a stock conversion plan to address the Delaware court's concerns over other shareholders.

The family of Mallory Beach have won a multi-million-dollar settlement after their 19-year-old daughter was killed in a crash aboard a boat owned by Alex Murdaugh, who is currently serving a life sentence for killing his own wife and son.

IRDAI) has asked all general insurers and standalone health insurance firms to deploy resources and shrink response-time gaps after the worst deluge in decades battered north India, damaging property and claiming multiple lives in the Himalayan foothills and the Gangetic floodplains. The regulator has asked insurers to use all resources including engaging investigators, surveyors, and loss adjusters to speed up claims settlement.

PNB MetLife on Saturday said it has achieved a claim settlement ratio of 99.06 per cent and 99.70 per cent for individual and group customers' claims, respectively, in FY2022-23.Punjab National Bank promoted life insurer paid 19,768 claims totaling Rs 829.79 crore, demonstrating its deep commitment to standing by customers when it matters the most, PNB MetLife said in a statement. While this is the company's highest claims settlement performance for both individual and group customers over the past three years, PNB MetLife has consistently paid over 97 per cent of claims demonstrating the company's robust claim management practices and high-quality customer service.