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DailyHunt is in advanced stages to acquire Indian start-up Koo, TechCrunch reported citing sources on Wednesday. The deal may be finalised in as many as three weeks, the report said. Koo, which has been touted as an alternative to social media platform X, which was previously known as Twitter.

Pension Payment Order: How to find your PPO number? A step-by-step guide According to reports on February 20 it was revealed that the EPFO has rejected every third claim that it received. Several subscribers raised their grievances relating to the delay in claim settlement on the official X handle of EPFO. India's provident fund body is the world’s largest social security organisation with over 277 million accounts and a corpus of nearly ₹20 lakh crore.

₹86.2 trillion. Of this, ₹31.6 trillion flowed into fixed deposits of banks and other institutions, while ₹5.1 trillion flowed into mutual funds (MFs) and stocks, amounting to about 6% of the overall flow. Given this, the remaining 94% went into fixed-income investments, like life insurance schemes, provident and pension funds, fixed deposits and small savings schemes.

Rajya Sabha member Syed Naseer Hussain posted a video in 'clarification' of alleged pro-Pakistan sloganeering in the state's Vidhana Soudha by his supporters during celebration following his victory declaration. In a video post shared on 'X', Hussain said, «Today, as some of our party supporters and workers and some people were celebrating the victory of three candidates, I was there in the midst of them and then lots of slogans like 'Naseer Hussain Zindabad', 'Naseer Khan Zindabad', 'Naseer Sahab Zindabad' and 'Congress Party Zindabad' were being raised by some of the workers.» «Then all of a sudden as I was leaving for my house, I got called by the media saying that somebody had raised slogans of 'Pakistan Zindabad'. I would like to say here that when I was there in the midst of the people, a lot of slogans were being raised but I never heard the slogan 'Pakistan Zindabad', but whatever it is we have asked the police and let the police investigate it,» he said further.

United States, and will see the almost $60,000 undiscounted annual tuition fee become zero. The school, and its affiliated hospital the Montefiore Medical Center, are located in the Bronx -- New York City's poorest borough, where health outcomes are some of the worst in the state, according to official statistics.

₹10.71 crore net within its five-day run in theatres, According to early estimates by industry tracker Sacnilk. On its Day 5, Tuesday, the movie raked in ₹1.01 crore net, marking a slight improvement of 1% from the previous day when it earned ₹1 crore net. In terms of occupancy on February 27, the film witnessed an overall 10.46% Hindi occupancy.

Starbucks and the union organizing its U.S. workers say they have agreed to begin talks with the aim of reaching labor agreements

Investigations and enforcement actions taken by state securities regulators are soaring thanks to advances in technology and social media, according to a report released Tuesday by the North American Securities Administrators Association.

Last week saw the release of yet another artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 1.5, Google’s much-awaited response to ChatGPT. As has now become the norm, on the day of its release, social media was saturated with gushing paeans about the features of this new model and how it represented an improvement over those that had come before. But that initial euphoria died down quickly.

Elon Musk started imagining X as an ‘everything app’ that could do much more than just be a social media platform. Now the vision is gradually taking shape, and X is slowly evolving into a job-hunting platform as well. Recently the company revealed that over 1 million companies on X are looking to hire candidates.

FIR has been registered against the JD(S) leader contesting the Rajya Sabha elections in Karnataka, D Kupendra Reddy, and his aides at the Vidhana Soudha police station in Bengaluru, former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy said on Tuesday. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah too confirmed that an FIR has been registered for «threatening» the Congress MLAs in connection with the Rajya Sabha elections. «The Congress leaders not only spoke about allurement and threat to their MLAs time and again but also registered an FIR against Kupendra Reddy and his aides,» the JD(S) second-in-command told reporters here. Kumaraswamy said the complainant MLA did not say that he was lured, but that some other MLAs were «approached». «Melukote MLA Darshan Puttannaiah of Karnataka Sarvodaya Paksha too had said that it's true that his vote was sought but no one had lured him,» the JD(S) state chief claimed. Kumaraswamy also said the BJP and JD(S) had decided that the votes of its 19 JD(S) MLAs and the additional BJP votes after its first preferential votes would go to Kupendra Reddy. Siddaramaiah slammed the Janata Dal (Secular) for allegedly trying to lure Congress legislators to get its candidate Kupendra Reddy elected.

Zerodha's CEO Nithin Kamath revealed on Monday that he experienced a «mild stroke» six weeks ago. He attributed the stroke to a combination of factors including the recent passing of his father, poor sleep, exhaustion, dehydration, and excessive exercise. The revelation by 44-year-old Kamath, who is a fitness enthusiast, has reignited debate about work-life balance. Kamath noticed symptoms such as facial drooping and difficulty with reading and writing. He anticipates a full recovery within 3-6 months. After the mild stroke, Nithin Kamath said he wondered «why a person who's fit and takes care of himself could be affected». Zerodha cofounder said that his doctor «said you need to know when you need to shift the gears down a bit.» Noting that Nithin Kamath is one of the «fittest persons», Hyderabad-based neurologist Dr Sudhir Kumar said the Zerodha founder has rightly has rightly recognized five likely risk factors that could have caused his stroke: Stress (of losing his father), sleep deprivation, over-exercising (over-working out), exhaustion (related to work commitments and workouts) and dehydration.

Indian nationals hired by Moscow, with the help of recruiters around the world, for the Russian army in Ukraine. Two years into the war tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine, and Moscow is on a global quest for more combatants, sometimes with the assistance — complicit or oblivious — of informal intermediaries. An Indian translator working in a military recruitment centre in Moscow told AFP journalists in New Delhi that his facility was one of a network across Russia.

Anirudh Kejriwal, a vice president at JPMorgan Chase & Co, took to social media to narrate his experience of buying a flat in a society at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He alleged caste discrimination, saying that the society is barring his entry due to his caste. He also alleged that he was threatened by a gathering of around 30 people who warned him against buying the flat. In a series of tweets, the JP Morgan executive, who works in GIFT City, said: «Shocked to face blatant caste discrimination in Sant Vihar 1 Society, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. My attempt to buy a flat turned into a nightmare as society's management is barring my entry due to caste. After paying a significant advance, planning was underway to finalize the sale deed. But the seller’s evasion on providing the NOC from the society was the first red flag. Little did I know, the real issue lay deeper.» «My concerns were confirmed when the society’s chairman and management openly stated their refusal to allow people from ‘other’ castes to move in. In the heart of Gujarat, this open discrimination left me in disbelief.»

I intend to make a gift of ₹1 lakh to my adult daughter. What will be the tax implications of this gift for me as well as my daughter? Do I need to follow any procedure for making the gifts? Do I need to prepare any gift deed, if yes, what is the stamp duty applicable? Is the gift deed required to be registered?

Congress in Karnataka and BJP have locked horns over UK professor Nitasha Kaul being denied entry into India for the state-organised conference on the Constitution over the last weekend. The ruling Congress has hit out at the BJP, calling the incident yet another example of how the Centre restricts both individual and state rights. “It is a stark reminder of the multiple challenges to the constitutional idea of India. All patriotic Indians must reflect on these threats and unite to reclaim our Constitution,” Social Welfare Minister H C Mahadevappa said on Monday. The Karnataka government, he added, had every right to host a programme on Constitution awareness and invite an expert to speak at the convention. Industries Minister MB Patil said the incident showed what type of democracy there was in India. “This is not a good thing for our country because in our country Baba Saheb Ambedkar has given a world class Constitution where everyone’s views are respected. There is a freedom to talk,” he said.

Nithin Kamath's post revealing that he suffered a 'mild stroke' a few weeks ago. Taking to social media site X (formerly Twitter), Kamath on February 26 revealed that he suffered a "mild stroke" around six weeks back. And while he did not explicitly confirm the cause, he suggested that a combination of factors might have contributed to it.

Zerodha's founder Nithin Kamath announced on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday that he had a 'mild stroke out of the blue' about six weeks ago. «Dad passing away, poor sleep, exhaustion, dehydration, and overworking out — any of these could be possible reasons,» he said, attributing these factors to his medical condition.

By David Ljunggren

Millions of workers across Michigan who’ve historically been shut out of the employer-sponsored retirement plan market could get a new option to prepare for their retirement courtesy of a newly introduced bill.