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In a startling revelation, it has been revealed that the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has rejected every third claim that it received, reported Indian Express.

consumption has narrowed, and Indian household spending on non-food items has risen, showed the results of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2022-23 released on Saturday. Household spending increased 2.6 times in rural areas and 2.5 times in urban areas since the last survey, conducted in 2011-12. In 2022-23, average monthly per capita expenditure in rural areas was ₹3,773, compared with ₹6,459 in urban areas. The gap between urban and rural consumption has narrowed to 1.71 times in 2022-23 from 1.8 times in 2011-12. Urban consumption was nearly double of rural consumption in 2004-05.

Assam Repealing Ordinance, 2024 for repealing the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorces Registration Act. AIMIM spokesperson Waris Pathan on Friday that the ordinance to repeal the Muslim Marriage Act, “is a violation of Articles 25, 26 and 28 of the constitution." He said everyone has the right to practice their religion.

Nirmala Sitharaman. Amid tight security, the passengers grabbed the opportunity to click pictures with the Union Finance Minister. “Smt @ interacts with commuters while travelling from Ghatkopar to Kalyan in a Mumbai local train," the official X handle of Nirmala Sitharaman said while sharing the pictures of her Mumbai local journey.

Mohammad Imtiaz says he watched as his wife was savagely attacked by a neighbour.While she survived, Imtiaz says she’s deeply traumatized.“We brought her home but she’s scared to come here in her apartment,” Imtiaz said.It all happened last week in a condo tower in Vaudreuil-Dorion.The suspect is accused of killing his 68-year-old mother and a 53-year-old neighbour.“Then, when he saw my wife coming out from my apartment, he rushed toward her and then he hit something very hard, hammered her in the head, then she fell on the ground. Then he went again in the apartment and brought some big knives and some other dangerous things that he pushed in her nose and eyes and everything, and then he tried to cut her throat,” Imtiaz said.

Uttar Pradesh government has made the decision to cancel the UP Police Constable Recruitment Exam 2024 following reports of paper leaks. The exam, which saw participation from over 48 lakh aspirants, including approximately 16 lakh women, on February 17 and 18, will be re-conducted within six months. This development comes amid ongoing protests by civil service aspirants against the alleged leaking of question papers. Paper Leak Forces Exam Cancellation In a significant move, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh has announced the cancellation of the UP Police Constable Recruitment Examination-2023 due to reports of paper leaks. This decision, declared by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, comes on the sixth day of civil service aspirants' agitation against the alleged question paper leaks.

Amazon purchase, revealing that he received a fake iPhone 15. With over 1.5 million followers on X, Gabbar Singh took to social media to express his frustration and posted a picture of the fake device. In the tweet, he mentioned that the seller was Appario, tagged as 'Amazon choice,' and highlighted the absence of a cable in the box. The post gained rapid attention, prompting a swift response from Amazon, apologising for the error and instructing him to fill in details for resolution. «Waah @amazonIN delivered a Fake iPhone 15. Seller is Appario. Tagged with “Amazon choice” No cable in the box. Total Dabba. Has anyone faced similar issue?» he said.

market indices? If I look at news and social media, the purpose is clearly to generate a number representing how the markets are doing today or how they did yesterday. Added to this is the widespread ‘analysis’ that tries to find clues as to why the markets rose or fell. If this was all that the indices were good for, they would actually be good for nothing. What can you, the investor, actually use an index for? It’s important to recognise that stock market indices do more than just provide a daily numerical snapshot of market performance. Every stock investor knows that market indices are like a report card for the overall market. They show how the market is doing, but not how each individual stock is doing. If you are only looking at the index, you might miss out on some good investment opportunities. For example, the index might be going up, but some stocks might be going down. You might not notice this if you’re only looking at the index. What else can we use the index for? One great thing about indices, which most of us ignore, is that they serve as a bridge connecting the present with the past. They are historical archives, capturing the ebb and flow of the economy, business and market over time. In comparing the current positions of these indices to their historical levels, as well as the current patterns to the historical ones, we have a powerful tool for understanding not just where the market stands today, but how it got here and what might happen.

British professional golfer Georgia Ball doesn’t need unsolicited advice from men, but just like the experience of many women, it’s practically par for the course.

Gmail would cease to "support sending, receiving, and storing emails." This misinformation was widely shared, with some attributing the speculated shutdown to a recent controversy surrounding Google's AI image tool, Gemini, which generated images of racially-diverse Nazi soldiers. Setting the record straight, Google took to social media to reassure users that Gmail is not going anywhere. "Gmail is here to stay," the company emphasized in a post, dispelling the unfounded rumours.

startup ecosystems and Indonesia's startup ecosystem has been rapidly growing, fueled by a large young population and increasing internet penetration. There is immense potential for collaboration between India's public digital infrastructure and Indonesia's digital infrastructure to drive innovation, economic growth, and cultural exchange, Indonesia’s Creative Economy and Tourism Minister Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno has told ET. By sharing best practices and expertise, India and Indonesia can empower entrepreneurs, startups, and creative professionals to harness the full potential of digital technologies for innovation, growth, and social impact, Sandiaga who is in Delhi to participate in the Raisina Dialogue (India’s premier foreign policy dialogue) told ET in an exclusive interview. “There is great potential for partnership between Indian and Indonesian startups across-sectors — technology, e-commerce, fintech, healthcare, agriculture, and renewable energy,” the visiting Minister pointed out. “I recognize the immense potential for collaboration between India's public digital infrastructure and Indonesia's digital infrastructure to drive innovation, economic growth, and cultural exchange.”

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, while speaking on his book «Why Bharat Matters», said that whether you're an Indian national or someone living abroad, it is important to understand 'Why Bharat Matters', because it will be bigger in the coming decade and in the century. While speaking at the Raisina Dialogue 2024, Jaishankar said on Friday, «I wrote the book because I was really convinced it was important to present an argument today why, whether you are a national of this country or whether you are someone living abroad, it's important to understand, why Bharat matters, that we will be bigger in everybody's lives in the coming decade and the coming century.» He further explained that the book is about the state of the world, globalization, technology and digital.

Guru Ravidas or Raidas was an Indian mystic poet-saint of the Bhakti movement during the 15th to 16th century CE. Guru Ravidas Jayanti 2024 falls on February 24, 2024, on the Purnima Tithi of the Magha Month. The festival commemorates the birth anniversary of Guru Ravidas, a revered saint, poet, and spiritual leader.

Exotel, Freshworks, Gupshup, Corover.ai and Yellow.ai. While this transformative technology is applicable to multiple channels from websites to apps, social media as well as messaging platforms including Google’s RCS (rich-communication services), the most prominent early adopter is proving to be Meta’s WhatsApp. Generative AI is making WhatsApp-based customer support conversations more «human and free-flowing», rendering standard bot-replies redundant according to businesses that have incorporated this new tool.

There has been a lot of discussion about the fate of the 401(k) system in the month since a pair of academics proposed killing the tax preferences for 401(k)s to help shore up Social Security.

One Punch Man" can mark their calendars as Chapter 203 is set to hit screens on March 7, 2024, at 12 am JST. With no announced breaks in the release schedule, readers can anticipate the arrival of the upcoming chapter as per the manga's biweekly schedule, accessible on Shueisha's Tonari no Young Jump website.

Reddit is a social media and news aggregation platform that has some 71 million active daily users who discuss niche subjects in niche groups. On Thursday, the San Francisco-headquartered company signed a $60 million-a-year deal — in Google VP, engineering, Rajan Patel's words, 'a new Cloud partnership' — that will allow Google to mine the social media site's vast content to train its generative AI models. It had taken eight months for Reddit to sign up a big AI company, after CEO Steve Huffman announced in June 2023 that AI companies consuming Reddit's data to train their LLMs would have to pay up. It appeared as an attempt to bolster the company's revenues and attain profitability before an IPO. 'We'll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive,' Huffman had said then. The same month, Reddit also announced that all developers like Apollo, Sync, Pushshift and RiF would have to begin paying for using the Reddit API. Many developers were outraged, because Reddit had become a significant social media site by allowing its API to be used for free by developers to build their bots and services. Many dropped out, claiming the new fee-paying model wasn't sustainable, despite the fact that they were making money from subscribers and ads, which they were not sharing with Reddit.

(Reuters) -Travel company Viking Holdings said on Friday it has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering in the United States, the latest to take advantage of recovering investor appetite for new stocks.

UK Parliament has taken the internet by storm. Pakistan and its propaganda machinery have issued threats to Yana Mir. Toolkit gang" has been quite active for the past 48 hours.

The latest fashion in tax grabs is the vacant property tax (VPT). In Vancouver it’s called the “empty home tax.” In Toronto it’s the “vacant home tax.” Whatever the name, taxing residential property that isn’t used for a government-prescribed minimum number of days in a year is pernicious.

X user took to the social media platform to complain about Google's Gemini AI tool's alleged “bias" against PM Modi. As per the claims, when asked a question about fascism, the Gemini AI tool displayed a proper reply about PM Modi. However, when the same question was asked for former US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the AI tool refused to give any clear answer.