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Jo Johnson, the younger brother of the former prime minister Boris Johnson, has resigned as a director of a London-based investment bank allegedly linked to the Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s crisis-ridden business empire.Lord Johnson, a former Conservative minister who was...

Base rate bounce: Chase, Tandem and Newcastle BS raise easy-access savings rates following Bank of England's riseTandem ups rate on its instant access savings to 3.05% with bonus includedJP Morgan's Chase is increasing linked savings rate to 3% from 13...

AsiaVision | E+ | Getty ImagesMost Americans can file their taxes for free — but many don't seize the opportunity.Roughly 70% of taxpayers qualify to use IRS Free File, but only 2% used it during the 2022 filing season, according...

Edtech major BYJU's has laid off further 15 per cent of its employees from its engineering teams, as the company continues phased layoffs to remain growth-oriented in global economic meltdown. According to sources, the company in a fresh round of...

Feb 2 (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has shut its Abu Dhabi office less than a year after securing a license in the region, a spokesperson said on Thursday, as the company seeks to sharpen its focus after FTX's bankruptcy...

DEXTER, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - Authorities are searching for a missing 17-year-old as they believe the teen has been groomed over the internet and lured away.  Authorities are searching for missing teen Ea Kuhr as they believe the teen has...

A cancer-stricken man woke up to find he suddenly had an Irish accent — despite never having been to the country. The American had been battling an advanced form of prostate cancer for close to two years before seeking advice for...

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man types on a computer keyboard in front of the displayed cyber code in this illustration picture taken on March 1, 2017.REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo By James Pearson (LON:) and Danilo Masoni LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) -A ransomware...

Brexit damaging UK growth more quickly than expected, says Bank of EnglandBrexit is damaging UK growth more quickly than expected, the deputy governor of the Bank of England said today.At a news conference to explain today’s interest rate decision, Ben...

Sometimes an extra bit of lab work or prototyping can make all the difference to the creation of the next breakthrough technology that improves our world. A Princeton initiative now celebrating its 10th anniversary has funded the research behind 22 startup...

To provide relief to consumers from rising wheat flour prices, Kendriya Bhandar has started selling the commodity at Rs 29.50 per kg from Thursday, while cooperatives Nafed and NCCF will also sell at the same price from February 6 across...

LORD Alan Sugar is one of Britain’s richest businessmen and he has built up an impressive car collection along with his fortune. The star of the BBC’s hit show The Apprentice is estimated to have a net worth of nearly...

The British government will hold an independent statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh car bombing, the Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, has announced. The atrocity killed 29 people and injured 220 on 15 August 1998, four months after the Good Friday agreement....

No one does embarrassment of riches quite like the oil and gas industry. Amid a cost of living crisis, Shell has the opposite problem: the UK-listed energy group made a record annual net profit last year of almost $40bn, double...

The government is under pressure to rethink its windfall tax on energy companies after Shell reported one of the largest profits in UK corporate history, with the surge in energy prices sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushing the oil...

I’ve decided that celebrities should hire me. Not to write their TV shows or movies (although yes, that would also be good), but for a more important social media-based role. My job would be to warn them when they are...

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Constantine Johnny | Moment | Getty ImagesTax season has begun, and it typically comes with a big uptick in tax-related scams.There were nearly 7.8 million reports of suspicious activities in 2022, according to a recent report from the Identity Theft...

New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), which are counted among the noted business schools in the country, have faced a budget cut this year with the Centre reducing their grant by half. The top institutes, however, believe that...

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: UK pound coin plunges into water in this illustration picture, October 26, 2017. Picture taken October 26, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic By Samuel Indyk LONDON (Reuters) -The British pound extended its losses against the euro and dollar...

In his first speech to the Conservative party conference as prime minister in 1991, Sir John Major pledged to create a future Britain with wealth cascading down the generations. “We do not see each generation starting out anew, with the...

The British government is to hold an independent statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing, the single deadliest atrocity of the Northern Ireland Troubles.Chris Heaton-Harris told the House of Commons on Thursday that he intended to establish an inquiry into...

A former director of national firm Slater and Gordon instructed advisers to find a ‘back channel’ to ascertain the true financial status of a business it wanted to buy, a court has heard. Ken Fowlie made a handwritten note of...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visiting troops in Kherson, Ukraine. Photo: ReutersRussians who are incensed by president Vladimir Putin's invasion are sending "significant amounts of money" through cryptocurrency back channels to help Ukraine, according to its deputy digital minister.Two days after...

MATIC Rises With 100% Boost In Trading Volume As Polygon NFT Transactions Outshine Ethereum  TronWeekly READ SOURCE...

The Finance Bill, 2023 has proposed bringing non-resident investors in unlisted companies under the ambit of Section 56 (2) (viib) of the Income Tax Act, also known as the ‘angel tax’.This means privately held companies such as startups that issue...

Around six in 10 people with long Covid in the UK are likely to have been suffering the symptoms for a year or more, figures suggest.Some 1.2 million of those with long Covid are estimated to have first tested positive...

UK power supplier Centrica has apologised for the “deeply disturbing” behaviour of a third-party contractor alleged to have broken into vulnerable customers’ homes to install pre-pay energy meters on its behalf, and suspended the controversial practice of forced instalments.Chief executive...

Full Year 2022 Revenues of $16.9 Billion, Up 11% Versus Prior Year, Led by Outdoor Power Equipment Acquisitions, Industrial Segment Growth and Price Realization Global Cost Reduction Program on Track, and Delivered $200 Million in Pre-Tax Savings in the Second...

Sensex climbs 224 points, Nifty holds 16,600; Adani Enterprises plunges 27% READ SOURCE...