Spread the love       A US federal judge has approved a $47.75 million settlement in a securities lawsuit against Hawaiian Electric Industries, while significantly reducing the legal fees requested by the investors’ lawyers. The October 23 ruling by the US District Court for the Northern District of California, reported by Bloomberg Law and Law360, brings the investor class action closer to...

Spread the love       Census 2027 population enumeration to span up to 50 days, with 40 questions including caste, Aadhaar and voter ID details NEW DELHI: The population enumeration phase of Census 2027 will last longer than in past census exercises, with its duration spanning nearly one-and-a-half months from Jan 10 to Feb 28, including the 15-day self-enumeration window, as against...

Spread the love       Anti-cancer drugs show mark-ups of up to 700% despite NPPA’s 2019 price curbs, raising questions over one-time price cuts A look at the mark-up on some of the drugs on which National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) put a trade margin cap of 30% on selling price in Feb 2019 shows that a majority had mark-ups of 100%-700%...

Spread the love       PM Tusk defends chief justice’s suspension, president rushes back as court alleges ‘coup’ Poland witnessed fresh tensions between its government and the nationalist right on Friday after riot police were deployed around the country’s constitutional tribunal following the suspension of its chief justice, Bogdan Swieczkowski.Poland President Karol Nawrocki also cut short an official visit to Africa and...

Spread the love       By 2026, Robin Rinearson’s two Fairfax County businesses have become more than neighbourhood food shops, they have become workplaces where people with disabilities can build skills, confidence and independence. When retired optometrist Robin Rinearson opened Jake’s Ice Cream in Virginia in 2021, her goal was not simply to sell scoops of ice cream. She wanted to create...

Spread the love       World Bank projects India’s poverty rate to fall to 12.1% by 2028, from 14.2% in 2026, citing strong consumption growth and rising employment NEW DELHI: World Bank has said that poverty in India, defined at $4.2 a day, will decline from 14.2% in 2026 to 12.1% by 2028.Between 2011 and 2023, it is estimated that the share...

Spread the love       Rahul Gandhi and Nirmala Sitharaman trade barbs over IDBI Bank stake sale, as Congress leader backs employees’ strike NEW DELHI: Congress’s Rahul Gandhi and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman sparred on social media over govt’s decision to sell its stake in IDBI Bank with the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha backing protesting employees.A day after he...

Spread the love       Supreme Court says voter names can be added to electoral rolls even after SIR completion; inclusion remains a continuing process NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Friday said completion of special intensive revision (SIR) does not mean electoral rolls have been frozen, a statement that would put to rest the apprehension that names removed from draft rolls cannot be...

Spread the love       Isro’s NVS-03 satellite carries an indigenous atomic clock and is set to restore India’s NavIC navigation system, strengthening its strategic capabilities and reducing dependence on foreign GPS networks NEW DELHI: The successful night launch of Isro’s navigation satellite NVS-03 carrying an indigenously-manufactured atomic clock along with procured (foreign) atomic clocks on Friday will make India’s indigenous satellite...