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Singer Guru Randhawa has extended financial support to actor Rajpal Yadav, currently in Tihar Jail over a cheque bounce case. He announced that Yadav will appear in his upcoming music video, already receiving an advance. Randhawa’s gesture follows Sonu Sood’s appeal for the film fraternity to help the veteran actor amid legal troubles. Guru Randhawa…
GURGAON: A 42-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped at a deserted roadside dhaba in Bahadurgarh early on Monday by a group of men who had followed the bus she was travelling in. Four of the five accused were arrested, while one remains at large.Jhajjar police commissioner Rajshree Singh said the woman, a resident of UP, had…
FILE – The Social Security Administration’s main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md., Jan. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) When the first Social Security cheques of 2026 start landing on January 14, nearly three-quarters of the US will experience a familiar but quietly consequential ritual. A new cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) kicks in, lifting monthly…
NEW DELHI: India and New Zealand have committed to collaborate on developing domestic payments interoperability and supporting real-time cross-border remittances and merchant payments through the integrated Fast Payment Systems (FPS) as part of the trade pact agreed between the two countries.This move strengthens India’s digital payments ecosystem and fintech sector, enhances remittance flows from the…
Russia on Tuesday said it is ready to address India’s concerns over the widening trade deficit and proposed building a framework to shield bilateral commerce from pressure by third countries. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, speaking ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi, said Moscow is also working to stabilise crude supplies after a…
COIMBATORE: A 32-year-old man hacked his estranged wife to death at a working women’s hostel on Raja Naidu Street near Gandhipuram here on Sunday morning over her extramarital affair with another man. He also clicked a selfie with the body and posted it as his WhatsApp status with a message that ‘payment for betrayal is…
Creditors of Jaiprakash Associates have unanimously voted in favour of Gautam Adabi-led Adani Enterprises’ resolution plan, choosing it over Vedanta despite the latter placing the highest overall bid in a September e-auction, people familiar with the discussions told ET.Jaiprakash Associates (JAL), which owes lenders Rs 55,000 crore, was admitted into insolvency proceedings in June last…
JABALPUR: Time and tide wait for none. Sometimes, not even a smartwatch. This is the lesson a passenger at Jabalpur station learned the hard way last week when his online samosa payment stalled and his train began chugging out.The passenger handed over his watch when a vendor allegedly grabbed his collar, threatening him and demanding…
Cash continues to hold a strong grip on India’s payment landscape, accounting for nearly half of all transactions, even as digital payments surge across the country.A report by Care Edge Ratings found that cash usage in private final consumption expenditure (PFCE) remained at around 50% in Q1FY26. It said that even though digital payments have…
The verification process will utilise biometric information through Aadhar identification system. (AI image) Facial recognition and fingerprint authentication – these are the two new features that may be launched for payments made through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), according to a Reuters report.The National Payments Corporation of India, UPI’s operator, intends to display this biometric…
