MUMBAI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has urged banks and capital market institutions to ensure all accounts have a nomination address concerns over rising unclaimed deposits and investments due to death of individuals. This FM’s statement comes four months after she proposed a drive to settle unclaimed bank deposits, which have been steadily increasing every year.As … Read more
A man is in hospital with serious injuries after a light plane crash in South Australia’s northeast. Police say the plane came down on a property at Mulyungarie, near the NSW border, on Wednesday evening. WATCH VIDEO ABOVE: Pilot seriously injured in outback plane crash Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus … Read more
BRASILIA: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday officially recognized two Indigenous territories, granting them legal protection as reservations to defend against invasions by illegal loggers, gold miners and cattle ranchers. The announcement came on the day Brazil celebrates its Amazon region, home to the world’s largest tropical rainforest, the preservation of which … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Linguists have developed the comparison of the genetic code with language where nucleotides act as letters, and introduced the concept of “a semiotic nucleotide”—the minimal element that makes it possible to distinguish between codons—coding units of DNA. According to this approach, the biochemical characteristics of DNA operate as informational ones. Flexibility … Read more
NEW DELHI: The incidences of recurring food price shocks pose a risk to the anchoring of inflation expectations, which has been underway since September 2022 and of which the central bank will remain watchful, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said on Tuesday.“The role of continued and timely supply-side interventions, as being undertaken by the government, assumes … Read more
CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico (Border Report) – It’s been 28 years since Cheech Marin tended bar and Antonio Banderas shot a bunch of bad guys inside the place. Still, visitors keep coming to the Corona Club to have a drink, look at pictures on the wall and celebrate the legacy the films “El Mariachi” (1992) and … Read more
While One Piece has certainly been entertaining us all with its wild story of pirates and treasure, there’s one particular character that’s getting a special round of applause, and rightfully so. Buggy has been one of the most iconic characters in the original anime and manga, so it only makes sense that he’s gaining some … Read more
A defocused police car sits behind crime scene tape with flashing lights at night. Ajax9/Getty Images/iStockphoto A 45-year-old Bay Area man and six minors were arrested last week on suspicion of burglarizing 26 businesses, police said. The burglaries, which occurred from March to August of this year, were all investigated by the San Jose Police Department. … Read more
More than one in five Canadian workers are considering leaving their jobs, according to a new survey. The July mental health index report from Telus Health, formerly known as LifeWorks, found that 21 per cent of Canadians are considering leaving their current positions. The data shows that individuals contemplating leaving their jobs … Read more
MANDAPAM, India – Adjusting their swimming goggles and wrapping their fingers in cloth to protect them from the jagged coral below, a group of women plunge into choppy waters off southern India to gather seaweed — their routine since childhood. The work is hard, the days long and the earnings slim — selling the seaweed … Read more