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When Is Neurodiversity an Excuse for Rudeness?

January 26, 2025
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Pay Parity, at Last? During my annual evaluation last week, my boss admitted that two senior managers, including myself, have been paid less for years than our peers with similar experience and backgrounds. I’ve been with the company for 12 years, starting as a junior manager and working my way

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Loan-related complaints up 43% in FY24, says RBI report

January 26, 2025
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Complaints against banks and NBFCs represented 82.28 per cent and 14.53 per cent of the total complaints, respectively. MUMBAI: Consumer complaints related to loans and advances accounted for the largest share among grievances against entities regulated by the RBI, rising 43%, according to the annual report of the Reserve Bank’s

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38 Injured After ‘Unexpected Aircraft Movement’ on a United Flight

January 25, 2025
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Thirty-eight people were injured on a United Airlines flight that was headed this week to Washington, D.C., from Lagos, Nigeria, officials in Nigeria said, after the plane experienced what the airline described as “a technical issue and an unexpected aircraft movement.” Six people were treated at a hospital for their

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UBS to double its GCC footprint in Hyderabad with additional 1,800 jobs

January 25, 2025
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HYDERABAD: Swiss banking giant UBS is doubling its global capability centre (GCC) footprint in Hyderabad with plans to create another 1,800 new jobs over the next two years.The expansion will mainly focus on beefing up UBS’s finance and operations functions by leveraging the quality talent pool available in the city,

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Infrastructure Development
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Financial Advice on Social Media Is Growing. And Risky.

January 25, 2025
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Amy Ryan was panicking about her savings when she went online for advice. It was April 2020, and the stock market had plunged, draining a nest egg that she had built up over the years. Ms. Ryan, a 43-year-old sales engineer from Wales, had dumped her portfolio in the crash

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Should Sports be a College Major? Some, including Nike, Say Yes

January 25, 2025
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For decades, a small but passionate group of academics has offered a potential balm for the fraught relationship between athletics and education at major universities: Allow students to major in sports. One such educator is David Hollander, a clinical professor at New York University’s School of Professional Studies. He has

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The Cheat Sheet on Trump’s First Week

January 25, 2025
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During his first week in office, President Trump issued a barrage of executive orders, signing sweeping directives on immigration, D.E.I., energy policy, trade, TikTok and more. The blizzard of activity — some of which is bound to be challenged in court — was overwhelming. Here’s our cheat sheet. Tariffs and

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Barry Sternlicht Is Bringing Back the Starwood Hotel Brand

January 25, 2025
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Barry Sternlicht made a fortune building Starwood Hotels and Resorts, which birthed successful brands like W Hotels, into a giant of the travel industry. Now he wants to do it all again — under the Starwood name. Mr. Sternlicht is resurrecting the Starwood Hotels brand starting in February, nine years

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Inside the $32 Billion Industry Transforming Marijuana

January 25, 2025
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An email obtained by The Times shows that one committee leader, Representative Sharon Wylie, a supporter of the industry, shared a draft of the bill with a cannabis lobbyist. “Thank you for being open to the compromise approach,” she wrote. In an interview, Ms. Wylie said that “the jury’s still

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Women centric Direct Benefit Transfer have bled state finances: SBI

January 25, 2025
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NEW DELHI: The State Bank of India raised concerns about the financial stability of women-centric Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes in various states. These schemes, which provide direct cash benefit transfers to women particularly around election periods, could put a major strain on state budgets.According to the report, the total

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