Banks in India will be closed for up to 14 days in May 2024, including Sundays and the second and fourth Saturdays, according to the Reserve Bank of India holiday calendar schedule.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) holiday list notes that on May 1, 2024, banks will be closed in some states in observance of Maharashtra Day and May Day.Also read: Changes in saving account charges, credit card rules, special FD deadlines: 5 money changes in May 2024Here is a look at the states where banks will be...
May 1st, or Labour Day, is widely celebrated in Denmark, with a large proportion of the workforce joining marches and attending political speeches across the country. But it's not a public holiday, so what's open and what's closed?
Amber Iman and Eden Espinosa are both 2024 Tony nominees for their
The government has postponed the opening of primary and secondary schools
Communications minister Michelle Rowland won’t rule out strengthening the news media bargaining code to compel platforms to make news availableGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government is not ruling out requiring tech giant Meta to carry news on its social media platforms as well as pay for it, as Labor considers whether to activate and toughen the still-dormant news media bargaining code.The communications minister, Michelle Rowland, told...
Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That’s the way to soften up a democracy.” - J. Edgar Hoover,...
Montgomery County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management shared the following Road Closure List and updates on May 2, 2024. NOTE: This is a
The stagflationary report on first-quarter gross domestic product from the Bureau of Economic Analysis got plenty of attention, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently dropped a bigger bombshell, and no one seemed to notice.
Another Dutch tech firm has been caught in the simmering tensions between the West and China. Amid growing calls to curb Chinese access to chipmaking equipment from ASML, a Dutch minister has raised a separate alarm about the sale of Philips spinoff Anteryon. Although the digital-optics developer remains based in Eindhoven, the business was bought in 2019 by China's Jingfang Optotelectronics. The Suzhou-based firm reportedly spent between €40mn and €50mn on the acquisition. Following a...
Last week, the USDA released the genetic sequences of a strain of influenza that originated in birds and has now spread to dairy cattle in at least eight states. While scientists welcomed the information, there has been growing concern that the USDA isn’t moving fast enough to address a threat to the nation’s food supply and the potential source of a new pandemic. Stories about the danger of Avian Influenza Type A, also known as bird flu or H5N1 flu, have made their way into the news for...
When most of us were growing up, pretty much everyone took college football bowl games seriously. It felt like schools and players considered it an honor to play in any bowl game in a particular season. That’s changed in a big way. The College Football Playoff has made non-playoff games feel like exhibitions. And, players […]