Users are willing to shell anywhere between Rs 699 a week and up to Rs 3,000 an hour for a dating coach. Synopsis Growth More than in MetrosAccording to companies like Aisle and Truly Madly, which have millions of users and position themselves as “serious” dating apps, and bespoke high-end dating services like Sirf Coffee, … Read more
The cost of renting a property from a private landlord is rising at the fastest rate since records began in 2006, the Office for National Statistics has said. In a sign that the UK’s 4.6m private tenant households are failing to benefit from the fall in overall inflation and lower house prices, the ONS said … Read more
A South Australian builder has been placed into administration, leaving dozens of customers with unfinished home builds. Consumer and Business Services stripped 7 Star Construction of its licence earlier this month after dozens of complaints over substantial delays and the quality of work being done. The company, owned by Qamil Veseli, has 27 unfinished homes … Read more
NEW DELHI: The government may keep an outlay of Rs 7,500 crore under the production linked incentive scheme for IT hardware products like personal computers, laptops, tablets and servers, according to a source aware of the development. Foreign companies looking for incentives under the scheme may have to invest Rs 500 crore over four years, … Read more
Polly Toynbee’s excellent exposé of county court eviction proceedings implicates larger issues around the role of these courts in assembly-line debt enforcement (I spent a day in a court where ‘no-fault’ evictions reach 10 an hour. Whose fault is this, Rishi Sunak?, 15 December). Historically, this is not a new phenomenon: in 1910, county court … Read more
Many households are on the verge of abandoning their home insurance policies, as new research has found about 1.24 million Australians are facing insurance affordability stress. It comes off the back of home insurance premiums having risen 28 per cent, or $414, to $1894 in the past 12 months, being the biggest hike in two … Read more
NEW DELHI: Twitter’s Public Policy Director for India and South Asia has resigned to pursue other interests, the micro-blogging site confirmed in a statement. The company has also advertised a position for public policy director – India last week. This comes as the San-Francisco based firm is at the receiving end of the Indian government … Read more
The sales have started and there are bargains to be had on the high street and online. It’s the perfect time to buy those money-saving gadgets that you have been considering – once you know that Santa hasn’t left them for you under the tree. We have looked at the savings that can be made … Read more
Victorians have until midnight August 31 to apply for the current $250 Power Saving Bonus payment from the state government. The new round of the payment was an election promise and was confirmed after the Andrews government’s success at the November 2022 state election. The $250 payment has been available to any household that compares … Read more
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s first videoconference with European Union foreign ministers last month was so good humoured that some diplomats in Europe described it as a “love fest”. But two senior envoys who attended said there was no direct response from the ministers gathered in Brussels when Blinken said: “We must push back … Read more
