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Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice North Staffordshire could potentially lose one of its MPs in a national review of parliamentary seats. The Boundary Commission for England has launched its 2023 review of constituencies, with the aim of ensuring that all seats have roughly the same number of electors. While Parliament has agreed that the total number of MPs will stay at 650, in the We...

Hendy’s not just a talking head. He worked with the Government and other scientists, to find ways to track, predict and monitor Covid-19 in New Zealand. In short, he was applying the skills he had as an educator and physicist to try to help. As a physicist, Hendy’s involvement in Covid-19 and climate change may seem slightly unusual. But he explained, “It comes back to your responsibility as a scientist. I've been an advocate of scientists asking themselves, ‘if not me, who?’ ” That applies to everyone. This morning’s New Year honours list recognises him and many other Kiwis...

India Inc bats for a bad bank in pre-budget consultations SECTIONS Share Synopsis In order to augment the effectiveness of these bad banks, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) recommended the government to consider enabling foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) and alternative investment funds (AIFs) to purchase NPAs, in its recently submitted pre-budget memorandum. Agencies Currently, NPAs are largely sold to asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) on a security receipts-basis rather than cash, wherein payments are made only upon recovery. India Inc pushed for the creation of multiple bad...

16 Dec 2020 European Commission boss Ursula von der Leyen said that “there is a path to an agreement now”, revealing that UK negotiators had agreed to be bound by the EU in several key areas in perpetuity, but that finalising an arrangement on fishing remains. A Brexit deal may now be struck within days, even before the end of this week, after two major areas of contention of talks appear to have been resolved, if the EU’s account of events are to be believed. Speaking to the European Parliament on Wednesday morning, the European Commission’s president said there had been a “big ste...

© European Union 2020 – Source : EP/Christian CREUTZ The agreement reached in the European Council meeting of 10‑11 December, which should unblock the adoption of the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) agreed last month, means that budgetary issues are likely to be the focus of this session. (Although the agenda will only formally change when the session opens.) The relevant committees are expected to meet on Monday evening, to consider the draft MFF Regulation, the accompanying draft interinstitutional agreement on budgetary discipline, and the proposed regulation on ‘rul...