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Non-resident Indians residing in Singapore and the United States are expressing significant concerns over withholding taxes. These taxes threaten to diminish their net returns from leveraging FCNR deposit schemes. For instance, borrowing from Indian banks’ GIFT City branches triggers Singapore withholding tax, while US-resident NRIs encounter elevated withholding taxes on loan interest payments. Moreover, US…

A medieval abbot’s kneecap and a floor tile have been returned to Glastonbury Abbey more than 70 years after they were taken by an 11-year-old schoolboy during an archaeological dig. The artefacts were kept in Australia for decades before the boy’s widow brought them back following his death in 2025.

Microsoft has told engineers that “tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for” in a new internal memo from EVP Jay Parikh. The memo makes OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 the default internal model, replacing an auto-router that had been sending GitHub Copilot workloads to Anthropic’s Claude. Every Microsoft division now carries an AI token budget target, months…