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Seizure of ₹5,551.27 crore of Xiaomi India: HC directs competent authority under FEMA to decide the issue in 60 days

The amount has been seized in the bank accounts of Xiaomi Technology India Pvt. Ltd. for transferring crores of rupees to companies abroad as royalty in violation of the law

The Hindu

ED slaps penalities on Amnesty India International, Aakar Patel

The Adjudicating Authority of ED imposes fine of ₹51.72 crore on Amnesty and ₹10 crore on its former chairman Aakar Patel

The Hindu

6 months after Marshall fire, victims still taking first steps in long road to recovery

DENVER — For the past six months, Matteo Rebeschini and his family have struggled to get into a groove after the Marshall fire destroyed their home.

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The G Word Begs Americans To Fall Back in Love with Uncle Sam

Adam Conover and President Barack Obama want to unruin the federal government. But they’re not really willing to truly consider that it’s too big and too wasteful.

Reason

FEMA releases largest update to its mobile app in a decade

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is releasing the largest update to its mobile application in a decade, the agency announced today

The Independent UK

Housing market slows retreat from rising seas, bigger storms

Hot real estate markets have made some homeowners wary of participating in voluntary flood buyout programs

The Independent UK

‘Historic’ weather: why a cocktail of natural disasters is battering the US

As the world heats up, weather events will increase and overlap, testing the limits of nation’s resiliency and recovery

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Bartees Strange explores his journey from 'Farm to Table'

In an interview with Morning Edition's Leila Fadel, the fast-rising artist talks about a life path as winding and varied as his music.

WEKU

Yellowstone's historic flooding is an insurance nightmare

Only a fraction of residents have flood insurance

Axios

In Louisiana, Native Americans struggle to recover from Ida

As another hurricane season gets started, many Native American residents in southeast Louisiana are still struggling to recover from last year's Hurricane Ida

The Independent UK

As natural gas expands in Gulf, residents fear rising damage

There are neighborhoods in Southwest Louisiana that have endured seven federally declared disasters in just two years

The Independent UK

NJ residents say they're waiting for Ida aid 9 months later

Roughly two dozen people appeared Wednesday in Trenton to call on federal officials to speed up and improve disaster aid after remnants of Hurricane Ida struck the state, killing 30 and wrecking numerous properties

The Independent UK

She joined DHS to fight disinformation. She says she was halted by... disinformation

Nina Jankowicz looks back at how exaggerations and falsehoods stoked so many doubts about the Disinformation Governance Board that DHS paused it after just three weeks.

WEKU

Texas GOP targets Black voting power

Republican power grab shatters 30 years of political progress for Black voters in Galveston County

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Few eligible families have applied for government help to pay for COVID funerals

On a humid August afternoon in 2020, two caskets ― one silver, one white ― sat by holes in the ground at a small, graveside service in the town of Travelers Rest, South Carolina.

Tribune News Service

FEMA turned down California county’s request for wildfire aid. Residents beg Biden for help

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tobi Magdison wants President Joe Biden to “keep to your promise” to the wildfire victims of El Dorado County. Candace Tyler wants to know why she and other fire victims have been overlooked by the federal government.

The Independent UK

New Mexico fires prompt forest closures, governor seeks aid

Three of New Mexico’s five national forests will be off limits to the public starting this week due to active wildfires and extreme fire danger

RideApart

European Motorcyclists Association Fights To Protect Rider Data

The Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations sends a letter to the European Commission to promote regulations on the collection and use of rider data.

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WEKU

Few eligible families have sought federal payment of COVID funeral expenses

FEMA has a pool of cash set aside to reimburse burial costs — even retroactively — to the families of COVID victims. But clerical challenges and slow outreach have stymied the application process.

The Hindu

HC allows Xiaomi India to operate bank accounts only for day-to-day activities

ED had on April 29 seized ₹5,551.27 crore of the company for alleged violation of FEMA provisions

The Hindu

ED seizes ₹5,551 cr. of Xiaomi Technology India under FEMA

Amount was sent to three foreign–based entities in the guise of royalties, says agency

The Hindu

Enforcement Directorate seizes ₹5,551 crore deposits of smartphone giant Xiaomi Technology India under FEMA

Amount was sent to three foreign–based entities in the guise of royalties, says agency

The Independent UK

Once dead, twice billed: GAO questions COVID funeral awards

The Federal Emergency Management Agency may have been double-billed for the funerals of hundreds of people who died of COVID-19, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report Wednesday

The Independent UK

‘You have to call and ask me nicely’: Trump refused to release disaster aid unless governors grovelled for it, new book reveals

In This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future , authors Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns report Mr Trump demanded sycophancy from governors who needed aid for their states beyond what has previously been revealed

Salon

Hurricane Harvey still causing suffering

Texas turned disaster aid for Harvey into a competition. Guess who’s losing out?

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