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Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

NBFCs' disbursals drop in Q2 on fewer urban sanctions

NBFCs loan disbursals dropped 13% year-on-year in the September 2024 quarter. Urban loan sanctions declined by 23%. Long-term loans fell 50%, while loans against securities and education loans also saw declines. However, short-term loans and property loans increased. Semi-urban and rural loans grew modestly. NBFC credit was 13.6% of GDP during 2023-24.

The New York Times 

5 Takeaways From The Times’s Coverage of Shen Yun

The dance group has exploited its young performers while amassing huge wealth for the Falun Gong religious movement — and getting a publicity boost from The Epoch Times.

Boing Boing 

Psychonauts, please take a pass on peyote

In 1994, an amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act finally granted Native Americans freedom to use the peyote—a very slow-growing cactus containing the psychedelic compound mescaline—for traditional ceremonial purposes. In recent years though, the skyrocketing interest in psychedelics has threatened the availability of this medicine due to overharvesting, poaching, and environmental degradation in the plant's natural habitat of southern Texas and northern Mexico. — Read the rest

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