When I started at the Department of Education in the 1990s, student loans were a popular middle-class benefit. College affordability or student loan debt were rarely front-page news. Our dingy offices, a converted World War II warehouse, were a daily reminder of how our work seemed overlooked, too. But in those hallways—literally, my desk was in a hallway—we celebrated lower interest rates, fewer loan defaults, and record college enrollments.

When I returned to the Education Department a decade later, reports of deceptive recruiting tactics at for-profit colleges raised new questions about the value of college loans. My bosses wanted to know whether these abuses were widespread. Were they a few bad apples or a rotten…

The new Toxic Avenger finally hits theaters this week after a few years’ delay, and while audiences are in for a wild ride with the movie’s hilariously gross tale of mutation and redemption, the movie does also tackle more serious themes. A big moment comes early on when Peter Dinklage’s character—Winston Gooze, before he becomes Toxie—learns his expensive health insurance won’t cover his life-or-death medical treatment. Now, the film is applying some real-world activism to that unfortunately relatable modern crisis.

As Bloody Disgusting reports on its blog, it’s teaming up with its parent company Cineverse, which is distributing The Toxic Avenger, to boost the non-profit Undue…

Christchurch company CProPainterPlaster has collapsed owing Inland Revenue an estimated unpaid tax value of over $1 million.

The business working in the house construction industry went into liquidation under an application filed by the IRD at the Christchurch High Court on July 10 with the New Zealand Insolvency and Trustee Service appointed as liquidator.

In the first liquidators report released on August 15 the cause was understood to be a failure to account for taxation.

The liquidator was working to establish communication with sole director and shareholder, Christopher Pabaira, to obtain the company’s financial statements and position.

CProPainterPlaster is estimated to have just under $2000 in available funds.

The…

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has dismissed an appeal challenging the acquisition of Vadraj Cement by Nirma group company Nuvoco Vistas Corporation, upholding the resolution plan approved earlier by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).The Delhi-based principal bench of NCLAT affirmed the April 1, 2025 order of the Mumbai NCLT, which had cleared Nuvoco Vistas’s Rs 1,800 crore plan for the Gujarat-based cement maker. The bid was implemented through subsidiary Vanya Corporation and had received unanimous backing from the Committee of Creditors (CoC), PTI reported.The two-member bench comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member (Technical) Barun Mitra rejected an appeal filed by an employee and…

The Federal Government has unveiled a new strategy it hopes will help it better manage its public debts. The new strategy, the Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) 2024-2027 succeeds the elapsed MTDS 2020-2023.

MTDS is a Public Debt Management (PDM) tool that links borrowing with the macroeconomic framework of a country to ensure that the costs and risks in the public debt portfolio are within sustainable levels.

As at the end of the first quarter of 2025, Nigeria’s total public debt was N149.39 trillion (approximately $97.32 billion) made up of N78.76 trillion domestic debt and N70.63 trillion external debt.

Experts have raised concerns that the country’s debt could become unsustainable given the rate at which it…

A two-member NCLAT bench comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member (Technical) Barun Mitra rejected an appeal filed by an employee and authorised representative of employees of Vadraj Cement against the approval of Nuvoco Vistas’s bid over their payout regarding their gratuity…

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