NEW DELHI: With over three crore filled enumeration forms – accounting for 38% of Bihar’s 7.9 crore electorate – collected as of 6pm Monday, EC estimates that more than 75% of the state’s voters would have submitted their completed forms in the next couple of days.EC Monday said the enumeration forms received have already crossed…
This one is the most obvious one. The most common place to feel thyroid pain is right at the front of your neck, just below the Adam’s apple. (more prominent in men) This is exactly where your thyroid gland sits, hence the pain. You may notice tenderness, soreness, or a sharp pain in this area,…
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the States was “close to making a deal with India” as he released tariff letters to various trading partners, informing them of the reciprocal tariff rates that would be effective from August 1, 2025. “We are close to making a deal with India. We’ve made…
NEW DELHI: India’s education system continues to struggle with critical gaps in foundational literacy and numeracy, teacher training and financing, even as it shows consistent gains in gender parity, school completion rates and digital infrastructure. As per the 2025 Unesco SDG 4 scorecard, the country remains off-track in upper secondary and tertiary participation, lags behind…
NEW DELHI: There has been a nearly 20% increase in toll collected – around Rs 21,000 crore – through FASTag on national and state highways in the first three months of the current financial year, compared to Rs 17,280 crore in the corresponding period of 2024-25, as per National Electronic Toll Collection data.Around 80% of…
KOLKATA: Candidates specified as tainted in the 2016 Bengal’s School Service Commission (SSC) panel (hirings) will not be allowed to participate in a fresh school recruitment process for 35,726 vacancies, Calcutta high court held Monday and directed SSC to cancel applications by such candidates. SSC had earlier submitted a list of ‘tainted candidates’ before the…
BENGALURU: India’s French connection is growing stronger. French IT services firm Capgemini, which has more than half of its 3.4 lakh employees in India, is acquiring one of the country’s business process management (BPM) pioneers, WNS, for $3.3 billion. The move is seen as an attempt to bring strong technology expertise, especially AI, into BPM…
AHMEDABAD: Around 21 years after the death of private firm employee, Sureshchandra, his wife Varsha Shukla and their son Vikrant will receive his Provident Fund (PF), following a 15-year-long legal battle.Sureshchandra’s other wife, Hinarani, and daughter Vilaspati had objected to Varsha’s PF claim. Last week, city civil court granted a succession certificate to Varsha and…
NEW DELHI: Brics countries should work to make supply chains for critical minerals and technology secure and reliable, so that no country can use these resources for its own “selfish gain or as a weapon” against others, said PM Narendra Modi at the Rio summit. The remarks are significant as they come at a time…
Representative AI-generated images MUMBAI: Consumers spent on packaged goods, beauty, fashion, and jewellery in the June quarter, indicating some revival in demand that had been dragged down by sluggish urban consumption, even though early rains and geopolitical tensions capped growth, quarterly updates published by companies showed.Dabur said the FMCG sector saw a sequential recovery in…
