Lucknow: Signalling Uttar Pradesh’s growing ambitions in trade, industry, and clean energy, the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) on Friday held a curtain raiser for the fourth Uttar Pradesh International Trade Expo (UPITEX 2026). The chamber, along with FirstView Media Group, also announced that the second Uttar Pradesh Energy Expo (UPEX-2026) will be…
Driving the news While the political headlines from the Winter Session focused on the usual parliamentary theatrics, Parliament quietly passed a legislative package that fundamentally alters the DNA of your personal finances.In a matter of days, the rules governing how you insure your life, save for retirement, and invest in the market were rewritten. The…
NEW DELHI: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, the national regulatory authority on quality of drugs, issued an urgent alert to states and union territories on Wednesday after children’s deaths were linked to contaminated cough syrups.The regulator asked state and UT drug controllers to ensure that manufacturers comply with drug-testing rules, monitor production during inspections,…
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday announced a holiday for government and government-aided schools from October 8 to October 18 to allow teachers involved in the ongoing social and educational survey, known as the ‘caste survey’, to complete their work. The survey was originally scheduled to…
File photo of India Test captain and T20 vice-captain Shubman Gill. India Test captain Shubman Gill expressed his concern on Tuesday about the devastating floods in Punjab that have affected over 2.56 lakh people across 12 districts, causing widespread displacement and damage to lives, property, agriculture, and livestock.Gill took to social media platform X to…
President of the United States Donald J. Trump has allegedly been thinking of commuting the sentence of the disgraced music mogul, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. Earlier this month, the convicted felon was given a 50-month sentence for violating the Mann Act. However, the Republican reportedly has set his mind to sign the commutation documents and set…
MUMBAI: An IndiGo Airbus A321 aircraft, operating flight 6E1060 from Bangkok, suffered a tail strike while landing in Mumbai amid heavy rains in the early hours of Saturday.Flight 6E1060 departed Bangkok at 11.40 pm and landed in Mumbai around 3 am. Before touching down on runway 27 at the airport, the aircraft executed a go-around….
India’s direct tax mop-up rose 7 per cent to over Rs 12.92 lakh crore between April 1 and November 10, lifted by stronger corporate tax inflows and a slowdown in refund issuances, latest government data showed.Refunds fell 18 per cent year-on-year to Rs 2.42 lakh crore during the period, aiding overall net collections, PTI reported….
3 Strategies to Close the Achievement Gap in American Education: Insights from Harvard Research (Image: Pexels) The persistent achievement gap in American education is often attributed to factors like socioeconomic status, race and innate ability. However, recent research from Harvard University suggests that the gap is not an inevitable outcome but rather a consequence of…
Bahraich: In a major operation on Sunday evening, the forest department killed a female wolf that had dragged away a one-and-a-half-year-old girl from her house in Bahraich earlier in the day. The child was yet to be traced till the filing of this report.Amid a wave of animal attacks in the area, the girl was…
