NEW DELHI: India Inc will have to significantly alter the way it does business — from reworking salary and allowances of employees to comply with the new provisions to health check-ups for all staff members above 40 years and providing gratuity to all fixed term employees after one year of continuous service — but they…
MUMBAI: Fraud and waste continue to drag India’s health-insurance system, with Rs 8,000–10,000 crore leaking from claim payouts each year, says a Boston Consulting Group–Medi Assist report. Fraud and unnecessary claims inflate premiums, strain insurer finances and drain public funds. Weak data systems and loose checks also push patients into higher out-of-pocket spends.The analysis shows…
Lucknow: Buoyed by its stupendous success in Bihar, the BJP plans to hoist its own brand of ‘M-Y’ (Mahila-Yuva) poll narrative to take on the opposition’s PDA (Piccha, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) plank in the run-up to the 2027 UP assembly elections.Recasting it from the Muslim-Yadav (M-Y) combination that once formed the power axis of the Samajwadi…
Inside the ‘Bomb Factory’ FARIDABAD: In a quiet Faridabad home Dhauj village, terror was being ground to powder. The co-accused in the Delhi car blast Dr Muzammil, used grinder to make explosives.Pictures of the grinder and electrical machinery, recovered from the house of a taxi driver in Faridabad, Haryana, reveal the chilling scale of his…
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has ceded the home portfolio to BJP for the first time in his two decades at the helm and his party JDU has, in lieu, got control of finance, which was kept by BJP. Though it may appear like a regular ministry swap which happens between allies, the significance of deputy…
NEW DELHI: “The accused cannot be made to suffer endlessly with this threat of continuing investigation,” the Supreme Court said, holding that the right to speedy investigation is also part of fundamental rights. The court said it will benefit the accused, the victim, and society if the investigation and trial are done quickly and completed…
Lucknow: A massive fire broke out at Rungta Industries Ltd in Gorakhpur’s GIDA Sector-15 at around 4 am on Friday when a pipeline linked to a 50,000-litre hexane tank caught fire, triggering a district-level emergency response.Despite deployment of over 25 fire tenders and National Disaster Response Force units, the blaze continued into the evening, prompting…
In a major blow to India’s much-delayed project for indigenous fighters as well as their export potential, a single-engine Tejas jet crashed during a demonstration at the Dubai Airshow on Friday afternoon. The IAF pilot, Wing Commander Namansh Syal, died in the accident.The Tejas Mark-1 fighter was on a low-altitude aerobatic demonstration sortie when it…
Japan-born Arata Izumi played 9 games for India between 2013 and 2014 Panaji: Much before Ryan Williams, there was Arata Izumi.Born and bred in Japan, Arata arrived in India almost 20 years ago, played professional football for top clubs like East Bengal, Mahindra United and Pune FC, and then did something that nobody had done…
NEW DELHI: Judges traditionally avoid commenting publicly on their own judgments, but on Friday CJI B R Gavai departed from that norm to pick his verdict against “bulldozer justice” as his most important one, followed by the ruling allowing states to sub-classify SCs and STs for job reservations. At the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA)…
