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After securing the job, she allegedly left her in-laws to deal with financial hardship and other difficulties on their own. (AI image for representative purpose only) It is a known practise for government jobs to be offered to the family of the deceased if the employee has passed away while still in service. The aim…

The new rules, effective October 15, limit dealers to 1,000 quintals and require stocks to be sold within 15 days of receipt. NEW DELHI: The Centre has further tightened stock limits for sugar dealers ahead of the festive season, capping inventories at 1,000 quintals and restricting the holding period to 15 days in a move…

Since the vehicle was insured, the man expected the insurance policy to cover the loss. (Image for representative purpose only) You leave your punctured car on the roadside and in the morning it is found burnt. Should the insurer give a payout? In one such case a man’s BMW developed a tyre puncture on the…

India’s growth momentum holds as finance ministry sees 7.3% Q2 expansion (representative image) India’s economy is estimated to have grown 7.3% in the September quarter of the current financial year, slowing from the 7.8% expansion recorded in the April-June period, according to the finance ministry’s latest Monthly Economic Review released on Thursday.The ministry said the…

Companies are cutting some mid-career and routine roles while continuing to hire specialist freshers. At a time when layoffs in the IT sector globally grab headlines every few weeks, what’s happening in Indian IT this year? The Indian IT jobs market is going through a shift that is increasingly more structural than cyclical – new…

The technology used to produce premium-quality Waste Plastic Modified Bitumen was developed by IIT (BHU). (Image for representative purpose only) In a first for the road sector, the Nitin Gadkari-led Road Transport Ministry has used waste plastic in a wet mix with bitumen to construct a bituminous stretch of a national highway. The initiative could…

Bloodbath at Dalal Street NEW DELHI: Dalal Street suffered its worst and longest losing streak in nearly 25 years, with investors losing over Rs 6 lakh crore. Benchmark indices came under heavy selling pressure on Thursday, with BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50 falling more than 1% as persistent foreign investor outflows, rising US bond yields…

Anthropic​Anthropic’s AI paradox: More powerful systems could mean bigger risks to humanity Anthropic’s much awaited IPO is built around a striking contradiction: the artificial intelligence company wants public investors to help finance technology it says could transform the global economy, while warning in the same prospectus that increasingly powerful AI could pose catastrophic or existential…

PIB debunks fake Saturday holiday notification (representative image) The Press Information Bureau (PIB) Fact Check unit on Thursday debunked a document circulating on social media that claimed the Central Government had declared every Saturday a public holiday for all public sector banks, including the State Bank of India (SBI).In a post on X, PIB Fact…

The shift in approach follows a recovery in oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz in recent months. Amid the ongoing US-Iran conflict, India’s oil refiners are changing tactics to procure crude from the Middle East through the Strait of Hormuz. This narrow channel of water has been effectively shut since the start of the…