Mumbai: Maharashtra has made a three-language policy mandatory for the state board’s Marathi and English medium schools from class I to V, a move that many educationists warn will put additional burden on students at an early age.The directive comes with riders: Hindi will no longer be a mandatory third language. Students are free to…
NEW DELHI: Interest around assembly byelections is mostly limited to the states, more so, if the contest does not involve heavyweights. However, the assembly bypolls today for 5 seats spread across four states will be keenly watched when the results are out on June 23 – as this will be the first electoral contest post…
Savings account holders will see reduced returns as major banks, including State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank, and ICICI Bank, have lowered their interest rates following a 50 basis point repo rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in June 2025. The cumulative rate cut for this year now stands at 1%….
Goa CM Pramod Sawant dropped controversial art and culture minister Govind Gaude Goa CM Pramod Sawant dropped controversial art and culture minister Govind Gaude from his cabinet on Wednesday. Sawant had decided nearly three weeks ago to drop Gaude after the minister made serious allegations of corruption in the tribal welfare department, which is under…
The Ministry of Finance issued a notification in January, introducing UPS as an alternative under NPS. (AI image) Cheer for UPS subscribers: Central government employees opting for the Unified Pension Scheme or UPS will now be entitled to retirement and death gratuity benefits that were previously available under the Old Pension Scheme (OPS).Union Minister of…
Mumbai: Observing that the case is an example of a fraudster repeatedly cheating innocent people with various promises and that he played fraud on the court by falsely claiming he had no criminal antecedents, a sessions court on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of a dismissed branch manager of a public sector bank accused…
NEW DELHI: Air India will reduce its international services on wide-body aircraft by 15% with immediate effect “at least” till mid-July, reports Saurabh Sinha. AI operates about 70 international flights daily on its wide-body fleet. Multiple factors, including airspace closures, have increased flying times to and from the west and enhanced checks on Boeing 787s…
HYDERABAD: Maoist central committee member Gajarla Ravi became Wednesday the sixth member of his extended family to be killed in a gunfight with security forces, marking the end of a generational association with insurgency that saw four of patriarch Gajarla Mallaiah’s five sons go underground and two of them fall to bullets, reports U Sudhakarreddy.A…
India’s current account deficit (CAD) faces upward pressure in FY25 amid rising global crude prices, with every $10 per barrel increase in oil potentially worsening the annual CAD by $15 billion, according to a report by Union Bank of India (UBI).The bank has retained its CAD forecast at 0.9% of GDP for FY25, but cautioned…
Thane: Around 10 people were safely evacuated from a seven-storey residential building in Thane after chunks of plaster fell from the second and third-floor galleries on Tuesday morning. The incident occurred at Sunflower Tower, a ground plus seven-storey structure located near Thane Police School in the Kharkar Ali area.The emergency was reported to the Disaster…
