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Indian Railways reservation charts are prepared in two stages. Indian Railways’ wait-listed passengers may soon be able to know the final status of their train ticket much earlier. Currently, Indian Railways releases the final chart for a train journey four hours ahead of scheduled departure. This adds to the uncertainty for waitlisted passengers on whether…

NEW DELHI: Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday handed over Letter of Intent (LoI) to five foreign universities to set up their branch campuses in Mumbai. The five universities are — Chicago’s Illinois Tech, Scotland’s University of Aberdeen, UK’s University of York, University of Western Australia and Italy’s IED Instituto Europeo di Design….

Warren Buffett’s calculated, long-horizon investment in China’s BYD is proving to be one of his most consequential bets in the electric vehicle (EV) industry — not just in terms of returns, but in how clearly it contrasts with his conscious avoidance of Elon Musk’s Tesla. While Tesla grapples with a global slowdown, Buffett’s BYD stake…

NEW DELHI: Paving the way for fast-tracking the revamp of the country’s power corridor along Kartavya Path, some ministries will be moved to new buildings — permanently and temporarily — to allow reconstruction of their old addresses such as Nirman Bhawan and Shastri Bhawan.For example the ministries of home affairs, rural development and micro, small…

US-based companies have emerged as the single-largest contributors to India’s office space demand in recent years, accounting for over one-third of gross leasing across the top seven cities between 2022 and 2024, according to data from real estate consultancy JLL India.During the three-year period, total office leasing across Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and…

NEW DELHI: Air India on Saturday announced that it will provide an interim payment of Rs 25 lakh each to the families of the passengers who lost their lives in the Ahmedabad plane crash. “As part of our continued efforts, Air India will be providing an interim payment of Rs 25 lakh or approximately 21,000…

Kamal Haasan loses cool after man gifts him a sword (Video credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Haasan got angry at a party meeting in Chennai after a group of men gifted him a sword on stage, prompting a brief moment of chaos and police intervention.A video of the…