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Govt directs CBSE to plan twice-a-year board exams from 2025

The ministry of education has asked the Central Board of Secondary Education to work out logistics for conducting board exams twice a year from the 2025-26 academic session, according to......

Efforts to weaken India's progress must be stopped: Justice Datta on EVM row

Supreme Court judge Dipankar Datta on Friday said there seems to be a concerted effort to discredit, diminish and weaken India's progress on every possible frontier and any such attempt has to be......

SC rejects pleas on 100% EVM-VVPAT verification, paper ballot voting

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected pleas seeking complete cross-verification of votes cast using EVMs with a Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) and said "blindly distrusting" any aspect......

The Star Gazer Stars At TIME Gala

At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......

SC verdict on VVPAT verification of votes on Friday

The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce its verdict on Friday on a batch of pleas seeking complete cross-verification of votes cast using electronic voting machines (EVMs) with voter verifiable......

Minimum wage cap: EPFO mulls hike after 10 years

The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is considering raising the monthly minimum wage ceiling from Rs 15,000 now to improve the coverage and bring millions of informal workers under its......

FPIs from Mauritius to face greater scrutiny after tax treaty revision

Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) from Mauritius may face higher scrutiny after the amendment in the India-Mauritius tax treaty introduced a principle purpose test (PPT) to prevent treaty abuse by......

TCS headcount declines for first time in 19 yrs; hits campus route

For the first time in 19 years, Tata Consultancy Services reported a fall in the net headcount for a financial year, witnessing its total employee base shrinking to 601,546 at the end of FY24.......

Bandhan Bank founder CEO C S Ghosh to retire in July

Private sector lender Bandhan Bank on Friday said its founder, managing director and CEO Chandra Shekhar Ghosh has tendered his resignation. Ghosh would retire from the services of the bank as MD......

Investors' desire for buybacks, dividends highest in 9 yrs: BofA

Investors’ desire for companies to prioritise returning cash to shareholders through share buybacks, dividends or mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is at the highest level since July 2015,......

Do Aur Do Pyaar Review: Vidya-Pratik's Breezy Equation

Pratik Gandhi's emotional range makes him a treat to watch while Vidya is as wild as she's wise, observes Sukanya Verma. IMAGE: Ileana D'Cruz, Pratik Gandhi, Vidya Balan and Sendhil Ramamurthy in......

The Kriti Sanon Mark Sheet: See How Much She Scored!

Even the nerdiest cannot escape the lure of showbiz. Kriti Sanon was studying to become an engineer until modelling and movies beckoned. Sans a famous surname or connections in the film industry,......

Who Should Play Vin Diesel's Sister?

IMAGE: DJ Caruso, Vin Diesel and Deepika Padukone in India. Photograph: Kind courtesy Vin Diesel/Instagram Vin Diesel refreshed our memories of xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage, where he worked......

IPL's most expensive flop? KKR boss defends Starc

Mitchell Starc is a superstar, don't think of him from investment standpoint: KKR CEO Venky Mysore IMAGE: KKR had bought Mitchell Starc for a record Rs 24.75 crore. Photograph: BCCI Under......

SRH's Powerplay was the difference, laments DC skipper Pant

SCORECARD IMAGE: Sunrisers Hyderabad openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma took Powerplay to a different level, smashing 125 runs to set a new IPL record, in the match against Delhi Capitals......

Former Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza retires

IMAGE: Garbine Muguruza, 30, was ranked World No 1 in 2017 and was ranked as high as third by the end of 2021. Photograph: David Ramos/Reuters Spain's former world number 1 and Wimbledon and......

Gymnast Dipa Karmakar fails to qualify for Olympics in vault

IMAGE: Dipa Karmakar finished fourth in the women's vault final at the FIG Apparatus World Cup. Photograph: Dipa Karmakar/Instagram India's star gymnast Dipa Karmakar signed off with another......

Narine's dramatic transformation thanks to Gambhir

Rinku Singh credits Gautam Gambhir for Sunil Narine's transformation as 'specialist opener' IMAGE: Sunil Narine celebrates after completing his century against Rajasthan Royals. Photograph:......

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