Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) reported encouraging results for the April-June quarter (Q1) of FY26. The net premium income of India's largest life insurer was Rs 1.2 trillion, up 5 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y), in Q1. Renewal premium grew 6 per cent Y-o-Y to Rs 59,900 crore, while first-year and single premium grew 1 per cent and 4 per cent Y-o-Y respectively to Rs 7,500 crore and Rs 51,900 crore.
Mental health expert Anu Krishna suggests three tips that will help you take control of your emotions so you can heal and transform the way you respond.
We asked colleagues, present and past, to reflect on a man who has made such a difference to their lives and careers. Here it is then, a rich collection of memories that offer enchanting glimpses of the enigmatic Ajit Balakrishnan.
Anu Krishna, mental health coach and co-founder of Unfear Changemakers, tells you how to stay afloat emotionally and rebuild your life and career after you receive the pink slip.
'Day by day we expose how soulless we have become as a society. Every day is a disappointment.'
'After the 2020 Bihar assembly polls when our party got only 43 seats and our ally the BJP got 73 seats, Nitish Kumar refused to become chief minister and assured the BJP that he will support the government led by anyone.' 'But the BJP's top leaders told Nitish Kumar that as the NDA contested the polls under his leadership, the next government will be headed by him.'
'Madhubala in Kala Pani looks divine and yet, she's not just there for glamour.' 'In Do Raaste, the character of Neelambari (played by Bindu) isn't a heroine in the traditional sense but she has such a pivotal role.' 'That Raj Khosla gave a non-heroine such a central role, instead of the heroine, says a lot about how he valued female characters.'
Ask rediffGURU and PF expert Nitin Narkhede your mutual fund and personal finance-related questions.
'We can't afford to fight each other.' 'We have to win the 2026 election.'
'The kind of reach it has with so many bank branches even in the remotest part of the country, it is one channel which will play a very important role in vision of insurance for all.'
On his 200th birth anniversary, Utkarsh Mishra traces the life, thought, and legacy of Dadabhai Naoroji, the Grand Old Man of India.
The 34-year-old actor took to Instagram and said he is recovering well.
'AdFalciVax may offer advantages such as broader protection and a lower risk of immune evasion compared to existing single-stage malaria vaccines.'
Ensure the sum insured for the super topup is enough to cover even worst-case scenarios.
From healthy periods to pregnancy, rediffGURU Dr Nandita Palshetkar offers essential advice about gynaecological health.
Ask rediffGURU and PF expert Nitin Narkhede your mutual fund and personal finance-related questions.
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India's craft chocolate makers are changing the market by using local cacao, creating bold new flavours, making chocolate both a luxury and a story.
Anu Krishna, mind coach and relationship expert, co-founder of Unfear Changemakers, reaches out to young women and parents, urging them to seek help at the appropriate time and start a healthy conversation.
'It is a crisis of BJP's own doing. This is an in-house fire.'
It is similar to top-up health insurance plan, but provides for one or more claims cumulatively crossing the threshold limit.
Tough times don't last, but tough people -- and smart financial strategies - do, says Ramalingam Kalirajan
'My brother was mentally tortured and harassed.'
This is the first time a JD-U leader has openly expressed fears about the party's future.
Bhagwat's 'retirement at age 75' comment lands just as he and Modi near that mark -- sparking whispers of retirement, rifts, and reshuffles.
Whether in cricket or business, Kohli continues to play the long game.
To support liver health and potentially reverse fatty liver, it's essential to focus on a well-balanced diet, portion control, and active lifestyle habits, says rediffGURU Komal Jethmalani, a nutritionist and dietician.
'We should watch -- in the near term -- for signs that the two have totally fallen out at a personal, political level.' 'Trump and Modi know how to be dealmakers, but they also know how to hold a grudge.'
Reuters Photographer Adnan Abidi captures images of the mangled remains of AI-171 which crashed shortly after take off from Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon.
Vijay, with his chief ministerial ambitions, is a one-man army, at least as of now, and his campaign team considers him omnipresent. He has to be present in all districts, if not all constituencies at the same time, as there is no second-line leader or platform speaker in the party, who can draw crowds, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
'The overall well-being of the pilots should be at the top of any airline's agenda in such situations.'
The Human-rated LVM3 vehicle, the Crew Escape System and the Crew Module and Service Module are all in final stages of testing and integration.
'Listing of scaled Indian subsidiaries of multinational corporations as well as of Indian conglomerates continues to remain a key theme for IPOs in India.'
Infrastructure bonds, which were relied upon the most in 2024-25 (FY25) by commercial banks to raise funds through the domestic debt capital market amid lagging deposit growth, seem to have lost their sheen in FY26. So far in FY26, no bank has tapped the domestic debt capital market to raise funds via infra bonds, and the expectation is that the amount raised through this route will be significantly lower than that last year, unless credit demand picks up.
Today, learn about Utthita Trikonasana or the Extended Triangle Pose.
Welcome to Day 2 of Rediff's week-long celebration of Yoga ahead of the International Day of Yoga. Today, learn about Virabhadrasana II or the Warrior II Pose.
John Michael 'Ozzy' Osbourne, the lead singer of British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, has died at 76.
Welcome to Rediff's week-long celebration of yoga ahead of the International Day of Yoga. We begin today with Vriksasana, the Tree Pose.
A year after the RG Kar rape-murder Swarupa Dutt/Rediff look at the city where it happened, Kolkata -- its study in dichotomy, at once the self-proclaimed cultural capital of India as also a petri dish for a peculiar rage that breeds crimes against women.
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