NEW DELHI: Indians remained the third largest applicants for Schengen visas globally in CY 2025, with 11.5 lakh did so with a rejection rate of 15.8%. Chinese were the largest applicants at 18 lakh with a rejection rate of 4.1%, followed by nationals of Turkey (12.5 lakh) with a rejection rate of 14.6%, according to…
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry on Sunday issued notification on duty concessions on Omani goods under trade pact with India, which will come into effect from June 1.The India-Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) was signed in Dec last year. “Provided that the (duty) exemption shall be available only if the importer proves to the…
Kurt Russell may be all about the ranching lifestyle. The veteran actor had been living in Los Angeles for quite some time. However, the star and his partner, Goldie Hawn, made the official move from the city life of LA to their cabin lodge all the way up in Colorado. In a new interview, the…
IIT Roorkee releases JEE Advanced 2026 results JEE Advanced 2026 results: The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee has announced the results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2026 along with the final answer key for both Paper 1 and Paper 2. Candidates who appeared for the examination can access their results and download the…
Praggnanandhaa, Gukesh, Divya Deshmukh, and Magnus Carlsen (Photo by Michal Walusza for Norway Chess) NEW DELHI: On Sunday, Round 6 marked the beginning of the reverse fixtures at Norway Chess this year. As a regular practice, it featured the exact same pairings as the opening round, but with opposite-coloured pieces at the Deichman Bjørvika library…
New Delhi: Ravi Prakash Verma (25), who had studied to become a doctor, was counting the days before a long-awaited reunion. After ten months apart, he would finally see his father.Ravi had completed his MBBS in Kyrgyzstan, He spent two years in Delhi tirelessly preparing for the June 28 Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE).Back in…
MUMBAI: Weeks after Asha Bhosle passed away April 12, India lost another stalwart singer Suman Kalyanpur at age 89 on Sunday May 31. Her voice bore such striking similarity to that of melody queen Lata Mangeshkar that common listeners sometimes mistook one for the other.Born Suman Hemmady on Jan 28, 1937, in Dhaka (undivided India),…
DKS and Siddaramaiah will meet the party high command on Monday BENGALURU/KALABURAGI: Ahead of DK Shivakumar‘s swearing-in as Karnataka CM on Wednesday, Congress has shifted gears to put together a team of ministers, appoint a new chief for the party’s state unit and pick members for boards and corporations.The CM-elect and outgoing CM Siddaramaiah are…
Chennai: With more than two lakh students up for engineering courses this year, the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee will go ahead as per schedule despite the NEET re-exam.The National Testing Agency (NTA) cancelled the NEET-UG exam conducted on May 3 following a question paper leak. It has set the re-exam for June 21….
West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari Kolkata : The need to strike a balance among Bengal’s various regions and between BJP veterans and new entrants was among the factors that weighed heavily on the party leadership during the selection of ministers who will be sworn in on Monday.Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari wrote on his X handle…
