Starmer appoints Labour veterans as advisers After Labour’s heavy losses in the 2026 local elections, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has turned to senior party veterans to steady the situation, appointing former PM Gordon Brown and ex-deputy leader Harriet Harman to key advisory roles.In a surprise move, Gordon Brown has been appointed as special envoy on…
More than a decade after the launch of the Centre’s flagship Jan Suraksha programmes, claims amounting to nearly Rs 25,160 crore have been paid out under two major insurance schemes, with enrolments include several crores across life cover, accident insurance and pension initiatives. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, marking 11 years of the Jan Suraksha schemes…
Riddhima Kapoor Sahni and Ranbir Kapoor experienced a disciplined childhood, despite their famous lineage. Parents Rishi and Neetu Kapoor ensured they understood the value of money through carpools, fixed pocket money, and economy class travel. This approach aimed to instill financial prudence, a lesson echoed by Soni Razdan’s similar travel rules for her children. Riddhima…
NEET UG answer key 2026: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is expected to release the results for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET UG) 2026. The answer keys were released on May 6 on the official NEET portal. The examination was conducted on May 3, 2026, across centres in India and abroad. Candidates…
President Pranab Mukherjee honors Abhijeet Gupta (Chess) with Arjuna Award at Rashtrapati Bhavan on August 31, 2013 (IANS Photo) NEW DELHI: Arjuna Awardee Grandmaster (GM) Abhijeet Gupta, who became the first Indian to win five Commonwealth Chess Championship titles, has sparked a massive conversation regarding the treatment of athletes in India after taking to X…
Greenland’s ice sheet holds layered climate records stretching back thousands of years. Image Credits: Google Gemini Most people are familiar with one version of the Greenland story: ice melting, seas rising, glaciers receding in time-lapse videos that make climate change seem real and immediate. That version is real, but it’s also incomplete, because underneath all…
This week begins on a steady, almost ordinary note, and that’s not a bad thing. Early in the week, your income and routine expenses sit in a decent balance, so your mind feels lighter while you handle daily chores, office calls, and those small household tasks that usually get postponed. A long journey that you…
Navi Mumbai: Panvel city police arrested a supervisor of Tata Projects Ltd and two scrap vendors for allegedly stealing steel and aluminium materials worth Rs 1.50 crore from the company’s open warehouse in Karanjade, Panvel taluka. The materials were meant for construction of a railway track and bridge project. Police said the supervisor connived with…
Bengaluru: In the past one decade, Karnataka has made the biggest improvement in gross enrolment at the higher secondary level, according to a report by NITI Aayog released Thursday.As per the report, School Education System in India: Temporal Analysis and Policy Roadmap for Quality Enhancement, the largest relative improvement in enrolment during the past decade…
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Saturday congratulated the party set to form the next government in Tamil Nadu.“In the recently concluded 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, candidates from various parties contested and emerged victorious. I extend my congratulations to the party that will form the government…
