NEW DELHI: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which now fully secures the Parliament House complex (PHC), has okayed an extended four-year tenure for its personnel on Parliament security duty, which may be further stretched by a year. The move is aimed at striking the right balance between operational continuity, so as to enhance familiarity…
MUMBAI: An arm of the National Payments Corporation of India has launched a platform that promises the RBI far greater oversight of net banking transactions, including payments linked to crypto or gaming.NPCI Bharat BillPay Limited has rolled out Banking Connect, an interoperable system that allows any merchant integrated through a payment aggregator to receive payments…
KVS and NVS recruitment 2025: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued an important notice addressing widespread queries and complaints from applicants for the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) recruitment 2025. The online application process, which began on 14 November 2025 under Notification 01/2025, has already seen over 11…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday suggested enacting a law on the line of the stringent SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to deter ridiculing of differently abled people, but the Union govt flagged the potential adverse impact of such legislation on creative artists depicting individuals with disability in movies and theatres.Hearing a petition…
Mahindra & Mahindra’s Rajesh Jejurikar NEW DELHI: As relations between India and China seem to be mending on the business front, local auto major Mahindra & Mahindra has said Indian carmakers are open to competing with Chinese brands, provided they “compete on equal terms” and adhere to localisation norms of the country.Mahindra has been betting…
Rishabh Pant and Gautam Gambhir (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India spinner Harbhajan Singh did not hold back after India slipped to their second home Test series defeat against South Africa. He said that if Indian cricket wants to protect its “future generations”, the team management must rethink its approach to home pitches and move…
CAT 2025 Logical Reasoning: Choose your sets wisely and dodge the traps Every year, roughly three lakh management hopefuls sign up for the Common Admission Test (CAT), turning a single November Sunday into a high-stakes national filter. This year, around 2.95 lakh students are expected to appear, estimates suggest on 30th November. They will once…
Calling the death of 26 BLOs over the last 20 days “murder” by BJP brass and CEC, Congress on Thursday alleged that the governing party is seeking to divert attention from “blatant vote chori” by peddling lies about the location of social media ‘X’ handles linked to Congress, arguing that BJP handles too are shown…
Financial services firm Equirus Group on Thursday announced the appointment of Manishkumar Jain as the chief executive officer of Equirus Finance, its newly launched non-deposit-taking NBFC, days after receiving approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).Jain will lead the NBFC’s expansion and build a diversified lending franchise focused on high net-worth individuals (HNIs), family…
Pentala Harikrishna, Arjun Erigaisi, R Praggnanandhaa, and Vidit Gujrathi (FIDE Photo) NEW DELHI: Chess-wise, Wednesday was a day of celebration. Edging toward its final month, the year produced its second 19-year-old, and youngest-ever, World Cup winner. The first, of course, was India’s own Divya Deshmukh, who brought home the women’s title earlier this year. The…
