An under-construction Mumbai Ahmedabad bullet train station NEW DELHI: A delay of over four years has pushed up the cost of country’s first bullet train project by around 83% to Rs 1.98 lakh crore. The first leg of the project, between Surat and Bilimora, is scheduled to be inaugurated in Aug 2027, while the entire…
Avinuty result 2025: Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science & Higher Education for Women has announced the results of its November 2025 examinations. The results cover regular and arrear exams across undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma, and research programmes.The university published the results online on its official website, avinuty.ac.in. Students who appeared for the exams can now view…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh JAIPUR/UDAIPUR: Defence minister Rajnath Singh flagged on Friday the alarming trend of what he described as “white-collar terrorism”, involving highly educated people engaging in antisocial and anti-national activities. Rajnath said the “white-collar terror network” behind the Nov 10 car blast in Delhi that killed 15 people illustrated the extent of the…
Insurance behemoth Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Friday announced the launch of a two-month-long campaign for the revival of individual lapsed policies. This special drive, to be carried out from January 1 to March 2, 2026, is extended to all non-linked policies with a very attractive concession in late fee. Concession is being…
IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay open MBA admissions 2026 with CAT 2025 scores IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay have opened applications for their Master of Business Administration programmes for the 2026–2028 batch. Candidates who appeared in CAT 2025 can now apply online to both institutes through their respective admission portals.If you are considering submitting an…
BENGALURU: Karnataka HC has held that even a third party can, depending on the facts of the case, challenge a lok adalat award through a writ petition if the award is alleged to have been secured fraudulently by excluding a proper and necessary party. The observation was made by Justice M Nagaprasanna while quashing a…
MUMBAI: Thinking of buying an air-conditioner in the new year or getting some fancy bathware or copper-based kitchen utensils to add to the aesthetics of your home? You may have to pay more, as the red metal used in several household products has surged in recent months. Copper prices surpassed a record $12,000 per tonne…
PSSSB Junior Engineer recruitment 2026 registration deadline extended The Punjab Subordinate Services Selection Board (PSSSB) has released the Junior Engineer (JE) Recruitment 2026 notice. They are looking for 157 young professionals for the positions of civil, mechanical, or electrical engineers, with a degree or diploma. Candidates can now submit their online applications until the extended…
NEW DELHI: Underlining that an investigative agency must be given freedom to conduct a probe, Supreme Court has held that courts should ordinarily refrain from setting timelines for agencies to complete the investigation as it would amount to stepping on the “toes of the latter”. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N K Singh…
NEW DELHI: In a major boost for electronics manufacturing, the Centre has cleared 22 new proposals – including from Samsung, Foxconn, Tata Electronics and Dixon – for component manufacturing entailing investments of nearly Rs 42,000 crore.The investments under the Electronics Components Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) are projected to result in domestic production of Rs 2.6 lakh…
