NEW DELHI: You can loosen your purse strings a little more abroad. Travellers flying into India will now have enhanced duty-free limit, which for resident Indians has been hiked from Rs 50,000 to Rs 75,000. What’s more, duty-free import of one laptop for passengers above 18 years has now been allowed under Baggage Rules, 2026,…
A large garment exporter, who was at a party on Monday when Trump announced the removal of 50% tariffs, celebrated the news before getting on to calls with American buyers. Suddenly, the business dynamics looked different.From looking to relocate a part of ops to Sri Lanka, Kenya or Indonesia on the suggestion of US buyers,…
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will release city intimation slips for the Direct Recruitment Quota Examination 2026 (DRQ 2026 The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will initiate a series of capacity-building programmes that will help to enhance the application of Skill Education in classes VI to VIII from tomorrow, February 4, 2026. These…
S Jaishankar with Marco Rubio NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday met US secretary of state Marco Rubio in Washington, ahead of the critical minerals ministerial scheduled for February 4. The meeting came during Jaishankar’s three-day visit to the United States and a day after India and the US announced a trade…
PM Modi with US President Donald Trump (File photo) NEW DELHI: A day after announcements by PM Modi and US President Donald Trump that the two sides had reached a trade agreement, the govt asserted that sensitive sectors such as agriculture and dairy have been protected and labour-intensive sectors such as textiles, leather, marine products…
USCIS changes H-1B visa cap rules with higher wage priority United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will open the initial registration period for the US H-1B visa cap for fiscal year 2027, setting out changes that alter how skilled worker visas are selected. Employers seeking to sponsor foreign workers will be required to submit…
JAMMU: Peoples Conference MLA Sajad Lone’s amendments for restoration of Article 370, Article 35-A and J&K’s statehood in lieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha’s address to the assembly’s budget session were rejected on Tuesday amid bedlam over several issues, mainly BJP’s demands for a National Law University (NLU) in Jammu.Sinha’s address at the start of the session on…
NEW DELHI: The focus has been on shrimps and textiles, but Indian carpets and rugs have seen a bruising year with exports slipping nearly 9% to $735 million between April and Nov. Lowering of tariffs is expected to come as a boost for the highly-labour intensive sector.While overall exports are down 4% to $1.3 billion…
Success is fleeting when it becomes identity, believed Albert Einstein (AI generated image) Every generation invents its own scoreboard. Ours prefers the numerical kind. Percentiles decide streams, cut-offs decide colleges, packages decide credibility. Even curiosity is quietly trained to ask a transactional question first: Will this be evaluated?In such an economy of numbers, a line…
Fresh encounter breaks out in J&K. (Generative image) JAMMU: A fierce encounter broke out between a joint team of security forces and a group of terrorists holed up in a remote, forested area in Basantgarh, in J&K’s Udhampur district, on Tuesday. The Army’s White Knight Corps, in a statement on X, said a cordon had…
