NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced that India is gearing up for a big shift in its nuclear policy as the Centre is now planning to allow private companies into the nuclear energy sector, a space that has traditionally been tightly controlled by the government.“We are moving towards opening the nuclear sector…
RNSB recruitment 2025: Rajkot Nagarik Sahakari Bank (RNSB) has officially announced its 2025 recruitment drive for the posts of Junior Executive and Apprentice. This initiative opens a significant opportunity for graduate and postgraduate candidates to enter the banking sector with a reputed cooperative bank in Gujarat. The online application process is set to begin on…
NEW DELHI: Amid indications of regime-opponents looking to enlist them for their challenge to the govt, PM Narendra Modi on Thursday sought to co-opt India’s Gen Z in his scheme of a developed India by praising them for driving entrepreneurship and technological innovations in a host of sectors, and saying they can serve as a…
German chemical major Wacker Chemie on Thursday announced plans to cut 1,500 jobs, nearly a tenth of its global workforce, as the industry faces one of its toughest periods in decades. The company said most of the reductions will take place in Germany, with the process to be completed by the end of 2027, according…
The Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) is set to conduct the Class 10 and Class 12 board examinations for 2026, with tentative schedules spanning from February 12 to March 12, according to multiple media reports. While the official timetable PDF has yet to be released, students across Rajasthan are being urged to monitor the…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday said it doesn’t have a magic wand to improve air quality in Delhi-NCR, virtually admitting that judicial activism for decades, after initial rewards, has yielded minimal results in loosening the grip of noxious air over the region. Senior advocate Aparajita Singh, amicus curiae in air pollution cases, told a…
Markets regulator Sebi on Thursday rolled out a revised incentive framework for mutual fund distributors, offering additional payouts for bringing in first-time individual investors from B-30 cities and new women investors from any location.Designed to widen outreach and improve awareness, the new structure will take effect from February 1, 2026, Sebi said in a circular,…
Smriti Mandhana with WPL trophy Royal Challengers Bengaluru, the 2024 Women’s Premier League (WPL) winners, went into the WPL 2026 mega auction after retaining their core group, which included Smriti Mandhana, Richa Ghosh, Ellyse Perry and Shreyanka Patil.With most of their core secured, RCB kept key names such as Mandhana, Ghosh and Perry as they…
HONOLULU: The project director of a new solar telescope in Hawaii that will be the most powerful of its kind hopes scientists will be able to start observations at the facility in three months. The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope, at the summit of Haleakalā volcano on Maui, was supposed to open last fall. But…
City employment climbs 4.5% while rural jobs decline 4.7% in July–September, highlighting shifts in India’s workforce India’s unincorporated sector, a major engine of jobs and small-scale entrepreneurship, showed modest growth in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025-26, according to the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) in its latest quarterly report. Between July…
