Woman says Rs 1 lakh monthly salary may be the minimum needed to live comfortably in the city A salary can look very different once the cost of living is taken into account. This is now at the centre of a discussion around Bengaluru, after a woman living in the city shared her views on…
Nana Patekar‘s connection with the Indian Army went well beyond the screen. For Prahaar, which he directed in 1991, he went through three years of demanding military training with the Maratha Light Infantry. Then, in 1999, as the Kargil War broke out, he volunteered for service and spent roughly three months with the Quick Reaction…
One of the most important findings was that not all organs would be affected in the same way. What if scientists could eventually remove almost every major biological process that drives aging, but one problem remained: DNA mutations that accumulate in cells over a lifetime? A new mathematical study suggests that even in that highly…
Bhuvneshwar Kumar returns after 4 years as India announces T20 squad against New Zealand On November 22, 2022, Bhuvneshwar Kumar played his last match for India, against New Zealand. Four years later, he has returned to the Indian T20I squad against the same opposition.The recall came on earlier this week, when the BCCI announced India’s…
Bond yields may hold near 7.25% Government bond yields may remain under pressure in early trade on Thursday after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised interest rates for the first time in nearly four years and changed its policy stance, signalling that more rate hikes could follow.The benchmark 6.94% 2036 bond yield is expected…
Photo: Abhishek Agarwal/ LinkedIn “A Mumbai-based CEO, Abhishek Agarwal, recently took to LinkedIn to share how he celebrated his birthday in a very unusual way. He said he went without food for 90 hours, which is almost four days in a row. He explained that every year he sets himself a tough personal challenge to…
Veteran actor Nana Patekar has died at the age of 75 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Goa. The actor was found unconscious at his residence in the early hours of Thursday and was rushed to a private hospital, where doctors tried to revive him for nearly 45 minutes. He was declared…
North Carolina’s coastal forests are retreating at a faster pace, with a new study finding that more than one-fifth of forest cover across part of the state’s coastal plain disappeared between 1985 and 2021. The findings, published in PLOS One and reported by North Carolina State University and Phys.org, show that forest loss accelerated significantly…
As part of the broadcast coverage, Agarkar assessed the playing conditions (Image credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: Ajit Agarkar will not be around the selection table when India take on West Indies in the second T20I at the JSCA International Stadium Complex on Friday. But the former India pacer has an interesting connection with Ranchi and…
UPI will continue to be free for consumers, with no transaction fee imposed on person-to-person payments. Will the rollout of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions be deferred to January 2027? The government may postpone the move which was scheduled to be effective from October 15, 2026, by a few months,…