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Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarGovt drafts rules for mandatory adoption of Indian Standard Time nationwide
IST shall be the mandatory time reference across all sectors, including commerce, transport, public administration, legal contracts, and financial operations,” as per the draft rule. Key provisions include, prohibition of time references other than IST for official...
Lancet study estimates three in every four animal bites in India due to dogs
The estimates can help understand whether the country is on track to meeting the global target of eliminating dog-mediated cases of rabies among humans by 2030, the authors said Three in every four animal bites are due to dogs, with over 5,700 deaths in humans...
Foreign investors continue selling in Indian stocks, equities worth Rs 19,759 crore sold this week: NSDL Data
Akshay Chinchalkar, Head of Research at Axis Securities, told ANI that about $7 billion has been retracted year-to-date. He highlighted several factors including Trump's expected second term, high U.S. treasury yields, and a thriving dollar as key reasons for the...
Budget 2025-Insurers expect tax benefits, concessions for healthcare
Sameer Bansal, MD & CEO, PNB MetLife, said that while India is a fast-growing economy fuelled by its rising middle-class population of 25-45-year-olds, the proportion of people above the age of 60 is equally increasing at a rapid pace New Delhi: Insurers are...
IRDAI imposes Rs1cr penalty on Royal Sundaram General for violating Outsourcing norms
In an order passed by two members of the IRDAI- Rajay Kumar Sinha,(F&I) and Deepak Sood,(Non-Life), the insurance regulator has said that the payments made by RSGI during 2018-19 and 2019-20 to vendors in excess of Rs1 crore were not reported in the outsourcing...
Mandaviya directs EPFO officials to improve claim settlement, grievance redressal
NEW DELHI: Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday directed retirement fund body EPFO officials to further streamline claim settlement process, ensure timely grievance redressal, and adopt a public-friendly approach during a review meeting. Mandaviya...
Govt says sanctioned Russian oil tankers can discharge before Feb 27
India's oil secretary Pankaj Jain said the deadline, as outlined by the US sanctions, for completing financial transactions was March 12. India follows United Nations sanctions, rather than those imposed by individual countries, but fears of secondary sanctions by the...
Despite Trump order, abandoning DEI could land companies in legal trouble
“When companies are sued by women or people of color and they're held liable for discrimination … the Trump administration can't save them and nothing in this executive order can save them," said Jason Solomon, director of the National Institute for Workers' Rights, a...
LA wildfires may use up over 30% of Cat budgets of Europe’s largest reinsurers for 2025
The impact of the fires on European reinsurers’ natural catastrophe budgets will clearly be significant, but the implications for their earnings and capital are not likely to be material. Paris/London: The recent Los Angeles wildfires may use up over 30% of the...
Puneet Swani to head Aon’s APAC Talent Solutions
Puneet Swani, Head, Talent Solutions for Asia Pacific Swani is an experienced leader specialising in human resources consulting spanning more than twenty-five years. He joins Aon having had a distinguished career at both Hewitt Associates and Mercer, most recently...
Banks need tech adaptability for resilience: DFS Secy
M Nagaraju,Financial Services Secretary Financial Services Secretary M Nagaraju also underscored the need for enhancing data governance and management practices to ensure compliance with data protection regulations and maintaining robust risk measures, particularly in...
OpenAI faces new copyright case, from global book publishers in India
The case was filed on behalf of all the federation's members, who include publishers like Bloomsbury, Penguin Random House, Cambridge University Press and Pan Macmillan, as well as India's Rupa Publications and S.Chand and Co, said New Delhi-based Federation of Indian...
China guides mutual funds, insurers to invest more in stocks
China will commence the second stage of a trial program for insurers’ long-term equity investments in the first half of this year, with an amount of at least 100 billion yuan ($13.7 billion), Wu also said at the briefing. China is guiding local mutual funds and...
MFs, insurers and retail investors buy $8 billion of Indian equities in Jan as FIIs sell
A greater participation of mutual funds, insurance firms and retail investors in the Indian stock market has made India one of the top five markets globally despite waning ownership of foreigners New Delhi: The Indian equity market’s reliance on domestic investors has...
NHRC faults probe of Foxconn hiring, orders new inquiry
"The commission has no hesitation in stating that the authorities concerned have failed to identify and understand the core issue" said NHRC NEW DELHI: India's powerful human rights watchdog has admonished labor officials for failure to adequately investigate evidence...
CCPA issues notice to Apple over iPhone performance issues
The notice seeks Apple's explanation regarding reported technical issues with the software update. The complaints have been received on the National Consumer Helpline regarding the performance issues of iPhones New Delhi: Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said...
South Korea to change airport design after deadly Jeju air crash
Runway end safety areas at nine airports will be lengthened to 240 meters (787 feet), or the structure holding the so-called localizer — an instrument used to guide landing plane — will be changed to an easily breakable material, Korea’s transport ministry said in a...
Go Digit Q3 net profit surges nearly 3-fold to Rs 119 crore
The insurer's combined Ratio for Q3 2025 is 108.1%, as compared to 110.3% in Q3 2024 New Delhi: General insurance firm Go digit on Wednesday reported a nearly three-fold rise in its net profit at Rs 119 crore in the three months ended December 2024. The Fairfax-backed...