Category: Events

Besides sharing updates, the EPFO WhatsApp channel also provides members with educational content. The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has been taking steps to keep members informed and allow access for more information digitally. As part of this effort, the retirement fund body has asked members to follow its official WhatsApp channel for the latest...

Food and fuel push India inflation higher as CPI rises and WPI nears 10% (file photo) India’s retail inflation accelerated in August, while wholesale inflation moved closer to double digits, pointing to renewed price pressures across food, fuel and manufactured goods.Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based retail inflation rose to 4.82% in August, from 4.45% in July,...

The alliance has presented itself as a “non-BJP, non-Congress alternative”. The Aam Aadmi Party and Goa Forward Party on Sunday announced a new political beginning for the state. They announced a pre-poll alliance for the upcoming 2027 assembly election named ‘Goa First’ and promised voters something the state has struggled to get: a mandate that...

Declassified video of the rescue NEW DELHI: A newly declassified video has revealed details of a high-risk US military operation to rescue an Air Force officer who spent nearly 50 hours wounded and hiding behind enemy lines in Iran after his F-15E fighter jet was shot down in April.More than 90 US service members were...

Image credit: BCCI Women NEW DELHI: India pacer Kranti Gaud has been fined 10 per cent of her match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the Women’s Asia Cup final against Sri Lanka in Dubai on Sunday.Gaud was found guilty of a Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct for...

Owaisi faces his biggest test in UP. “I am ready to join hands. I am ready to form an alliance. Today is the time to talk. Don’t cry later after the elections are over. We don’t want the BJP to come to power again.” Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIM That was Asaduddin Owaisi‘s outreach-cum-warning to Samajwadi Party...

Asim Munir As Houthi forces seized Mokha and Perim Island last week, Pakistan’s army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir spent the moment on the phone with Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi.Munir seems in no hurry to mobilise Pakistan military against Saudi Arabia’s attackers.Why it matters: Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) planned the Mecca...

The completion is particularly significant given the difficult geological conditions along the Himalayan alignment. (Image for representative purpose only) The 125 kilometres long Rishikesh-Karnaprayag new railway line, which is currently under construction, has achieved a major milestone with a new tunnel breakthrough. Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), which is the implementing body for the project,...

BJP candidate says his vote was in another ward NEW DELHI: BJP candidate Kailashchand in Rajasthan’s urban local body elections found himself at the centre of attention after the results declared that he had received only one vote from the ward that he contested.Kailashchand contested from Ward 13 of the Parbatsar municipality in Didwana-Kuchaman district.According...

Anthropic says Claude was used to write missile guidance code, profile Uyghurs and run a 25 million-SIM surveillance platform. Anthropic has published its most detailed threat intelligence report so far, and the picture it paints of how its Claude models are being misused is far less abstract than the extinction argument currently dominating the AI...