Spread the love       MUMBAI: IRDAI has asked the non-life industry to come up with a standard definition of claim and a uniform definition of claim settlement ratio for various lines of business. This followed different companies using different definitions for determining claim settlement ratio, a key metric that is an indicator of companies’ financial health and customer satisfaction.Some companies register...

Spread the love       BENGALURU: Six police officers, including a sub-inspector, have been suspended for security lapse during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Art of Living (AOL) Foundation in the Karnataka capital on May 10. The action comes nearly two weeks after explosives were found near Kuppareddy Kere, around 2 km from the AOL centre, along the PM’s route.Bengaluru...

Spread the love       Suggests Several Researchers Copying Them Without Check BENGALURU: A surge of AI-generated fake citations has entered scientific literature, with a new study estimating that about 1.5 lakh fabricated references slipped into the record in 2025, most moving from preprints into peer-reviewed journals.This is the central finding of a large-scale study by researchers at Cornell University, UCLA and...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has sought a detailed report from Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) after widespread complaints from students and parents over technical glitches during the post-result re-evaluation process, with the Centre bringing in experts from IIT-Madras and IIT-Kanpur and roping in four public sector banks to stabilise the system and strengthen...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: ED has come across a case where the prime targets of a scam were Muslims following sharia law, which prohibits earning interest on investments. The perpetrators targeted unsuspecting persons with a promise of profits of up to 36% per annum on their investment, and within a few years collected over Rs 6,000 crore.The scam was...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: US secretary of state Marco Rubio, in the presence of minister of external affairs S Jaishankar, launched a scathing attack on Iran, calling it “the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism“.“Look what they are doing now. They are holding hostage civilian vessels, including ships that have now been stuck in the Persian Gulf,” said Rubio, adding...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: India and the US had never been closer, US President Donald Trump told Sergio Gor in the middle of the US Independence Day celebrations, ‘Freedom 250’, attended by secretary of state Marco Rubio and external affairs minister S Jaishankar, and told the ambassador to tell PM Narendra Modi he was “a big fan”. Gor’s direct...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: With political focus shifting to the battle for Uttar Pradesh, senior Congress member and former MP P L Punia wants the party to immediately start the seat-sharing talks with ally Samajwadi Party. He also wants the party to follow it up with selection of candidates without much delay.Punia told TOI, “There is not much time...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Amid continuing controversy over the fate of the AIADMK rebel faction in Tamil Nadu and close numbers enjoyed by governing TVK coalition, Congress MP Manickam Tagore said AIADMK won’t join the Vijay govt, and the mandate in the state is against any kind of “backdoor” politics of BJP.Tagore, an early advocate of Congress flipping from...

Spread the love       India reduced Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), or the number of deaths per 1,000 live babies born, from 30 in 2019 to 24 in 2024, an annual average decline of about one point. Chhattisgarh had the highest IMR of 36 followed by both UP and MP with 35. Kerala had the lowest IMR of 8, followed by Himachal...