NEW DELHI: A Trinamool Congress (TMC) party office belonging to Mathurapur MP Bapi Haldar in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district was vandalised by a group of local residents on Sunday, with villagers alleging that flood relief materials were being illegally stored there, police said.According to police, window panes and signboards at the office were…
Capital gains taxation continues to play a key role in shaping real estate investment decisions in India, influencing asset allocation, holding periods, and reinvestment strategies across residential and commercial segments, according to industry participants. The structure of current tax rates, introduced through recent budget changes, has also added to the recalibration of investor behaviour, particularly…
For all the ambition packed into humanity’s plans for Mars colonies, lunar bases, and permanent off-world settlements, one fundamental question has quietly gone unanswered: can humans actually reproduce in space? Gravity, radiation, and microgravity-induced biological changes present obstacles that are significant and poorly understood by current science. China has now taken the most direct step…
ATF prices: ‘On verge of stopping operations’: FIA to government | Photo credit: Saurabh Sinha NEW DELHI: “The airline Industry in India is under extreme stress and on the verge of closing down or stopping operations.” This dire warning has been issued by the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), which represents Air India, IndiGo and…
JSW Energy reported record EBITDA in the March quarter, driven by capacity additions, strong operational growth and contribution from recent acquisitions, even as net profit declined on a year-on-year basis. Revenue for the quarter rose 41% year-on-year to ₹4,498.6 crore, while EBITDA surged 86.8% to a record ₹2,249.8 crore. Operating margin expanded sharply to 50%…
NEW DELHI: Congress MLA Ashok K Pattan on Wednesday claimed that Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah will resign from the post on Thursday after 3pm.While talking to reporters, Pattan said that both the leaders will obey the Congress high command and claimed that deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar will likely succeed Siddaramaiah.“We went to the CM’s…
Mumbai: “Like a cold shower”. It’s a phrase Iga Swiatek has used at least twice over the last couple of months. Once, speaking in Stuttgart and summarising how she felt earlier in the year when she wasn’t playing well. And then, speaking in Paris a few days ago and describing her performance in Rome last…
It is not often that a handful of pale yellow fragments lying quietly in desert sand end up pulling scientists back into questions about ancient catastrophe and planetary violence. Libyan Desert Glass has been sitting in museum drawers and scattered across remote stretches of North Africa for decades, sometimes even cut into jewellery that once…
Representative image (AP) NEW DELHI: There doesn’t appear to be any respite from El Nino’s impact over the monsoon, with the latest update of World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Friday indicating a “rapid development” of this climatic phenomenon during July-Sept, increasing the likelihood of heatwaves, droughts and other extreme weather events in many parts of the…
NEW DELHI: The new rural employment scheme VB-G RAM G — rolled out from July 1 — has laid significant focus on strengthening water security in villages, allotting 107 of 318 permissible works to the addressing the issue in the employment guarantee framework’s interim list — an initiative that could tackle a El Nino-triggered rain…
