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Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah has reignited attention on the decades-old India-Nepal border dispute after remarks in Parliament appeared to suggest that Nepal had learnt of “encroachments” involving Indian territory.Shah said that, “The Nepal government has officially sent a diplomatic note to India, mentioning the issue of encroachment of territories by India, including Lipulekh, and…

NEW DELHI: Action is set to follow against officials in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) as the ministry of education has initiated an internal crackdown over alleged irregularities in a controversial tender process and serious vulnerabilities in the board’s digital evaluation ecosystem.According to ministry sources, a detailed report from CBSE on the tender…

Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Gujarat Titans in the IPL 2026 final to lift back-to-back trophies. (AP) TimesofIndia.com in Ahmedabad: IPL trophies are won on the field, but championship dynasties are built in boardrooms, auction tables and strategy meetings.Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s (RCB) historic back-to-back title triumphs are the result of a vision that extended far beyond…

If you are from the southern districts of Gujarat or know someone from the region, this information could be useful. Gujarat government’s “Halpati Housing Scheme” provides Rs 1.2 lakh in financial assistance to Talaviya and Nayak families belonging to the Halpati community, as financial assistance, to build their homes.The scheme covers rural areas of the…

Demis Hassabis thinks the companies cutting engineers to ride the AI wave have got it backwards. The Google DeepMind CEO told WIRED that when developers become three or four times more productive, the smart move is to do three or four times more work, not march people out the door. To him, treating AI gains…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has spent the better part of 2026 telling anyone with a microphone that AI is about to wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Now, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the man whose company is selling that very AI is no longer just warning about the layoffs. He’s…

The Australian government has launched legal action against American giant 3M over contamination from ⁠firefighting foam supplied by the company that contained PFAS, or “forever chemicals”, seeking more than 2 billion Australian dollars ($1.43 billion) in damages. The case which is the largest ever brought by Australia, the country has commenced legal action in the…

UBS has downgraded MCX to neutral but raised the target price to Rs 3,600 from Rs 3,200 earlier. Analysts said that bourse’s peak earnings momentum is likely behind as there’s been elevated volatility across key commodities in recent months. So far in the April-June quarter (Q1FY27) there’s been healthy volumes on the exchange, after normalizing…

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday called off a scheduled meeting with her party’s legislators after only 20 of 80 MLAs turned up, with the party blaming the mass absence on a “sudden and emergent ground situation” triggered by attacks on senior functionaries and several arrests statewide.Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, speaking outside Mamata’s…

NEW DELHI: Fresh allegations of massive cybersecurity lapses, data exposure and administrative failures have deepened the controversy surrounding CBSE’s On Screen Marking (OSM) system, with activists now approaching National Human Rights Commission for urgent intervention to protect students’ educational rights, amid continuing disruptions in the board’s post-exam processes.The latest row erupted after independent developers and…