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When leaf and airline food go separate ways There is a particular vanity in offering advice one has not yet been compelled to follow. For years, friends, family, the occasional stranger trapped in an airport queue…have been informed, with the gentle insistence of a man who fancies he knows better, that on long-haul flights one…
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is investigating 32 bank fraud cases involving 54 accused who have left the country, minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. The cases are being probed under the Prevention of Money-laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.Sharing details in a written reply, Chaudhary said that the agency has…
The important thing to understand is that ITR filing is a statutory requirement and an important financial record-keeping. (AI image) ITR filing AY 2026-27: Filing your income tax return (ITR) is an important financial record which should not be missed even if your income falls below the mandatory filing threshold. For salaried taxpayers the last…
JD Vance and Donald Trump (R) (AP file photo) TOI correspondent from Washington: A high-level American team is heading back to Pakistan on Monday for a second round of talks with Iran amid renewed threats by US President Donald Trump that he will destroy every bridge and every power plant if Teheran does not make…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a phased tariff plan for imported generic medicines, saying they would continue to enter US duty-free for the next two years before attracting tariffs of up to 200%.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said generic medicines imported into the US would continue to attract zero tariffs from August…
Laila Cunningham (AP image) Reform UK’s newly announced London mayoral candidate, Laila Cunningham, has sparked controversy after suggesting that women wearing the burqa should be subject to stop-and-search checks. Critics have warned that the remarks could endanger Muslim women and deepen social divisions in the capital.Cunningham, who was named Reform UK’s candidate for the 2028…
At the Nasscom Technology & Leadership Forum (NTLF) last month, we organised a panel discussion titled ‘India GCCs as the second headquarters of global enterprises’. The first time many of us heard the term ₹second headquarters’ in the context of global enterprises was in 2007, when then CEO of Cisco, John Chambers, sent his senior-most…
George Kitter shared a few details about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, revealing that he attended the event at Madison Square Garden along with his wife, his parents, and his mother-in-law, as all of them are close to the Kelce and Swift families. (Instagram) Many NFL stars attended Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding ceremony…
NEW DELHI: The income of parents cannot be the sole criterion for exclusion of a candidate from OBC quota on the ground of being part of ‘creamy layer’, the Supreme Court has said, stressing that status and category of parents’ jobs have to be considered, with income/wealth test as an additional criterion for exclusion. At…
Wars have been fought over land, over succession, over a woman said to have launched a thousand ships toward Troy. Opium got its own war twice, in 1839 and again in 1856, but not the kind that name suggests. Britain went to war for the right to keep selling opium into China, after the Qing…
