The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) on Friday conducted a hybrid outreach programme in the national capital to familiarise stakeholders with the Duty Deferment Scheme for Eligible Manufacturer Importers (EMI), a key trade facilitation measure announced in the Union Budget 2026-27.The session, organised in New Delhi, brought together senior officials and industry…
MI captain Hardik Pandya and KKR skipper Ajinkya Rahane. (Pic credit: IPL) KOLKATA: One cannot but help remember the adage ‘cricket is a great leveller’ on seeing Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians meeting in what seems to be an inconsequential match at the business end of a tournament they have dominated over the years….
Somewhere beneath the frozen soils of the Arctic, life has been waiting patiently for millennia. Long before the rise of modern civilisation, before the construction of the Great Pyramids, and even before many of today’s ecosystems existed in their current form, microscopic organisms became trapped within layers of permafrost. Locked away in permanently frozen ground,…
JEE Advanced 2026 infrastructure under scrutiny as IIT Roorkee acknowledges cloud configuration issue NEW DELHI: Just days after cybersecurity concerns surfaced around CBSE’s On-Screen Marking (OSM) system and allegations of vulnerabilities in the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) re-examination portal, another examination-related digital platform has come under scrutiny.This time, the issue concerns infrastructure linked to JEE…
Edda Sif Pind Aradottir, a chemical and reservoir engineer and CEO of Carbfix, holds a sample of basalt rock at the Carbfix site in Iceland. Scientists in Iceland are demonstrating a groundbreaking way to tackle climate change by permanently turning carbon dioxide (CO₂) into stone deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Instead of storing captured CO₂…
The Institute of National Importance Combined Entrance Test (INI-CET) 2026 for the July session was conducted on Saturday across multiple centres, with thousands of candidates appearing for the postgraduate medical entrance examination.INI-CET is conducted twice a year by AIIMS Delhi for admission into postgraduate medical courses including MD, MS, MCh, DM and MDS programmes in…
There is evidence of a phantom gas leak occurring in the middle of the sea, which could contribute to a rapid increase in the destruction of the Earth’s climate. This is a newly discovered oceanic gas leak, which largely consists of methane leaking out of the ocean floors. Experts who study the phenomena of oceanic…
Gold, which is often considered the safe haven asset, has also failed to rise to the occasion for investors. (AI image) Stock markets are in deep red and in all likelihood so is your investment portfolio since the start of the US-Israel-Iran war. The conflict has been a perfect storm for stock markets globally, and…
A bizarre motorcycle modification has gone viral on social media after a young rider was caught using a train-like horn on his Hero HF Deluxe. The horn sounds strikingly similar to a railway engine approaching a station. In a clip that is going viral on social media, police officials have caught the rider and can…
Vir Das’s directorial venture, ‘Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos,’ is making its digital debut on THIS streaming platfor on THIS date. The comedy spy film, which received mixed reviews in theaters, features an unconventional British-raised Indian agent on a chaotic mission in Goa. Aamir Khan and Imran Khan also make special appearances in the movie. Read…