MUMBAI: Govt is working on several measures in the insurance sector, including extending the free-look period on policies and introducing a composite insurance licence. These initiatives aim to reduce mis-selling and increase insurance penetration in the country.A key step to curb mis-selling is extending the free-look period to one year, instead of the current norm…
NEW DELHI: Govt on Monday said it will draw up the broad contours of the proposed bilateral trade agreement with the US over the next few weeks, even as it keeps tabs on how the Trump administration’s move to impose reciprocal tariffs unfolds.“Give us a couple of weeks to decide what is the level of…
AHMEDABAD/PALANPUR: A Class X student allegedly raped by her teacher days after winning deafening applause for her Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao speech at a Jan 26 event in her village school in Gujarat‘s Sabarkantha has stood up against the storm in her life to focus on impending board exams and her dream of becoming a…
RAJKOT/AHMEDABAD: In a serious breach of women’s privacy, CCTV videos from a private hospital in Rajkot showing women undergoing gynecological check-ups and medical treatment were circulated on social media, prompting the police to lodge an offence.The Ahmedabad cybercrime branch, which was entrusted the probe along with its Rajkot counterparts, revealed that videos of multiple women…
BHOPAL/JABALPUR: Madhya Pradesh HC, in an interim order, directed Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to allow candidates from economically weaker sections (EWS) category to fill the form for Civil Services Exam with a five-year relaxation in maximum age limit, and permit them nine attempts as provided to candidates of other reserved classes.The results of these…
KOLKATA: A Pocso court on Monday termed “rarest of rare” a case in which it held a 34-year-old man guilty of raping a seven-month-old child after kidnapping her from a Kolkata pavement where she had been sleeping beside her mother.The prosecution said it would seek death for Rajib Ghosh alias Gobra for his Nov 30…
NEW DELHI: Faced with BJP’s fierce assault over Sam Pitroda’s remarks suggesting that India has unnecessarily been confrontational towards China, Congress washed its hands of the latest controversial utterances of the long-time confidante of the Nehru-Gandhi family.BJP said Pitroda’s statement that the threat from China was blown out of proportion and India’s attitude has been…
NEW DELHI: In a rare honour for a visiting head of state, PM Narendra Modi received the Qatar Amir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, at the airport. This is the first visit by the Amir to India in nine years.Al-Thani joined a select group of people, which includes former US President Barak Obama, Donald Trump…
JAIPUR: A govt senior secondary school in Bikaner has become the second institute in Rajasthan to receive a communication from the education department to replace Urdu with Sanskrit as a third language from the new academic session commencing in April. Director of secondary education Ashish Modi’s Feb 14 order came within days of the school…
KOLKATA: The issue of the US deporting illegal immigrants, including Indians, came up for discussion in the Calcutta High Court on Monday as the court turned down the bail applications of a Bangladeshi couple, now behind bars, accused of entering India with fake passports.A division bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Md Shabbar Rashidi…
