MUMBAI: After a bull run in the IPO market over the past two years, Indian startups are finding it hard to take the road to Dalal Street. The US-Iran war has thrown a spanner in their IPO plans with many companies delaying listing timelines and going slow on filing draft papers. PhonePe has pressed pause…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (BCCI/IPL Photo) When Rajasthan Royals’ batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi walked out to bat against Mumbai Indians in their must-win IPL 2026 clash at the Wankhede Stadium, expectations were sky high. Fans expected towering sixes, blazing boundaries, a half-century or perhaps even another hundred from the teenage star.But Sooryavanshi endured a rare off day…
MUMBAI: A proxy advisory firm is pressing India’s central bank to require Tata Sons to go public, arguing that its size and systemic importance demand disclosure standards closer to those applied to major financial institutions rather than those typical of private holding companies.InGovern, in a report titled “Tata Sons: The Listing Imperative,” said that where…
MUMBAI: IRDAI has asked the non-life industry to come up with a standard definition of claim and a uniform definition of claim settlement ratio for various lines of business. This followed different companies using different definitions for determining claim settlement ratio, a key metric that is an indicator of companies’ financial health and customer satisfaction.Some…
BHOPAL: Fifteen days before Eid-ul-Azha, Bhopal doesn’t launch cars or debut singers. It unveils goats worth lakhs… in events that look like Super Bowl in scale and razzle-dazzle.They arrive like grooms. Decorated in garlands, mounted on hydraulic platforms once reserved for wedding varmalas, or lowered by crane onto spotlit stages.Hundreds gather, phones raised, to catch…
The petition stated that the stepfather’s name was entered in official records without any formal adoption process or legal procedure AHMEDABAD: For years, a 20-year-old woman’s school records carried the name of the man who raised her after her mother remarried. But the documents, she told the Gujarat high court, no longer reflect her identity…
Suggests Several Researchers Copying Them Without Check BENGALURU: A surge of AI-generated fake citations has entered scientific literature, with a new study estimating that about 1.5 lakh fabricated references slipped into the record in 2025, most moving from preprints into peer-reviewed journals.This is the central finding of a large-scale study by researchers at Cornell University,…
BENGALURU: Six police officers, including a sub-inspector, have been suspended for security lapse during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Art of Living (AOL) Foundation in the Karnataka capital on May 10. The action comes nearly two weeks after explosives were found near Kuppareddy Kere, around 2 km from the AOL centre, along the…
VARANASI: A 12-year-old Bihar girl allegedly sold by her mother “for Rs 16,000 and 10 saris” to a 40-year-old man from Chandauli in neighbouring UP was repeatedly raped by him after a sham temple marriage, only to be abandoned and preyed on by an auto driver in Varanasi before being rescued.Investigators said Chandauli’s Lahru Yadav…
NEW DELHI: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has sought a detailed report from Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) after widespread complaints from students and parents over technical glitches during the post-result re-evaluation process, with the Centre bringing in experts from IIT-Madras and IIT-Kanpur and roping in four public sector banks to stabilise the system…