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SCSS offers an 8.2% interest rate for OctoberDecember 2026, with a maximum investment limit of 30 lakh. Retirees should understand five important rules covering eligibility, quarterly interest payments, premature withdrawals, taxation and liquidity before investing.
Prince William, Kate to visit India this week
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The incident has renewed scrutiny of the Federal Aviation Administrations ageing infrastructure and its efforts to modernise critical air traffic communications
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Tata Sons listing could change the Tata way: Noel
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Archies slipped into a 1.58 crore loss in Q2 FY27 as revenue fell 33% to 12.39 crore. H1 revenue declined 37% to 20.30 crore, while net loss reached 2.96 crore.
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Telangana implements gig worker rules
Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Saturday launched the Telangana Platform-Based Gig Workers (Registration, Social Security and Welfare) Rules, 2026, setting out 12 fundamental rights for gig and platform workers, including minimum remuneration, social security benefits, transparency in payments and protection against arbitrary account deactivation.Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, who launched the Telangana Gig Workers Special Security Scheme along with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Hyderabad, said the government would enforce the legislation to protect workers in the sector. The move fulfils a promise made by Gandhi during his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Hyderabad, when gig workers had raised concerns over working conditions and lack of social security.The bill was first passed by the Telangana Assembly in March 2026.As part of this scheme, the state will extend accident insurance coverage to gig workers and uncreases the coverage limit under the Aarogyasri health scheme to Rs 10 lakh.The rules provide for registration of workers and issuance of unique identification numbers, representation in decision-making, social security benefits including insurance, healthcare and pensions, and a welfare fund to be financed through contributions from aggregators.They also provide for greater transparency in earnings, payments and ratings, protection against discrimination, minimum remuneration, health and safety safeguards, fair contracts and advance notice of changes in working conditions.Other provisions also include the right to refuse work without penalties, safeguards against arbitrary blocking or deactivation of worker accounts, and time-bound grievance redressal mechanisms.Shaik Salauddin, founder-president of the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union (TGPWU), called the launch a significant milestone in the decade-long struggle of gig and platform workers in the state.He said the focus would now shift to ensuring that the provisions translated into enforceable benefits on the ground. The union has called on the state government to ensure time-bound implementation of the rules, operationalise the Welfare Board and Welfare Fund, and hold aggregators accountable for their contributions and obligations.Salauddin also said the union would continue to push for comprehensive national legislation guaranteeing rights to gig workers, arguing that the Centre's National Social Security Board, notified on October 30, was not a substitute for enforceable workplace protections.We will continue to organise, defend these rights and hold platforms and governments accountable for their implementation.We fought for a decade to secure these rights. We will continue to fight until every gig worker can exercise them, Salauddin added.
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Noel Tata fears public listing may change 'Tata way'
Tata Trusts Chairman Noel Tata has voiced concerns that a proposed public listing of Tata Sons could fundamentally alter the group's traditional business philosophy, potentially leading to profits being prioritised over philanthropy. This comes amid an ongoing dispute between Tata Trusts and the Tata Sons board regarding the holding company's ownership structure and leadership.
Italy fines Meta $887 mn over users' data access
Pak PM revises Goldman Sachs forecast, says economy can be 6th-largest by 2050
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Delhi AQI at 367; rain may bring relief
Delhi's air quality stayed in the very poor bracket on Saturday, though the India Meteorological Department noted that upcoming rainfall could bring marginal relief over the next few days.The capital recorded a 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI) of 367a slight dip from Friday's reading of 373keeping it firmly in the very poor range. Both the Air Quality Early Warning System (AQEWS) and the Air Quality Early Warning System (EWS) for Delhi forecast modest improvements ahead, noting that PM2.5 and PM10 levels are expected to drop over the next 48 hours.Across the 59 active monitoring stations reporting data on Saturday:17 recorded severe levels38 fell into the very poor range3 registered as poor1 was in the moderate zonePer Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) standards, AQI readings are categorized as good (050), satisfactory (51100), moderate (101200), poor (201300), very poor (301400), and severe (401500).Key pollution driversPrimary Pollutant: PM10 was the main pollutant affecting the national capital on Saturday.Sectoral Breakdown: Data from the Decision Support System (DSS) indicated that vehicular transport was the top contributor to Delhi's pollution at 20.5%, followed by stubble burning at 13.3%.Regional farm-fire dataA bulletin from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute's Consortium for Research on Agroecosystem Monitoring and Modelling from Space (CREAMS) Laboratory reported 537 satellite-detected crop residue-burning incidents across six states on Saturday:Madhya Pradesh: 246Punjab: 214Uttar Pradesh: 33Rajasthan: 33Haryana: 11Between September 15 and November 13, satellites tracked a cumulative total of 11,342 farm fires across these regions.
Can income tax authorities tax money deposited in your bank account on behalf of others? The ITAT has deleted a 3.69 crore tax addition against a woman who facilitated payments between bangle traders, ruling that the entire deposits were not automatically her income.
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Trump seeks to curb judges' powers
When President Donald Trump's administration convinced the US Supreme Court last year to restrict the ability of federal judges to block his actions nationwide - a major boost to his power - the ruling left untouched a separate tool that some of them have used to stymie presidential policies.Now Trump is taking aim at that tool as well in another challenge to judicial authority that could further insulate his far-reaching agenda against broad legal attacks.Also Read: Why US flights stopped: Ageing systems, stranded passengers and a $50 billion fixAn appeal filed by Trump's Justice Department now pending before the Supreme Court urges the justices to curtail the longstanding ability of judges to halt the actions of federal agencies that hold immense power to carry out the Republican president's policy priorities.According to the administration, courts should not be able to shut down an agency's regulation entirely, instead limiting any relief granted only to the specific plaintiffs in a given case.Also Read: Altimeter Capital, Atreides urge Nvidia board not to rush Jensen Huang replacement, seek to keep his CEO return openAditya Bamzai, a University of Virginia expert in administrative law, said a win for Trump in the case could let the US government continue to enforce rules broadly on all but the plaintiffs in a given case, potentially for years as litigation plays out, even after judges have deemed them unlawful.Siding with Trump would give more flexibility to the executive branch, Bamzai said.Whether you like or dislike that flexibility can perhaps depend on whether you like or dislike a particular administration's policies, Bamzai added.Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump and his allies have castigated judges who have impeded his policies - deriding some as radical or corrupt - even as he tests the limits of presidential powers.At the Trump administration's behest, the Supreme Court in June 2025 clamped down on nationwide - or universal - injunctions that can block the government from enforcing a policy against anyone, not just the challengers who sued. Judges had increasingly deployed these orders in a wide array of cases against Trump, including those alleging violations of the US Constitution.Impeding executive actionThe new appeal arises from a challenge by Texas medical providers to federal rules implementing a statute Trump signed into law during his first term in office to limit unexpected medical bills. The appeal forms part of the administration's concerted push to make it harder for the judiciary to impede executive actions. The Supreme Court is expected to consider whether to take up the case early next year.The kinds of lawsuits targeted by Trump's administration are brought under a 1946 US law called the Administrative Procedure Act, or APA, which governs the way federal agencies operate including how regulations are implemented.Judges and appeals courts have long claimed the power under this statute to hold unlawful and set aside agency regulations they deem illegal, invalidating them on a universal basis.Since Trump returned to office, his administration has faced hundreds of lawsuits challenging his aggressive moves to limit immigration, pursue mass deportation, end diversity initiatives and curtail transgender rights, among other actions, that have pushed the boundaries of presidential authority.Various plaintiffs have sued by invoking the APA in numerous cases including to fight the termination of humanitarian legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants living in the United States, major cuts to research grants related to racial minorities or LGBT people, and the use of a mass voter verification system to conduct sweeping citizenship checks.Executive overreachProponents, including numerous state governments that regularly sue the federal government, say this judicial tool is an essential bulwark against executive overreach. Others say the APA is important to maintain uniform regulations applied equally to everyone.When an agency adopts a rule that has been held to be unlawful, sometimes the only sensible solution is to wipe it off the books, said law professor Ronald Levin of Washington University in St. Louis.You can't have a food-safety rule that applies only to some. You can't have an auto-safety manufacturing rule that applies only to some manufacturers, Levin said. It's a tool they (judges) should have - not one they should use in every case, but ... there are some cases where the need for it is compelling.The court's 2025 ruling restricting the power of judges came in litigation over Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship, a right long recognized in the United States. That ruling addressed judicial power, not the legality of Trump's birthright citizenship directive.Though Democratic President Joe Biden's administration also had asked the Supreme Court to rein in universal injunctions as lower courts hindered many of his key initiatives, the 2025 ruling proved to be a major victory for Trump.The justices issued a separate 6-3 ruling last June on the legality of Trump's birthright citizenship policy, rejecting it as unconstitutional.'Surprise' medical billsThe administration wants to extend the constraints that the Supreme Court's 2025 ruling placed on injunctions to similar orders judges may issue to invalidate policies under the APA.The regulation at issue in the case being appealed by the administration sought to constrain surprise medical bills from hospitals and health providers outside a patient's health insurance network. A Texas association of medical doctors, air-ambulance providers, and other plaintiffs argued that the regulation violated the APA and artificially deflated their insurance reimbursement rates.The New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals voided parts of the rule nationwide in August on the grounds of an APA violation.The Trump administration's appeal is not challenging the 5th Circuit's decision about the regulation's legality. Rather it seeks to prevent the judicial use of the APA to stop a policy nationwide.The administration contends, as it did in its case against universal injunctions, that the APA does not grant courts such sweeping authority, instead allowing them to block a regulation's enforcement at most against the specific plaintiffs who challenged it in a particular case.The Supreme Court should return the lower courts to their proper role under the APA, the Justice Department said in its filing.If the Supreme Court agrees, Levin said, it would take longer for challengers to get unlawful regulations removed from the books.Biden's administration also tried in 2023 to convince the Supreme Court to limit the use of this power by judges in a case in which Republican attorneys general from Texas and Louisiana challenged an immigration policy. The justices did not take up the invitation and backed Biden in that case on other grounds.Trump's administration may face pushback from a broad array of opponents on its new effort.Texas, Florida and some other states, mostly Republican-led, had urged the 5th Circuit not to euter the APA's effectiveness, calling the law important for maintaining the balance of power between states and the federal government.The APA is a critical tool ... to curb federal overreach and incursions into state sovereignty by executive-branch agencies, these states said.
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India-US trade deal nearing finish line, may be sealed soon: Jaishankar
India and the US have sorted out the bulk of the issues relating to the proposed trade deal and it could be sealed soon as negotiations are underway to resolve the last stretch of concerns, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday. His remarks come a month before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's likely visit to the US for the G20 Summit, on the sidelines of which he and President Donald Trump may meet to review the broader trajectory of bilateral ties and progress on the trade pact. In an interactive session at the HT Leadership Summit, the external affairs minister said the negotiations are approaching the finishing line, adding that many of the remaining issues are ot so much at our end and that more changes have occurred on the American side. Well, it's certainly our hope, and in many ways anticipation that we are at the last stretch. That's not a secret, he said responding to a question on the negotiations for the trade pact. There has been speculation tha
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Rahul Gandhi announces Telanganas gig worker welfare package, details insurance & payment benefits
In an exciting turn of events, an intern at a New York film archive stumbled upon five reels of the silent film The Heart of Lincoln. This remarkable find, once thought to be forever lost, opens a new chapter for historians and filmmakers alike. Restoration efforts are now underway, promising modern audiences a glimpse into early American cinema and its portrayal of the iconic Abraham Lincoln.
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In Maryland, conservationists created a floating island to provide nesting sites for common terns. This solution came as natural nesting areas were disappearing due to climate change effects. In the first breeding season, the platform hosted 23 nests, indicating immediate acceptance by the birds. As populations grew, common terns also began to establish nests on nearby restored habitats.
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Zakir Khan recalled moving to Delhi against his family's wishes in 2008 and struggling to find a job for two and a half years. He called the rejection a blessing in disguise. After repaying debts, he spent his last Rs 500 on a comedy trial, eventually choosing comedy over a career in music.
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Priyanka Chopra's mother, Madhu Chopra, and brother, Siddharth Chopra, have agreed to sell their 3,754 sq ft Pune bungalow to Suroj Buildcon for Rs 6.5 crore. The October 2026 deal adds to the family's property transactions. Priyanka has previously sold two Mumbai penthouses, commercial office space and two residential flats.
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office summoned the telecommunications secretary on Saturday to explain how officials ordered the takedown of more than 100 websites based on court orders that Reuters revealed were fake, two government sources said.The intervention from Modi's office signals intensifying scrutiny after Reuters revealed on Wednesday that telecom officials directed internet providers to block 129 illegal betting websites based on fake High Court orders which were emailed to officials by people posing as lawyers.Also read | TRAI crackdown on spam: Over 1.24 lakh mobile connections barred or disconnected in Jul-SepWhile online betting is illegal in India, the case has raised concerns that a lack of safeguards in India's content-takedown system could allow falsified court documents to be used to block legitimate websites.The findings have triggered one criminal investigation by state police against unknown persons for forgery and cheating.Modi's office summoned Telecom Secretary Amit Agrawal to appear and explain the lapse, cutting short Agrawal's trip to another state, said the two government officials with knowledge of the matter.Agrawal is the most senior bureaucrat in the telecommunications ministry, which oversees everyone from big telecom operators to internet providers.The action taken by the Department of Telecommunications against betting accounts was carried out through the relevant field officers, said one of the people.Also read | Vi seeks DoT nod to retain expiring 4G spectrumAgrawal and his ministry did not respond to Reuters queries, and neither did Modi's office.Court precedents generated using AI have caused concerns among judges the world over. India's Supreme Court in July set aside a tribunal's orders that relied on non-existent judgments, and a US judge recently disqualified lawyers over use of fabricated legal citations.On Friday, Reuters reported that the telecoms ministry had initiated an internal investigation into the alleged fraud, while police have sought ministry records as part of a criminal investigation.The two state court orders Reuters revealed were fake, based on comments from police and the court registry, contained fabricated court logos and seals, as well as a fake QR code.They were for months available publicly on the Department of Telecommunications' website, along with correspondence that showed government officials ordering internet providers to remove the websites.On Saturday, one of the fake court orders was still accessible on the government's website, while one had been removed.
The Income Tax FAST-DS 2026 scheme allows eligible taxpayers to disclose certain unreported foreign assets and income. Check eligibility, tax payable, Form 1 filing steps and the December 31 deadline.
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The Supreme Court has clarified that a son cannot automatically claim a share in his grandfathers property inherited by his father under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. It held that partition made the father the exclusive owner, allowing him to sell the property.
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India supports UNGA resolution on permanent sovereignty of Palestinian people
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Cement makers eye Q3 margin recovery as price hikes offset rising costs
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Rs 37,500 cr coal gasification push: CDEP-CWS study identifies priority chemicals to cut import
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Google International invested 10 crore in creator-economy startup Rigi for a 1.43% stake, valuing the company at 670 crore. Rigi plans to use the funding to expand its free, ad-supported digital content and entertainment offerings.
The Karnataka High Court has upheld a retired professors right to Old Pension Scheme (OPS) benefits, ruling that his nearly 17 years of previous university service could not be disregarded after he moved to another university. Heres what happened and how he won.
Heartland on Netflix: 7 things to know before watching Jessica Chastains new thriller
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Asthana calls Sonia's Godhra claim 'wrong'
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Ficci calls for comprehensive India-Africa trade framework to boost ties
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