Photo credit: X/@NewIndAssurance MUMBAI: New India Assurance reported a 28.86% rise in net profit to Rs 826 crore for the December quarter, driven by higher investment income and steady growth in premium collections, even as one-time wage-related provisions weighed on underwriting results. Profit before tax rose 61.89% year-on-year to Rs 824 crore in Q3 FY26.Premium…
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, who represents Assam’s Jorhat constituency, on Friday sharply criticised chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over his “Miya Muslims” remarks, accusing him of “misusing” the name of the Supreme Court to justify his statements and calling his claims a “blatant lie.”In a post on X, Gogoi described Sarma’s politics as driven by…
Married women formed more than half the share of female suicide cases in the national capital in 2023, with housewives accounting for more than 40 per cent of the deaths, according to latest Delhi government report.In 2023, of the 836 female suicide deaths recorded in the city, 455 of them (54.43%) were married women. Housewives…
NEW DELHI: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will hold a meeting of its legislature party on January 31 to name Sunetra Pawar, wife of late deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, as its leader, senior party leader and Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal said on Friday.Speaking to reporters at the NCP office, Bhujbal said chief minister Devendra…
Sharad Pawar, Sunetra Pawar & Supriya Sule NEW DELHI: The sudden death of Maharashtra deputy chief minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Ajit Pawar in a plane crash has triggered fresh churn in the state’s politics, reopening talks of a reunification of the two NCP factions led by the Pawar’s.The rumoured merger of the…
Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and UP CM Yogi Adityanath (Images/Agencies) NEW DELHI: Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati on Friday asked Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to stop beef exports from the state and declare the cow as ‘Rajya Mata’. He stated that such steps would prove the chief minister’s commitment as a “Hindu sympathiser”.The remarks come amid…
Pawar faction merger talks: The sudden death of Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar in a plane crash has reopened speculation about a possible reunion of the split NCP, with a close aide claiming Pawar was “100% keen” on a merger before his death. BJP slams Hamid Ansari remarks: The BJP accused former Vice President Hamid…
NEW DELHI: In a significant push to strengthen India’s biomedical and clinical research ecosystem, directors of 20 All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) institutions on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set up a Pan-India collaborative research consortium.The agreement was signed during the meeting of AIIMS Directors convened at AIIMS, New Delhi, marking…
Sunetra and Ajit Pawar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Senior NCP leader Praful Patel on Friday said there is “no opposition” to Sunetra Pawar succeeding her late husband, Ajit Pawar, as the leader of the NCP legislature party.Also Read | NCP in Catch-22: Ajit Pawar’s ‘last wish’ and Mahayuti alliance; calls for Sunetra to step inHe…
Varsen Aghabekian (PTI image) Palestine’s foreign minister Varsen Aghabekian on Friday said that India would decide on joining the proposed Gaza “Board of Peace” in line with its own understanding of peace. She further stressed that any genuine effort to end the conflict should be welcomed.Speaking on the US-backed initiative announced by President Donald Trump,…