MUMBAI: Insurance companies are receiving enquiries for quotes on war risk insurance cover hours after India carried out Operation Sindoor.“Enquiries have gone up, but underwriters are reluctant to provide war risk cover for landed property after some kinetic action has already taken place. In the case of cargo, though, war risk cover is available for…
NEW DELHI: Indian ambassador to Ireland Akhilesh Mishra has issued a strong rebuttal to The Irish Times over its editorial on the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, accusing the publication of downplaying terrorism and echoing narratives that provide “cover fire” to its perpetrators.In a post on X, Mishra condemned the editorial for failing to…
Ravichandran Ashwin’s YouTube channel will not be covering the remaining matches of Chennai Super Kings, confirmed the admin on Monday, April 7. Ashwin’s channel, known for its analytical and fun approach to the game of cricket, was in the middle of controversy on Saturday when one of its analysts, Prasanna Agoram, argued that Noor Ahmad…
The Trump administration on Friday rejected a Biden plan that would have required Medicare and Medicaid to cover obesity drugs and expanded access for millions of people. Under the law that established Medicare’s Part D drug benefits, the program was forbidden from paying for drugs for “weight loss.” The Biden administration’s proposal last November had…
NEW DELHI: The Centre has downgraded the security cover of Gursharan Kaur, wife of late ex-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, from Z-plus to Z, based on her revised threat perception.Sources in the govt told TOI that a recent review by the Central intelligence agencies had found her threat level to be lower, leading them to stipulate…
NEW DELHI: The govt on Wednesday approved second phase of Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP) for next five years with an outlay of around Rs 7,000 crore. The second phase will cover villages, including the ones close to the borders of Bangladesh and Myanmar.Sources said the second phase of the scheme will cover border villages across…
The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it would start handpicking which media outlets were allowed to participate in the presidential press pool, the small, rotating group of reporters who relay the president’s day-to-day activities to the public. The change breaks decades of precedent. It allows the White House to assert more control over which…
MUMBAI: The Centre is considering raising the insurance cover for bank deposits from the current limit of Rs 5 lakh, a senior finance ministry said on Monday.Three days after the New India Co-operative Bank was placed under moratorium by the RBI for irregularities, department of financial services secretary M Nagaraju said a proposal for higher…
This is an AI-generated image, use for representational purposes only. MUMBAI: The green cover in India has absorbed more carbon than it emitted annually in the last decade, but the rate of sequestration declines during extreme climate events such as drought, a study has revealed. The study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science…
Terrified customers at a Philadelphia diner were caught in the chaos of a deadly plane crash when debris from the aircraft smashed through the windows, striking people inside. A video that surfaced online captured the moment customers at the Four Seasons Diner on Cottman Avenue ducked for cover as metal fragments from the doomed Learjet…