The United States has long upheld and cherished the sobriquet “land of opportunity” as a badge of honour. Yet what if the opportunity server first checks the gender of the plate before serving it? Opportunity bends and breaks along lines of privilege, and the latest labour figures reveal a stark truth: Women are once again…
MI Cape Town defeated Sunrisers Eastern Cape in the final to lift 2025 SA20 title. The fourth edition of the SA20 league is set to begin with a Boxing Day opener between defending champions MI Cape Town and Durban’s Super Giants at Newlands, Cape Town, on December 26. The final is scheduled for January 25,…
NTA SWAYAM result for January 2025 session announced. The National Testing Agency (NTA) has officially announced the results for the SWAYAM January 2025 semester exams. Students who appeared for the exam can now check and download their scorecards from the official website — exams.nta.ac.in/swayam. The SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds)…
Micki Witthoeft, center, mother of Ashli Babbitt (File photo AP) The Trump administration has agreed to pay around $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, in order to settle a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit filed by Babbitt estate, according to Associated Press.She was shot and killed during Capitol ill riots on January 6,…
IGNOU January re-registration 2025: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will close the re-registration window for its January 2025 session today, January 31, 2025. Students who have yet to complete their re-registration are advised to apply immediately through the official portal to secure their enrollment for the upcoming academic term.The re-registration process, which commenced…
The British economy unexpectedly shrank during January, piling pressure on Treasury chief Rachel Reeves before a key statement about the state of the public finances later this month. Official figures Friday showed that the economy, the world’s sixth-largest, saw output drop by 0.1% during the month, in contrast to expectations for a modest increase and…
Retail inflation or Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation for the month of February eased to a 7-month low of 3.61%. This is well within the Reserve Bank of India (RBI’s) comfort zone and will likely encourage the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to cut repo rate in the April review to boost GDP growth.The All India…
Myanmar’s junta chief said the country would hold an election in December or January, the first in the war-torn nation since the military staged a coup in 2021. “We are planning to hold the election in December 2025 or … by January 2026,” General Min Aung Hlaing was quoted as saying in the state-run newspaper…
Getting inflation under control since the worst surge in decades has been a bumpy process in recent months. New data on Friday showed only a little progress. The central bank’s preferred inflation measure, released on Friday, climbed 2.5 percent in January from a year earlier, slightly lower than the previous reading of 2.6 percent but…
Bitcoin has dropped more than 20% from its January peak of $109,350 to hit an intraday low of nearly $83,000 on February 27. Although the cryptocurrency has since recovered to around $85,000, the sell-off has erased nearly $300 billion from its market value, according to ET report.Avinash Shekhar, Co-Founder and CEO of Pi42, said that…