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On Wednesday, October 14, the Union Cabinet approved the continuation of the National Social Assistance Programme for another five years. Alongside the funding, it changed the programme’s name and made a significant change to who can receive a disability pension. If you, or someone in your family, receives an old-age,…

Whenever‍‍‍ the largest IT company in India reports its financial results, the entire industry gets to know through its reports. TCS has launched the results calendar of fiscal September quarter on October 8th and the announcement was quite promising: 15% increase in profit, 11.2% increase in sales with a dividend…

Every October, the world gets a handful of announcements from Stockholm and Oslo, and most of us read the headline, nod, and move on without really knowing what was just honoured. This year’s winners deserve better than that. Three of the science prizes went to work that sounds almost like…

For years, free bus travel for women in Delhi ran on a simple paper system — a zero-value pink ticket, handed out ride by ride since 2019. That era has now formally ended. As of this month, the paper pink ticket has been fully replaced by a digital smart card,…

Previously,‍‍‍ a car journey that would have taken one whole day and a half days is now likely to be reduced to approximately half the time. Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, India’s largest highway construction work, and is set to become the world’s longest toll road upon completion, will be completed by the…

If you’ve priced out a laptop recently and thought the number looked higher than it should, you’re not imagining it. Industry analysts are now warning that laptop and desktop prices in India could climb by as much as 35% this year, and the reason isn’t tariffs or currency swings —…

Every Bigg Boss season builds its own rumour mill months before a single contestant actually walks through the door, and this year, one name stood out precisely because it didn’t fit the usual mould. Bhagirath Bhatt isn’t a soap actor, an influencer, or a reality-TV regular. He’s a classical sitarist.…

Meta has spent years defending Facebook and Instagram against claims that the apps keep young users online for too long. Now some of those arguments have ended with a very expensive settlement — and changes that teenagers in the U.S. will actually notice. On August 26, Meta reached agreements worth…

Cursor users are about to lose one of the AI providers available inside the popular coding editor. OpenAI said on August 28 that it plans to stop directly providing its models to Cursor, with November 12, 2026 proposed as the shutoff date. The decision came just two weeks after SpaceX…

The stock market is showing mixed signals on the user’s display in August 2026. Artificial intelligence remains one of the strongest investment thing, major technology companies are still spending heavily, and investors continue to trust on long-term opportunities in AI. At the same time, higher Treasury yields, uncertainty around Federal…