Selling a property can leave you with a sizable profit, but it can also rake up significant taxes. The amount of tax you pay depends on how long you have owned the property and the capital gains tax rules introduced in the Union Budget 2024 and made effective from July 23, 2024. The changes have…
Rohit Sharma (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) MUMBAI: Rohit Sharma has been in the news more due to his dodgy fitness than his batting in IPL-2026. Hampered by the recurrence of an old hamstring injury, the 39-year-old batter has played eight matches for the Mumbai Indians, in which he has scored 283 runs at an average of…
What happens in the Strait of Hormuz does not stay in the Strait of Hormuz. The US-Iran war may be centred in the Middle East, but its economic tremors are now rattling wallets across America. As tensions escalated and the crucial oil route came under pressure, fuel prices began their wild ride, pushing inflation higher,…
Your doctor hands you a prescription and utters the words nobody wants to hear: this is probably for life. A tiny pill, twice a day, forever. The anxiety sets in. Will you be dependent on medication for the next fifty years? Is your body broken now? What if you just stop taking it once you…
There is a reason grandparents insisted on finishing the greens on the plate. Long before nutrition labels and wellness trends became popular, traditional diets quietly relied on vegetables that protected the body in ways science is still trying to fully understand. Antioxidants are natural compounds that help the body deal with oxidative stress, a process…
NEW DELHI: For a month, most residents of Block 10 in Dakshinpuri have been living without the dignity of a proper bath. In the morning, women who work as domestic help leave for the homes they clean in South Delhi, carrying a humiliation: asking employers for permission to take a bath in the houses where…
Lucknow Super Giants’ captain Rishabh Pant, left, and Punjab Kings’ captain Shreyas Iyer (AP Photo) Punjab Kings won a crucial toss in their must-win IPL 2026 clash against Lucknow Super Giants at the Ekana Stadium and elected to field first as they attempt to keep their fading playoff hopes alive. PBKS come into the contest…
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”— Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe, the very image of glamour and flirtation, leaves us with this quietly profound notion of love. She doesn’t talk of grand gestures, expensive gifts, or dramatic declarations….
KOLKATA: Opening its purse strings for Bengal following chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s maiden visit to New Delhi after assuming office on May 9, the Centre on Friday agreed to release Rs 39,000 crore for schemes under the Union water resources ministry. PM Narendra Modi, during his meeting with Adhikari, also assured of support in implementing…
A deadly gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has killed at least 90 people, with rescue operations still under way and authorities launching a nationwide crackdown on illegal mining activities after the country’s worst mining disaster in 17 years, AFP reported.The blast took place on Friday evening at the Liushenyu coal mine…