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Textile exporters who import certain varieties of polyester fibre or yarn that come under mandatory Quality Control Order (QCO) under Advance Authorisation scheme now have 18 months time to fulfil the export obligation.The Central government said on Thursday that the export obligation period against import of products that are subjected to mandatory QCO by the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals under Advance Authorisation has been extended from six months to 18 months.Sanjay K. Jain, chairman of the expert committee on textiles of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, said this move will benefit exporters who import polyester fibre and yarns under…

While the case of a class 9 student delivering a baby in her school hostel has shocked the State, teenage pregnancies have always been a matter of concern in Karnataka. The State reported an alarming 80,813 teenage pregnancies (children aged between 14 and 19) in the last three years. While Bengaluru Urban tops the list with 8,891, Belagavi and Vijayapura follow with 8,169 and 6,229, respectively, according to data from the Health Department’s Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) portal.High and lowWhile Udupi and Dakshina Kannada, apart from Kodagu, have been consistently reporting the lowest number of underage pregnancies in the…

New DelhiAugust 29, 2025 11:00 AM IST First published on: Aug 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM IST THERE was qawwali, a packed Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, youngsters swaying to the music, and right there, in the front, dancing with the others, a group of women wearing the hijab. The occasion was a celebration held by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) to mark the inauguration of its national headquarters, Quaide Millath Centre, in Delhi. And the women, a sign of how far the Kerala-based IUML, a Congress ally vilified by the BJP – and lately the Left – as “communal”, had…

The 2008 Indian Premier League (IPL) incident between Harbhajan Singh and S Sreesanth, also termed ‘the slapgate’ has been one of the most controversial instances in the history of the cash-rich tournament. Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi recently shared an unseen footage from that incident which led to a ban on Harbhajan and an official letter to Sreesanth to mend his ways. What is the slapgate controversy? In 2008, Sreesanth, representing Kings XI Punjab (Now Punjab Kings) was slapped by interim Mumbai Indians skipper Harbhajan without any provocation after Punjab had recorded a 66-run win over Mumbai. The cameras zooming…

Astronomers have captured an extraordinary image of a young planet forming around a star about 430 light-years from Earth. The planet, named WISPIT 2b, is a gas giant roughly the size of Jupiter and just 5 million years old—a cosmic newborn compared to our 4.6-billion-year-old solar system. The planet is actively accreting material while carving a channel through the protoplanetary disc of gas and dust surrounding its host star, WISPIT 2. This marks the first confirmed discovery of a planet within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disc, complete with several gaps and channels. WISPIT 2b is also only the second young planet…

President Trump announces his global tariffs at a Rose Garden event at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images An appeals court ruled that most of President Trump’s tariffs are illegal, but held off on enforcing the decision for now given expectations that it will be appealed to the Supreme Court. The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., focused on the “reciprocal” tariffs Trump imposed back in April, as well as separate tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico that cite…

The disposable income of Indian households is set to be “significantly higher” in the current year compared to last year thanks to a combination of lower inflation and tax cuts already announced by the government and likely to be announced in the near future, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said on Friday.“…the fact that there was a significant direct tax cut announced in the Budget and the possibilities of lower GST coming up in the coming month, along with the fact that overall inflation rate has already been low, means that disposable income in the hands of Indian consumers…

US Centers for Disease Control and Pre (CDC) director Susan Monarez was fired less than a month after being sworn in

Former Hollywood actor Bruce Willis is currently living under full-time care as he continues his battle with frontotemporal dementia, his wife Emma Heming revealed during her appearance on Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey – A Diane Sawyer Special. She explained that the actor now resides in a nearby home with professional aides, while she lives with their daughters, Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11. “It was one of the hardest decisions that I’ve had to make so far,” Emma admitted. She went on to add, “But I knew, first and foremost, Bruce would want that for our daughters. You…

The White House is asking Congress to take back nearly $5 billion in appropriated foreign aid funds. The timing of the request makes it hard for Congress to weigh in before the end of the fiscal year.