Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has floated a paper to prevent misuse of insolvency law. NEW DELHI: The Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has floated a paper to prevent misuse of insolvency law to settle debt or avoid liability or consolidate companies without regulatory scrutiny. It has highlighted red flags that…
Tiritiri Matangi Lighthouse | Wikimedia Commons Ray Walter arrived on New Zealand’s Tiritiri Matangi Island as a lighthouse keeper in 1980, when the job was already approaching its end. The country was automating its lighthouses, and in 1984 Walter’s position disappeared when the Tiritiri Matangi light was automated. He did not leave the island. Instead,…
The electronics manufacturer will start producing devices for Oppo, OnePlus and Realme next year. NEW DELHI: Amber Enterprises is making a big push into smartphone manufacturing. The electronics manufacturer will start producing devices for Oppo, OnePlus and Realme next year, targeting around 8 million units in its first year of operations.Trial production is expected to…
Small Indian Mongoose Oʻahu, Hawai. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons SSugarcane fields once dominated Puerto Rico’s economy and rats were a major pest in those fields, leading plantation owners to introduce the small Indian mongoose as a biological control measure. In the 1870s, plantation owners across the Caribbean imported the small Indian mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) from…
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has ordered a fresh examination for UGC-NET June 2026 candidates in English, Commerce and Sociology after an expert committee found serious errors in the question papers. The re-test will be held on September 9 and 10. Candidates who appeared for the three affected subjects will not have to pay any…
Gold and silver retained a positive outlook, with analysts pointing to continued gains while also flagging elevated volatility and periods of consolidation. Domestic gold futures rose nearly 2% during last week to close at Rs 1.54 lakh per 10 grams, while MCX silver gained 1.9% to Rs 2.35 lakh per kg. Internationally, Comex gold advanced…
Connor Hill (Delta High School, State College, PA) By writing a custom computer algorithm that mapped every possible version of a rare class of geometric shapes, 17-year-old Connor Hill from Port Matilda, Pennsylvania, has won the top $250,000 prize at the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search.His computational proof classified a complex group of three-dimensional shapes…
Oil prices hold steady as Hormuz sees less activity while Iran-US talks on Strait opening stalls Oil prices remained largely unchanged in early trade on Monday as a sharp drop in vessel movements through the Strait of Hormuz heightened concerns over supplies, while efforts to end the US-Iran conflict showed no sign of progress.Brent crude…
Hawaii introduced mosquitofish to control mosquitoes Introduced to Hawaii in 1905 to control disease-carrying mosquitoes, the eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) has caused major declines in native aquatic insects, including several threatened species of Hawaiian damselflies. Conservation reports from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) show that the small, non-native fish has had a…
MUMBAI: JP Morgan is seeing a bigger role for itself in M&A financing after RBI allowed domestic lenders to fund M&A. The relaxation has come at a time when corporates are returning to banks from capital markets in India, in keeping with a global trend.“It provides another corporate-friendly avenue for growth. At JP Morgan, our…
