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Hi Rohit, the job of a pilot is indeed an exciting journey filled with adventure and responsibility. However, it's no secret that certain professions, including aviation, are deemed high-risk by insurance companies. That translates into higher premiums. Finding affordable life insurance coverage tailored to your needs is a crucial aspect of financial planning.

A curious citizen out on a Sunday stroll says he found an intact iPhone — still in perfect working condition — that appears to have been sucked out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which suffered a catastrophic failure to its fuselage on Friday.

Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) will be undertaking a three-level scrutiny of housing projects that will be registered to ensure zero complaints from homebuyers and better compliance on developers’ part. As part of this new mechanism, all the project registration applications received will be subjected to scrutiny at legal, financial, and technical levels. These three tiers of thorough scrutiny will be done by three different independent teams. With the introduction of new application scrutiny measures, MahaRERA aims to ensure projects to be completed within the scheduled time frame without any hurdles and eventually bring down the complaints from the home buyers to zero. The applications will have to undergo all possible scenarios that may derail the project or may pose a risk of incompletion, the regulatory body said. «MahaRERA has laid down the legal, financial and technical parameters to ensure that there are no problems in timely completion of the real estate projects, while issuing registration numbers to new projects.

Each New Year offers an exciting opportunity to reevaluate our financial habits and set ambitious, yet achievable goals. The New Year feels like a new beginning, so many people make resolutions pertaining to their personal growth and changing old habits.

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is set to continue Ichiban Kasuga’s journey, this time leading the crew to Hawaii in search of his biological mother. With a sprawling map covering Hawaii and various Japanese locations, Yakuza 8 promises an expansive gaming experience.

coal sector have brought 18,849 hectares under green cover in the last 10 years by planting 42.3 million saplings, the government on Monday said. The move shows the commitment of the coal sector to environment-friendly sustainable mining practices, the coal ministry said in a statement.

iPhone survived a 16,000-foot drop to the ground from the recent Alaska Airlines ASA 1282 flight from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California, after a window on the Boeing 737-9 MAX airplane shattered, causing phones and other things to be sucked out mid-air. According to the sources, another phone has been found which is also operational following the fall. Although the iPhone's model is still unknown, based on images posted on X, it appears to be either the iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro. The iPhone was protected with a hard case. While strolling down Barnes Road, Seanathan Bates came upon the found iPhone, which was activated for in-flight use.

By Lisa Barrington, Joanna Plucinska and David Shepardson

It is that time of the year when most of the taxpayers, who if already haven’t exhausted their tax-saving investment limit, start looking for various investment options to save as much tax as possible. For, this remains the last chance to save tax for the current financial year as salaried individuals are required to submit investment proof to their HR department. Else tax will start getting deducted from their salary.

By Nitin Kumar

A ‘Term Return of Premium’ plan (TROP) is ideal for individuals looking for both life coverage and return on the premiums paid. However, these plans cost twice that of pure term plans because of the maturity benefit. Experts say TROPs are suitable for those who are not sure of their retirement age or dependency of family members on their income at an older age. In a regular term plan, the individual does not get any maturity benefit if he survives the policy period. However, in a TROP plan, he will get back all the premiums paid if he survives the policy period, which is usually 105% of the total premiums paid. Like a pure term plan, a TROP plan will offer death benefits to the policyholder’s family in the event of death. So, such a term plan offers dual benefits of cover as well as return of premiums .

By Siddharth Singhal

BITS Pilani on Monday formalised a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya to propel collaborative efforts in curriculum development, research and development, teaching, executive education, joint programmes, faculty training, entrepreneurship, incubation as well as joint conferences and workshops. Prof V. Ramgopal Rao, vice chancellor, BITS Pilani said, “This strategic partnership marks a significant milestone in our commitment to advancing education, research, and innovation.

A taxpayer who finds himself in the new regime can switch to the old tax regime at the time of filing tax returns. “However, taxpayers can claim deduction only if they make their tax-saving investments before 31 March,” says Sudhir Kaushik, CEO of tax filing portal TaxSpanner. com. The taxpayers who changed jobs during the year may not have been asked to submit proof of investments either. The new employer might not have taken into account the income from the previous job and would have calculated a lower tax. “They should also complete their tax-saving investments now,” says Kaushik. Our annual ranking of tax-saving instruments helps such individuals make the right choices. We assessed 10 tax-saving options on eight key parameters—returns, safety, flexibility, liquidity, costs, transparency, ease of investment and taxability of income. Each parameter has equal weightage and the composite scores determine the place in the ranking.

₹22.7 trillion (rural ₹14.7 trillion and urban ₹8 trillion), which is almost 7.5% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Recent state elections saw women-centric schemes such as Ladli Behna ensure greater female electoral participation. This scheme is aimed at a transformational improvement in the health and nutritional status of women and the children dependent on them.

₹2,500 and ₹10,000. Parents or guardian can invest in a minor’s MF account through their own banks. However, the redemption proceeds will only be transferred to the minor’s bank account.

—Name withheld on request Since your current employer is not covered under the Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, it will be unable to establish a PF account on your behalf. According to the provisions outlined in the EPF Act and its rules, the transfer of PF balance is permissible only between two PF accounts.

The Daily Mail US account wrote, “Jill Biden rushed to embrace zoned-out Biden after he finished speech, then went into trance-like state on-stage." Netizens were quick to respond to the bizarre trolling, and wrote, “Remember the many times Melania wouldn’t hold Trump’s hand?" Some other netizens also took a subtle dig at Donald trump and wrote, “Yeah wives actually want to hold the hands of their husbands when their husbands are faithful and didn't raw dog a pornstar when they were home with their infant son. Crazy.". “Couples that actually love each other still hold hands.

Narayana Murthy sleep on a large box in a windowless storeroom surrounded by cartons during a visit to the United States for work in the initial days. However, the client's own home had four bedrooms, the book “An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy" published by Juggernaut Books revealed. Indian-American author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has come out with a biography covering the early days of Sudha Murty's and Narayana Murthy's lives that is replete with many such nuggets about the iconic couple.

Israel on Gaza was calculated at 77 till 31 December 2023. One of the journalist who lost their life today was a video stringer for AFP news agency, Mustafa Thuria. According to the news agency Thuria had worked with AFP since 2019.