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₹2.5 lakh deposit, ₹40,000 rent and more Moving to a new city can look simple from the outside. Find a house, shift your things, and get on with life. But once the move actually begins, there are several smaller decisions and payments that come along with it. For one marketing professional, a recent relocation from Gurgaon to Bengaluru turned into an experience worth documenting after he added up what it took to get his new home ready.Shantanu Jain shared the experience in an Instagram video, where he spoke about the costs he faced during the move and the things he…

Just three days before the math Olympiad, he was hospitalised. What happened next made his family emotional (Photo: tienphong.vn) For most students, falling ill just days before an important examination would mean staying home, resting and putting the competition aside.For sixth-grader Mai Ngoc Duy of Tran My Ninh Secondary School in Thanh Hoa, the situation was very different.Just three days before the final of the 2026 AIMO International Mathematical Olympiad, Duy suddenly developed health problems and was admitted to hospital.After months of preparation, the timing could hardly have been worse.Yet Duy did not want to give up his chance to…

A fresh internal dispute has emerged within the Cine and TV Artistes Association (CINTAA), with eight executive committee members resigning from both their positions and the committee, citing an alleged loss of confidence in the organisation’s current leadership. The members have also called for new elections. Amid the escalating disagreement, CINTAA president Poonam Dhillon has hit back at the allegations, describing the claims directed at her and senior vice-president Padmini Kolhapure as “deeply offensive.”The dispute came to the forefront after eight executive committee members submitted a joint resignation letter. In the letter, they alleged that the association’s functioning had increasingly…

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is yet to take a final decision on whether it will publicly announce the list of players who will receive central contracts under its new payment and categorisation system.The PCB usually announces its list of centrally contracted players by the first week of August. The contracts normally run from June to July every fiscal year.“The thinking is that it is not necessary to announce the players who are to be given these new contracts, as it is an internal matter of the board,” a source was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.Pakistan ODI captain…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asks the Internet not to be weird about it as she takes an injection as part of her egg freezing process. Democrat leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that she opted to freeze her eggs as she decides her next political move, including the 2028 presidential election. “This is a choice that I am making to feel more in control of my life,” the 36-year-old Rep said on Instagram, adding that she was aware that she took a political risk in divulging these personal details on social media.She said later on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that she has not…

Butter paper vs parchment paper: what are the differences Walk into most Indian kitchens, and you’ll likely find a roll of “butter paper” tucked away for wrapping parathas, lining tiffin boxes, or packing mithai during festivals. Somewhere along the way, though, “butter paper” became the catch-all term a lot of us use for any thin kitchen paper, including the one meant for baking. The truth is, butter paper and parchment paper are genuinely different products, made differently and built for different jobs, and mixing them up in the oven can lead to more than just a ruined cake. Here’s a…

More than 3,500 faculty vacancies have been filled across IITs between September 2022 and May 2026 under a mission-mode recruitment drive. However, the latest Lok Sabha response does not reveal the current faculty-student ratio at individual IITs. With the 1:10 norm still relevant, questions remain over whether recruitment has kept pace with rising enrolment and expanding academic programmes. India’s premier engineering institutions have made a significant push to fill faculty vacancies, with more than 3,500 posts filled across the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) between September 2022 and May 2026. Yet, a key question remains unanswered: have the IITs actually…

AR Rahman’s daughter Khatija clarifies how AR Ameen’s accident happened AR Rahman’s son and singer AR Ameen was involved in a car accident in Chennai on Monday morning. His sister Khatija Rahman has now shared an update on his health, assuring fans that Ameen is safe and doing fine while also clarifying details surrounding the accident.Khatija took to her Instagram Stories on Monday to thank fans and well-wishers for their concern following reports of Ameen’s accident. She also sought to correct what she described as inaccurate information circulating about the incident.“Thank you so much for all your wishes, prayers, and…

The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru is nearing its second anniversary, with BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia recalling the work that went into setting up the facility.Saikia credited former BCCI secretary Jay Shah, who is now the International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman, with pushing the project and bringing officials together to ensure it was completed.”He took everybody on board in BCCI’s Apex Council and made a firm decision that this establishment (CoE) has to be done on a war footing, and we need to move on from the old, temporary arrangement of…

Trucking students practice reverse parking in training trucks at the Driving Academy. (AP Photo) The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has moved to make English-language proficiency requirements for commercial truck drivers a permanent part of federal regulations, saying drivers who cannot sufficiently read or speak English or understand highway signs and signals must be placed out of service.The department announced the proposed rule after Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy directed the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to codify existing English-language proficiency (ELP) enforcement guidelines.The DOT said in a post on X: “TRUCK DRIVERS MUST SPEAK ENGLISH FROM NOW ON!”…