Fossilised bones recovered from an ancient sinkhole in Israel may belong to a previously unknown group of extinct humans that lived in the Levant more than 100,000 years ago. Researchers unearthed the bones alongside stone tools and the remains of horses, fallow deer and wild ox during excavations at the Nesher Ramla prehistoric site near […]
The Government has granted further extension of timelines of compliances under Income Tax Act. It has also announced tax exemption for expenditure on COVID-19 treatment and ex-gratia received on death due to COVID-19. The details are as follows: A. Tax exemption Many taxpayers have received financial help for meeting their expenses incurred for treatment of […]
Japan, known for “karoshi” or “death by overwork” as workers often put in over 100 hours of overtime service for months, is looking to introduce four-day workweek to improve work-life balance. The country’s annual economic policy guidelines, released this month, unveiled plans to push employers to adopt four-day workweeks, marking official acceptance of a once-fringe […]
Amidst the pandemic, medical services were badly hit in Punjab on Friday after doctors of the state-run hospitals joined a day-long strike to protest against the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations on de-linking non-practising allowance (NPA) from the basic pay. The call for strike was given by the Joint Punjab Government Doctors Coordination Committee, which is […]
Union Minister for highways Nitin Gadkari promised an assured 7-hours travel time between Delhi and Kullu, the famous hill destination in the next two years. Laying the foundation stone for new roads and highways projects, Gadkari, who was at Kullu, said the road between Chandigarh to Manali takes nine hours and its condition is horrible. […]
Start-up Punjab Hub @STPI is inviting applications for their next cohort OCP 3.0 of Neuron A Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Analytics (Big Data), Animation & Gaming (AVG) and Internet of Things (IoT) in 9 Directorates major cities of India. The Incubation Centre was launched on September 30, 2019. The core […]
A study by the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health to monitor the safety of the Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 confirmed on Thursday that it is the safest among the vaccines. “SputnikV shows the safest profile among #COVID vaccines used in the Buenos Aires province in Argentina, no deaths related to vaccination recorded – the […]
Repeatedly dubbed the happiest nation on the planet with world-beating living standards, Finland has been experiencing an acute workforce shortage amid an ageing population. With 39.2 over-65s per 100 working-age people, it is second only to Japan in the extent of its ageing population, according to the UN, which forecasts that by 2030 the “old […]
Portugal striker Cristiano Ronaldo drew level with Iran’s Ali Daei (109) and became the joint top-scorer in men’s international football. He achieved the feat in Portugal’s Euro 2020 game against France on Wednesday (local time) at the Puskas Arena in Budapest. Daei, nicknamed the ‘Shariar’ (King in Persian), scored a remarkable 109 goals in 149 […]