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RBI's dividend norms open door to bigger PSU bank payouts to govt

Mumbai, Jan. 16 -- The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) move to allow banks to distribute up to 75% of their net profit as dividends, up from 45% earlier, marks a shift in how regulators balance capita... Read More


Budget may bring booster shot for drug testing labs, regulatory manpower

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- The government is likely to announce setting up of new drug testing laboratories and an increase in regulatory manpower in the upcoming Union budget, according to three governmen... Read More


Mint Explainer: What the Karnataka HC's share attachment means for the Aakash rights issue

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- A Karnataka high court order on 13 January has effectively "locked" a block of Aakash Educational Services Ltd's (AESL) shares allegedly linked to Byju Raveendran, creating fresh... Read More


Trump finally gets Nobel Peace Prize medal! Courtesy Maria Corina Machado-not Nobel Committee

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado said on Thursday she "presented" her Nobel Peace Prize medal to US President Donald Trump in a bid to win ove... Read More


Venezuela's Machado 'presented' Trump with medal of Nobel Peace Prize

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said Thursday she "presented" her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Donald Trump, in a bid to win over the US president who had sidelin... Read More


'Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos' review: Spy comedy gets by on whimsy and charm

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- I wonder if Vir Das was a fan of Scrubs. So much in Happy Patel reminded me of Zach Braff's sitcom: the cutaways and inserts, the sheer number of throwaway gags, the gravitation ... Read More


Television is making a quiet comeback in doomscrolling era

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- Long-format content is finding an unlikely coexistence amid the shrinking attention spans of the mobile era, with television. Connected TVs are gradually shifting viewership fro... Read More


From Ananya Panday to Sonam Kapoor, why 2016 is trending again on social media

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- If your social media feed suddenly looks like it has slipped back a decade, you are not alone. In the first weeks of 2026, a wave of throwback posts from 2016 has taken over Inst... Read More


Filmmaker meets most secretive, ready-to-attack Amazon tribe, offers them food: THIS happened next

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- A newly surfaced video has provided a rare and striking glimpse of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe living in complete isolation from the modern world. The footage was shared by au... Read More


Filmmaker meets most secretive, ready to attack Amazon tribe, offers them food: THIS happened next

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- A newly surfaced video has provided a rare and striking glimpse of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe living in complete isolation from the modern world. The footage was shared by au... Read More