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With discipline, some lifestyle pruning and a willingness to recalibrate your retirement expectations, you can still get your plan back on track. (AI image) Most people wake up to the reality of retirement planning only in their 40s. By then, the nest egg often looks slimmer than what early savers manage to build. The reasons…

Prashant Kishor (File photo) NEW DELHI: Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor on Friday announced that he will donate 90 per cent of his income over the next five years to fund his party’s campaign. The declaration comes just days after the newly launched party suffered a major setback in its debut Bihar assembly elections, failing…

Inside the ‘Bomb Factory’ FARIDABAD: In a quiet Faridabad home Dhoj village, terror was being ground to powder. The co-accused in the Delhi car blast Dr Muzammil, turned flour mill into a chemical workshop. Pictures of the mill and electrical machinery, recovered from the house of a taxi driver in Faridabad, Haryana, reveal the chilling…

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has revealed that he almost missed the chance of meeting his now closet friend and legendary investor Warren Buffet, back in 1991. What started as a reluctant introduction pushed by Gates’ mother turned into a daylong conversation which reshaped his point of view about business and also sparked a decades-long friendship….

Experts sound red alert as Delhi air turns ‘life-threatening’ NEW DELHI: As capital wakes up each morning to skies the colour of ash and an AQI brushing the ‘severe’ zone, scientists, doctors, parents and protest groups warn that Delhi’s pollution crisis has now crossed into a life-threatening public health emergency. Despite stubble-burning contributing only a…

Gold and silver prices retreated in Friday’s futures trade after robust US employment data reduced expectations of a December interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. A stronger dollar also weighed on bullion, pulling both metals lower in domestic and global markets.On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), gold futures for December delivery slipped Rs 355,…

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Thursday released video footage of what it said is a major Hamas tunnel network in southern Gaza, where the body of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin was allegedly held in recent years before being returned last week.The IDF described the tunnel as “one of the most significant and complex” it…

Mitchell Starc’s 7 for 58 is now the best bowling performance of his Test career (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Mitchell Starc delivered one of the great Ashes spells as Australia dismantled England for just 172 on the opening day of the first Test at a vibrant Perth Stadium on Friday. The left-arm quick was at…

NEW DELHI: Congress on Friday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he left for Johannesburg, the venue for this year’s G20 Summit. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh suggested the prime minister was attending the event “safely and securely” because US President Donald Trump has chosen to boycott it, and wondered whether “huglomacy” with…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday said the United States had shown signs of reconsidering its G20 boycott, calling it a “positive sign” and insisting that “boycott politics never work,” even as the White House dismissed his claim as “fake news” and accused him of “running his mouth.” “In a way, we see this…