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Available for over a yearCapita chiefs promised MPs on the Public Accounts Committee it would fix long-running problems with its administration of one of the biggest pension schemes in the country by the end of this month. Tens of thousands of retired and serving civil servants have been reporting long delays to payments, leading to serious financial hardship to pensioners and their families.  But Money Box has learned the deadline isn’t likely to be met. We speak to the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee about what happens next. And cases of reported are still increasing. We explain how AI…

Kevin Warsh chaired his first Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week and immediately showed his hawkish colors. Rates stayed steady, but the new Fed Chair made it clear he intends to prioritize price stability and reduce loose forward guidance. While Warsh is focused on managing the dollar’s ongoing challenges, his debut actually highlights something much deeper: the dollar still requires constant human intervention to avoid dilution and debasement. Bitcoin, by contrast, has a hard-capped supply and predictable issuance that no chairman can change. Warsh’s first meeting as Fed Chair makes the advantage of Bitcoin’s fixed supply more obvious than…

For decades, Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu’s love story has inspired generations. Their bond was often seen as the epitome of enduring love, and even after Dilip Kumar’s demise, Saira continues to keep his memory alive by sharing heartfelt anecdotes about him. However, their marriage did face a turbulent phase when Dilip Kumar entered into a second marriage with Asma in 1981. Saira reportedly learned about the marriage through newspaper reports, leaving her deeply devastated. The marriage to Asma was short-lived, as Dilip soon realized it was a mistake and ended it. He later reconciled with Saira, and the couple’s…

Japan and Tunisia set to contest landmark 1,000th match in FIFA World Cup history/ Image: FIFA Nearly a century after the first World Cup games in Uruguay, Japan and Tunisia add their names to football history in landmark Monterrey clashWhen Japan and Tunisia walk onto the pitch at Monterrey Stadium on June 21, they will contest the 1,000th match in FIFA World Cup history, a landmark moment in a tournament that has spanned almost a century.From the inaugural World Cup in Uruguay in 1930 to Lionel Messi lifting the trophy in Qatar in 2022, the competition’s first 999 matches have…

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has started the Detailed Application Form (DAF) submission process for candidates who qualified in the Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2026. Eligible candidates can now complete the application process for the Civil Services Main Examination through the official UPSC portal.The DAF window opened on June 19 and will remain available until June 28, 2026. Submitting the form is mandatory for all candidates who wish to appear for the Main Examination.According to the commission, shortlisted candidates can use the DAF portal to submit or reconfirm their details, pay the examination fee, update scribe information, request assistive…

Ripple’s dollar-pegged stablecoin RLUSD made two concrete infrastructure moves this week: cross-chain routing platform Squid integrated RLUSD for single-transaction swaps across more than 100 blockchains and 20,000-plus tokens. Ripple took a strategic stake in African payments giant Flutterwave at a $3.2Bn Series E valuation to embed RLUSD and the XRP Ledger into payment rails spanning 34 African markets. What started as a payments story is quickly becoming a race to build the financial operating systems of the future.@Ripple has made a strategic investment in @theflutterwave as part of its Series E fundraising round, alongside a partnership focused on stablecoin payments,……

From Newton’s mechan­i­cal cal­cu­la­tions to Einstein’s gen­er­al and spe­cial rel­a­tiv­i­ty to the baf­fling inde­ter­mi­na­cy of quan­tum mechan­ics, the dis­ci­pline of physics has become increas­ing­ly arcane and com­plex, and less and less gov­erned by order­ly laws. This presents a prob­lem for the layper­son, who strug­gles to under­stand how New­ton­ian physics, with its pre­dictable obser­va­tions of phys­i­cal forces, relates to the par­al­lax and para­dox of lat­er dis­cov­er­ies. “If you don’t already know physics,” says physi­cist Dominic Wal­li­man in the video above, it’s dif­fi­cult some­times to see how all of these dif­fer­ent sub­jects are relat­ed to each oth­er.” So Wal­li­man has pro­vid­ed a…

“It was just brutal. You couldn’t recognize anybody,” a family friend recalled of the crashScene of small plane crash in TennesseeCredit: NewsChannel 5/YouTubeNEED TO KNOWTwo brothers who were killed after their small plane crashed into a Tennessee cornfield have since been namedThe Warren County Sheriff’s Department identified the brothers as Brian Stuart Ramsey, 69, and Keith Warren Ramsey, 65While records show that the plane was registered to Brian, investigators are unsure which brother was flying the plane at the time of the crashAuthorities have identified the two brothers who died after their plane crashed into a Tennessee cornfield. On Wednesday, June…

One imagines that Virginia Woolf’s name has been inserted into the title of this adaptation of her second novel because it is undeniably her most obscure – not least to distinguish it from the 1946 Cole Porter biopic directed by Michael Curtiz, and of course the 2010 Cruise-Diaz action comedy Knight and Day. Yet doing so might be misleading for those familiar with Woolf’s experimental and stream-of-consciousness narratives, such as ​‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ​‘Orlando’, for ​‘Night and Day’ is, as the author herself described it, rather flat. It is certainly the most conventional of her novels, which makes it ripe…

Timnas Indonesia Terbaru selalu menjadi topik yang menarik perhatian para pencinta sepak bola di seluruh penjuru negeri. Setiap perkembangan yang muncul mampu menghadirkan rasa penasaran sekaligus harapan baru. Masyarakat terus mengikuti perjalanan skuad kebanggaan dengan penuh antusias karena mereka percaya bahwa masa depan sepak bola Indonesia semakin menjanjikan. Selain itu, perubahan yang terjadi dalam beberapa waktu wikipedia terakhir membuat optimisme semakin tumbuh di kalangan pendukung.Di berbagai daerah, semangat mendukung tim nasional tidak pernah surut. Anak-anak, remaja, hingga orang dewasa sama-sama menunjukkan kecintaan mereka terhadap Garuda. Oleh sebab itu, setiap kabar mengenai pemain, pelatih, maupun strategi selalu menjadi bahan pembicaraan yang…