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Class 9 students hit hardest as NCERT books remain unavailable in Bengaluru schools. (Representative Image) BENGALURU: Schools have reopened, but several CBSE schools in the city are reeling under shortage of NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) textbooks, thus affecting their academic schedules. While schools say there is a shortage of books for classes 6-9, the worst hit is class 9, where a completely new syllabus has been rolled out. While the online PDFs are available on the website, schools say that do not suffice. “Teachers find it hard in language classes, when students don’t have text books.…

Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, is preparing to mine Bitcoin using electricity generated from sugarcane waste in Brazil, and the pilot is set to go live by July 1, 2026. The operation, run through Tether-backed agribusiness Adecoagro, will start with 10 megawatts of capacity and approximately 1,280 Bitcoin mining machines powered entirely by biomass energy from sugarcane processing. Adecoagro already operates more than 230 megawatts of renewable electricity generation capacity across South America, giving the project an established energy platform before a single mining rig is switched on. The 10-megawatt pilot is a small slice of that,…

UOB strategists Quek Ser Leang and Lee Sue Ann describe GBP/USD price action as range-bound after a brief drop to 1.3407, expecting the pair to edge lower toward 1.3430 while keeping 1.3405 as distant support. For the next one to three weeks, they see current moves as part of a 1.3390–1.3510 consolidation, but warn that a weekly close below 1.3300 could trigger a slide toward 1.2945–1.3010.Sterling consolidates inside broad band”24-HOUR VIEW: GBP dropped to a low of 1.3407 on Monday and rebounded to close largely unchanged at 1.3456 (+0.02%). Yesterday, we pointed out that “the price action provides no fresh…

TL;DR: You can’t close a gap you can’t see. Most companies sit on more talent than they realize, but skills mapping and real-time tracking surface what job titles hide. Annual plans can’t keep up. When managers can’t predict skill needs, continuous feedback loops beat static planning every time. Knowledge without practice is shelfware. If employees have no safe space to apply what they’ve learned, the training budget pays for theory that never hits the job. If nobody owns it, nobody fixes it. Assign the roles: managers define what the business needs, L&D builds the structure, and employees build and apply…

Though season seven, episode one ended with Escobar sleeping alongside Ace Greene, narrator Iain Stirling welcomed viewers back the next day, briefly noting, “Yulissa has left the villa.” Four days later, she expressed remorse for her actions in the videos, emphasizing that she had “no right in using” the word. “I used it ignorantly, not fully understanding the weight, history, or pain behind it,” Escober, 28, wrote on Instagram. “I wasn’t trying to be offensive or harmful, but I recognize now that intention doesn’t excuse impact.”  “I’ve changed a lot since then, not just in how I speak, but in…

Lori Felker’s “Patient” cleverly takes the viewer on a couple of unexpected turns.  Cleverness isn’t the point, but its humanity is, or at least it might be. We start by eavesdropping in on a few discussions between patients and their doctors as they answer a series of questions designed to get at the heart of what ails them. We’ve all been here. Our doctors ask us questions about our health that eventually reveal something about ourselves we’d rather not admit out loud.  We listen to these people in white gowns anyway, identifying with their secrecy and perhaps even the sadness…

Congress may finally receive the inflation adjustments lawmakers have spent years blocking. But before legislators get a raise, Congress should first do its most important job: budgeting responsibly.  A federal judge recently ruled that Congress likely violated the Constitution’s Twenty-Seventh Amendment by repeatedly canceling automatic cost-of-living adjustments for lawmakers’ pay. Since 2009, congressional salaries have remained frozen at $174,000, even as inflation steadily eroded their value by about 31 percent.  Members fear the political backlash of voting for higher pay. But the broader issue is not whether congressional compensation should keep pace with inflation. The real problem is that Congress…

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The dust has barely settled on a grueling yet historic 2026 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), but the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is already looking far into the horizon. Following Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s dramatic five-wicket victory over the Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, clinching their second consecutive title, conversations have quickly shifted from on-field heroics to the structural future of the multi-billion-dollar league.As climate patterns shift and athlete welfare takes center stage, IPL Chairman Arun Dhumal has dropped a massive bomb regarding the competition’s traditional scheduling. The board is actively…