NPS charges revised from October 1, 2026: Rs 200 onboarding fee, 0.20% annual charge; e-NPS users can avoid PoP fees, check who pays and who gets relief

According to the PFRDA circular, PoPs will receive an annual charge equivalent to 0.20% of the assets under management. New NPS charges from October 1: The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has updated the charges that Point of Presence (PoP) entities are permitted to levy on subscribers under the National Pension System (NPS)…

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Oracle layoffs: Company leadership may again send the ‘6 am’ email on September 1 that told employees, “We have made the decision to…

September 1: Oracle employees are watching the clock Oracle employees have spent the last three weeks watching a calendar instead of a dashboard. The company has drawn up plans for another round of job cuts, managers have been asked to submit lists of employees whose roles could be eliminated, and the target is to bring…

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In 2015, Queensland began turning end-of-life tyres into road material; over the next decade 2.4 million tyres were kept out of landfill as crumb rubber was blended into asphalt and road seals

It has been reported that the Sunshine Coast Council used crumb rubber from end-of-life off-the-road (OTR) tyres in asphalt and road-sealing works along Railroad Parade in Glass House Mountains, Spalls Road in Diddillibah and Perlan Street in Nambour. Australia has been looking for better ways to deal with the growing mountain of tyres discarded after…

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Gold price prediction today: Where are gold prices headed? Check outlook for August 31, 2026 week

Gold has entered a corrective phase after failing to sustain above the recent rally highs near Rs 163,000–166,000. Gold price prediction today: The medium-term case for investment in gold remains intact, despite recent fall in prices, says Manav Modi, Senior Analyst, Commodity Research at Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. Let’s take a look at his…

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In the early 1990s, fewer than 1,000 threatened chum salmon returned to this Washington watershed; recent returns average 32,600 a year as a $9.7 million river restoration nears completion

chum salmon Representative image In the early 1990s, fewer than 1,000 threatened summer-run chum salmon made it back to the Big Quilcene River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula each year. Decades of logging, road building and habitat degradation had left the river choked with sediment, its gravel spawning beds buried and its side channels disconnected. Today,…

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