The Railway Board has given a one-time go-ahead to its zones to fill up vacancies for assistant loco pilots from other departments if the 50 per cent promotion quota from within the rolling stock department remains unfilled. Train drivers come under the track and rolling stock department of the Railways and as per the existing recruitment norms, 50 per cent vacancies in the Assistant Loco Pilot category can be filled up by way of promotion from within the department. The exemption has been announced as various railway zones were finding it difficult to fill the quota from the department. The

WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters): U.S. consumer prices increased more than expected in March as Americans paid more for gasoline and rental housing, leading financial markets to anticipate that the Federal Reserve would delay cutting interest rates until September. The third straight month of strong consumer price readings reported by the Labor Department on Wednesday followed on the heels of news last week that job growth accelerated in March, with the unemployment rate slipping to 3.8% from 3.9% in February. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has repeatedly said the U.S. central bank is in no rush to start lowering borrowing costs. The

CAIRO (AP): Israel’s military said Saturday it had recovered the body of a 47-year-old farmer who was held hostage in Gaza, while negotiators prepared for another round of talks Sunday on brokering a cease-fire and securing the release of the remaining hostages, six months into the war. Israel’s army said it found the body of Elad Katzir and believed he was killed in January by militants with Islamic Jihad, one of the groups that entered southern Israel in the Oct. 7 attack, killed more than 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages. Katzir was abducted from Nir Oz, a border