NEW DELHI: Helped by tax cuts and a healthy monsoon, the Indian passenger vehicles market is on course to end 2025 with record sales, with companies ranging from Maruti Suzuki, M&M, to Toyota and Kia reporting all-time high demand. In 2025, Tata Motors overtook Hyundai to emerge as the second largest player in the domestic…
The petroleum sector has urged industry stakeholders to explore ethanol as a clean cooking fuel for households, as part of broader efforts to reduce India’s dependence on imported LPG and expand the biofuel ecosystem.R S Ravi, Director (Downstream) at the Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry (FIPI), raised the proposal while addressing the All India Distillers’…
A months-long calm on Wall Street shattered on Friday after President Donald Trump threatened to sharply raise tariffs on China, triggering a broad market sell-off and pushing the S&P 500 toward its steepest loss since April.The S&P 500 slid 2%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 622 points and the Nasdaq composite fell 2.7%,…
PNC Financial Services has announced plans to acquire Colorado-based FirstBank in a $4.1 billion transaction, marking a significant expansion of its footprint in the US retail banking market.Headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, FirstBank—also known as 1stBank—operates 120 branches and holds $26.7 billion in assets. The lender is privately held, though shareholders owning 45.7% of the company…
NAGPUR: In a worrying trend, accidents, poaching, and electrocution accounted for a significant number of 142 tiger and 537 leopard deaths reported in Maharashtra from Jan 2022 to Sept 2025. The big cat fatality data was provided by the principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF), Nagpur, in response to a Right to Information (RTI) query.The…
Jessie Cave is an actress best known for playing Lavender Brown in the later Harry Potter films/ Image: X Jessie Cave’s pregnancy story is not the sort of romance arc you’d pitch for a Harry Potter spin-off. The actor who played Lavender Brown, the lovestruck Gryffindor who clung to Ron Weasley – ended up with…
NEW DELHI: A quick check by railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday showed how there is a gap between what officials claim and the ground reality. At a track maintainers’ conference, he asked how many of them have got “lightweight tools” and the response was dismal.“This is wrong. There is a sharp gap between your…
NEW DELHI: Alleging massive manipulation in the results of the CBSE exams of class 12, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the OSM contract given to “Globarena” was a “scam”. He said the company had a murky past and had changed its name from COEMPT after its similarly poor performance in Telangana in 2019 and 2023…
South Africa’s Dewald Brevis (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: Lately, it’s been a case of feast or famine for Dewald Brevis.Ever since an unbeaten 125 and 53 in back-to-back matches against Australia in August 2025, Brevis had struggled for runs. Across nine T20I innings going into the fourth edition of the SA20, the Pretoria Capitals batter…
Prashant Narayanan, who is known for his villainous role in Emraan Hashmi starrer Murder 2, has shared a candid take on Ranveer Singh‘s Dhurandhar, praising the craft of the film but questioning whether its full potential was realised.Calling it a “well-made film”, Prashant said he expected a stronger impact.“It’s a well-made film. But the impact…
