Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Praful Hinge (PTI Photo) HYDERABAD: Praful Hinge, the 24-year-old Sunrisers Hyderabad pacer, became an overnight sensation after his performance against Rajasthan Royals. He set the tone with a wicket off his second ball — that of teen wonder Vaibhav Sooryavanshi — and scalped two more in the over.Despite the dream debut, he says…
BENGALURU: Infosys shares fell 6% in early NYSE trade after the company forecast broad-based revenue growth of 1.5% to 3.5% for FY27, while maintaining that underlying demand remains resilient despite geopolitical uncertainty. Its operating margin guidance remains unchanged at 20%-22%.For the March quarter, revenue grew 4.1% year-onyear in constant currency but declined 1.3% sequentially. In…
File photo (Picture credit: AP) Asian markets showed a mixed and cautious trend on Friday, with investors remaining on edge as uncertainty around the Iran conflict and stalled US-Iran talks continued to cloud sentiment.MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up 0.3% and was on track for a modest weekly gain of 0.8%.Japan’s…
MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India ramped up dollar purchases in Feb, signalling a shift to rebuilding forex reserves after the rupee stabilised following the US–India trade deal announcement in the same month.Despite heavy spot purchases, net forward sales stood at $77.7 billion, indicating continued reliance on forward markets. While Feb did provide an opportunity for…
BHOPAL: At a national camp in the city, Nausheen Naz, 15, trains alongside probables who own multiple kits. Naz borrows gear. Her father Ahfaz Khan, a daily-wager earning about Rs 250 a day, cannot buy her a proper hockey stick. No kit. No safety net.But the girl from Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni is India’s most exciting…
MUMBAI: Bank lending is back in favour. In FY26 it reclaimed primacy in financing India’s commercial sector, its share of total resource flows climbing to a three-year high, as per RBI’s April bulletin.The shift is stark. Total resource flows reached Rs 44.7 lakh crore in FY26, while nonfood bank credit surged to Rs 29.2 lakh…
Rafael Nadal back on court (Photo by @RafaelNadal on X) NEW DELHI: Tennis legend Rafael Nadal made a special return to the tennis court, but not in a usual setting. The Spanish legend stepped onto a temporary court set up inside Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium, creating a unique crossover between tennis and football. Nadal…
NEW DELHI: Government has started to assess potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as Anthropic’s Mythos, with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw chairing a high-level meeting on Thursday with banks and regulators to review emerging threats from AI models.The meeting was attended by senior officials from the Reserve…
Mukesh Choudhary (IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: A deeply emotional night at the Wankhede Stadium saw Chennai Super Kings skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad dedicate his side’s emphatic 103-run win over Mumbai Indians in IPL 2026 to teammate Mukesh Choudhary, who played despite the recent passing of his mother.The CSK players wore black armbands in tribute, turning a…
MUMBAI: Amazon is betting a fresh $300 million (over Rs 2,800 crore) on India to widen its operations network and boost its quick commerce business, a space where the firm has been a late entrant, lagging in market share.The Seattle-based e-commerce company has set a target of more than doubling the footprint of its quick…