The ongoing conflict in West Asia has not yet had a major impact on India’s retail inflation, though future price trends will depend on fuel costs, crop coverage and global supply conditions, according to a report by State Bank of India.The report said the trajectory of inflation in the coming months would largely be shaped…
Passengers travelling between the UK and several European destinations are facing delays because of the European Union’s Entry Exit System (EES), a new border management scheme that requires non-EU travellers to register biometric data, including fingerprints, when entering participating countries.The information is then verified again when travellers leave, creating additional passport-control checks at airports. Since…
King Charles III officially announced as Britain’s monarch (ANI) MUMBAI: Condemning the British royal after whom the King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital is named, Maharashtra’s skill development minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha on Tuesday called him “King Kasab who looted India and killed lakhs of Indians” while explaining in the legislative council why he had proposed…
At least three people, including a woman carrying a homemade bomb, were killed and 21 others injured after an explosive device detonated outside an Italian restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday.According to Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee, the unidentified woman attempted to enter the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square with what investigators believe was an…
MUMBAI: Bond markets need more depth and not just scale so that more enterprises can access market-based finance as the bank-led model will not be sufficient to meet future financing needs, RBI deputy governor Rohit Jain said. He emphasised that this will require more discerning investors to assess levels of risks.“A wider range of enterprises…
NEW DELHI: As the special session for the discussion of the Women’s Reservation bill nears, the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) has called for political reservation for persons with disabilities as Parliament prepares to deliberate on the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act, which proposes 33 per cent reservation for women in…
Satya Nadella is rebuilding Microsoft to move like a startup, and several longtime executives are out. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has quietly dismantled the senior leadership structure that has run Microsoft for decades, creating a new inner circle built to compete in the AI era—and it marks the most dramatic internal shake-up the company has…
What if you could spend some nights at Will Smith‘s home? Well, this is no longer just a fantasy, as a unique abode once used by the actor on film sets has been transformed into a luxury stay near Austin. What makes the home extremely special is not just the owner but also its own…
India is emerging as one of the world’s biggest investment opportunities, with global companies increasingly backing its long-term growth story despite carefully weighing risks and returns, according to Harjinder Kang, the UK’s Trade Commissioner for South Asia. The executive said that a proposed Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) between the two nations could further strengthen investor…
NEW DELHI: A district consumer commission in Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, has ordered a solar installation company to pay a homeowner more than Rs 25,000 with interest, after finding it overcharged him on net-metering costs and failed to generate the electricity it had promised from his rooftop solar system.What was the issueIjjada Vivekananda, a resident of…