High bond yields are creating an attractive entry point for debt mutual fund investors, with the corporate bond market offering better return potential as expectations of further interest rate hikes are already reflected in prices, according to Manish Banthia, Chief Investment Officer – Fixed Income at ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company. He added, “Higher the…
Why Ronaldo vs Messi is less debate and more tragicomedy Hello and welcome to another edition of Offside.The most sublime TV shows often spiral into mediocrity. Game of Thrones was very hard to care about after Season 5, when they ran out of George RR Martin’s books and had to come up with something on…
India has officially recognized and standardized the names of 28 geographical features in Ladakh. NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Tuesday reiterated that the Union territory of Ladakh is an integral and inalienable part of India. The ministry said that no amount of denial by the Chinese side can change this established fact….
Hollywood actor Ben Affleck co-founded the Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI) in 2010 to support locally led development in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). By 2024, initiatives supported by the organisation were delivering more than 100 million litres of clean water across 10 service zones in eastern Congo, according to ECI’s official website. The organisation…
The department questioned the farmer’s financial activities after he deposited large sums of cash into his bank account. (Image for representative purpose only) Is your income from agricultural sources taxable? A farmer from Bengaluru who grew vegetables and fruits and sold them to Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) for cash faced a tax notice for…
New Delhi, One of India’s most well-known athletics coaches, Mohammad Yunus Khan, who has guided star long distance runner Gulveer Singh in his formative years, has been provisionally suspended for alleged “complicity” in an unspecified anti-doping rule violation. Renowned athletics coach Yunus Khan suspended for alleged \”complicity\” in doping offence Khan, a middle and long…
Krithi Shetty is stepping into a new phase of her career, with a Bollywood debut now on the horizon. The actor is preparing to headline a love story that is expected to begin shooting later this year, which will officially mark her arrival in Hindi cinema. Having built her name in the South, she is…
Not every relationship ends because the love disappears. Sometimes, two people still care deeply about each other, still enjoy being together and still find it difficult to imagine life apart. And yet, somewhere along the way, they realise that love isn’t fixing the things that keep making the relationship difficult. It is a painful realisation…
The flagship firm of India’s Adani group, Adani Enterprises, plans to raise around ₹20 billion ($210 million) through the sale of short-duration bonds, two merchant bankers directly aware of the transaction said on Tuesday. ”The company would look for an issuance of below five-year maturity, and may aim to complete the sale within this quarter,”…
India’s vehicle financing patterns are changing, with average passenger vehicle loan amounts rising and two-wheeler borrowers increasingly entering the credit system with an established credit history, according to TransUnion CIBIL’s report, Shifting Gears 2026 – Credit Drives Today’s Mobility. The report analysed personal vehicle financing between the first half (H1) of 2019 and first half…
