The equity benchmark indices ended higher on Friday (September 18), with the broader market gaining for the third straight day, while the Nifty rose 76 points to 23,346 and closed above 23,300 for the first time this week. The Sensex, however, ended 20 points lower at 74,295. The Nifty Bank gained 303 points to 56,359,…
Southwestern Baluchistan province has been the scene of a growing restive insurgency. (File photo) With fatalities among security personnel crossing the 1,000 mark, 2026 is turning out to be one of the deadliest years in Pakistan since the South Asian Terrorism Portal (SATP) began keeping records in 2000. In terms of fatalities among security forces,…
Punjab minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond Punjab tourism minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond on Thursday said Punjab government’s ‘Mukh Mantri Tirath Yatra’ scheme has facilitated pilgrimage for 5,10,807 devotees to various religious destinations in and outside the state.He said the scheme aims to facilitate elderly residents who wish to visit religious places by providing them free travel…
Joe has already earned a high school diploma and scored 1,590 on the SAT at the age of 10. At 13, most teenagers are school goers. Joe Petraro-Hyppolite, a teenager from Long Island, New York, is preparing for a very different academic milestone. He is set to begin a master’s program at New York University…
The rupee is stuck around the 95.7-96/dollar range. Why the mismatch with the record forex reserves data? India’s foreign exchange reserves are climbing to new record highs, thanks to the RBI’s FCNR(B) deposits scheme that has resulted in bumper inflows. Forex reserves are an important buffer that can help the central bank control any rapid…
The Indian contingent for the 2026 Asian Games has begun landing in Aichi-Nagoya (Aichi being the prefecture, Nagoya its capital), with the rumblings about small hotel rooms now replaced by fresh murmurs that no breakfasts have been booked for athletes. Former Olympian shooter Anjali Bhagwat, right, and former athlete Lijo David. (PTI) For India, these…
After keeping the project under wraps for several years, Pa Ranjith has finally offered a closer look at the world of ‘Vettuvam’. The film was first announced at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022 and has remained one of the director’s most closely watched projects. ‘Vettuvam’ marks Ranjith’s eighth feature film as a director and…
For Avinash Rathod, life changed in a matter of seconds. A routine day at a construction site turned into a life-threatening accident that left him without both hands. But what followed was not a story of giving up. It was a story of fear, family, faith and the determination to begin again. Rathod shared his…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Steel Dynamics , Nucor — Shares of both steel producers fell more than 1.5% after they delivered third-quarter earnings guidance that showed weaker-than-expected results compared to analysts polled by FactSet’s consensus estimates. Nucor said earnings in the steel mills and steel products segments earnings will increase,…
Mumbai’s redevelopment segment will keep gaining ground over the next five to seven years, according to Karan Singh Sodi, senior managing director for Mumbai MMR & Gujarat and Alternatives at JLL India. The shift is structural: the city simply has no large parcels of open land left in core markets such as South and North…
