MUMBAI: Credit card spending slowed in Nov 2025 across India as festive demand faded after Diwali and Dussehra, with transaction values and volumes easing month-on-month once seasonal shopping normalised.Total credit card spends fell to around Rs 1.9 lakh crore in Nov, down 11.9% from Rs 2.1 lakh crore in Oct, data released this week showed….
Man arrested for murdering wife, staging it accident BENGALURU: A 64-year-old electrician was arrested on charges of murdering his 54-year-old teacher-wife Saturday night and attempting to pass it off as a road accident. Gayatri, who worked at Chikkabommasandra Primary School, and Anant, the accused, have a college-going daughter.The incident occurred on Dec 20 near an…
NEW DELHI: Bharti Enterprises and Warburg Pincus on Wednesday announced a strategic investment in Haier India, a subsidiary of Chinese consumer electronics maker Haier Group, picking up a collective 49% stake in the company. This is the second major Chinese company to have sold a sizeable stake in its Indian business after MG Motor, a…
New Delhi: Transiting between the three terminals of Indira Gandhi International Airport could become less of a hassle from next year.Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) is learnt to be planning a dedicated corridor between Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 so that domestic-to-international passengers, to begin with, can be transferred airside, instead of them having to…
Libyan army chief Lt Gen Mohamed Al-Haddad (Image/X@@RagnarFiles) Libya’s army chief, Lt Gen Mohamed Al-Haddad, was killed in a plane crash while returning to Tripoli from an official visit to Turkey, the country’s prime minister said on Tuesday.Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah confirmed that Al-Haddad died along with four others in a “tragic accident” during the…
Lucknow: One among 12 candidates who scored a perfect 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT 2025) is from UP. Three candidates from Delhi secured 100 percentile, followed by two each from Haryana and Gujarat.Among top 12 candidates—two females and 10 males—there is one each from Jharkhand, Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra and UP. Discipline-wise, three…
Sachin Tendulkar and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (PTI Photos) NEW DELHI: India’s cricket world has found a new talking point, and his name is Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. At just 14 years old, the young batter continues to stun fans, experts, and former players with performances that feel almost unreal for his age. His latest heroics in domestic cricket…
AGRA: A 34-year-old man from Mathura has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old mentally challenged girl. Special public prosecutor Rampal Singh said the incident came to light late on the night of Jan 19, 2024, when the girl’s mother woke up around 2am and found her daughter missing. “The family searched the…
Navi Mumbai airport opens today with 30 domestic flights (Picture credit: PTI) MUMBAI: Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) opens to commercial operations on Thursday after years of missed deadlines, opening a second gateway for air travel in the Mumbai region. The day will see four airlines operating about 30 domestic flights at India’s newest greenfield…
Soldiers playing football in No-Man’s Land a year after the Christmas Truce in 1914 (Photo Credit: Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images) On Christmas morning in 1914, something happened that no military plan could have predicted and no weapon could have forced. In the middle of World War I, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history,…