ICICI Bank, India’s second-largest lender, has increased the monthly minimum average balance requirement for new savings account holders, effective August 1.For accounts opened after this date, customers in metro and urban branches will need to maintain a monthly average balance of Rs 50,000, up from the earlier Rs 10,000. In semi-urban branches, the requirement has…
Lucknow: At least 409 Indian nationals stranded in Nepal reached out for assistance, and so far, 277 were safely brought back, Uttar Pradesh Police officials said on Saturday. To ensure no one is left behind, the state police activated a 24×7 control room at its headquarters in Lucknow, which is coordinating repatriation efforts in real…
Citigroup maintained its buy rating on Maruti Suzuki with the target price hiked to Rs 19,000 from Rs 18,900 earlier. Analysts said they were making minor changes to their estimates for the company’s numbers to account for the recent strength in volume growth. They increased the volume growth for Maruti for FY26 to FY28 by…
Maruti Nandan Prasad TiwariKashi is a perennial (shashwat) city beyond history and tradition. It is a living city having the confluence of the traditions of past and present and the meeting point of all the three main religious streams – Vedic-Puranic (Sanatan), Buddhism and Jainism.It is the city of permanent abode of the God of…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reported a 17% rise in quarterly profit, boosted by a rebound in its insurance operations and gains from investments, even as the legendary investor prepares to hand over the reins to Vice Chair Greg Abel in January, AP reported.The company said on Saturday that it earned $30.8 billion, or $21,413 per…
Australia captain Steve Smith and England captain Ben Stokes (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) Australia will field two new faces in the opening Ashes Test in Perth as stand-in skipper Steve Smith confirmed that Jake Weatherald and Brendan Doggett will receive their Baggy Greens. The match begins on Friday and marks a rare moment for…
The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) has released the tentative schedule for the 2026 Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Class 10 examinations. This is a significant announcement for lakhs of students across the state preparing for their board exams. The SSC exams are scheduled from February 20 to March 18, 2026,…
A stunt by a couple on the roads of Pune has gone viral on social media. The video, shot at night, shows them sitting on the roof of a moving car on a busy main road of Pune’s Kharadi area.The pair is seen engaging in romantic poses and performing stunts while the vehicle moves steadily…
Lucknow: Kalyan Singh Super Specialty Cancer Institute has introduced a state-of-the-art 3D Digital Mammography Unit – Hologic Selenia Dimensions for breast cancer screening.The unit was inaugurated by the institute’s director, Prof MLB Bhatt, at the department of radiodiagnosis. Prof Bhatt emphasised that breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in India, with UP…
China’s consumer prices held steady in July, offering brief relief to an economy struggling with deflationary pressures and weak domestic demand.According to AFP, the official data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was unchanged year-on-year, beating Bloomberg’s forecast of a 0.1% decline. However, prices fell in rural areas…
