Arjun Babuta and Elavenil Valarivan strike gold in 10m air rifle mixed team at Asian Shooting Championship. (X) Indian shooters Arjun Babuta and Elavenil Valarivan won gold in the 10m air rifle mixed team event at the 16th Asian Shooting Championship in Shymkent, Kazakhstan on Saturday. The duo defeated China’s Dingke Lu and Xinlu Peng…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said that India’s relationship with China should not be viewed through the prism of its ties with the United States. Speaking at The Economic Times World Leaders Forum 2025, Jaishankar said, “What I want you to understand is it’s not black and white. It’s not that…
Sebi representative image NEW DELHI: Markets regulator Sebi has proposed raising the minimum order size for block deals on stock exchanges to Rs 25 crore from Rs 10 crore. A block deal is a single large share transaction executed between a buyer and a seller during a 15-minute window offered twice a day. The existing…
Govinda and his wife, Sunita Ahuja, are in the headlines due to speculations around their divorce. However, now a close family friend has dismissed all the rumors. Amidst all the chaos, in a recent interview, Sunita Ahuja opened up about what had happened when she gave birth to their second child, son Yashvardhan Ahuja. The…
Representative image (AI-generated Photo) India’s booming online gaming industry, valued at Rs 320 crore today and projected to reach Rs 910 crore by 2029, faces a seismic shift. On August 20, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw tabled the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha, seeking to ban all real-money…
India’s cement demand set to expand at a 7–8% compound annual growth NEW DELHI: India’s cement demand is set to expand at a 7–8% compound annual growth rate over the medium term, powered by housing, infrastructure, and commercial projects, with prices expected to rebound after a sharp fall in FY25, UBS said in a report.UBS…
Filmmaker Priyadarshan has begun shooting his thriller ‘Haiwaan’ in Kochi, starring Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. Marking their reunion after 17 years since ‘Tashan’, Akshay shared playful on-set moments on Instagram. ‘Haiwaan’ is a Hindi remake of the Malayalam film ‘Oppam’, with Akshay playing the antagonist. Renowned filmmaker Priyadarshan is back with his latest…
NEW DELHI: India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $1.48 billion to $ 695.10 billion in the week ended August 15, driven primarily by gains in foreign currency assets (FCA), according to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) latest ‘Weekly Statistical Supplement.’Foreign currency assets, the largest component of India’s forex reserves, increased by $1.92 billion to…
NEW DELHI: A former sanitation worker in Karnataka’s Dharmasthala, who alleged he had been coerced into burying multiple murder victims over several years, has been arrested by a Special Investigation Team (SIT), sources told news agency PTI on Saturday.According to PTI, SIT and its chief, Pranab Mohanty, have questioned the complainant on Friday.Officials said the…
Dr S Jaishankar (File photo) NEW DELHI: External affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar on Saturday took a sharp swipe at Washington and Islamabad, saying both countries had a habit of “overlooking history.”Speaking at Economic Times World Leaders Forum, the foreign minister cited the 2011 US raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden. He reminded…
