There comes a moment when neutrality stops being a virtue and begins to resemble complicity. Indian cricket—and by extension the Indian Premier League—has reached that moment with Bangladesh. The growing demand by Hindu religious leaders and civil society groups to bar Bangladeshi cricketers from IPL 2026 is not an eruption of irrational anger, as some…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate seized Rs 1.22 crore in cash and jewellery worth Rs 8.50 crore from a Delhi farmhouse on Thursday after a fresh round of searches in connection with a money laundering investigation against UAE-based absconding criminal Inderjit Singh Yadav, officials said. The federal probe agency on Wednesday recovered Rs 5.12 crore…
New Delhi: Broadband subscriber base in the country crossed the 100 crore-mark in November 2025, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said on Wednesday. India had 99.98 crore broadband subscribers in October, comprising 95.49 crore on wireless networks and 4.48 crore on fixed connections. “In November 2025, the broadband subscriber base in India crossed…
New Delhi: Beleaguered telecom operator Vodafone Idea will receive around Rs 5,836 crore from Vodafone Group as part re-settlement of a liability claim pact between the two companies, according to regulatory filings of both companies. Under the revised agreement, Vodafone group promoters will release Rs 2,307 crore over the next 12 months for Vodafone Idea…
New Delhi: The Centre’s fiscal deficit at the end of November stood at Rs 9.76 lakh crore, or 62.3 per cent of the annual budget target for 2025-26, compared to 52.5 per cent in the year-ago period, government data released on Wednesday showed. The Centre estimates the fiscal deficit (the gap between expenditure and revenue)…
New Delhi: India and the Russia-led EAEU group are likely to hold the next round of talks for the proposed trade agreement in February, an official said on Wednesday. India and the five-nation Russia-led grouping, the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), on August 20, inked the terms of reference for the agreement. The first round of…
Thane: Even before the first ballot is cast for the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) elections in Maharashtra’s Thane district, two BJP women candidates have secured victory in the absence of a contest. Rekha Chaudhary, who had been a corporator for over a decade, and Asawari Kedar Navare have been declared winners unopposed from Ward…
In the waning days of 2025, silver has emerged as one of the most captivating stories in global markets. What began as a modest uptick in prices has erupted into a full-blown rally, with spot silver surging from around $29 per ounce at the year’s start to highs exceeding $80 in late December. This meteoric…
Jaipur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the HPCL Rajasthan oil refinery project at Pachpadra in January, a minister said. The HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Limited (HRRL) project, a joint venture between HPCL and the Rajasthan government, is a 9 MMT per annum integrated refinery-cum-petrochemical complex. “The refinery project is going to be inaugurated by PM…
Chandigarh: Indian Oil Corporation Limited on Tuesday said it has completed the highest-ever advance winter stocking operation, supplying over one lakh kilolitres of petroleum products to Ladakh ahead of the annual winter shutdown. Every year, access to Ladakh through roads remains closed from December to April due to heavy snowfall at high mountain passes such…
