New Delhi: Petrol blended with 20 per cent ethanol (E20) can reduce fuel economy by 2 to 6 per cent depending on the vehicle category and vintage, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari informed Parliament on Thursday. The Union Minister, however, argued that tests for engine durability on a dynamometer and on-road vehicle tests…
Special Correspondent The simmering factionalism within the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) has once again come to the fore, with the Acting President’s reported move to convene an Annual General Meeting (AGM) triggering a fierce debate among stakeholders over its timing, intent, legality and implications. What was initially seen as an attempt to address several long-pending…
The Guru Was Also Once a Scared Investor Every financial guru you follow today was, at some point, a frightened human being watching their portfolio (or their client’s) get destroyed. That moment never fully leaves them. It becomes the lens through which they see every market that follows, and it explains far more about their…
Mumbai: The Board of HDFC Bank has decided to issue warning letters and impose a monetary penalty of Rs 1 lakh each on Managing Director & CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan, the Chief Financial Officer, and the Group Head of Retail Assets in connection with the mobilisation of deposits from the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC)…
A wave of the world’s best-selling drugs is about to lose patent protection. When that happens, cheaper copies (generics and biosimilars) flood in, prices crash, and someone has to manufacture all those cheaper copies. That “someone” is very often an Indian company. This is called a patent cliff. It has happened before, but the one…
New Delhi: Union Minister Pralhad Joshi has been given additional charge of the Ministry of Education, following the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan amid protests over exam paper leaks. The President’s office, after accepting Pradhan’s resignation, confirmed Joshi’s appointment in a communique this evening. Joshi is currently Union Minister of Food and Consumer Affairs. Pradhan, 57,…
Shrikant Rao A Czech tractor icon is ending nearly eight decades of manufacturing in Brno and moving production to India. The decision is about far more than costs. It reflects the changing economics of global manufacturing, strengthens VST’s international standing and reinforces India’s emergence as one of the world’s most important tractor manufacturing ecosystems. For…
People forget how quickly the world can change. In February 1965, Charles de Gaulle stood before the world’s press at the Élysée Palace and said the one thing no Western leader was supposed to say out loud: the world should return to gold. Not the dollar. Not promises. Gold, because it “has no nationality” and…
Agartala: Tripura Director General of Police (DGP) Anurag Dhankar was found dead in his office in the state police headquarters in Agartala on Monday. The 1994-batch IPS officer of the Tripura cadre was rushed to Govind Ballabh Pant (G B Pant) Hospital, where doctors declared him dead at 12.48 pm, sources who spoke to TNIE confirmed. The…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula In the measured cadence of Anuṣṭup, the sage Bhārgava Somahuti invokes Agni not merely as a physical fire, but as the luminous principle of awakened consciousness that dwells within and beyond all beings. Agni is addressed as the eternal father, the primordial guardian who is born again and again to preserve the lineage…
