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The 125cc motorcycle segment in India is fiercely competitive right now. These bikes have come a long way and offer much more than what was expected from this class just a few years ago. The Hero Xtreme 125R and TVS Raider 125 are already well-established players here. Lately, Honda has joined the fight with the…
The sudden resignation of Atanu Chakraborty as non-executive chairman and independent director of HDFC Bank is not just another boardroom development. It is a moment that compels India Inc. to pause and reflect. In a country where board exits are typically cloaked in polite euphemisms — “personal reasons” or “other commitments” — this resignation stands…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday questioned the continued grant of reservation benefits to children of economically and educationally advanced families within backward classes, observing that social mobility comes with empowerment and that reservation cannot continue indefinitely for such sections.A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing a plea challenging a…
Dhaka: Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council (HBCUC) on Saturday strongly condemned the brutal murder of Nayan Sadhu and demanded tough punishment for those responsible.On April 22, the charred body of Nayan Sadhu, who served at Sri Sri Sarvajanin Shiv Kali Temple at Khurmanshkul Union of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Upazila, was found hanging from a…
Loyola New Orleans student presses on after SGA denies TPUSA chapter twice A freshman at Loyola University New Orleans has vowed to continue efforts to establish a Turning Point USA chapter after the university’s Student Government Association rejected the application twice.Anistin Murray, who sought to serve as president of the proposed TPUSA chapter, addressed the…
India’s Gen Z has mastered accountmaxxing — stacking SIPs, buying mutual funds and chasing financial freedom. SIPs? Locked in. Mutual funds? Loading. But when it comes to insurance, many are still depending on their parents to handle it. According to a Bajaj Capital report, 51% of Gen Z respondents actively invest through mutual funds and…
Jesse William Lazear/ PBS On 25 September 1900, Dr Jesse William Lazear died of yellow fever in Cuba. He was 34 years old. He left behind a wife in Maryland, a one-year-old son, and a newborn daughter who would never meet him. Lazear was not a reckless thrill-seeker or a fringe experimenter. He was a…
In the dry storytelling of palaeontology, certain discoveries tend to arrive with a kind of quiet disruption. Not the sort that rewrites textbooks overnight, but one that shifts the edges of what was assumed about a landscape long gone. In Ethiopia’s Afar region, a set of fragmented crocodile fossils has done something like that. The…
The ruling Mahayuti is set to secure the mayor’s post in the 81-member Nanded Waghala Municipal Corporation, where vote counting has been underway since 10 am on Friday.The BJP has won 40 civic wards and is leading in five more, while its ally, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, has secured one seat and is ahead…
NEW DELHI: Indicating a slowdown in expansion plans of India Inc, the private sector capex by large firms is expected to fall nearly 17% next year, after a strong showing in 2025-26, reflecting a more cautious stance amid global uncertainty, a survey by statistics ministry released Monday showed. The second edition of the forward-looking survey…
