- Thursday, February 27, 2025
SEVEN Indian states, including Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Telangana – have scored more than 90 per cent in the Narendra Modi government’s ranking of states on ease of doing business. The Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP) 2020, which was released by Indian finance minister Nirmala…
THE Indian rupee has seen a steep fall and in June, the currency’s hitting all-time lows against the US dollar has raised eyebrows. On Wednesday (29), the rupee breached 79 per dollar for the first time, breaching a psychological line, but regained some ground by climbing back 13 paise to…
INDIAN retailer Lenskart has acquired a majority stake in Japanese eyewear brand Owndays to emerge the region’s biggest omni-channel eyewear business by taking it to more than 10 markets in Asia, including India, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, among others. According to a Moneycontrol report, the deal is said to…
CHINESE premium motorcycle brand Zontes has partnered with Hyderabad-based Adishwar Auto Ride to enter the Indian market and they are looking to introduce as many as five vehicles going forward, a release said on Thursday (30). Established in 2003 by Guangdong Tayo Motorcycle Technology Co Ltd, Zontes currently has its…
THE ongoing political drama in India’s richest state Maharashtra has given birth to speculation that the practice of horse-trading was in play and it led to the implosion in the Shiv Sena, which led the now-collapsed MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi) government in the state. The government of coalition partners fell…
AT a time when the party of his cousin Uddhav Thackeray has faced a serious crisis which could even leave it split, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday (30) rubbing salt into the wound saying “therein begins the journey towards… decline”. Raj, who left the Sena in…
TWO major developments took place involving India on Wednesday (29) and in two different fields – both of which are equally popular in an average Indian’s life. And a similarity between the two events was that they happened around two men from Maharashtra. The first one was the resignation of…
THE gruesome killing of a Hindu tailor has inflamed religious tensions in India and sparked a furious response on social media on Wednesday (29), including calls for reprisal attacks against the country's Muslim minority. Two Muslim men have been arrested over Tuesday's attack, committed in apparent retaliation for inflammatory comments…
JAMES Anderson cannot wait to rejoin a "fearless" England team, unlike any he has known in two decades of international cricket, in this week's long-delayed India series finale. Friday's match in Birmingham comes just four days after England completed a 3-0 rout of Test world champions New Zealand. Before that…
AS the monsoon storms bear down on India, a dedicated group of women hope that after years of backbreaking labour, water shortages will no longer leave their village high and dry. The world's second-most populous country is struggling to meet the water needs of its 1.4 billion people -- a…
