The central government’s fiscal deficit stood at 52.6% of the full-year target at the end of October 2025, data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) on Friday showed. In the same period last year, the deficit was 46.5% of the 2024-25 Budget Estimates (BE).In absolute terms, the fiscal deficit – the gap between…
Mumbai: Bombay high court has dismissed appeals of the occupants of eight structures on a housing society’s land abutting Kandivli West railway station.“These appellants before me are nothing but illegal hawkers and land grabbers which grab any vacant spaces outside railway stations, which are high density footfall areas for hawking their business. This menace has…
Why Delhi had to halt all outdoor and sports activities for children NEW DELHI: Delhi’s worsening air quality has forced authorities to halt all outdoor and sports activities in schools, colleges, universities and sports associations spread over the capital. The directive, issued on 20th November 2025, after air pollution crossed emergency thresholds this week, reflects…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police have arrested three individuals involved in an online share-trading fraud that cost a senior official of an automotive company Rs 2.10 crore recently.The arrested trio included Harsh Bhadoriya (32), alias Fortune, of Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Vishal Thakkar (28) of Thane, and Mohameed Patel (25) of Sangli. Bhadoriya was…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used a Thanksgiving livestream on November 27 to call for a reset of relations between the network’s core institutions and to frame 2026 as a decisive year for the ecosystem. He acknowledged a bruising year marked by a…
“Modiji, I want to go back home. The cry cut through the crowd that had gathered in Churachandpur on September 13 to see Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was visiting Manipur 28 months after the state was wracked by ethnic violence in May 2023, which left 258 dead, 62,000 displaced and 4,786 houses burned. The…
Lav Diaz’s Magellan is an impossible fever dream across the seas, smuggled into the respectable body of a festival biopic. On paper, the 160-minute Cannes-premiering historical epic in colour, fronted by Gael García Bernal, is pitched around a name every schoolbook knows. But in practice, it works as a slow, methodical dismantling of the conquistador…
Mahindra has launched the XEV 9S in India, the brand’s first three-row electric SUV. While it doesn’t have a direct competitor in this body style, it lands in the same price bracket as two-row electric SUVs, including the Tata Harrier EV. Here’s a quick look at how it stacks up against the Harrier EV. Mahindra…
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: Reuters Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed almost unchanged in a highly volatile trade on Friday (November 28, 2025) as investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of key macroeconomic data announcements in post-market hours. Halting its two-day rally, the 30-share BSE Sensex slipped by…
