Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty declined on Friday (October 24, 2025) amid profit-taking in FMCG and banking shares following a six-day rally and fresh foreign fund outflows. | Photo Credit: PTI Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty declined on Friday (October 24, 2025) amid profit-taking in FMCG and banking shares following a six-day rally and fresh... Read More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (October 24, 2025) launched his Bihar Assembly poll campaign with back-to-back rallies in Samastipur and Begusarai districts, asserting that the NDA under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will break all previous electoral records. The PM also called the INDIA bloc a “mahalathbandhan” (a tie-up in which people beat each other... Read More

Palat…Palat…Palat! If you get this — you have officially watched DDLJ an unhealthy number of times. (Like the rest of us). Thirty years on, iconic Saanen bridge in Switzerland still pulls tourists in droves, earning the nickname Palat Bridge. Bollywood tourism maybe a micro trend in the realm of film tourism but it has seen... Read More

One of my weekend rituals is to visit independent bookstores in search of titles, most times for their content, and many times for their beauty. On one such jaunt, I stumbled upon the 25th anniversary hardcover edition of Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Scribner, 2025). The book stood out immediately, not just for... Read More

Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto   In a detailed representation to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mumbai-based advocate Hitendra Gandhi has called for an urgent intervention to address the recurring public health-, environmental-, and animal welfare harms caused by indiscriminate firecracker bursting during festivals, particularly Deepavali.  “The right to celebrate... Read More

An intellectual history of Hindutva ideologue V.D. Savarkar, essays from fieldwork among India’s marginalised, a book on India’s challenging relations with Myanmar and Bangladesh, an account of how colonialism, Christian missionaries and indigenous reform movements shaped modern Hindu identity, and the life and work of engineer-statesman M. Visvesvaraya have made it to the shortlist of... Read More

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks during the inauguration of a new Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Bhawan, in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh | Photo Credit: PTI Goods and Services Tax (GST) officials should rely on their own technology and systems rather than placing the onus of providing paperwork on the taxpayers, Finance Minister Nirmala... Read More

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal exchanges a handshake with founder and chair of Berlin Global Dialogue Lars-Hendrik Röller, at the European School of Management and Technology, in Berlin on Thursday, October 24, 2025. Photo credit: X/@PiyushGoyal Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday (October 24, 2025) said India does not do... Read More

A man walks past an installation of the Rupee logo and Indian currency coins outside the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) headquarters in Mumbai. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The rupee appreciated 10 paise to close at 87.78 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on Friday (October 24, 2025), supported by optimism around India-U.S. trade talks... Read More

This image is used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A woman doctor of a government hospital was found dead in a hotel room in Maharashtra’s Satara district, leaving behind a note accusing two police personnel of rape and mental harassment, police said on Friday (October 24, 2025). The victim was found... Read More