BELAGAVI: Three labourers died on the spot after an oil-filled tanker ran over them while they were engaged in road construction on the Pune-Bengaluru four-lane NH near Itagi Cross in Kittur taluk Sunday.The deceased were Ramanna, Mahesh, and Ramachandra, all of Kalaburagi. Three other workers, who were injured, were taken to the hospital. A case…
Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump China “firmly rejected” the US’s “bogus charges and unreasonably” allegations of violating an agreement to reduce substantial trade tariffs between the two economic powerhouses.Following discussions between senior officials in Geneva last month, both nations had agreed to a 90-day temporary reduction in their significantly high tariffs.However, US commerce secretary…
Campbell Wilson, Air India Tata Motors shed its “taxi” image after the acquisition of UK’s JLR when it started to churn out world class cars. Vistara’s merger into Air India could prove to be a similar moment for Air India as the Maharaja has crossed more than half way of the transition to become a…
Mumbai: Swathes of cottage industries across the 600-acre spread of Dharavi are opposing the ongoing eligibility survey for commercial and residential resettlement. Residents and workshop owners–approximately 15,000 in number –are still holding out, reluctant to allow surveyors inside or provide documentary proof of ownership, fearing they will be displaced or their claims for more rehab…
MUMBAI: Bank lending to non-banking finance companies slowed sharply in April, with outstanding loans to the sector falling by Rs 25,512 crore to Rs 16.1 lakh crore. At the end of March 2025, bank credit to NBFCs stood at Rs 16.4 lakh crore, marking a modest growth of 5.7% in FY25.This was significantly lower than…
This is an AI-generated image, used for represntational purposes only. NEW DELHI: Pakistan is staring at a bleak kharif (summer crops) sowing season with a major dip in live storage at its two key dams – Mangla on river Jhelum and Tarbela on Indus – and the “sudden decrease” in Chenab river inflows due to…
Goods and Services Tax (GST) NEW DELHI: Goods and services tax (GST) collections rose 16.4% to Rs 2,01,050 crore in May, the fastest pace of expansion since Oct 2022, on the back of a jump in taxes on imports.Latest data estimated that during May (for transactions in April), GST collections from imports rose 25.2% to…
For Indian students, US dreams suddenly in doubt India, the country that sends more students to the US than any other, young people who had hoped to pursue higher education in America this fall described feeling in a state of limbo after the Trump administration’s decision to pause interviews with foreign nationals applying for student…
Mumbai: This vacation turned out to be a stressful one. The daughter-in-law of a retired police officer was cheated of Rs 1.6 lakh after paying for hotel booking and air tickets for a trip to to Pattaya-Bangkok. She had done the bookings for herself and her husband through a website which turned out to be…
UPI transactions hit new high in May but cash still thriving MUMBAI: Even as the country hurtles toward a digital future with the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) clocking 60 crore transactions a day, a curious contradiction persists: cash is thriving.In the month of May, UPI transactions hit a a record 1868 crore transactions for Rs…
