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Sivasri Skandaprasad in a traditional ceremony here on Thursday. The wedding was held amid the chanting of Vedic hymns. Several top BJP leaders including party's state president B Y Vijayendra, Union ministers V Somanna and Arjun Ram Meghwal, as well as BJP MPs and MLAs attended the ceremony and blessed the couple.

Elon Musk's electric car maker Tesla, which has been actively exploring opportunities to enter the Indian market, is opening a showroom in Mumbai’s upscale business district Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) to sell its imported cars. Tesla has plans to set up a manufacturing plant in Maharashtra. The most popular electric car brand in the world has long been seen as a heavyweight which will disrupt Indian's nascent electric vehicle (EV) market. But Indian automaker don't seem to be scared of Musk's India venture. JSW Group Chairman Sajjan Jindal has doubted Musk’s ability to crack the Indian market, asserting that local giants Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra are now deeply entrenched. JSW Group has a JV with China's SAIC Motor, JSW MG Motor India Pvt. Ltd, which sells EVs such as MG Comet EV, MG ZS EV, MG Windsor EV, MG 4 EV, and MG M9 EV. It is planning to launch several new EV models in 2025, including the Cyberster, an electric sports car. India's EV sales are merely 2.5% of the total passenger vehicle sales. Can Indian EV makers take on the world's biggest EV brand while they are still in their infancy?

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foundit (formerly Monster APAC and ME), Asia's jobs and talent platform. There has been 41 per cent growth in hiring in February 2025 compared to a year ago, driven by the fresher job market which maintained steady growth, according to the report. Among sectors, IT — Hardware and Software continued to lead fresher hiring, nearly doubling its share from 17 per cent in 2024 to 34 per cent in 2025, the report said. «The shift towards skill-based hiring is undeniable. Employers are increasingly prioritising candidates with practical expertise and industry-relevant skills,» foundit CEO V Suresh stated. The foundit Insights Tracker (fit) is a comprehensive monthly analysis of online job posting activity on foundit.in platform.

However, buying a life insurance plan could all be in vain, if you your insurer does not honor the claims made by policyholders. How can you figure out if your life insurance company makes timely payouts on claims made by its policyholders? What percentage of the total claims received by the insurer during the year does it pay and how much is delayed? To understand how effective your life insurer is in claim settlement, you can take help of the claim settlement ratio. Insurance watchdog IRDAI (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India) annually releases a handbook of Indian Insurance Statistics detailing the claim settlement ratios of all life insurers in the country.

Kerala's tranquil village life is warming hearts across the internet. Oliver, a UK native, along with his Indian wife Rishni, has been documenting their idyllic two-month stay with her grandmother — offering a charming glimpse into the art of slow living.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) has signed South African all-rounder Wiaan Mulder as a replacement for England pacer Brydon Carse, who has been ruled out of the upcoming TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 due to injury. Mulder, who has played 11 T20Is along with 18 Tests and 25 ODIs, joins SRH for ₹75 lakh. The all-rounder has taken 60 wickets in international cricket and has scored 970 runs across formats. Carse was originally picked by SRH for ₹1 crore but will now miss the season.

Babbar Khalsa International with «links» to Pakistan's ISI, who had planned a major terror attack during the Maha Kumbh, was arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district early Thursday, police said. The terrorist, identified as Lajar Masih, was nabbed in a joint operation by Uttar Pradesh STF and Punjab Police around 3:20 am. Addressing a press conference here, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) Prashant Kumar said Masih had planned a major terrorist attack during the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj. «However, due to intensive security checks at the religious gathering, he failed to execute his plan,» he said.

Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, made headlines for allegedly demanding Rs 25 crore from Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's family by threatening to implicate his son Aryan Khan in the Cordelia cruise drug bust case during his tenure in the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai in 2021. The principal CAT bench comprising Justice Ranjit More and member Rajinder Kashyap found procedural lapses and potential bias in the transfer decision issued by the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance. The tribunal said while government officers had an all-India service liability, transfer policies must be implemented in a fair, transparent, and just manner.

Indian rupee weakened on Thursday, pressured by dollar demand by importers, even as the greenback lingered near a four-month low against its major peers amid concerns about a slowdown in the U.S. economy. The rupee closed at 87.1150 against the U.S. dollar, down about 0.2% on the day.

energy stocks rallying on lower crude prices. Market sentiment also improved following U.S. President Donald Trump's temporary tariff reprieve on auto imports from Mexico and Canada. The benchmark BSE Sensex added 609.86 points or 0.83% to close at 74,340.09, while the broader Nifty 50 index closed at 22,544.70, higher by 207.40 points or 0.93%.

CRISIL. The forecast rests on two key assumptions: the continuation of normal monsoon patterns and soft commodity prices. CRISIL expects that these factors, coupled with cooling food inflation, tax benefits outlined in the Union Budget 2025-2026, and lower borrowing costs, will stimulate discretionary consumption. «India’s resilience is being tested again. Over the past few years, we have built a few safe harbours against exogenous shocks — healthy economic growth, low current account deficit and external public debt, and adequate forex reserves — which provide ample policy latitude. So, while the waters can turn choppy, consumption-led rural and urban demand will be crucial to short-term growth. On the other hand, continuing investments and efficiency gains will aid in the medium term. We foresee both manufacturing and services supporting growth through fiscal 2031,» said Amish Mehta, Managing Director and CEO of CRISIL.

Trump has doubled down on the on the tariff war that he's unleashed, pledging to impose similar levies on India and others from April 2. These reciprocal tariffs are in response to, according to him, high import taxes on American goods.

Shares of Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(up 3.18 per cent), Apollo Tyres Ltd.(up 2.93 per cent), Bharat Forge Ltd.(up 2.78 per cent), Balkrishna Industries Ltd.(up 2.43 per cent) and Eicher Motors Ltd.(up 2.13 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Grade-A real estate companies have been expanding their footprints from top-tier cities to tier-2 cities lately. A combination of factors such as affordability, relatively higher growth potential in untapped regions, and improving infrastructure, is enticing realtors and homebuyers towards tier-2 cities such as Agra, Chandigarh, Goa, Jaipur and Nagpur.

Hyundai Creta EV, launched at the Auto Expo 2025, starts at ₹17.99 lakh (ex-showroom). It offers five main variants and two battery options: 42 kWh and 51.4 kWh. The model with the 42 kWh battery boasts a single-charge range of 390 km, while the 51.4 kWh model reaches 473 km.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Spectacular policy reversals in the United States have seized the news. The tariff and Ukraine wars dominate headlines, but those involve selected targets, not including India so far.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indians have long had a confrontational relationship with the nation’s tax office, whose adversarial approach has crushed countless small businesses and international investors. This was meant to be the year the government fixed all that and repaired relations with taxpayers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. You don't really need a finance degree to excel in the stock market—ask Sapna Shaligram. The 58-year-old chemistry teacher turned psychological counsellor is a self-taught investor who has been tracking stock markets since the early 90s.

A 21-member Bangladeshi delegation, including politicians, student leaders, and scholars, recently toured China (Feb 25–Mar 6) at Beijing’s invitation, Global Times reported. The group was reportedly wowed by China’s tech and infrastructure, and many now see the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as key to Bangladesh’s economic future. They visited top Chinese firms like BYD and LONGi, soaking in China’s modernization drive. It should be noted that China agreed in principle to extend Bangladesh’s loan repayment period and is reviewing a request to lower interest rates, Dhaka Tribune reported. Bangladesh urged China to reduce interest rates from 2-3% to 1%, waive off the commitment fee, and extend loan repayment terms from 20 to 30 years for Preferential Buyer’s Credit (PBC) and Government Concessional Loans (GCL).

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday stated that the world's leading economies are grappling with a population crisis. Speaking at a book launch, Naidu emphasised that while these countries possess advanced resources such as Artificial Intelligence and cutting-edge technologies, they lack a sufficient workforce to operate them. «All top countries in the world are struggling. There is no population. AI and technology exist, but there are no people to operate them,» he said.