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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Hopes that a landmark cut in federal taxes would provide a lifeline to struggling small cars like Maruti Alto, Spresso and Renault Kwid have been dashed, with latest sales data showing buyers continuing to favour bigger, more expensive vehicles. The trends come in the backdrop of an intensifying tussle between carmakers over policy support for small cars under upcoming emission norms.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian benchmark indices closed Friday's session on a positive note, extending gains from the previous day, primarily driven by a positive global sentiment following the US Federal Reserve's rate cut. Nifty 50 closed decisively above the psychologically important 26,000 mark at 26,046.95, up 148.40 (0.57%), while Sensex advanced 449.53 points (0.53%) to settle at 85,267.66.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In her ongoing solo, The Geometry of Ash, at Mumbai’s Chemould Prescott Road, artist Anju Dodiya evokes a post-apocalyptic landscape—one featuring fragments and residue in the aftermath of loss and destruction. But there are also gestures of hope in the form of women reading or relishing a moment of respite before a traumatic event.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For two years, Curtis “50 Cent" Jackson oversaw work on a documentary about a hip-hop rival he has personally trolled on the internet for even longer. His efforts paid off: “Sean Combs: The Reckoning," a four-part series executive-produced by Jackson, has been perched at No.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill someone than one driven by a human. At least that’s what Chris Urmson, chief executive of autonomous-vehicle software maker Aurora Innovation, insists.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indians work some of the longest hours in a week globally. Unsurprisingly, therefore, Indian employees also report high levels of burnout.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. One of the highlights of 2025 has been the entry of more niche fashion and luxury brands into India. Whether it’s crystal maker Baccarat or elevated ready-to-wear COS, shopping options for the Indian consumer have grown widely this year.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Have you ever felt a queasy flutter in your stomach before a big presentation or noticed bloating after a particularly stressful day? Chances are you may have dismissed these as mere uneasy feelings or imaginary things. In reality, your gut and brain are in constant conversation through a bidirectional communication network known as the gut–brain axis.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. This week Amazon pledged to pour billions into India, while fight disruptions at IndiGo led to regulatory interventions and a potential revenue hit. Meanwhile the US Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, the fall in prices of home-cooked vegetarian meals slowed down, and Delhi experienced slight relief from pollution.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian companies are rethinking the benefits they offer their staff, such as healthcare, retiral plans, wellbeing perks, and leave, as they seek to control budgets while retaining top talent without compromising on employee experience.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chair man, of the bored You fall off a chair and your life falls apart. This is, more or less, the premise of The Chair Company, streaming in India on JioHotstar, but that sounds simple, and nothing about this deranged, precision-engineered panic attack of a series is simple.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Retail investors who dominate active mutual funds take a backseat when it comes to passive funds despite a relatively quicker investment pace, according to data from the Association of Mutual Funds of India (Amfi). While passive mutual funds more than doubled their assets in the last three years, retail still accounts for a small portion of these funds' assets, data showed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian equities snapped a three-day losing streak to close significantly higher, driven primarily by positive global sentiment following the US Federal Reserve's 25-basis-point rate cut, which signalled a shift in monetary policy. The Nifty 50 rallied more than 140 points, or 0.55%, settling near 25,900, while Sensex advanced 427 points, or 0.51%, to close at 84,818.13.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: A new evaluation of the Centre’s onion buffer programme has found that the Price Stabilisation Fund (PSF) has been able to significantly reduce retail price volatility of the vegetable and improve farmer incomes.

UPI, handles roughly 3% of UPI’s daily volume; Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), designed for large-value transfers between banks and businesses, processes in a full day what UPI clears within minutes; and for every credit card transaction in the country, there are nearly 40 UPI payments.Each system serves a different purpose, but the comparison underscores how dramatically the centre of gravity in India’s payment landscape has shifted.This pattern demonstrates that UPI’s rise is not merely a technological upgrade; it reflects a deeper behavioural shift in how routine payment activity is conducted across the country.That success story is real, but it is also incomplete. When a single system becomes this dominant, national aggregates start to tell us less and less about what is actually happening on the ground.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates for the third time in four months on Wednesday while signaling that further easing is far from assured.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Fed Chair Jerome Powell pointed on Wednesday to a job-market risk that economists have been worried about for months: Official statistics could be drastically overstating recent hiring. Powell said that Fed staffers believe that federal data could be overestimating job creation by up to 60,000 jobs a month.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ukraine is running out of money. Europe has a plan that would largely balance the books, win it a seat in the U.S.-led negotiations to end the war and equip Kyiv to seek better terms for peace.

India’s food sector employs millions and is a major contributor to its economy. Food processing alone is valued at over $300 billion, reaching hundreds of millions of households daily. Globally, food and agriculture form a multi-trillion-dollar system, spanning farmland, fertilizers, cold chains and retail outlets.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : The Reserve Bank of India’s latest 25‑basis-point (bps) repo‑rate cut—the fourth in 2025, bringing the total reduction to 125bps—has brought cheer to home‑loan borrowers. The rate cuts will particularly benefit borrowers who took home loans in 2020-2022 at rates of 6-6.5%, but saw the rates rise to 9-9.5% within a year following the central bank’s cumulative repo-rate hike of 225bps between May 2022 and March 2023.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s retail inflation likely inched up to 0.8% in November from a record low of 0.25% in October, largely driven by fading base effects, a Mint poll of 20 economists showed. While inflation is expected to have bottomed-out in October, prices pressures are expected to remain weak both in foods (due to a good monsoon and harvest) and non-foods (due to GST cuts and possibly weak demand).