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March Madness 2025 is heating up as the 68-team bracket for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament was officially revealed on Selection Sunday, March 16. Fans across the country are gearing up for a thrilling ride as college basketball's biggest tournament kicks off. Here’s a breakdown of the full schedule for the upcoming tournament, including when and where to catch all the live action.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. America’s biggest retailers are deploying every weapon they have to navigate President Trump’s fast-escalating trade war, from leaning on suppliers for discounts to finding alternate product sources. In some cases, that includes price increases for consumers.

Among these top gainers were ECS Biztech(up 10.00%), BNR Udyog(up 10.00%), Soni Medicare(up 9.98%), Valson Ind(up 9.97%), Bervin Invst(up 9.97%), Binani Ind(up 9.94%), Zenlabs Ethica (up 9.78%), India Lease Dev(up 9.75%), SecMark Consultancy(up 9.63%) and Step Two Corp(up 9.60%).

IndusInd Bank with an unchanged target price of Rs 850. The current market price of IndusInd Bank is Rs 678.55. IndusInd Bank, incorporated in 1994, has a market cap of Rs 52628.84 crore. IndusInd Bank's key products/revenue segments include Interest & Discount on Advances & Bills, Income From Investment, Interest On Balances with RBI and Other Inter-Bank Funds and Interest for the year ending 31-Mar-2024.

KEC International Ltd.(up 6.04%), Transformers & Rectifiers(India)Ltd.(up 4.48%), Hitachi Energy India Ltd.(up 3.88%), Indowind Energy Ltd.(up 2.54%), Suzlon Energy Ltd.(up 2.53%), KPI Green Energy Ltd.(up 2.41%), Indo Tech Transformers Ltd.(up 2.38%), Adani Green Energy Ltd.(up 2.35%), Adani Energy Solutions Ltd.(up 2.03%) and GE Vernova T&D India Ltd.(up 2.01%) were among the top gainers.

On the BSE, Shree Ajit Pulp(down 14.07 per cent), Malu Paper Mill(down 12.38 per cent), Purple Entertainment(down 11.11 per cent), Capital Trade Links(down 10.32 per cent) and Roni Households(down 10.00 per cent) were among the stocks that plunged over 5 per cent during the session.

Shoaib Malik recently opened up about his bond with his son, Izhaan Mirza Malik, following his divorce from Indian tennis star Sania Mirza. While Sania has primary custody, Shoaib has emphasized that he remains actively involved in Izhaan’s life, despite public scrutiny over his availability as a father. During a recent appearance on a Pakistani Ramzan show, Shoaib described his relationship with Izhaan as more of a friendship than a traditional father-son bond. He revealed that Izhaan affectionately calls him “bro,” and he reciprocates in the same way, making their dynamic playful and close-knit. He also shared that he makes an effort to visit Dubai twice a month, ensuring that he personally drops Izhaan at school and picks him up during his stay. Sports play a significant role in strengthening their bond. Shoaib expressed that despite the physical distance, he connects with his son almost daily through video calls, where they discuss everything from routine matters to their shared love for sports.

Apple will be exporting from India, with shipments of two models starting from April in small quantities, with a ramp up expected in the next 3-4 months, industry executives aware of the matter told ET. Apple’s contract manufacturer Foxconn is assembling AirPods at its new Hyderabad facility. Foxconn had announced an investment of $400 million to set up the factory in August 2023. “Apple is making small quantities of the base AirPods models — AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 (with Active Noise Cancellation) for exports to markets like the United States, Europe and others from the Foxconn facility at Hyderabad,” said an industry executive aware of the matter.

Tata Motors' shares are expected to be in focus on Monday, March 17, after the company announced that its Board Committee will meet on March 19 to consider and approve the issuance of non-convertible debentures (NCDs) aggregating up to Rs 2,000 crore. “Pursuant to Regulations 29(1)(d) and 50(1)(d) of the Listing Regulations and in accordance with the approval granted by the Board of Directors of Tata Motors Limited (‘the Company’) at its meetings held on March 4, 2024, and May 10, 2024, we hereby wish to inform you that a meeting of the duly constituted Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, inter alia, to consider and approve the issuance of Rated, Listed, Unsecured, Redeemable, Non-Convertible Debentures on a private placement basis aggregating up to Rs 2,000 crore,” the company said in a regulatory filing.

Paris Saint-Germain completed a fine week by beating bitter rivals Marseille 3-1 on Sunday to take a big step towards another Ligue 1 title, while the clash between relegation battlers Montpellier and Saint-Etienne was abandoned due to crowd trouble. PSG followed their Champions League victory over Liverpool on Tuesday by getting the better of Marseille at the Parc des Princes in a meeting of the top two in Ligue 1. Ousmane Dembele continued his prolific recent form by scoring the opener and Nuno Mendes made it 2-0 for PSG before half-time, with Pol Lirola's own goal securing victory in the second half after Amine Gouiri had pulled one back. Luis Enrique's side are still unbeaten after 26 games in Ligue 1 this season and now lead Marseille by a mammoth 19 points at the top with eight matches to play. It means PSG could be crowned champions for the 11th time in 13 seasons during the next round of games on the last weekend in March.

geopolitical tensions, jitters about tariffs escalating trade frictions, and increased hopes of interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve continued to fuel safe-haven demand.

NASA and Elon Musk-owned SpaceX are preparing for the return of the Crew-9 mission from the International Space Station (ISS), targeting an earlier-than-expected evening touchdown on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. After evaluating weather conditions off Florida’s coast on Sunday, mission managers decided to aim for an earlier return than originally planned, with favourable conditions expected. The new timing still allows the astronauts to complete their handover duties aboard the ISS and offers a bit of flexibility in case weather conditions worsen later in the week. The Crew-9 astronauts—NASA’s Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov—have spent several months conducting important research on the ISS. As such, their return will include bringing back valuable scientific data gathered during their mission. Williams and Wilmore have been stranded on the ISS for nine months due to technical issues and several unsuccessful attempts to bring them back.

tornadoes, blinding dust storms and fast-moving wildfires this weekend, leaving at least 37 people dead. Hailey Hart and her fiance Steve Romero hunkered down with their three huskies inside their 1994 Toyota Celica as a tornado ripped apart their home Saturday in Tylertown, Mississippi. Romero said he prayed out loud and hugged Hart as the car rolled onto its side, windows shattering, before it landed on its wheels again. After the twister passed, they could hear people nearby screaming for help. «It was a bad dream come true,» Romero said. Next door, Hart's grandparents crawled out from the rubble of their destroyed house after they sought shelter in a bathroom as falling trees collapsed the roof.

With her calm, warm demeanor, Ana has been trained to put patients at ease — like many nurses across the U.S. But unlike them, she is also available to chat 24-7, in multiple languages, from Hindi to Haitian Creole. That's because Ana isn't human, but an artificial intelligence program created by Hippocratic AI, one of a number of new companies offering ways to automate time-consuming tasks usually performed by nurses and medical assistants.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. At Veterans Affairs facilities in Detroit and Denver, staff reductions have led to canceled health programs and left homeless veterans without their dedicated coordinator to help them find an apartment and line up a deposit. In Alabama, job cuts at the Education Department have slowed efforts to get disabled children access to classrooms.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Is there a method to the madness that seems to guide US trade policy under President Donald Trump? An effort to revive American manufacturing behind import tariff walls, some aver, can be followed by a tax on capital inflows.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. United Breweries Ltd., one of India’s largest beer makers, is betting on its premium brands like Kingfisher Ultra to drive growth even as rising taxes in key states, including Telangana, Karnataka, and Rajasthan, threaten to offset a potential boost from a prolonged summer. After disruptions during the general elections last fiscal impacted production and shipments across the sector, an early and longer summer this year is “going to be more helpful as it will lead to more consumption from a macro standpoint", said Vivek Gupta, managing director and CEO of Dutch parent Heineken-controlled United Breweries.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Even as Indian stock markets go through a rough patch, Chinese equities have rebounded after lagging for around a decade. Global investors are looking to ride this rally.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For years, Yoram Ariely hadn’t touched most of his investments, preferring to ride the stock market’s ups and downs. Last Tuesday, he decided he had enough.

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Donald Trump to create a “strategic Bitcoin reserve and digital assets stockpile” has sent the crypto enthusiasts in India into a tizzy. Hoping to cash in on what they believe could be the next big rally, they have led a surge in trading volumes, with CoinDCX reporting a 36% hike and Mudrex registering a 30% spike. While the reserve will only include Bitcoin, already owned by the US government, not acquired or actively bought, the digital asset stockpile will consist of tokens other than the Bitcoin—Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Ripple (XRP), and Cardano (ADA), which will also not be acquired. The announcement is significant because it’s the first time that Bitcoin has been recognised as a reserve asset of the US government. “This sends a powerful message to the world about how blockchain and digital assets are becoming mainstream,” says Sumit Gupta, co-founder of CoinDCX. Agrees Edul Patel, Co-founder of Mudrex: “There is a strong future for crypto and Bitcoin globally, not just in the US.”