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Hindustan Times Ranchi
MORE THAN JUST LIGHTS: WHY DIWALI FEELS SO GOOD
Have you noticed yourself feeling lighter, happier, or more excited these days?
1 min |
October 16, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Zubeen Garg death case: Five accused sent to 14-day judicial custody
Five out of seven people, who have been arrested in connection with the death of singer Zubeen Garg in Singapore last month, have been sent to a 14-day judicial custody on Wednesday after their police remand ended.
1 min |
October 16, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
AXIS BANK MISSES Q2 ESTIMATES AMID FALL IN TRADING INCOME
Private lender Axis Bank reported a bigger-than-expected drop in second-quarter profit on ‘Wednesday, dragged by a fall in trading income at a time when the bank is still reeling from an earlier increase in bad loan provisions.
1 min |
October 16, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Bira CEO Ankur Jain must quit, say investors, lenders
Some large institutional stakeholders in homegrown beer maker B9 Beverages, the owner of the Bira 91 brand, have started discussions on the removal of founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Ankur Jain citing his inability to run the financially troubled company, four people aware of the development said.
3 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
'Ed truly appreciates music and culture here'
Jonita Gandhi is the latest among popstar Ed Sheeran’s Indian collaborators, having lent her voice to his track Heaven.
1 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Maze facing Karnataka's caste counting exercise
Karnataka has been in the grip of a massive panic attack, especially among caste associations and their leaders, mathadhishas (pontiffs of monastic orders with caste affiliations), and Opposition politicians.
4 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
WPI INFLATION FALLS TO 0.13% IN SEPTEMBER AS FOOD PRICES EASE
Wholesale inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), slowed to 0.13% in September, driven by deep deflation in food prices, according to data released by the ministry of commerce and industry on Tuesday.
1 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
BJP's first Bihar polls list out, adheres to social engineering
The ruling BJP on Tuesday sprang surprises with its first list of 71 candidates for the Bihar assembly polls, denying a ticket to Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav, a seven-term MLA, while fielding deputy CM Samrat Choudhary in a direct election after over a decade.
1 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Standards that threaten India’s mobility future
Revised CAFE norms risk pushing India backward. They need to be fixed
4 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Morgan Stanley, MUFG start $1 bn Vena India sale process
Morgan Stanley and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) have begun the sale process for Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP)-owned Vena Global Group Pte Ltd’s Indian renewable energy platform, Vena Energy India, ina deal having an enterprise value of around $1 billion, according to two people familiar with the development.
1 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Gold hits ₹1.31 L/10 g, silver at ₹1.85 L/kg amid festive rush
Gold prices on Tuesday surged by ₹2,850 to breach the ₹1.3 lakh per 10 gram-mark for the first time in the national capital, driven by heavy festive buying by retailers and jewellers ahead of ‘Dhanteras’.
1 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
SBI eyes ₹7,500 cr via tier-II bond issue
State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest lender, is set to issue what could be the first domestic bank bond of the current financial year.
2 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
WE HAVE TO GIVE PEOPLE SOMETHING WORTH STEPPING IN TO THEATRES: POOJA
Given the current unpredictable state of the box-office, actor Pooja Hegde feels the film industry needs to up its game
1 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
'HOW CAN HE MISSPELL HIS SON'S NAME?'
Sunjay Kapur and Karisma Kapoor's children claim forgery to disinherit them in will, allege it is 'fabricated' and 'full of errors'
1 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Trump’s hour in West Asia
The tricky part lies in turning the Israel- Hamas ceasefire into a permanent peace
2 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
After turmoil, time for a Sixth Republic in France
A day after French Prime Minister (PM) Sébastien Lecornu announced his cabinet on October 5, he had to tender his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron —thereby earning the dubious distinction of being the premier with the shortest period served in France’s Fifth Republic.
3 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
INTERNATIONAL STRUCTURES MUST BE REFORMED, SAYS RAJNATH
Some nations are “openly violating” the international rules, while many others are wanting to create their own norms and dominate the next century, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday.
1 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
No brief given: Ashish on playing alleged Wankhede-like cop
Despite only a few minutes of his screentime, actor Ashish Kumar's role of a cop in The Ba***ds of Bollywood has created massive buzzespecially given the alleged likeness to former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede and the latter's subsequent defamation case against the makers.
1 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
India nears duty-free access to EU markets
Indian exporters will soon get duty-free access to Europe's $25 trillion economy with three free trade agreements —two already clinched (with the EFTA bloc and the UK), and the one with the EU expected by December — people directly involved in the discussions said after India-EU trade talks achieved “significant convergence” in key areas last week.
3 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
China says will ‘fight to the end’ in US trade war
China said on Tuesday it was ready to “fight to the end” in a trade war with the United States after President Donald Trump said he would slap additional 100% tariffs on goods from the country.
1 min |
October 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Some PF rules eased, others made stringent
The Union labour ministry's latest reforms to facilitate urgent cash withdrawals by employees from their provident-fund accounts have simultaneously imposed tighter procedures and longer wait times in certain cases, according to details ratified by a statutory body on Monday.
2 min |
October 15, 2025
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Charges against Lalu, Tejashwi in IRCTC case
{ LAND TRANSFER } WEEKS BEFORE ASSEMBLY POLLS
1 min |
October 14, 2025
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Meri pasaliyan tooti thi: Salman's jibe after AR Murugadoss accuses him of being tardy
Salman Khan threw shade at Sikandar director AR Murugadoss over his remarks about the challenges of working with the actor.
1 min |
October 14, 2025
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TEJ PRATAP SET TO CONTEST FROM MAHUA, JJD FIELDS 21 CANDIDATES
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav announced on Monday that he would contest the upcoming assembly poll from Mahua constituency as a candidate of the Jan Shakti Janata Dal (JJD), a party that he floated in May this year after he was expelled from his parent party RJD.
1 min |
October 14, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
'R.JD, Cong delaying deal': INDIA bloc yet to break seats stalemate
With just weeks to go before Bihar’s high-stakes assembly elections and only a week left for nominations to be filed, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc or the Opposition Mahagathbandhan alliance is grappling with a persisting impasse over seat distribution, even as the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has finalised its formula and smaller parties gear up for a fractured contest.
1 min |
October 14, 2025
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JMM BACKS LALU FAMILY, ASKS EC NOT TO LET CASE RAISED IN POLLS
{ LAND TRANSFER } WEEKS BEFORE ASSEMBLY POLLS
1 min |
October 14, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Why India does poorly in building large companies
We had in an earlier article (‘Superman entrepreneurs driving the Indian economy’, August 24) described how Superman entrepreneurs (SEs), a force-of-nature kind of entrepreneur, had been driving India's growth by overcoming the odds and creating dynamic companies.
4 min |
October 14, 2025
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The changing ground in Bihar
NDA seat deal makes evident the shift in the power dynamic between the BJP and JD(U)
2 min |
October 14, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
THE CURTAIN FALLS ON FASHION WEEK
Lakme Fashion Week X FDCI came to a close with stellar showcases on the last day of the style extravaganza in the Capital. Here's a look at the standouts
1 min |
October 14, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Between New Delhi & Kabul, a fine balance
Pragmatism and convergence on Pakistan have replaced ideology and legacy concerns as the main drivers of India-Afghanistan relations
4 min |