Month: January 2025

Maruti Suzuki India sales up 30% in December at 1,78,248 units

January 1, 2025 admin

Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Maruti Suzuki India Limited on Wednesday (January 1, 2025) reported 30% rise in total wholesales at 1,78,248 units in December 2024 as compared to 1,37,551 units in the same month a year ago. “Overall domestic sales, including that of light commercial vehicles and supplies to Toyota Kirloskar…

Business

Premier League Mid-Season Report: Liverpool With One Hand On Title And Arsenal’s Diminishing Hopes

January 1, 2025 admin

With the 2024-25 Premier League season having crossed the halfway mark and the January transfer window having opened, teams will scramble over the course of the next month to try and apply the finishing touches to their squad in hopes of flying through the upcoming congested fixture schedule. Is the title race already…

Sports

“We Could Pass A Law…”: What Australia PM Anthony Albanese Told Jasprit Bumrah At New Year’s Party

January 1, 2025 admin

Jasprit Bumrah and Australia PM Anthony Albanese© X (Twitter) Ahead of the fifth Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test starting on Friday, the Indian and Australian teams met Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his fiancee Jodie Haydon in a New Year’s reception at Kirribilli House on Wednesday. According to a report in The Sydney Morning Herald,…

Sports

Government extends one-time special package up to ₹3,850 crore for DAP fertilizer

January 1, 2025 admin

Ashwini Vaishnaw. File | Photo Credit: PTI The government on Wednesday (January 1, 2024) announced an extension of a one-time special package of up to ₹3,850 crore to ensure farmers continue to get Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertilizer at ₹1,350 per bag of 50 kg. A decision in this regard was taken in a meeting of…

Business

Delhi Cafe Owner’s Family Targets His Wife

January 1, 2025 admin

New Delhi: Puneet Khurana’s (40) estranged wife Manika Pahwa and her family had been torturing him mentally and that drove him to the edge, the Delhi businessman’s family has alleged after he died by suicide at his Model Town residence yesterday. Puneet’s sister told news agency ANI, “Manika Pahwa, her parents and her sister forced…

Nation

Gautam Gambhir Not 1st Choice Coach, Only A ‘Compromise’: BCCI Official Drops Bomb

January 1, 2025 admin

As Indian cricket deals with the fading form of its two stalwarts in captain Rohit Sharma and senior batter Virat Kohli, head coach Gautam Gambhir and his support staff’s role in handling a team in transition has also come into focus. The ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy has been a difficult ride for the side…

Sports

In Mumbai, Traffic Challans Worth Rs 89 Lakh Issued On New Year’s Eve

January 1, 2025 admin

Mumbai: Traffic challans worth a whopping Rs 89 lakh were issued in Mumbai on New Year’s Eve as the cops in Maximum City kept a close on revellers breaking rules on the road. E-challans were issued for a total of 17,800 traffic offences as Mumbai rang in 2025 with grand parties. The city’s traffic police…

Nation

8 Pakistanis, Caught With 232-Kg Drugs Off Gujarat Coast, Jailed For 20 Years

January 1, 2025 admin

Mumbai: A special court here on Wednesday sentenced eight Pakistani nationals to 20 years imprisonment in a 2015 case of seizure of more than 200 kg of drugs valued at nearly Rs 7 crore. Special judge for NDPS Act cases, Shashikant Bangar, convicted the eight persons for offences committed under the anti-drug law. They were…

Nation

Breakaway Moldovan region cuts heating, hot water after Russia stops gas flow

January 1, 2025 admin

File photo of pipelines of the national natural gas distribution network outside Ungheni, Moldova. | Photo Credit: AP The breakaway Moldovan region of Transdniestria cut heating and hot water supplies to households on Wednesday after Russia stopped supplying gas via Ukraine. “There is no heating or hot water,” an employee of local energy company Tirasteploenergo…

World

‘I Don’t Even Know If There’s A Strategy’: On Israel-Palestine Conflict

January 1, 2025 admin

(The following is an excerpt from Stanly Johny’s ‘Original Sin: Israel, Palestine and the Revenge of Old West Asia’, being published with the permission of HarperCollins India. Based on his multiple reporting visits to the region and dozens of interviews, Johny traces the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict.) After the Hamas attack, Israel launched a…

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