Downing Street has insisted the government backs pubs, as a growing number sign up to a campaign to bar Labour MPs from their premises in protest at tax rates. The Labour MP ban was kicked off a week ago and more than 250 pubs, restaurants and hotels have signed up all over the country, including…
The Argentina and Barcelona legend and 2022 FIFA World Cup winner Lionel Messi is set to script a historic chapter in Indian football as he begins his much-anticipated India Tour 2025, a four-day visit spanning Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi. The tour, designed as a blend of celebration and outreach, will…
After the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced the repo rate by 25 basis points last week, several major banks have moved to pass on the benefit to borrowers. Latest addition to the wave is the State Bank of India (SBI), which announced cuts across its lending rate benchmarks, in a move aimed at easing…
Matt Gravellingin Barking and Dagenham BBC Volunteers gathered in Barking to spread some Christmas cheer More than 100 volunteers have gathered in an east London community hall to wrap thousands of Christmas presents for children across the capital, with organisers saying for some, it would be the only gift they would get this year. The…
By Karoun Demirjian and Simon Romero The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was determined to make it this week to Oslo, where she hoped to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in person. Emerging from hiding and finding a safe route to Norway would require skirting military checkpoints, enduring hours of rough seas,…
Terence Baxter* had booked a meet-and-greet service to park his Volkswagen at Heathrow airport while he and his wife went on holiday. The couple handed over the keys at the drop-off site and were driven to the terminal – and that was the last they saw of their car. On their return they were informed…
MUMBAI: The Rs 10,600-crore IPO for ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund was subscribed 72% on day 1 with the institutional investors portion subscribed nearly two times. The high net worth part was subscribed 37%, the retail portion 21% while the part reserved for shareholders of ICICI Bank was subscribed 44%. Through the bidding round, Prudential Corp…
premium IndiGo crisis (Photo:PTI) 7 min read Last Updated : Dec 13 2025 | 9:30 AM IST There can be three immediate reactions when you see the unravelling of IndiGo, arguably the greatest global brand built in post-reform India. All three come with some frustration. The first, the IndiGo founders and the…
Kong Wan Sing, the founder and CEO of JustCo, one of Asia’s largest co-working space providers, doesn’t quite think of himself as leading an office company. Instead, he sees parallels with a different property business: Hotels. “It’s a hospitality business. People come to us not just for the network, but also for the hospitality,” he…
MUMBAI: New York-based alternative asset manager Brookfield is lining up investments worth over $1 billion (around Rs 9,000 crore) to set up a global capability centre (GCC) in Mumbai, raising its bets on India. The GCC, which will be Asia’s largest, is being developed through an agreement between Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and…