Stock market began the week in red with Nifty trading below 24,000 and Sensex tumbling over 2,000 points as the Middle East conflict continues to intensify. As of 9:27 am, NSE Nifty50 was trading 23,703.60, down 746.85 points or 3.05%. BSE Sensex plunged 2,415.69 points or 3.06% to trade at 76,503.21. This follows a weak...
Category: News
Firm ideas, flexible tactics: How Gambhir helped India tame T20’s fickle nature
Sanju Samson being congratulated by head coach Gautam Gambhir. (PTI Photo) “We are a gun team.” These were Gautam Gambhir’s first words to a young and inexperienced Test team under greenhorn captain Shubman Gill in England last summer. That one sentence killed doubts in the dressing room as the team went on to tie the...
Video shows Iranian cluster bomb submunitions raining over Israel; why the weapon is tricky
X @IsraelWarRoom Iran launched multiple ballistic missiles at Israel on Sunday, including at least one carrying a cluster bomb warhead, reported the Times of Israel. The attack marked the sixth salvo of the day targeting Israel.Video posted on social media appeared to show what could be sub‑munitions from the Iranian cluster warhead falling over Israel....
High risk, high reward: How ‘Total T20’ fuelled India’s march to World Cup glory
Team India players celebrate with the trophy after winning the T20 World Cup 2026. (AP Photo) Rinus Michels, the coach and manager of Ajax and the great Dutch football team of the 1970s, tore football’s tactical textbook to shreds and came up with Totaalvoetbal, translated to English as ‘Total Football’. It liberated players from fixed,...
‘Champions once again’: Virat Kohli’s emotional post after India lift T20 World Cup
India’s players celebrate after winning the T20 World Cup (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Virat Kohli hailed India national cricket team after their dominant triumph in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup final, praising the side’s fearless cricket and resilience throughout the tournament.Kohli took to social media after the title clash to congratulate the team following their...
Shriram Finance, Nykaa & more: Top stocks to watch on March 9
Jefferies has a buy on Shriram Finance with the target price at Rs 1,220. Analysts said interaction with the management suggests commercial vehicle (CV) demand (including the used ones) stays healthy. The company reiterated 18-20% assets under management (AUM) growth guidance for FY27-28. Cos of finance can fall 80 basis points (bps) and lift spreads...
Rs 70k crore tax evasion probe: Madurai to Shimla — raids at over 70 restaurants over ‘vanishing bill’
Pan-India I-T survey targets 70 restaurants in tax evasion probe HYDERABAD: The income tax (I-T) investigation wing on Sunday launched a pan-India survey of around 70 restaurants as part of a follow-up to the Rs 70,000 crore sales suppression probe linked to billing software manipulation to evade tax. The states included Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra,...
West Bengal: STF arrests Bangladesh activist Sharif Osman Hadi’s killers in Bongaon
KOLKATA: Two prime suspects in the murder of Bangladeshi youth activist Sharif Osman Hadi, who played a key role in the July 2024 uprising in the neighbouring country that dislodged the Sheikh Hasina govt, were arrested by the Bengal Special Task Force in Bongaon early on Sunday.The suspects — Faisal Karim Masud (37) and Alamgir...
‘Mitchell ko sorry bolne gya tha’: Arshdeep Singh after on-field spat with Daryl Mitchell
Arshdeep Singh and Daryl Mitchell (Image credit: X) NEW DELHI: India created history at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday, defeating New Zealand by 96 runs to become the first team to retain the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, claim a third title, and lift the trophy on home soil in front of 86,824 fans....
Government lacks intent to achieve gender parity in courts: Ex-CJI
NEW DELHI: In a startling disclosure on International Women’s Day, former CJI NV Ramana on Sunday said the govt either lacked intent or determination towards achieving gender parity in constitutional courts, even though there was a healthy 40% representation by women among trial court judges.Speaking at a question-answer session during the first national conference of...
