Spread the love HONG KONG, Dec. 28, 2025 — Hong Kong’s government has raised its economic growth projection for 2025 to about 3.2 %, up from the earlier forecast range of 2 – 3 %, reflecting stronger-than-expected performance in key sectors including exports, investment and financial markets. Officials say the revision comes after a solid performance throughout the year, with real...
China Pledges More Proactive Fiscal Policy in 2026 to Support Growth and Domestic Demand
Spread the love BEIJING, Dec. 28, 2025 — China’s Ministry of Finance has announced that the country will adopt a more proactive fiscal policy stance in 2026, aimed at strengthening domestic demand, accelerating innovation, and expanding social support networks as it strives to sustain robust economic growth of around 5 % next year. At the national fiscal work conference held in...
Indian students placing their bets on destinations beyond the Big 4: Here’s why
Spread the love Indian students are still looking abroad, but they are choosing differently. Indian students are redrawing the study-abroad map with a calculator in hand. Fresh data tabled by the Ministry of External Affairs puts the total number of Indian students overseas at 1,882,318 (as on January 1, 2025)—a headcount spread across 153 countries and, crucially, one that now...
2 Muslim boys booked for ‘breach of peace’ after attending Hindu friend’s birthday party in UP
Spread the love BAREILLY: Two Muslim boys were booked for “breach of peace” after attending their Hindu friend’s birthday party at a cafe in UP’s Bareilly. The action was taken after the members of the Bajrang Dal barged into the cafe alleging love jihad. The police, however, subsequently refuted the love jihad angle. Police said the nursing student had invited...
How the Aravalli Hills formed and why they look the way they do
Spread the love The Aravalli Hills look modest today but they sit on some of the oldest and most studied rocks in India. Geologists care about them because they preserve a long record of how a piece of the earth’s crust in northwestern India was built, deformed, heated, and intruded by magma, then worn down. The Hills’ features are better...
Watch: Men in high-speed cars perform deadly stunts; Delhi Police responds
Spread the love NEW DELHI: A group of men was captured on video performing reckless stunts on the streets of Delhi, raising concerns about public safety. The footage, which has been widely shared on social media, also showed the men racing at high speeds.The video, reportedly filmed on the night of December 26, shows several men in four to five...
Pakistan kabaddi player wears Indian jersey, waves tricolour; banned indefinitely
Spread the love Pakistan kabaddi player Ubaidullah Rajput (Image credit: X) NEW DELHI: Pakistan international kabaddi player Ubaidullah Rajput has been indefinitely banned by the national federation after featuring for an Indian team in a private tournament in Bahrain earlier this month.The Pakistan Kabaddi Federation (PKF) took the decision following an emergency meeting on Saturday, concluding that Rajput had travelled...
President Murmu takes submarine sortie at Karwar naval base – see pics
Spread the love NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday undertook a submarine sortie at the Karwar naval base in Karnataka, officials said.Murmu embarked onboard INS Vaghsheer, an indigenous Kalvari-class submarine of the Indian Navy, becoming only the second President of India to do so. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi accompanied the President, who is also the...
‘We can learn’: Tharoor’s ‘discipline’ retort to Digvijaya Singh’s RSS praise
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday offered a measured response to senior party leader Digvijaya Singh’s praise for the organisational strength of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), remarks that triggered sharp reactions within the Congress and handed the BJP a fresh line of attack.“We have a history of 140 years, and we can learn a...
How Bengaluru techie became Andhra’s ‘lady don’; arrested for supplying ‘Sheelavathi strain’
Spread the love BENGALURU: Nathavaram police in Anakapalle district have arrested eight people, including a Bengaluru-based software engineer, for allegedly supplying high-quality Sheelavathi strain cannabis from Narsipatnam to Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Police said this appears to be the first instance of ganja from the Andhra–Odisha border being smuggled to Sri Lanka. Bengaluru Headlines Today — The Biggest Updates...
