Travis Kelce (Getty Images) Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s new Ohio property has become the centre of a growing dispute, with neighbors raising concerns about plans to improve privacy around the sprawling lakefront estate. What began as a disagreement over fencing and landscaping has expanded into a much wider clash involving wildlife, security, access and…
Photo credit: ArchitecturalDigest/YouTube [Enhanced using AI] Dakota Johnson has sold the Los Angeles home she once described as a leafy “tree house” for $5,924,372, bringing the property’s decade-long chapter under her ownership to a close. The actress paid $3.55 million for the midcentury residence in January 2016, shortly after her career reached a new level…
Archaeologists collect deep soil samples from Turkey’s Mount Ararat site in the search for Noah’s Ark. (Photo: Getty Images) The long-running Noah’s Ark mystery has taken a new turn after researchers drilled into the Durupinar formation, a boat-shaped geological site near Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.The formation has attracted researchers and Noah’s Ark enthusiasts since…
Inflation has stayed above the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) target of 4% for the past three months (Photo: Reuters). MUMBAI: RBI has tightened daily cash reserve requirements for banks, impounding an additional Rs 1 lakh crore, and has announced a Rs 25,000 crore bond sale, moves that will drain liquidity from the banking system…
NEW DELHI: From listening to bhajans and reading the Bible to finding the direction of Mecca or discovering what the stars have in store, Indians are increasingly turning to smartphones for matters of faith and fortune. Religious, spiritual and astrology apps recorded nearly 30 crore downloads in the first nine months of 2026, emerging as…
MUMBAI: India’s foreign exchange reserves fell by $13 billion to $734.6 billion in the week ended Oct 2, driven by a sharp decline in foreign currency assets and gold reserves. Foreign currency assets, the largest component of the reserves, dropped by $10.7 billion to $604.7 billion.Gold reserves declined by $2.3 billion to $106.4 billion. The…
NEW DELHI: For decades, a state’s growth was measured by relying only on the production approach, or by gauging what factories, farms, and services within its borders produced. That model is now set for an overhaul, as the statistics ministry unveiled a new manual to compute state GDP via expenditure approach — by tracking household…
BENGALURU: Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday that talks with US for a trade deal were progressing steadily and the two sides were working on the fine print, while asserting that tighter access to H-1B visas can benefit India by encouraging skilled professionals to stay back, bringing more tech work to the…
MUMBAI: Banks concluded the first half of FY27 with an acceleration in balance-sheet expansion, as year-on-year credit growth climbed to 19.4% and aggregate deposit growth reached 17.8%, leaving the credit-to-deposit ratio at 81%.Total bank credit stood at over Rs 229.9 lakh crore as of Sept 30, while aggregate deposits reached about Rs 284 lakh crore….
BENGALURU/HUDERABAD: Even as the US govt suspended processing under the Permanent Labour Certification (PERM) programme for some Indian IT firms, potentially jeopardising eligible employees’ pathways to permanent residency, the sector’s stocks rallied on Friday, suggesting limited market concern amid declining dependence on H-1B visas.However, the suspension could create talent retention and hiring challenges. H-1B employees…
