Recent Views 25 NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party neta Akhilesh Yadav‘s swipe at govt over its approval for the sale of IDBI Bank drew a sharp retort from finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who reminded him of the state of “ruin” public sector banks were left in by the previous UPA govt before they were revived by…
Recent Views 33 MUMBAI: Its $50 billion investments in India place Blackstone among the top 10 business houses. The world’s largest alternative asset manager plans to double its investments in the next five years mainly in private equity and real estate, and expand into infrastructure, credit and growth investing. In an interview with TOI, Jonathan…
Recent Views 18 CJI Kant disapproved of a lawyer’s argument of SC’s purported observation on Form 6. ‘Do not pick a word or sentence from an oral observation during a hearing and cite it as precedent,’ the bench said NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Wednesday assured voters complaining of irregular deletion from the Delhi electoral…
Recent Views 24 New Delhi: Factory gate inflation based on the wholesale price index (WPI) surged to a 30 month high of 11.4% in Sept from 9.9% in Aug, as rising fuel and manufactured goods prices pushed inflation into double digits, the official data released Wednesday showed. In comparison, WPI stood at -0.2% in Sept…
Recent Views 23 Jake Johnson, PC: Wikipedia Actor Jake Johnson, best known for playing Nick Miller on New Girl and co-hosting the comedy podcast We’re Here to Help, has listed a Pasadena, California, home for $3.295 million. The contemporary-style residence has 3,153 square feet of living space, 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, and sits behind…
Recent Views 27 NEW DELHI: The sale of govt stake in IDBI Bank will help increase its value, fully protect the interest of employees and directors nominated by the Centre and LIC will exit the board to give the new management a free hand, a top govt official told TOI on Wednesday.Hours after govt nod,…
Recent Views 22 Rupee slips 4 paise to 96.39 against US dollar MUMBAI: The rupee appreciated 19 paise to close at 95.17 against the US dollar on Wednesday, registering the fourth straight session of gains, supported by RBI interventions designed to ease near-term dollar demand and limit speculative foreign exchange exposure.Forex traders said the Indian…
Recent Views 29 NEW DELHI: Govt and LIC will sell a combined 60.7% in IDBI Bank for Rs 52,878 crore to an arm of Fairfax Financial Holdings, which is controlled by Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa, that will result in the largest-ever financial sector FDI in the country. The transaction will help govt scale the disinvestment…
Recent Views 21 NEW DELHI: With over five months to go for the fiscal year to close, Centre has topped its disinvestment and asset monetisation target of Rs 80,000 crore for 2026-27, with its kitty swelling to Rs 88,665 crore once the IDBI Bank stake sale is completed – providing much-needed cushion in a year,…
Recent Views 25 Image: Left/USA Today/Right/3M Website Ocean acidification rarely makes headlines the way storms or heatwaves do, yet it quietly changes the chemistry that coral, shellfish and other sea creatures rely on. One twelve-year-old from Connecticut has decided to take it on. Raji Doshi, a seventh-grade student at Talcott Mountain Academy, designed a coastal…
