Recent Views 10 Saturn is the karmic teacher, imparting wisdom, discipline, and life lessons for our growth. As it transits Pisces and Uttara Bhadrapada First Pada this week, its unyielding gaze insists that we reflect upon the choices we have made and accept responsibility while liberating ourselves from patterns originating in the past. The cosmic…
Recent Views 10 Bengaluru: India’s IT services sector is unlikely to post strong results for the September 2025 quarter. While Q2 is typically the best-performing quarter, Investec expects divergent results across companies as macroeconomic uncertainty, tariff risks, and client caution continue to affect discretionary spending. Both brokerages — Kotak Institutional Equities and Motilal Oswal Financial…
Recent Views 9 NAGPUR: At least 14 more children from Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district who had been administered the now-banned cough syrup Coldrif are battling for life in government and private hospitals in Nagpur after suffering renal failure.Lab reports confirmed the six children who died at GMCH-Nagpur had suffered renal failure due to diethylene glycol…
Recent Views 8 MUMBAI: After briefly catching up with credit growth, bank deposit growth has again begun to lag advances. Early business updates from banks for the September quarter show a mixed trend, with some lenders-such as HDFC Bank-deliberately slowing credit expansion to maintain balance sheet stability. According to RBI data, deposits of scheduled commercial…
Recent Views 11 Dharwad: District minister Santosh Lad, referring to the Dharwad-Belagavi new railway line project, stated that Union minister of state for railways V Somanna’s concern over the delay in land acquisition for the Dharwad–Belagavi direct railway line is true. On this issue, the state govt will not let down farmers, he said. Speaking…
Recent Views 6 Mangaluru: In the three decades since the implementation of new liberalisation policies, India has reached the peak of economic inequality. Workers, including labourers, are suffering from hunger. New laws are stripping the rights of the working people, said K Prakash, CITU state vice-president.He was speaking after inaugurating the 18th CITU Dakshina Kannada…
Recent Views 12 Mysuru: The Mysuru Palace Board and the forest department have locked horns over the delay in paying honorarium to the Dasara elephants’ mahouts and kavadis.Within hours after the mahouts and kavadis expressed their displeasure while leaving Mysuru, the Mysuru Palace Board alleged that the deputy conservator of forests (DCF), wildlife division, Mysuru,…
Recent Views 12 File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US PresidentDonald Trump on Sunday urged all parties involved in the Israel-Gaza conflict to “move fast,” warning that failure to act could lead to “massive bloodshed” as he pushed forward his latest peace initiative.In a Truth Social post, Trump said, “There have been…
Recent Views 13 MUMBAI: RBI‘s move to get merchants to store tokens instead of card data since 2022 has cut down frauds and improved transaction success rates. Now, allowing alternatives to one-time passwords (OTP) for authentication is expected to make the system more efficient. Speaking to TOI, Visa’s head of products and innovation for South…
Recent Views 13 NEW DELHI: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank chief economist Erik Berglof says that US tariffs have created more uncertainty than the Covid pandemic or the global financial crisis and argues that global supply chains are here to stay. Excerpts from an interview with TOI:What do you make of current global situation in the…
