According to the report, India’s MSME credit gap stood at around Rs 25 lakh crore as of March 2025. India’s digital payments ecosystem may be among the world’s most advanced, but millions of small businesses continue to struggle for access to formal finance, with only 14 per cent of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)…
You spend thousands on a bottle of perfume sitting on your dresser. But what if we said that your perfumer is probably using some stinky ingredients to help you smell good? Yes, you heard that right. Perfumers have spent centuries chasing the worst smells on earth because, diluted and blended just right, they turn into…
NEW DELHI: In a bid to ensure airfares don’t get completely out of reach for the common citizen and airlines don’t collapse, govt on Wednesday decided to set aside Rs 10,000 crore to cap aviation turbine fuel (ATF) or jet fuel prices and prevent them from sharp surges. This one-time budgetary support will be given…
Every shipboard food story eventually leads to the drinks that keep the whole operation moving. Navy galley materials list coffee, tea and hot chocolate as standard offerings, and that makes perfect sense on a ship where people may be waking before dawn, standing watch through the night or cycling between fatigue and adrenaline. Coffee and…
Punjab Kings (PBKS) have turned their full attention to their final league fixture of the IPL 2026 season after suffering a defeat to Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in the afternoon clash at the HPCA Cricket Stadium in Dharamsala. Despite producing strong phases in the match, PBKS were unable to sustain momentum, with key moments slipping…
Bathroom problems in apartment buildings tend to arrive quietly at first. A toilet drains a little slower than usual. Water rises slightly higher in the bowl before settling back down. Someone pours another chemical cleaner into the pipe and forgets about it until the same thing happens again a week later.That is partly why simple…
China has reportedly banned on the specialised graphics chip from American tech giant Nvidia. According to a report by the Financial Times, Beijing blacklisted Nvidia’s RTX 5090D V2 graphics card, which is an export-friendly version of its top-end RTX 5090 GPU. While the strict customs ban is a big development itself, this came on Friday…
Mosquitoes can turn a peaceful home into an uncomfortable place. Their bites are not only irritating but can also disturb sleep, spoil outdoor time, and make daily life uncomfortable. But we can try to keep them away just at the right time, before it becomes too problematic. The good news is that mosquito control does…
Ayodhya temple trust to decide Rai, Mishra’s fate today AYODHYA : The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust will meet at 3pm on Monday to take a call on the resignation by its general secretary Champat Rai and member Anil Mishra in the wake of the raging controversy over the allegations of embezzlement of donations…
TOI correspondent from Washington: In the summer of 1976, a Kanpur-born teenage engineering student from BITS Pilani stood in the lobby of the US embassy in New Delhi after being denied a student visa for the third time. His father, who had accompanied him, refused to leave. He had seen the photo of the consular…