Fashion and apparel brands dominated India’s retail leasing landscape in the first half of 2025, accounting for nearly 60 per cent of leases by direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, according to a report released on Wednesday. Following fashion, homeware and furnishings brands, and jewellery each held 12 per cent of retail leasing, while health and personal care.
During my daily commute in Delhi, I pass a temple where new cars are regularly inaugurated. Over the past five days, I noticed a distinct pattern: every vehicle garlanded there has been the MG Motor Windsor, the compact electric crossover launched last September. The Windsor comes with an innovative battery-as-a-service (BaaS) option introduced by MG.
Washington is heading into a tense week as President Donald Trump prepares to meet the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Monday in a last-ditch attempt to avert a government shutdown. Federal funding is set to expire at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, leaving lawmakers less than 48 hours to strike a deal.
A recent report, Children in India, released by the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, highlights rising levels of vitamin D and zinc deficiencies among Indian children, particularly those aged 10-14 years. The study, which examines child health across survival, development, and protection indicators, reveals worrying nutritional trends among adolescents. Vitamin D deficiency, crucial.
How do you describe yourself in social settings? For years, the popular choices have been introvert, extrovert, or the more balanced ambivert. Yet, for many, none of these labels fully capture their personality. A new term is now finding its way into conversations: the otrovert. The word, sometimes mispronounced as “outrovert,” was coined by American.
Air travel and private space exploration may feel commonplace today, but both have roots in defining milestones that reshaped history. September 28 stands out as a date linked to two such breakthroughs. In 1924, the United States Army Air Service completed the world’s first successful flight around the globe. Eighty-four years later, on the same.
A new report has highlighted the urgent need for sustainable water management to ensure water security and equity across the Senegal River Basin in West Africa. The basin spans Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal and includes nine sub-basins, notably the Lower and Middle Senegal River Valleys, as well as the Bafing, Baoule-Bakoye, Faleme, Ferlo, Terekole.
Despite a visible increase in India’s green cover, the country’s forests are showing signs of weakening under the pressures of climate change, reducing their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide, according to a new study by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. The research, published in Resources, Conservation & Recycling, is the first to directly.
Europe has faced a deadly trio of scorching summers between 2022 and 2024, with new research estimating over 180,000 heat-related deaths across the continent. The study, published in Nature Medicine, highlights the growing toll of rising temperatures, particularly during the record-breaking summer of 2024. Between June and September 2024, Europe recorded an estimated 62,775 heat-related.
The Kremlin on Wednesday publicly rejected US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks about the Russia-Ukraine war, after Trump met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and said he believed Kyiv could retake territory held by Russia. The exchange has prompted fresh diplomatic engagement on the sidelines of the United Nations, with Moscow signalling it will set out.
