In the June quarter of FY24, 51 per cent of consumers who took small-ticket personal loans already had more than four credit products at the time of accessing yet another new loan, compared with just 17 per cent in the June quarter of FY20, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was apparently taken completely by surprise by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's attack on the ordinance on convicted lawmakers, but he "will deal with the matter" only after his return to India next week.
The suicides have involved more NEET aspirants than JEE. 'It's a make-or-mar situation.' 'Either you get into a government medical college, where the fee is much lower than in private institutes, or you don't make it.'
Sahara chief Subrata Roy, who was sent in judicial custody for a week in Delhi by the Supreme Court today, will be kept in high-security Tihar prison where he will sleep on the floor and eat jail food like an ordinary prisoner.
'Almost magically, we suddenly saw the magnificent beast come from around the corner.'
'I never saw him as MS Dhoni the greatest. For me, Mahi is my brother.'
The entire mission operations of Chandrayaan-3, right from the launch till landing, "happened flawlessly" as per the timeline, the team that led India's third mission to the Moon said on Wednesday.
If a 5% to 10% fall in the equity market gives you sleepless nights, you are not cut out for a 75% to 80% allocation to equities and must reduce it.
'What the film shows is an India, which was headed in a completely different direction than where we are headed.'
It was in the deep hours of Wednesday night Namboori Tilak Varma shared the news of his India selection to his parents, Nagaraju and Gayatri Devi, over a video call.
Captain Vikram Batra died fighting Pakistani forces during the Kargil war in 1999 at the age of 24. He was given the highest wartime gallantry award 'Param Vir Chakra' posthumously.
Excerpted from Sahara: The Untold Story by Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'Aamir is deeply patriotic and cares for the country.'
The 49-year-old actor has been sentenced to five years in prison.
During the day-long debate, the lines between science and religion often got blurred with many invoking religious texts and the contribution of 'rishi munis' to highlight India's tryst with the extra-terrestrial world.
Ajinkya Rahane has been a conspicuous absentee from the ongoing Indian runfest against Sri Lanka but the middle order batsman appears to have the backing of the team management ahead of the tour of South Africa later this month.
The government will investigate a claim that WhatsApp accessed the microphone of smartphone users while the phone was not in use, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Wednesday.
'Rapists do have families. I wanted to see how a father or mother would deal with it.' 'They go through shame as well and get discriminated from the rest of the village.' 'Why don't we show it that way?'
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'The war has been on for four weeks; the bombings are still on. I can hear it in my house.'
According to the Hindu calendar, Dev Uthani Ekadashi is the day in the month of Kartik, the 11th lunar day (a period between new moon and full moon, also known as shukla paksha).
Ranbir meets up with family... Allu Arjun celebrates his anniversary... Shahid shares picture with son...
Is Chandrababu Naidu being in jail an opportunity? How will the TDP capitalise on it? Or will it implode with nothing more than a sigh?
''I want to send my parents for Umrah because Ramazan is going on.'
We don't ask players overnight to bat at any slot: Rohit
Here's a hint: She made her acting debut in a Deepika Padukone-starrer.
A delegation of 21 Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc MPs will pay a two-day visit to Manipur beginning Saturday to assess the ground situation first-hand and then make recommendations to the government and Parliament for a solution to the problems in the violence-hit state.
Iga Swiatek will have her task cut out as she aims to pick up her third title in four years in Paris.
Bhalla's account was echoed by a cross-section of residents of Delhi-NCR after a 6.6 magnitude temblor on Tuesday night was felt across large swathes of northern India as the earthquake struck the Hindukush region in Afghanistan.
Vidarbha wicketkeeper-batter Jitesh Sharma's finishing ability is like gold dust that the current Indian T20 set-up is desperately seeking.
The top court also dealt in detail with the legal principle on dying declaration and its trustworthiness on the presumption that a person on death bead does not lie.
Race Across America -- which spans a little over 3,000 miles, from the west coast of the US to its east -- is often called the toughest race in the world. Indian cyclists are now returning multiple finishes at RAAM including podium positions within age categories, discovers Shyam G Menon.
'I already won. The fact that I was spotted and my name was heard and my face was all over India! I know how big Bigg Boss is.'
'If I get opportunities (to act in Bollywood films), then why not?'
'I was screaming at the top of my voice when my name was announced because I couldn't believe it,' Manik Paul tells Rajul Hegde.
The Prachand Light Combat Helicopter is a huge boost to the IAF's combat prowess.
'We thought all the Jews in the world could live securely in today's world, and that feeling is broken.'
Now, she fears that she will not be able to return to her humble home after officials told them that their shanties were "illegal".
Thriller, horror, feel-good, rom-com, action, vendetta, biopics -- you name it, you got it on OTT this week.
In his first response to the issue, Stalin, president of the ruling DMK, said Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (PTR) has already responded to the matter twice.
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