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NCP-SP skips key MVA meet in Pune, fuelling uncertainty ahead of PMC polls

India, Dec. 29 -- A day after signalling renewed engagement with its Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) partners, the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) stayed away from a crucial alliance meeting ... Read More


From India, with love: Welders to carpenters flock to Russia

New Delhi, Dec. 29 -- Russia is the new Gulf for India's blue-collar workforce, as the Eurasian country taps its vast pool of skilled welders, tailors and steel fixers. Companies handling recruiting f... Read More


Weekly Love Horoscope for December 29, 2025-January 4, 2026: Love chances rise this week, but timing matters

India, Dec. 29 -- justify;">Aries: If you're in a younger relationship, you'll find that love deepens most when you just show up. You don't need to worry about big, expensive plans; just being there i... Read More


Pune elections: Aspirants file nominations before parties release lists

India, Dec. 29 -- With the deadline for nominations drawing closer, several aspirants have moved ahead and filed their papers for the upcoming Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections on January 15,... Read More


Health a key poll issue in eastern suburbs

India, Dec. 29 -- With the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) poll approaching, residents of the city's eastern suburbs are banding together to seek improvements in civic hospitals and compel as... Read More


Top electric bus and truck makers want another relief for rare earth magnets as China plays hardball

New Delhi, Dec. 29 -- India's leading electric bus and truck makers are planning to ask for a one-year extension on exemptions to import rare earth magnet motors - that are critical for electric vehic... Read More


MPCB shuts 4 RMC plants, fines 37 others

India, Dec. 29 -- Even as parts of the city remained wrapped in haze on Sunday, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) swung into action to add... Read More


JBM Group signs exclusivity pact to buy Fortum's EV charging business in India

New Delhi, Dec. 29 -- Gurugram-headquartered JBM Group has signed an exclusivity agreement to acquire a majority stake in GLIDA, the Indian electric vehicle (EV) charging network of Finnish state-run ... Read More


HC to state: How did 2 two South Korean firms get NOCs for illegal units in Pune

India, Dec. 29 -- The Bombay High Court has asked the state government to explain how three companies, including two South Korean firms, set up factories in unauthorised premises in Pune district and ... Read More


9 arrested a day after Khopoli murder

India, Dec. 29 -- The Raigad police on Saturday arrested nine people in connection with the murder of Mangesh Sadashiv Kalokhe alias Appa, 75, who was killed in broad daylight on Friday. The accused w... Read More