The two-wheeler remains godlike for the Indian middle class, unable to graduate to safer four-wheelers

Nation

Middle classes locked out of consumption economy —Congress cites auto sales

The automobile sector is half of India’s total manufacturing sector

Economy

Industrial output growth slips to 2.7 pc in April; manufacturing, mining, power drag

Xi Jinping holds the purse strings to several of the world’s poorer nations

World

Tidal wave of debt: Poorest nations struggle as loan repayments to China peak in 2025

Pahar Toli’s Gram Pradhan, Ban Singh Munda, sits beside sacks of fortified rice

Nation

Food crops except wheat trading below MSP, amid surplus harvests: RBI

MGNREGA guarantees the poor at least 100 days of paid work a year — in theory

Nation

Full 100 days’ MGNREGA employment benefits just 7 per cent, says new report

Taiwanese president Lai Ching-te

World

Taiwan downplays tariff tensions with the US as ‘frictions between friends’

UK PM Keir Starmer and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen last met in November 2024

World

UK looks to reset EU relations 5 years after Brexit

Representative image

World

IMF imposes 11 new conditions on Pak, warns of risks to bailout plan: Report

Trump meets Xi at G20 summit 2019 (file photo)

Opinion

A war in all but name

Donald Trump, Marco Rubio claim to have brokered an India-Pakistan ceasefire—with trade talk

World

Now Pakistan offering a zero-tariff bilateral trade deal to the US?

Courtesy: @PTI_News/X

World

IMF disburses $1.023 bn tranche to Pak; to hold virtual discussions about budget

PM Keir Starmer with staff of Tata Motors’ Jaguar Land Rover plant, where he promised to save their jobs

World

UK unveils ‘historic’ US trade deal at Tata Motors’ Jaguar Land Rover factory

All quiet on the Attari–Wagah border near Amritsar on 3 May (photo: PTI)

Business

India and Pakistan backdoor trade also in jeopardy as borders close