Travel accounted for 59.5% of total remittances, rising 11.4% from July to $1.6 billion. MUMBAI: Outward remittances under RBI’s Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) rose 6% month-on-month to $2.7 billion in Aug 2026, driven by overseas student travel, business travel and payments for remote education, while investments in foreign equity and debt more than doubled from…
he slowdown was particularly sharp in high-tech and retail, which declined 17.3% and 7.7% year on year, BENGALURU: Infosys had a lacklustre Q2, with its shares falling 6% in early trade on the NYSE after it cut FY27 revenue growth guidance to 1%-2% in constant currency terms from 1.5%-3% earlier. This is the company’s weakest…
Two critical PHP flaws trigger global alert. BENGALURU: Two critical PHP vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to remotely execute code on servers without authentication have triggered a cybersecurity alert, potentially exposing millions of internet-facing services. In a separate advisory, PHP also urged users to temporarily disable a file-upload tracking feature to mitigate another remote code…
Piyush Goyal said German companies had publicly announced investments worth $7.4 billion in India. BERLIN: German companies are exploring investment opportunities in India in precision engineering, aerospace, defence and shipbuilding, besides healthcare, pharmaceuticals and research and development, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said, pointing to growing business interest as European firms look to diversify…
The remarks appear to settle a debate sparked by Noel Tata, chair of Tata Trusts. Mumbai: In his first public comment since Reserve Bank of India rejected Tata Sons’ bid to shed its non-bank lender status, governor Sanjay Malhotra on Friday left little doubt that the Tata Group holding company must list publicly as long…
Uncapped wicketkeeper-batter Kumar Kushagra has been added to India’s squad for the second T20I against New Zealand as cover for Ishan Kishan, who has been ruled out of Saturday’s match due to an injury.Kishan suffered a low-grade right adductor strain during the opening match of the five-T20I series, the Board of Control for Cricket in…
Xbox is losing its first chief operating officer (COO) after creating the new role just a few months ago. Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today, according to an internal Xbox memo seen by The Verge. Chiang has been at Microsoft for 21 years, serving as the head of Minecraft before being promoted to Xbox chief…
Igor Thiago lost his father at 13, worked as a garbage collector and bricklayer, and rose to earn Brazil’s 2026 World Cup call-up/ Image: Instagram The glamorous, high-stakes theater of the English Premier League often obscures the raw, human battlegrounds where its most resilient stars are forged. In the spring of 2026, a towering Brazilian…
Kavya Maran’s parents, Kalanithi and Kavery Maran, invite Sonia Gandhi and Nirmala Sitharaman to the Chennai wedding reception of Kavya and Anirudh Ravichander, scheduled for November 21. Music composer Anirudh Ravichander and Sunrisers Hyderabad co-owner Kavya Maran are set to get married, with their wedding celebrations bringing together prominent names from politics, cinema and cricket….
Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA’s least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the “Netflix of Piracy” software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot…
