Author: V. Alure

What has changed in Indian tourism, particularly after covid?We were far more resilient to what happened. We have seen changes in consumer behaviour post-covid. For instance, there has been a generational shift in travel where young Indians are travelling at a much younger age. Travel is no longer a luxury; it is a way of life. As soon as they start earning, young Indians are taking their first international trip. There is also a shift in attitude. As a nation, we are moving towards a ‘splurging economy’. Younger generations want to spend on dining, shopping, and travelling. Families have fewer…

The country’s coal demand, which had remained weak earlier in the current financial year, is poised for a boost in the coming days on the back of a sharp turnaround in electricity consumption, an industry expert said on Sunday.Vinaya Varma, Managing Director of mjunction services ltd — a B2B e-commerce platform and joint venture of SAIL and Tata Steel — said after successive months of negative growth in October and November, power demand staged a strong recovery in December with a 6.3 per cent growth.”The tempo has been maintained with power consumption continuing to rise in January as well, due…

The combined market valuation of six of the top-10 valued firms climbed Rs 63,478.46 crore last week, led by Larsen & Toubro and State Bank of India, which emerged as the biggest winners.The 30-share BSE Sensex rose 187.95 points, or 0.22 per cent, over the past week.Larsen & Toubro, State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), Bajaj Finance, and Reliance Industries were the gainers, while Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, Infosys, and Tata Consultancy Services saw their valuations erode.The market valuation of Larsen & Toubro jumped by Rs 28,523.31 crore to Rs 6,02,552.24 crore. SBI…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Europeans’ great geopolitical awakening has been to realise, first, that they depend on other powers in many near-existential ways, and second, that those powers are increasingly willing to use their strangleholds to bend Europe to their wills.This fear first fully emerged vis-à-vis China, with concerns over Huawei’s role in 5G networks a decade or so ago. Vulnerability to Vladimir Putin over energy flows was something countries near Russia warned against early on, but became commonly understood only after his open weaponisation of…

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Former India opener Shikhar Dhawan has begun a new chapter in his life. On 21 February, Dhawan married his long-time partner Sophie Shine in a private ceremony attended by close friends and family. After months of speculation — from their first public appearance during the Champions Trophy 2025 in Dubai to their engagement announcement on Instagram in January — the couple finally made it official. The first glimpses of their big day came not from the couple but from Dhawan’s teammate and friend Yuzvendra Chahal, who shared warm moments from the ceremony with the caption, “Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai.”    …

Travelers look at a flight status board as flights are delayed and cancelled following a significant winter storm at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, January 26, 2026. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesAirlines canceled more than 5,000 flights through Monday and waived cancellation and change fees for airports spanning Virginia to Maine ahead of another massive winter storm on the East Coast, set to once again put carriers to the test at the tail-end of winter break.The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for much of New Jersey, the New York City area, and parts…

JPMorgan Chase acknowledged for the first time that it closed the bank accounts of President Donald Trump and several of his businesses in the political and legal aftermath of the January 6, 2021 attacks on the US Capitol, the latest development in a legal saga over the controversial practice of “debanking.”  The acknowledgment came in a court filing submitted this week in Trump’s lawsuit against the bank and its leader, Jamie Dimon. The president sued for $5 billion, alleging that his accounts were closed for political reasons, disrupting his business operations. “In February 2021, JPMorgan informed Plaintiffs that…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldUS President Donald Trump has called on Netflix to sack former Democratic national security official Susan Rice from its board or “pay the consequences”, as the streamer battles to acquire Warner Bros Discovery.Trump’s comments mark a return to the fray between Netflix and Paramount Skydance to acquire the legendary Hollywood studio, having previously said he would stay out of it. Both proposed acquisitions would have to be approved by federal regulators.The US president weighed in on the issue at the…

NASA is preparing to remove its massive moon rocket from its launchpad to fix a technical issue, delaying the agency’s much-anticipated mission to send a crew of four around the moon. On Saturday, NASA announced that it planned to roll back the rocket, the Boeing-built Space Launch System, to its hangar at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to fix a problem found in the upper portion of the vehicle. NASA engineers found an interruption in the flow of helium — which is needed for launch — in the rocket. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said the work needed to fix the problem could…