Budget-carrier IndiGo will damp lease a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner from Norse Atlantic Airways, with operations set to begin in March 2025, the Norwegian airlines said in a press release on Thursday. The move is part of IndiGo’s strategy to expand into long-haul routes ahead of its Airbus A350 deliveries from 2027.

This contract represents an important milestone for Norse as we partner with one of the largest and most reputable airlines in the world.

Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd (TPREL) on Thursday said it has partnered with Bank of Baroda to facilitate financing of residential rooftop solar projects under the PM - Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana.

Both the entities have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), under which applicants can avail loan amounts up to Rs 6 lakh at an interest rate starting at 7 per cent per annum with both fixed and floating rate options, TPREL said in a statement.

The Defence Ministry is set to sign the Rs 10,200 crore contract for ammunition for the Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher weapon system on Thursday with Solar Industries, Nagpur and public sector firm Munitions India Limited (MIL).

The Cabinet Committee on Security had last week cleared the Indian Army proposal to buy the ammunition including the Area Denial Munitions, said Defence officials.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed large non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) to disclose the total charges levied on customers for each loan product.

Additionally, these NBFCs must obtain board approval for the maximum rates they set on loans. Consequently, finance companies will be required to transparently outline the upper limit of charges — comprising interest rates, insurance, processing fees.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday spoke about the 8th Bengal Global Business Summit 2025, calling it one of the most unique summits held in the state.

She also said that investment proposals exceeding Rs 90.51 trillion had been received during the event.

Most of the dozen agencies, barring two, that conducted exit polls for the Delhi Assembly elections predicted on Wednesday evening that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance was set to secure a majority in the 70-member House. The BJP last secured a majority in the Delhi Assembly in 1993. Delhi did not have an Assembly between 1956 to 1993.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women's or girls' sporting events.

The order, which Trump is expected to sign at an afternoon ceremony, marks another aggressive shift by the president's second administration in the way the federal government deals with transgender people and their rights.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his wife, Kyoko Jaishankar, cast their vote at a polling booth in Delhi's NDMC School of Science and Humanities, Tughlaq Crescent for the Delhi assembly polls.

After casting his vote, Jaishankar said, "I have been an early voter...I think the public is in a mood for change."

Ukraine was prepared to engage in negotiations to end its nearly three-year-old war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, but he stressed that the United States and Europe also had to take part in any talks.

Zelenskyy, who had long called for all Russian troops to leave Ukraine as a pre-condition, has in recent weeks spoken of the need for talks on moving the conflict to a "just" end.

Delhi Police have registered late night FIRs against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidates, including former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Kalkaji candidate Atishi Marlena, and Okhla constituency candidate Amanatullah Khan for violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). Additionally, the police also registered an FIR against AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya after a woman filed a complaint against him for giving a flying kiss to her during the poll campaign.

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