The cryptocurrency market witnessed a broad-based rally over the weekend, leading to a sharp rise in valuations of popular virtual coins. Bitcoin, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency was trading at over $45,000, up over 2.10 per cent at 5:10 pm. Earlier in the day, Bitcoin hit a fresh 3-month high of $45,900. The…
Indian shares closed higher on Monday on the back of gains in information technology and financial stocks, while automaker Mahindra & Mahindra firmed following an upbeat earnings report last week The blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 index ended up 0.12% at 16,258.25 and the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex was 0.23% higher to…
New Delhi: The defence ministry has said it has not made any transaction with the Israeli firm NSO, which is also the vendor of the Pegasus military-grade spyware — the eye of the huge political storm that has been disrupting the Monsoon Session of parliament. The statement today was part of the…
London: A High Court judge in London on Monday granted fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi permission to appeal against a magistrates’ court order in favour of extradition to India to face charges of fraud and money laundering before the Indian courts on mental health and human rights grounds. Justice…
Anthony Fauci, the U.S.’s top infectious-disease doctor, said he’s “strongly in favor” of speeding booster shots to people with weakened immune systems, a further sign of how the delta variant continues to shift the strategies for curbing the pandemic. “We need to look at them in a…
HIGHLIGHTS Bajrang Punia beat Daulet Niyazbekov to clinch the wrestling bronze Bajrang Punia was the 2nd Indian wrestler to win a medal for India at Tokyo 2020 India registered its best-ever performance at the Tokyo Olympics with 7 medals, including a gold Bajrang Punia’s mother Om Pyari is waiting anxiously to…
HIGHLIGHTS The hockey teams arrived with the rest of the Indian contingent in New Delhi on Monday The men’s team won India’s first Olympic medal in hockey in 41 years The women’s team reached the knockouts for the first time, where they stunned Australia to reach the semis The Indian men’s and…
HIGHLIGHTS Indian athletes arrived in Delhi to a grand welcome at the airport Thousands of fans welcomed the athletes at the Delhi Airport India managed its best-ever Olympic performance at Tokyo 2020 with 7 medals – 1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze India’s medalists from the Tokyo Olympics campaign were…
Cash-strapped telecom operator Vodafone Idea Limited’s (VIL) future hangs in the balance as it inches closer to bankruptcy. The telco could go out of business soon if it fails to raise adequate capital or receives no support from the government. If the third-largest telecom company goes under, it will have a…
Amazon.com Inc and Walmart’s Flipkart must face antitrust investigations ordered against them in India, the country’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday, in a blow to the leading e-commerce giants which had urged judges to quash the inquiries. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) ordered the investigation…