NEW DELHI: Seeking to ensure that prices of sin goods such as tobacco products and pan masala do not fall after withdrawal of GST compensation cess, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday moved two bills that will empower govt to levy excise duty on tobacco and tobacco products, while imposing health and national security cess…
The acting chief of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said the banking regulator expects to start proposing rules for stablecoin issuers before the close of December, according to testimony Travis Hill is preparing to deliver Tuesday before the House Financial Services Committee. First up on the regulator’s agenda for implementing the Guiding and Establishing…
NEW DELHI: Opposition parties disrupted proceedings in Lok Sabha and walked out of Rajya Sabha on the first day of the winter session after govt refused to concede their demand to immediately allow a debate on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being conducted by Election Commission.They rejected the stand of parliamentary affairs…
The U.S. government was deliberately trying to hold back crypto development for years, according to a report released by U.S. Representative French Hill, who has been at the center of Congress’ push toward establishing crypto policies. The Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee issued a lengthy report on Monday detailing the federal government…
(AI-generated image used for representation purposes) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court order for pan-India CBI probe into ‘digital arrest’ cases, while signifying the threat from digital scamsters, is important also because the opposition-governed states had withdrawn “general consent” to CBI to probe crimes in their territories.Keeping two other forms of cyber-crime – investment scams and part-time…
SRINAGAR: CBI announced on Monday the arrest of a suspect wanted for 35 years for his alleged role in the 1989 abduction of former home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s daughter Dr Rubaiya Sayeed by the banned JKLF, whose jailed chief Yasin Malik is standing trial in the case.The central agency, which took over the case…
Kalshi is now offering tokenized versions of its event-contract wagers on Solana, the company told CNBC, marking its clearest bid yet to attract crypto traders who have gravitated to on-chain platforms like Polymarket. The setup tokenizes Kalshi’s existing event markets, spanning politics to macro data, and makes them tradable on Solana, according to the Monday…
CM Omar Abdullah applauded their maiden interventions as “first day, first show”. He was present in the House as it convened for the winter session Monday. (Photo credit: ANI) SRINAGAR: Newly elected National Conference lawmakers used their first day in Parliament to demand restoration of J&K’s statehood and remind the Centre of its pledge to…
A Kalshi billboard displaying New York City mayoral election odds in New York, US, on Monday, Oct. 27, 2024. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Kalshi bettors can now buy and sell tokenized versions of their wagers on Solana, the company told CNBC exclusively on Monday. It’s the latest sign the prediction market company…
SRINAGAR: Around “120 terrorists” positioned on 69 launch pads across the LoC are under close watch and the next phase of Operation Sindoor will be activated without hesitation if Pakistan attempts any “misadventure”, BSF Kashmir frontier IG Ashok Yadav said Monday.Yadav said during the border force’s annual briefing that Pakistan shifted several launch pads deeper…
