NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet is likely to take up the AGR (Adjudted Gross Revenue) relief matter for Vodafone Idea on Wednesday, a measure that is seen as a lifeline for the loss-making telco, which has debt over of Rs 2 lakh crore. Vodafone Idea’s AGR dues are understood to be around Rs 83,000 crore,…
Metaplanet (3350), a Tokyo-listed investment and operating company focused on bitcoin treasury management, bought another 4,279 bitcoin BTC$88,248.95 in the fourth quarter, spending a total of $451 million, it said in a post on X. The purchase, at an average price of $105,412, took its total to 35,102 BTC, the fourth largest of any publicly…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said it is mandatory to grant a hearing to the victim while deciding bail to an accused under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, failing which the bail would be deemed legally unsustainable. Interpreting Section 15A(5) of the SC/ST (POA) Act, a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan…
Agartala: Tripura Police, in a joint operation with Assam Police STF and central agencies, arrest suspected JMB offshoot member Jagir Miah from a border village, in Agartala. (PTI Photo) GUWAHATI: Assam police busted a module of Imam Mahmuder Kafila (IMK) with the arrest of 11 alleged operatives of the Bangladesh-based Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) offshoot formed…
Long-term holders (LTH) of bitcoin BTC$88,429.55 have shifted back into accumulation for the first time since July. LTHs, defined as entities that have held bitcoin for at least 155 days, have accumulated roughly 33,000 BTC on a 30-day net basis, according to onchain data analysts checkonchain. Selling from LTHs has been one of the two…
JALPAIGURI: Grief over former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia’s death on Tuesday travelled well beyond Dhaka, reaching Jalpaiguri, a north Bengal town nearly 434 km away, where memories of her early life still lingered. For the people here, it was a loss of one of their own.Khaleda Zia was born in Jalpaiguri in 1946 and spent…
2025 is drawing to an end with few crypto market stories more dramatic than the Oct. 10 “flash crash,” when bitcoin BTC$88,304.52 plunged $12,000, or nearly 10%, in minutes. The meltdown triggered more than $19 billion in liquidations in just 24 hours, followed by a trader-circulated “cascade warning” and a staggering $500 billion wiped from…
Motta Maadi Music Sober Party, started by Chennai-based musician Badhri Narayanan Seshadri, is a New Year’s concert for teetotaller For years, New Year’s Eve came with a familiar script: you drink, you party, you recover (or regret it) later. But a growing number of Indians are now opting for a ‘sober’ start to 2026. “There…
A handshake and an embrace on Tuesday marked an end to the Dec 22 assault case at Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) involving sacked senior resident Dr Raghav Narula and patient Arjun Panwar. Narula and Panwar, in the office of CM’s principal media adviser Naresh Chauhan, apologised to each other and to the people…
APT$1.6893 posted rose in the past 24 hours, advancing 1.3% to $1.73. The token maintained tight correlation with broader crypto markets throughout the period, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The model showed that volume patterns revealed underlying institutional accumulation. Price action accelerated during the end of the period as APT pierced previous resistance…
