NEW DELHI: The focus has been on shrimps and textiles, but Indian carpets and rugs have seen a bruising year with exports slipping nearly 9% to $735 million between April and Nov. Lowering of tariffs is expected to come as a boost for the highly-labour intensive sector.While overall exports are down 4% to $1.3 billion…
New York — WisdomTree’s crypto business is no longer an experiment but core to the firm’s strategy and on the verge of turning profitable, CEO Jonathan Steinberg said in a fireside chat at the Ondo Summit in New York on Tuesday. “We want to continue to scale,” Steinberg said. “Last year, we went from like…
Transactional Model Of Relationship NEW DELHI: The India-US trade deal allows both sides to get the relationship back on to an even keel, but whether it can lead to long-term stability in ties remains open to question.The importance of the agreement, even if conditional, cannot be overstated as it allows India and the US to…
Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty Images Bitcoin briefly dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price in nearly 16 months. The world’s oldest cryptocurrency sank as low as $72,884.38, falling more than 6% on the day. That’s its lowest level since Nov. 6, 2024, when the token traded at $68,898. Bitcoin…
PM Modi with US President Donald Trump (File photo) NEW DELHI: A day after announcements by PM Modi and US President Donald Trump that the two sides had reached a trade agreement, the govt asserted that sensitive sectors such as agriculture and dairy have been protected and labour-intensive sectors such as textiles, leather, marine products…
$9 billion bitcoin sale by a single Galaxy client reignites quantum debate A single Galaxy Digital (GLXY) client sold $9 billion worth of bitcoin last year, and quantum computing may have been the reason for it. The sale, CEO Mike Novogratz said during the company’s Q4 2025 earnings call, helped drag crypto markets as the…
JAMMU: Parties across the political divide in J&K have welcomed the announcement on Tuesday by railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw that three proposed railway projects in the state have been put on hold for now following opposition from the state govt and MPs, who have argued that the track alignments could damage apple orchards.Vaishnaw said there…
If you bought Cisco Systems on March 27, 2000, you’re finally whole. After nearly 26 years in the wilderness, shares of Cisco have climbed above their dotcom bubble intraday peak, closing a long chapter for what was once the era’s ultimate poster child for internet excess. The stock eclipsed the record close it reached last…
India and the United States have agreed on a framework for a bilateral trade deal under which Washington will reduce tariffs on Indian goods to 18% from the current 50%.The announcement is significant as the US had imposed steep duties on Indian exports entering American markets, effective August 27, 2025. ‘India-US Trade Deal Removes Competitive…
Ether’s weekend slide at the turn of February revived a familiar question: is the Ethereum network falling behind newer competitors or struggling to justify its valuation? As ETH plunged by as much as 17% alongside most of crypto, skeptics wondered whether this was a warning sign that the protocol’s dominance may be eroding. Yet inside…
