MUMBAI: BJP candidate Makrand Narwekar, brother of state assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar, is among the richest candidates in the forthcoming BMC elections, with assets worth Rs 124 crore declared in his affidavit, report Richa Pinto & Hemali Chhapia. The 47-year-old two-time corporator, listed as an advocate in his affidavit, purchased 27 land parcels in Alibaug…
The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the decentralized blockchain ledger, fell slightly to 146.4 trillion on Thursday, in the first difficulty adjustment of 2026. “The next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment is estimated to take place on Jan 22, 2026, 04:08:12 AM UTC, increasing the Bitcoin mining…
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat HC ruled that terms and conditions agreed during the divorce are fully enforceable and executable by a family court, which earlier refused to direct a divorced woman to relinquish her rights in a joint property with her ex-husband. The couple involved in this case married in 2008 in Ahmedabad. They had a daughter…
BENGALURU: India took a formal step towards building its own space station, with Isro inviting Indian industry to develop the first module of the proposed Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS). Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, under the Department of Space, issued an expression of interest (EoI) seeking qualified Indian aerospace manufacturers to build two sets of the…
The firms, federally regulated by the CFTC, were told to shut down Tennessee-based activity, refund deposits, and void open contracts by Jan. 31. Source link
BADLAPUR: Facing political backlash following his appointment by BJP as a co-opted councillor in the Kulgaon-Badlapur municipal council, Tushar Apte, one of the accused in the 2024 Badlapur school sexual abuse case, resigned from the post Saturday. He was appointed Friday, reports Pradeep Gupta. Apte was booked in the sexual abuse case for allegedly failing…
Ajit Pawar with Supriya Sule and other party members in Pune, Saturday PUNE: Estranged cousins Ajit Pawar and Supriya Sule came together for the first time on a political platform on Saturday to release the joint manifesto of NCP and NCP (SP) for the Pune civic polls nearly two-and-a-half years after the split in the…
CoinDesk sat down with Robinhood’s head of crypto, Johann Kerbrat, to get an update on its upcoming layer-2 network, its tokenized stocks program, and its staking offerings. Source link
JAMMU: A drone from Pakistan dropped a consignment of arms and ammunition in a border village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district on Friday, police said on Saturday.“Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of BSF and special operations group of police launched a search operation in Paloora village of Rajpura area on Friday night….
Opposition-ruled states Punjab and Telangana on Saturday sought additional fiscal support from the Centre in the Union Budget 2026-27, arguing that the proposed Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) will place a heavier financial burden on states due to its revised cost-sharing formula, PTI reported.The demands were raised at…
