Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Tilray — The cannabis stock jumped about 3%, building on last week’s rally sparked by news that President Donald Trump would instruct federal agencies to give the drug a less-stringent Schedule III classification from its current Schedule I designation. Dollar General — Shares rose 3% after…
The government plans to incentivise states and districts to work closely with industry to identify and address local skill gaps, adopting a hyper-local approach to build a future-ready workforce, a senior official told PTI on Monday.Addressing the CII Smart Manufacturing Summit 2025, Secretary in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Debashree Mukherjee said the…
Strategy (MSTR), the largest publicly traded holder of bitcoin, for the second straight week has aggressively bought the dip in bitcoin BTC$89,557.77. The company acquired 10,645 bitcoin last week for $980.3 million, or an average price of $92,098 each. Total holdings rose to 671,268 BTC acquired for $50.33 billion, or an average of $74,972 per…
NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies are alarmed and closely monitoring the expansion of terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK). Satellite imagery and photographs reveal the construction of a new “dual-use facility” in the Neelum Valley district.Since November, LeT accelerated the infrastructure build-up of the new centre, named “Jamia Masjid Ibn Taymiyah wa Markaz,” being erected in…
JPMorgan Chase, a global bank with $4 trillion of assets under management, is rolling out a tokenized money-market fund on Ethereum, pushing deeper into blockchain-based finance amid growing demand from institutional clients, the Wall Street Journal reported first on Monday. The fund, dubbed My OnChain Net Yield Fund (MONY) is seeded with $100 million from…
The rupee on Monday weakened further to close at a fresh all-time low of 90.74 against the US dollar, after slipping as much as 90.80 during intra-day trade, amid lingering uncertainty over an India–US trade deal and continued foreign fund outflows, according to market participants.At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency opened at…
PM Modi with Jordanian counterpart Jafar Hassan (Photo: Screengrab/DD news) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Amman, the capital of Jordan, as part of his three-nation tour, which also includes Ethiopia and Oman.Jordanian Prime Minister Jafar Hassan received PM Modi at the airport. The visit to Jordan coincides with the 75th anniversary of…
Gold prices surged to a fresh all-time high in futures trade on Monday, rising Rs 1,874 to Rs 1,35,496 per 10 grams, supported by strong cues from global markets. On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), February gold contracts climbed 1.4%, extending their weekly gains to Rs 3,160, or 2.42%. The rally mirrored firm trends overseas,…
If you earn income beyond a fixed salary or have multiple income streams, December 15, 2025, is a tax deadline you cannot afford to overlook. Missing or underpaying advance tax does not trigger a one-time fine, but monthly interest penalties that continue to accumulate quietly until assessment.Under India’s “pay as you earn” framework, advance tax…
A weekend sell-off in a Nasdaq 100–linked perpetual futures market on EdgeX triggered roughly $13 million in liquidations, highlighting the risks of trading equity-index perps when underlying traditional markets are closed. On Saturday, a newly created wallet began executing a six-hour time-weighted average price (TWAP) order to short 398 XYZ100 contracts, worth roughly $10 million,…
