Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), a new development group formed by the former core team of the Electric Coin Company (ECC), has raised more than $25 million in seed funding to continue building the privacy-focused cryptocurrency ecosystem. The round drew support from Paradigm, a16z crypto, Winklevoss Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Cypherpunk Technologies, Chapter One, Balaji Srinivasan…
The Times of India’s ‘Let’s D-Stress’ campaign aims to initiate a nationwide conversation around digital stress, its consequences, and practical ways to address it. The objective of the initiative is to turn awareness of digital behaviour into action, leveraging science and technology to help individuals reclaim attention, productivity, and mental wellbeing in an increasingly distracted…
MUMBAI: Reliance Retail has acquired beauty and wellness brand Pahadi Local along with other business assets from Pahadi Goodness, it said Monday. Founded in 2018, Pahadi Local produces Himalayan-inspired personal care products and works with women-led self-help groups in Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh. Reliance Retail said it will support the brand’s expansion using its wide…
NEW DELHI: From states as afar as Bihar and Uttarakhand, home minister Amit Shah is leading BJP’s push to put the issue of infiltrators on the front burner with an eye on not only the upcoming assembly elections, especially in West Bengal and Assam where it has a certain resonance, but also on shaping the…
NEW DELHI: Amid complaints over “predatory and unnecessary charging” by shipping lines, the maritime regulator has invoked power on Monday to seek transparency in pricing as part of efforts to ensure that there is no profiteering.In a circular, DG Shipping has asked the shipping companies and agents to “refrain from predatory, non-transparent and opportunistic pricing…
NEW DELHI: The average health insurance premium for individuals shot up 23% between 2022-23 and 2024-25, putting pressure on the common man, although govt cited multiple reasons for the rise. In 2024-25, the premium was pegged at Rs 11,188 crore.The increase is seen to be steeper since the Covid-19 pandemic as claims rose, but latest…
If the crypto industry manages its top priority to get its market structure legislation through the U.S. Senate and to the desk of President Donald Trump, he might not sign it if he holds true to threats he’s been making to withhold his signature from any other legislation before the elections bill. Trump, in the…
Noted Leftist historian K N Panikkar, who critiqued colonial historiography’s simplistic view of culture and highlighted how indigenous intellectuals offered an alternative paradigm of modernity, passed away at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. He would have turned 90 next month.Panikkar, affectionately called KN by his colleagues, belonged to a select group of historians…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Oil stocks – Oil stocks traded higher as the commodity surged due to the ongoing Iran War. U.S. crude briefly topped $110 per barrel overnight, hitting levels not seen since mid-2022. Talos Energy rose 5%, while Northern Oil and Gas and ConocoPhillips gained 3% and 2%,…
US stock markets tumbled on Monday as a sharp spike in oil prices following the Middle East conflict rattled investors and raised fears about the resilience of the global economy.The S&P 500 fell 1.3%, coming off its worst week since October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 721 points, or 1.5%, to 9:35 a.m. Eastern…
