NEW DELHI: In a major booster shot for military capabilities in eastern Ladakh, India on Wednesday operationalised its new Nyoma airbase close to the frontier with China, even as a large Army exercise called ‘Poorvi Prachand Prahar’ is now under way in Arunachal Pradesh on the eastern front. The developments at the opposite ends of…
Former oncology biotech firm Leap Therapeutics (LPTX), which earlier this month raised $58.9 million in funding led by Winklevoss Capital to pivot to a digital treasury firm, announced the purchase of $50 million of Zcash ZEC$531.53. Alongside, the company is rebranding as Cypherpunk Technologies and will begin trading Thursday with new ticker CYPH, read a…
Altimeter Capital founder and CEO Brad Gerstner said Friday the recent pullback in technology shares is a healthy correction after a monthslong surge. “The Nasdaq’s gone up 40% off the bottom in April. The market was kind of looking for a reason for a breather,” Gerstner said on CNBC’s ” Money Movers .” “This week,…
NEW DELHI: A bureaucrat would have faced harsh music for not complying with SC’s order, but HCs of Allahabad, Punjab and Haryana, Kerala, Patna, Telangana, Gauhati and J&K and Ladakh got away lightly on Wednesday for not complying with the apex court’s May 5 order seeking details of time-lapses between reserving verdicts and pronouncement of…
NEW DELHI: Days after the blast near Red Fort, in which nine people were killed and 30 injured, security agencies were on Wednesday thrown into a tizzy after IndiGo received a message threatening that five airports, including Delhi and Mumbai, would be blown up within 24 hours.The bomb disposal squad, along with fire department personnel,…
Susan Collins, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Kansas City Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Moran, Wyoming, US, on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boston Federal Reserve President Susan Collins on Wednesday…
Miami Beach — When Shayne Coplan launched Polymarket, he didn’t have a team or major funding. What he had was a blockchain, a strong conviction and a laptop. “I’m a solo founder. I literally started with next to no money,” Coplan said during a conversation at Cantor Fitzgerald’s crypto, AI and blockchain conference in Miami…
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries’ partners are considering joining the arbitration that the Mukesh Ambani-run firm is planning to initiate against the government for slapping a $1.55 billion demand for “unfairly enriching” by producing natural gas belonging to ONGC. Calgary-based Niko Resources Ltd, which holds 10 pct interest in RIL-operated KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block, said the partners…
PUNE: Indonesia-based leading startup GO-JEK on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Pune-based mobile application developer Leftshift for upscaling its product development, design and engineering platforms. This is the fourth Indian start-up acquisition by the Indonesian startup. “Our partnership with Leftshift over the last one year has been an amazing experience, they…
NEW DELHI: Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group’s private equity firm has invested $12 million in real estate brokerage firm Square Yards, the realty firm said today. The brokerage firm will use the proceeds to strengthen its distribution network. Square Yards, an online to offline (O2O) real estate transaction player, has “raised US $12 million investment from…
