Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs (GS) said improving regulation and the emergence of crypto use cases beyond trading are underpinning a constructive outlook for the industry, particularly for infrastructure companies that support the ecosystem without being as exposed to market cycles. Regulatory uncertainty remains the main barrier for institutions, and that backdrop is shifting rapidly,…
TRICHY: Union home minister Amit Shah’s two-day visit to poll-bound Tamil Nadu ended on an inconclusive note Monday, with no apparent breakthrough in BJP’s efforts to strengthen NDA in the state. There was anticipation that Shah would initiate alliance talks with potential partners, PMK and DMDK during the visit, while also seeking a resolution to…
Fundstrat Global Advisors co-founder Tom Lee said Monday Bitcoin BTC$94,203.08 has not yet peaked and could reach a new all-time high as soon as this month, doubling down on a bullish crypto and equity outlook during a CNBC Squawk Box appearance. “I don’t think bitcoin has peaked yet,” Lee said. “We were overly optimistic about…
LUCKNOW: Parents of the resident doctor of King George’s Medical University, who has been accused of sexually exploiting a colleague and pressuring her for religious conversion for marriage, were arrested from a rented flat in Thakurganj area of Lucknow on Monday.DCP (west zone) Vishwajeet Srivastava claimed Salimuddin (70) and his wife Khateeja (67), parents of…
KOLKATA/RAMPURHAT: Sunali Khatun, the pregnant Birbhum woman who was banished to Bangladesh as an illegal immigrant and forced to spend six months in a jail, gave birth to a son on Monday at a state-run hospital in Bengal. “For us, this is nothing short of a miracle. The child was born healthy despite Sunali being…
President Donald Trump’s campaign to cut Democrats out of U.S. regulatory work has set up an unusual situation at the two agencies that will have the most say over how the federal government handles crypto: A handful of Republican crypto advocates are entirely in charge of both. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission just said…
CM Yogi Adityanath meets PM Modi, JP Nadda and Amit Shah LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath met PM Narendra Modi and BJP brass in New Delhi on Monday amid buzz over the recently concluded SIR of electoral rolls and the much-anticipated reshuffle of the state cabinet.An official said Yogi discussed the SIR exercise, in…
Abhishek Banerjee; Sunali Khatun NEW DELHI: Sunali Khatun, the pregnant woman who was repatriated from Bangladesh on the Supreme Court’s directions after being deported on suspicion of being a Bangladeshi national, has delivered a baby boy in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.In a series of posts on X, Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee…
Bitcoin BTC$94,301.40 rose to its highest level since mid-November, gaining more than 3% to $94,400 during Monday’s trading session, the largest percentage advance in more than a month. The rally, which brought the asset closer to $95,000 — seen by some analysts as a key level to gain further momentum — was led, though, by…
BENGALURU: For much of 2025, artificial intelligence did not enter people’s lives through dramatic product launches or viral demos. Instead, it slipped in quietly, taking over small, repetitive tasks that many users barely noticed. What began as casual experimentation with chatbots has, for many, evolved into a set of everyday tools that now handle remembering,…
