The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has urged the Centre to adopt a wide-ranging set of reforms in the Union Budget 2026-27 to reinforce India’s investment-led growth cycle and sustain its position as one of the world’s fastest-expanding major economies, PTI reported.In a detailed submission for the upcoming Budget, CII recommended raising central capital expenditure…
Key takeaways HashKey is aiming to become Hong Kong’s first fully crypto-native IPO by listing 240.57 million shares under the city’s virtual asset regulatory regime. The business extends beyond a spot exchange by combining trading, custody, institutional staking, asset management and tokenization into a single regulated platform. Revenue is growing, but the company is still…
NEW DELHI: Two gunmen opened fire at Sydney’s Bondi Beach which killed at least 11 people, prompting a major police and emergency response; one shooter is reported dead as well and the other critical, with multiple injured receiving treatment. Back home, the BJP appointed Nitin Nabin as its national working president, replacing JP Nadda. Meanwhile,…
India is poised to enter a decisive phase of economic expansion that could redefine long-term wealth creation, according to Motilal Oswal Financial Services’ 30th Wealth Creation Study, which projects a sharp acceleration in the country’s economic and consumption landscape over the next 17 years, ANI reported.The study draws a parallel with the last growth cycle,…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday attacked the BJP and the Election Commission, alleging “vote chori” and irregularities in the electoral process, asserting that democratic institutions were being “crushed” and daring the ruling party to contest elections on ballot paper.Addressing the Congress’s ‘Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhor’ rally at Ramlila Maidan, Priyanka said,…
The Right to Disconnect Bill, 2025 — a private member’s bill introduced in Parliament last week — has reopened the conversation on work-life boundaries, even though experts say it is unlikely to become law anytime soon. The legislation, moved by NCP MP Supriya Sule, proposes giving employees the legal right to ignore work-related communication outside…
Bitcoin’s long-debated four-year cycle is still playing out, but the forces behind it have shifted away from the halving toward politics and liquidity, according to Markus Thielen, head of research at 10x Research. Speaking on The Wolf Of All Streets Podcast, Thielen argued that the idea of the four-year cycle being “broken” misses the point….
NEW DELHI: West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday termed the chaos at football star Lionel Messi’s event at Salt Lake stadium an episode that “brought untold shame” to Kolkata and football lovers, and called for strict accountability, including a judicial inquiry, arrests of organisers and a standard operating procedure (SOP) for managing large…
The combined market capitalisation of eight of India’s 10 most-valued companies fell by Rs 79,129.21 crore last week, with Bajaj Finance and ICICI Bank taking the sharpest hit amid a broadly weak trend in equities, PTI reported. The BSE benchmark dropped 444.71 points, or 0.51%, during the week. Among the top-10 pack, only Reliance Industries…
Screen grab: youtube/CGTN Europe PIB, the government’s fact-checking agency, has dismissed viral claims regarding China’s “large-scale military build-up near Arunachal Pradesh”. “The video has no relation to any exercise on the Indian border,” it said in a post on X. The claims had triggered concerns about renewed tensions along the Line of Actual Control.“Several social…
