Tamil Cinema Icon, AVM Saravanan, Passes Away At 86 CHENNAI: M Saravanan, the soft-spoken steward of AVM Productions who nurtured Tamil cinema through more than half a century of changes while helping shape careers of its greatest stars like Kamal Haasan, Sivaji Ganesan, Vyjayanthimala and Sivakumar, died Thursday in Chennai of age-related ailments. He was…
Bitcoin BTC$92,190.78 reversed its overnight climb to $94,000, dipping back to $92,000 during U.S. hours Thursday, continuing choppy rangebound action after the wild moves first lower, than higher earlier int he week. Ethereum’s ether ETH$3,126.92 held up relatively well, down only 0.7% on the day and changing hands above $3,100 in the afternoon hours. Among…
RAIPUR: Maoist casualties in Wednesday’s operation by security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region rose to 18 after six more bodies, including wanted PLGA commander Vella Modiyam, were retrieved Thursday from the gunfight site along the Dantewada-Bijapur border.Nine of the slain guerrillas, who had a combined bounty of Rs 1.3 crore on their heads, were women….
J&K CM Omar Abdullah (PTI) SRINAGAR: Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah “resides in the hearts of people” whether his Dec 5 birth anniversary is declared a holiday or not, his grandson and J&K CM Omar Abdullah said Thursday, five years after the date tied to the National Conference (NC) founder was taken off the list of public…
A new bridge connecting Base, the layer 2 incubated by Coinbase, and the Solana blockchain is now live on mainnet, giving users and developers a way to move assets directly between the two ecosystems. Secured by Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Coinbase, the Base-Solana bridge enables trading and usage of Solana-based tokens, including SOL…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday expressed his heartfelt condolences over the passing of former Mizoram governor and senior Advocate Swaraj Kaushal.In a post shared on X, Kejriwal described Kaushal as a “distinguished legal luminary” whose contributions to public life and the legal fraternity would be remembered for years…
BENGALURU: Bengaluru-based electric motorcycle maker Ultraviolette has raised $45 million in fresh growth capital from Zoho Corporation and European investment firm Lingotto as part of its ongoing Series E round.The company said the funding will be used to scale production and sales of its flagship F77 electric sportbike and the new X‑47 crossover, and to…
File photo (Picture credit: ANI) The Indian rupee’s slide past Rs 90 per US dollar for the first time ever has shifted sentiment in the equity market and raised fresh concerns for investors. The breach of this psychological level has come on the back of weak capital flows, steady demand for dollars from importers, and…
A cryptocurrency investor has made a donation of 9 million pounds ($12 million) to U.K. political party Reform, according to a filing by the Electoral Commission on Thursday. The donation by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based entrepreneur who has invested in stablecoin issuer Tether and crypto exchange Bitfinex, according to a Financial Times report, has been…
India’s central bank will allow the rupee to weaken as the country’s external position comes under strain from slowing dollar inflows, widening trade pressures and heavy foreign selling in domestic markets, according to sources cited by news agency Reuters. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which had been actively supporting the currency until last month…
