NEW DELHI: A special discussion may have been held on 150 years of Vande Mataram on Monday, but the Bengal assembly elections – scheduled next year – took centre stage as slogans like “Bihar ki jeet hamari hai, ab Bengal ki baari hai” were raised by NDA MPs in the Parliament as Prime Minister Narendra…
Gold prices inched up to Rs 1,30,638 per 10 grams on Monday, even as silver futures slipped to Rs 1,82,600 per kg, with investors turning cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve’s final policy meeting of the year. On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), February 2026 gold futures rose by Rs 176, or 0.13%, to…
The world now has more billionaires than ever before, with their combined wealth hitting record high this year! In 2025, the global billionaire club hit an all-time high. UBS counted 2,919 billionaires on April 4– the largest number since the bank began tracking the data in 1995. Their combined wealth reached $15.8 trillion, a 13%…
US President Donald Trump is once again floating the idea that tariffs could one day replace federal income taxes in the United States, reviving a proposal that has been the focus of his economic approach since the 2024 presidential campaign.Trump claims that the revenue generated from tariffs is rising fast enough to eventually eliminate the…
Shares of Coreweave (CRWV) fell 8% on Monday after the AI infrastructure company announced plans to borrow $2 billion from investors by issuing debt that can be turned into common stock. The convertible debt offering could rise to $2.3 billion if the $300 million underwriter greenshoe option is exercised in full. While pricing hasn’t yet…
India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has been recognised as the world’s largest retail real-time payment system by transaction volume, accounting for nearly half of all such transactions globally, the government told Parliament on Monday.Citing an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report titled ‘Growing Retail Digital Payments (The Value of Interoperability)’ dated June 2025, the government said…
NEW DELHI: India and Australia on Monday deepened their education and skills partnership with the University of New South Wales (UNSW), ranked among the world’s top 20, receiving a Letter of Intent to establish a campus in India, becoming the fifth Australian university to get such approval. The two sides also sanctioned Rs 9.84 crore…
US stocks hovered close to record levels on Monday as investors stayed cautious ahead of a key Federal Reserve decision, even as select stocks moved sharply on takeover news and index reshuffles.The S&P 500 was largely flat in early trade and sat about 0.3% below its all-time high set in October, while the Nasdaq Composite…
IBM on Monday announced a major acquisition to strengthen its artificial intelligence capabilities, agreeing to buy data streaming platform Confluent in a cash deal valued at $11 billion.The US technology major said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all issued and outstanding common stock of Confluent Inc. for $31 per share in cash,…
