Navi Mumbai airport opens today with 30 domestic flights (Picture credit: PTI) MUMBAI: Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) opens to commercial operations on Thursday after years of missed deadlines, opening a second gateway for air travel in the Mumbai region. The day will see four airlines operating about 30 domestic flights at India’s newest greenfield…
PATNA/NEW DELHI: Nitish Kumar is set to take oath for an unprecedented 10th time as Bihar CM on Thursday after leading his party, JDU, and the governing bloc, NDA, to their second-best performance in the state, proving his resilience and popularity in an election where he was perceived as a vulnerable link in the alliance.Nitish…
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing conflict in West Asia and its impact on energy supplies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday warned of possible attempts by “certain elements” to exploit the situation to endanger India’s internal security. He, however, assured that the security and law-and-order agencies were already in a state of high alert to…
Mexico has approved steep tariff hikes of up to 50% from the year 2026 on a wide range of imports from India, China and several other Asian countries in order to protect the national industry and producers, Reuters reported.The bill passed by the Senate on Wednesday with 76 votes in favour, 5 against and 35…
Perpetuals-focused Ethereum-based Layer 2 decentralized exchange (DEX) Lighter has announced the debut of its native cryptocurrency, the Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT), to align traders, builders, and backers as it looks to blend traditional markets with DeFi. The LIT token supply is divided evenly: 50% to the ecosystem, 50% to the team and investors. An immediate…
Crypto platform Bullish (BLSH), which operates an institutional-only crypto exchange business, climbed into the top three centralized crypto exchanges by spot trading volume for the first time in February, overtaking Coinbase (COIN) as trading activity across the industry slowed, according to CoinDesk Data’s February Exchange Review. Spot trading volumes on Bullish, which is the parent…
India and Oman on Thursday signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) that will give duty-free access to over 98% of India’s exports to Oman.India agreed to cut tariffs on select Omani products such as dates, marbles and petrochemicals. The agreement is expected to come into force from the first quarter of the next calendar…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday backed West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections, asserting that the BJP’s “conspiracy” would fail. He also predicted that the BJP would lose the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in 2027.Speaking to reporters in Lucknow, Akhilesh Yadav said, “In West Bengal, Mamata…
The U.S. Federal Reserve and other regulators told bankers that they need to maintain the same amount of capital to back tokenized securities as they do regulator securities. “The technologies used to issue and transact in a security do not generally impact its capital treatment,” according to the agencies, also including the Office of the…
Only weeks ago, the interest rate debate in the U.S. centered on just how many Federal Reserve rate cuts there would be in 2026. But as the economy shows only faint signs of slowing, inflation remains above the central bank’s 2% target, and oil prices are up 50% in three weeks, rate traders are beginning…
