NEW DELHI: At a polling booth in north Delhi’s Majnu Ka Tilla, Reshma pressed the button on an electronic voting machine on Wednesday with a sense of pride as a smile spread across her face.For the first time in her life, the 50-year-old woman cast her vote – not just to choose a candidate, but…
Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide in Manhattan in December, has been hired by one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms to join its “American Dynamism” team. Mr. Penny, a Long Island native and former architecture student, will work in a group that supports American interests,…
After about a week of conflicting signals, the new Trump administration announced that the long-threatened 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico would take effect on Saturday, the first salvo of what is expected to be a trade war between the allies. [Read: Trump Will Hit Mexico, Canada and China With Tariffs] When…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday announced that Dibrugarh will be developed as the second capital of the state after Dispur within the next three years.During the occasion of Republic Day, Sarma said that the government will shift the Assam assembly in this city on the banks of Brahmaputra river.“Today is…
US President Donald Trump announced forming an internal committee in a bid to advance America’s position in the world of cryptocurrencies. The executive order also prohibited the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and pledged to remove any unnecessary regulations.Trump also highlighted the upward momentum of cryptocurrencies, and said they are “going up.”About the…
Thousands of customers have reported problems getting their banking done with Capital One because of a disruption accessing online services that began on Wednesday and persisted into the weekend. On at least two different occasions on Friday afternoon, nearly 4,000 customers each time reported issues completing transactions with Capital One, a credit card and banking…
Loud explosions were heard over the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early Saturday, as the authorities warned of incoming ballistic missiles. An air-raid alert had just ended when booms were heard throughout the city at 5:50 a.m. local time. Seconds later, air-raid sirens began to wail. The country’s air-defense systems were working, the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko,…
MUMBAI: Startups and venture capital (VC) firms are seeking an easier tax regime and measures to boost availability of domestic capital in the upcoming Budget. Parity between foreign and domestic funds in terms of taxation is required to attract foreign investors to Indian alternative investment funds (AIFs), said Siddarth Pai, founding partner at 3one4 Capital…
NEW DELHI: Wipro‘s consolidated net profit for the December quarter stood at Rs 3,354 crore, up by 24.4 per cent from the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The IT major’s operational revenue increased modestly by 0.5 per cent growth, reaching Rs 22,319 crore.The company projected the revenue from the IT services in the range…
NEW DELHI: The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) on Wednesday imposed Stage-IV restrictions of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) in Delhi-NCR after pollution levels rose to the ‘severe’ category. The CAQM in its order said that the AQI of Delhi rose sharply to 386 on Wednesday and is expected to breach the 400…