Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah (Pic credit: PTI) SRINAGAR: J&K’s Omar-Abdullah-led government has started dipping its toes in “hydropower tourism” with plans to allow hydel electricity generators to set up on-site tourism facilities as an incentive to attract more investors into such projects.J&K’s Draft Hydro Power Policy, 2025, proposes tourism infrastructure in hydel…
XRP saw a surge after Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse revealed that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is no longer pursuing its appeal in the ongoing legal case against the payments company. As a result, XRP’s price jumped nearly 11%, reaching $2.52.Speaking at the Digital Assets Summit in New York on Wednesday morning, Garlinghouse…
French Champagne producers do nearly a billion dollars’ worth of business with the United States every year. But on Friday in Épernay, the world capital of sparkling wine, the only number on anybody’s lips was 200. That was the percent tariff that President Trump has threatened to impose on Champagne and other European wines and…
PUNE: Twelve-hour classes all-year round, creative writing skills that outshine those of peers, and multiplication tables memorised up to 1,000. A school in a Nashik backwater is creating ripples with all that and more, drawing Maharashtra education minister Dada Bhuse to the remote tribal hamlet within weeks of taking charge.The whiz-kids at the zilla parishad…