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This year, Microsoft’s India president Anant Maheshwari left the Seattle-headquartered firm’s India operations after seven years to return to technology conglomerate Honeywell, where he worked between 2004 and 2016.

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By Ankur Banerjee

Berghain in Berlin, or Output in NYC, or Zouk in Singapore. It's the grandfatherly sounding North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that is, almost 75 years after being founded, trending and trending hard as #Nato. Marx — of the Groucho variety — had famously said that he refused to join any club that would have him as a member.

The global project focused on digital identity and finance, Worldcoin (WLD), has recently introduced World ID 2.0 in Singapore, in the latest sign of growing global interest in proof of personhood and the Worldcoin project, allowing users to verify their humanness at an Orb.

OSLO (Reuters) -Denmark's Maersk said on Wednesday it has scheduled several dozen container vessels to travel via the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the next several weeks, in a further sign that global shipping firms are returning to the route.

Hashed, South Korea’s largest crypto venture, has invested 36.8 billion won ($28.44 million) in blockchain projects this year. 

By Ankur Banerjee

By Rae Wee

Mumbai airport reportedly charged an extortionate amount for a basic masala dosa. As shown in an Instagram clip, the restaurant at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport priced its masala dosa at Rs 600. The video shows the restaurant's price list, which prices a basic masala dosa with buttermilk at Rs 600. A benne khali dosa costs even more — Rs 620.

NMDC Share Price Today: Shares of public-sector undertaking (PSU) NMDC were locked in at over four per cent upper circuit at ₹204.90 apiece to hit its 52-week high mark on Tuesday, December 26. The shares of the iron ore company rallied earlier today after iron ore futures hit an 18-year mark. Iron ore rallied to its highest since June 2022, showing Beijing’s efforts to stem the property market’s decline in recent months may be paying dividends.

By Rae Wee

Investing.com-- Most Asian currencies moved in a tight range on Tuesday, while the dollar hovered near five-month lows as soft U.S. inflation data spurred increasing bets on interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve in 2024. 

By Florence Tan

By Ankur Banerjee

The Telcoin app recently faced a series of targeted attacks draining several wallets, causing a sharp 65% decline in the price of Telcoin ($TEL) for a brief period. The exploited vulnerability is estimated to have resulted in a loss of around $1.3 million.

Experion Developers, the Indian unit of Singapore's Experion Holdings, plans to launch projects with a sale value of over ₹10,000 crore next year as it has completed five land acquisitions worth ₹2,100 crore, CEO Nagaraju Routhu told ET. The company plans to launch projects in all five land parcels it has acquired recently, in addition to acquiring more land in the NCR and other cities. «We are expected to cross ₹1,000 crore in revenue in FY24, and we hope to more than double that number next year given the kind of launches we have planned.

Long-haul flights are generally considered to be those eight hours and longer, while any that stretch past a grueling 16 hours are nicknamed «ultra long-haul.» The longest nonstop commercial flights currently available include New York to Singapore (18 hours and 50 minutes; 9,530 miles) and Perth, Australia, to London (17 hours and 45 minutes; 9,010 miles). Qantas Airways, Australia's national airline, plans to operate two even longer direct flights in 2025: Sydney to London and Sydney to New York — routes that will take up to 20 hours. For travelers, flying at 35,000 feet for an extended period of time comes with its own set of challenges, including little space for movement, dry cabin air and time zone changes. Although extreme long-haul air travel never gets easier, there are some things you can do — before, during and after your flight — to make it slightly less terrible. Jennifer Bagnall, 40, a communications executive who often flies between her home in Los Angeles and Sydney, believes reframing the experience in your mind is an essential first step. «Instead of approaching it as a long stretch of time in a confined space without escape, I think about how it's a long stretch of uninterrupted time with no responsibilities and where I can't be contacted,» she said. «It's so rare you get that.»

India’s real estate market received private equity (PE) investments of USD 3.0 billion from 23 deals in 2023 (January 01 – December12, 2023), as against USD 5.3 bn recorded in 2022, according to Knight Frank India.

active cases rose to 3,742, according to the latest government data. A new strain "JN.1", classified as a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week, has been detected in India.

Asian Para Games 2023 in Hangzhou. They ended their campaign in fifth place on the medals table with 111 medals — 29 gold, 31 silver and 51 bronze. The Asian Para Games 2023 was India's best-ever medal tally at the continental multi-sport event after passing the previous record of the 2018 Asian Para Games, where they clinched 72 medals, including 15 gold, from the 2018 Asian Para Games. Only China, Iran, Japan and the Republic of Korea were ahead of India in the medal tally of the multi-sport event.