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Al Jazeera report, teams across India’s political parties, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Congress, are deploying deepfakes to influence voters. In recent months, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which governs Tamil Nadu, has used AI to resurrect its iconic leader M Karunanidhi from the dead, using lifelike videos of the former movie writer and veteran politician at campaign events. Between March and May, India’s nearly one billion voters will pick their next national government in the world’s, and history’s, biggest elections.

Red Sea crisis has led to a sustained disruption in trade routes. This delays timely delivery of goods due to attacks by Houthi rebels in Yemen on cargo ships plying waters connecting Asia with Europe and the United States (US). As a result, traffic is being forced away from the Suez Canal and redirected around the tip of Africa, the market intelligence and analytics arm of CRISIL said in a research note. These developments hold the potential to significantly impact players within the capital goods and fertiliser sectors. Commenting on the Capital goods sector, CRISIL said, “The ripple effect of such disruptions extends to various facets of the industry, potentially leading to an undesirable inventory build-up. This accumulation can, in turn, exert pressure on the operational efficiency of engineering, procurement and construction companies.”

Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died last week. Western leaders have expressed outrage at the news from Russian authorities that Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent domestic critic, had fallen unconscious and died in prison on Friday.

Across America, people are twice as likely to know about fintech firms like Robinhood and Chime than they are to be aware of the latest services from well-established companies like JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity and Vanguard.

Former Celsius Network’s CEO Alex Mashinsky has waived any potential conflicts of interest that may arise from choosing similar legal representation as Sam Bankman-Fried.

₹25.56 apiece on the BSE. Around 40 crore equity shares of Yes Bank were traded on Wednesday as against its one-week average volumes of 43 crore. Yes Bank share price hit a 52-week high of ₹32.81 apiece February 09, 2024.

BSE Sensex ended lower by 434.31 points or 0.59% at 72,623.09 level while the Nifty 50 closed at 22,055.05 level, down 141.90 points or 0.64%. On the broader market front,the Nifty Small Cap 100 dropped 1.04% and the Nifty Midcap 100 indexes was down by 1.25%.

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UBS has updated its predictions for when the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates, moving the expected timing from May to June. Consequently, the broker now projects a total reduction of 75 basis points (bps) in interest rates for 2024, a decrease from its earlier estimate of 100 bps.

Effective from 8 April, O'Connor will be responsible for driving the firm's strategy, «reinvigorating» its product suit and leading the team into a «new, growth-focused era». Prior to joining Global X, he was global head of ETF product at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He was originally hired by the firm in 2017 to build its US fund strategist model portfolio business. Global X ETFs CIO to exit amid senior management exodus O'Connor also spent over a decade at State Street Global Advisors, where he led product and capital markets teams for the SPDR ETF franchise. Hyeon-Joo Park...

Hirotake Yano, who founded the 100-yen retail chain Daiso, Japan’s equivalent of the dollar store, has died

Bitcoin (BTC)  exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States have witnessed a remarkable surge in trading volume, reaching the highest levels since their debut last month. 

Bitcoin price holds above $52,000, marking nearly a 1% rise on Wednesday, sets the stage for a notable journey ahead. This surge comes on the heels of the U.S.’s nod to Bitcoin ETFs by financial behemoths Fidelity and BlackRock, propelling Bitcoin’s market valuation back to the $1 trillion mark.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he’s all for an XRP ETF, indicating that investors will appreciate the diversification it would bring.

Stablecoin issuer Circle will stop supporting USDC on the TRON blockchain, as part of concerns under its risk management framework.

A coordinated international operation has targeted one of the leading ransomware operator group LockBit, freezing over 200 cryptocurrency accounts linked to their activities.

Swan Energy is one such stock that has delivered phenomenal returns to its long-term shareholders. Also Read: Hindalco shares jump 5% after Novelis files for IPO in the US The company's shares, valued at ₹120 apiece in November 2021, have surged by 518% to reach the current price of ₹742 per share. A significant portion of this increase occurred over the past five months, with the stock rallying from ₹287 per share to its current level, delivering a massive return of 160%.

India and the US are looking into exciting joint science and technology projects to further expand their relationship under the guidance of the top leadership of the two countries, according to a top American scientist. Describing the US-India Partnership as a very important one for the Biden-Harris administration and also in Congress, Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the National Science Foundation said there's total bipartisan support for a strong partnership between two great democracies, the US and India. Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off his visit to Washington DC, for the historic State Visit, with a trip to the National Science Foundation headquarters in Alexandria wherein he interacted with the scientific community and the young scientist minds.

Bitcoin might retest a record high of nearly $69,000 was almost risible. Fast forward 12 months and some studies now point to just that possibility. Technical analysis comparing the largest digital asset’s rally to $52,000 with past surges spits out projections of more gains in coming weeks. Some of those studies follow below — with the caveat that the past isn’t always a reliable guide to the future, especially for a young and febrile asset like Bitcoin.

₹76, or 0.12%, at ₹62,243 per 10 grams. MCX Silver price was up by ₹150, or 0.21%, at ₹71,405 per kg. International gold prices were steady, helped by a slightly weaker dollar as investors looked forward to minutes of the last US Federal Reserve policy meeting due later in the day for more clarity on its interest rate path, Reuters reported.

Vladimir Putin's two-and-a-half decades in power, Western leaders thought they understood the strategy of the Kremlin leader and argued that Russia merited a place as an international partner. But that approach was blown apart two years ago on February 24, 2022, when Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, consigning to a distant past images such as that of the smiling Russian leader bounding up the steps of Macron's Mediterranean Fort de Bregancon residence in August 2019 bearing flowers for the French leader's wife Brigitte.