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collapsed tunnel on the Char Dham route in Uttarakhand has entered sixth today on Friday. A heavy-duty drilling machine began the process of digging through the debris of the collapsed tunnel and rescuing the trapped workers. Officials said that a six-meter section of a steel pipe had been inserted into the bored passage.

European digital asset management firm CoinShares secured the exclusive option to acquire the exchange-traded fund (ETF) unit of its United States competitor Valkyrie Investments, including the Valkyrie Bitcoin Fund that’s awaiting approval in the U.S.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar murder case, Bloomberg reported. “You’ve heard me and the government talk about how important it is that that investigation happens, given that we had a Canadian killed on Canadian soil," Ng told reporters on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, Bloomberg reported. “So we’ll let that happen." “My job as the trade minister is to make sure that that the supports and the tools that are there to support Canadian businesses and investors in India continue to be available to them," she said at the briefing late Wednesday.

Israel's invasion of Gaza has destroyed decades of work to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has set «the whole region on fire,» Jordan's foreign minister told CNN on Thursday. «Israel is not producing security for itself by the killing of innocent Palestinians,» Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said, adding, «It's putting the whole region on fire again, and it has destroyed the hard work that many had made over the decades to make sure that we come to a peaceful conclusion to this conflict.» Israel had «killed any embrace of peace in the region» and its war against Hamas had pushed regional relations back more than 30 years, Safadi also said, according to CNN. The Jordanian government had been discussing with Israel about exchanging solar power for energy but these discussions have now stopped because people «don't see any value» in dealing with Israel as its ground offensive in Gaza continues, Safadi said. He said he thought the evidence Israel had shared to back its claim that Hamas had a «command node» under the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City was «just ridiculous» and an «insult to intelligence.» He was also opposed to Israel's claim that its military operations in Gaza were self-defence. «Any other country in the world that would have done a fragment of what Israel is doing would have been under sanctions by now,» Safadi said, adding, «This is not self-defence.

Semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials is under US criminal investigation for potentially evading export restrictions on China's top chipmaker SMIC, according to three people familiar with the matter. The largest US semiconductor equipment maker is being probed by the Justice Department for sending equipment to SMIC via South Korea without export licenses, the sources said. Hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment is involved, one of the people said. Reuters is reporting details of the probe for the first time.

Shares in Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba tanked more than seven percent at the Hong Kong open Friday after the firm's surprise decision to call off part of its high-profile restructuring because of the US-China chip war. In a move that shocked investors, the Hangzhou-based tech giant said Thursday that US curbs on exports of advanced chips had forced it to call off the spinoff of its cloud computing arm. The firm's stock dived 7.13 percent soon after the starting bell in Hong Kong, tracking a collapse in its New York-listed shares. Washington has moved to bar the shipment to China of powerful chips, including those from California-based Nvidia, which are crucial to the development of artificial intelligence, on national security grounds. In one of its most wide-ranging restructurings, Alibaba said in March it planned to split the vast group into six distinct entities that would be able to separately pursue funding through public listings. But on Thursday, it called off the creation of its Cloud Intelligence arm in light of «the recent expansion of US restrictions on export of advanced computing chips». «We believe that a full spin-off of Cloud Intelligence Group may not achieve the intended effect of shareholder value enhancement,» the company said in its earnings release. «Accordingly, we have decided to not proceed with a full spin-off, and instead we will focus on developing a sustainable growth model for Cloud Intelligence Group under the fluid circumstances,» Alibaba said. Alibaba is a key player in China's expansive digital economy and the operator of a major online shopping platform. The Hangzhou-based group's performance is considered a barometer of domestic consumption, which has flagged in recent

Gold prices rose slightly on Friday, on track for their first weekly gain in three, as investors grew confident that the U.S. Federal Reserve is done raising interest rates, sending the dollar and Treasury yields lower. FUNDAMENTALS * Spot gold was up 0.2% at $1,984.26 per ounce, as of 0059 GMT, after hitting its highest since Nov.

Oil prices were on track for the fourth straight week of decline as they remained little changed in early Asian trade after slipping about 5% to a four month-low on Thursday on worries over global demand. Brent futures were up 10 cents, or 0.1%, at $77.52 a barrel at 0232 GMT. U.S.

Xi Jinping, fresh off his meeting with President Joe Biden, courted Indo-Pacific leaders in a flurry of meetings on Thursday at a time of intensifying competition with the United States. Xi held individual talks with the leaders of Mexico, Peru, and Fiji, and he planned a later session with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, all on the sidelines of a summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation economies.

Federal Reserve is done raising rates leaving the greenback headed for a weekly loss. A slew of weaker-than-expected U.S. economic data released this week, led by a slowdown in inflation, has reinforced market expectations that the Fed has reached the end of its aggressive monetary tightening cycle, with focus now on when the first rate cuts could begin. Market pricing shows just a 0.3% chance of another rate hike in December, as compared to a roughly 15% chance a week ago, with a 35% chance that the U.S.

Nasdaq managed to eke out tiny gains on Thursday while the Dow Industrial Average ended slightly lower with pressure from tech and retail bellwethers Cisco and Walmart after disappointing forecasts. Shares of Cisco Systems tumbled 9.8% as the communications and networking technology company cut its full-year revenue and profit forecasts on slowing demand for its networking equipment. Also in technology, Palo Alto Networks shares fell 5.4% after its forecast late Wednesday for second-quarter billings missed expectations. Walmart shares sank 8.1% a day after touching a record high.

Elon Musk to testify for its investigation into his $44 billion takeover of social media giant Twitter, now known as X. In a document filed in federal court in San Francisco on Thursday, the SEC defended its efforts to compel Musk's testimony, saying agency officials are acting within their authority. Also Read |Elon Musk denies report of Starlink IPO plans, calls it 'false' The SEC last month said it was investigating Musk's 2022 purchases of stock in Twitter -- which Musk subsequently renamed X -- and his statements and SEC filings relating to his takeover of the social media giant.

US Federal Reserve will not hike interest rates further and pivot to a rate cut in early 2024, seems to be waning. Moreover, with the conclusion of the earning season, domestic investors will now shift the focus to global as well as domestic cues. The Indian benchmark indices ended higher for the second consecutive session on Thursday amid mixed global cues.

Gaza's biggest hospital. Reuters could not immediately verify the video that showed a deep hole in the ground, littered with and surrounded by concrete and wood rubble and sand. The army said its troops also found a vehicle in the hospital containing a large number of weapons, according to a report published by Reuters. 1) Hamas on Thursday said claims by the Pentagon and US State Department that the group uses Al Shifa for military purposes "is a repetition of a blatantly false narrative, demonstrated by the weak and ridiculous performances of the occupation army spokesman." 2) White House spokesperson John Kirby said the United States is confident in an assessment from its own intelligence agencies on Hamas activities in Al Shifa hospital and will neither share nor elaborate on it.

₹13,546 crore amid festive season after the stock market ended on a higher note for second day straight.The RBI on Thursday tightened norms for personal loans and credit cards in the form of higher capital requirements. The new norms will make personal loans and credit cards costlier and may curb growth in these categories.Several reports in US on Thursday indicated a slowing economy.

Google. The company is accused of monopolistic practices in the online search sector. The U.S.

Sensex surged by 306.55 points to close at 65,982.48, while the Nifty 50 ended 89.75 points, or 0.46%, higher at 19,765.20 on November 16, the weekly expiry day. Nifty 50 formed a long positive candle on the daily chart with a long upper shadow. Also Read: 6 things that changed for the stock market overnight - Gift Nifty, US jobless claims to drop in crude oil prices “Technically, this pattern indicates an emergence of selling pressure from the crucial hurdle of 19,850 levels.

For a relationship so strained that even the act of a phone call made by one and taken by the other is news worthy, one may have expected more discretion. But soon after US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met on Thursday, Biden, at the risk of setting back whatever progress might have been made, touched a raw nerve, again. “Look, he is.

Mint, quoting a commerce ministry statement. The global narrative on the risk high dependence on Chinese imports represents to global supply chains started with the US red-flagging it, especially for times of emergencies such as during the covid-19 pandemic when any disruptions could have ramifications across the world.

Catch all the LIVE Updates on the Israel-Hamas war here,US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday called on Israel to take "urgent" action to stop settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

The 2024 United States presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, has disclosed his plans to curb the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) control and government involvement in the crypto space if elected.