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Oil and natural gas prices have started rising as traders bet on the continuation of Houthi attacks disrupting shipping in the Red Sea. The Yemen-based rebel formation, backed by Iran, has been attacking shipping along this critical region with suicide drones, missiles and rockets since the Gaza War. This is part of a strategy to impose a naval blockade of Israel, since the Houthis are allies of Hamas due to their strong connections with Iran.

Houthi-controlled Yemen got within a “couple of miles" of U.S. Navy and commercial vessels in the Red Sea before detonating on Thursday, just hours after the White House and a host of partner nations issued a final warning to the Iran-backed militia group to cease the attacks or face potential military action. Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of U.S.

By Neil Jerome Morales and Mikhail Flores

Manipur government has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to inquire into Monday evening’s firing in the minority-dominated Lilong area in Thoubal district even as the death toll in the incident rose to five. Md Abdur Rajaq, who sustained critical bullet injuries, passed away at a private hospital in Imphal on Wednesday. A Lilong resident, Rajaq was a key functionary of Anjuman, a local anti-drug body. On the other hand, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) formed by residents of Lilong, a predominantly Meitei Pangal (Meitei Muslims) dominated region, agreed to claim the bodies to perform the last rites.

Lululemon is (again) distancing itself from billionaire founder and former executive Chip Wilson after he made controversial comments about the brand’s inclusion efforts.

Finra is telling brokers more forcefully than it has before not to become a customer’s creditor or debtor.

Top Telegram licensed casino TG.Casino’s $TGC coin debuted on Uniswap today and has risen 50% in its first 20 minutes of trading, trending at No.1 on popular trading site Dextools.

On the positive side, India’s aggressive push for renewable power has resulted in renewable electricity costs becoming competitive with grid power, although India still has to make round-the-clock (RTC) power competitive. A differential market approach—with high paying customers such as industry and the commercial sector being targeted as beneficiaries of RTC power—can help move the needle quicker, giving a further boost to renewable power. The residential and agricultural sectors can possibly help deal with the intermittency of renewable power better through well-designed demand-response programmes, leading to more efficient consumption and a possible push for stand-alone renewable power.

The creator of Bitcoin’s fast-rising BRC-20 token standard is worried that one of its top marketplaces is attempting a sly takeover of the entire protocol.

His current business, X (previously known as Twitter), is expanding into new regions with the projected debut of in-app payment services by the middle of 2024. Elon Musk, the brilliant mind behind firms such as SpaceX and Tesla, is pushing his latest endeavour into new territory. This action is considered to be a component of Musk's master plan to convert X into a «everything app,» a notion that has garnered a great deal of attention and discussion because of its potential.

For the first time in the United States, turbines are sending electricity to the grid from the sites of two large offshore wind farms

A U.S. labor agency has accused SpaceX of unlawfully firing employees who penned an open letter critical of CEO Elon Musk and creating an impression that worker activities were under surveillance by the rocket ship company

The blue-chips NSE Nifty 50 index climbed 0.66% to 21,658 points, while the S&P BSE Sensex added 0.69% to settle at 71,847 points. Here's how analysts read the market pulse: «The fall in Nifty has halted around 21,500 levels where multiple support parameters in the form of the 38.2% fibonacci retracement level and the lower end of the rising channel is placed. We expect Nifty to hold on to this support and resume next leg of upmove.

In the year 2022, Three Arrows Capital (3AC), which had previously been a well-known brand in the bitcoin hedge fund industry, was confronted with a catastrophic failure. This decrease was not simply a single occurrence; rather, it was a trigger in a chain of domino events that occurred, which caused the cryptocurrency market to be shaken. The court in the British Virgin Islands has taken quick action by freezing assets associated to the fund's founders, Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, as well as Davies' wife, Kelly Chen, with a potential value of up to $1.14 billion.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has recently concluded a landmark legal process, officially sanctioning the confiscation of 69,370 Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies from the defunct dark web marketplace Silk Road. This judicial action enforces a previous ruling that acknowledged the U.S. government's rightful claim to these digital assets, which were linked to Silk Road's notorious illegal operations​​.

By Daniel Wiessner

Daredevil centered fight scene of MCU. The charts of Maya Lopez/ Echo played by Alaqua Cox, are exploited by Echo, based on the events of Hawkeye, the Disney+ show of the year 2021. Differentiating from that series, Echo occurs in the hometown of Maya, which is in Oklahoma and not in New York City. It is not the landscape that is being revamped in Echo, consisting of five episodes, but the show will be portraying Maya against a new enemy: Charlie Cox who is playing the role of Matt Murdock/Daredevil. Recently, a clip from the big confrontation of the pair has been making the rounds online and Sydney Freeland has provided added information about the most awaited disagreement.

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During 2023, a total of 133 planes were inducted in India, a 51% jump YoY (over 2022) as airline companies scrambled to meet rising demand, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said. Out of the total number cited above, 21 were taken on wet lease. The DGCA said that in line with the anticipated increase in aircraft inductions in 2024, it is «suitably enhancing its regulatory capacity to further speed up the regulatory approvals related to the induction of aircraft». Specific information regarding the measures taken to enhance regulatory capacity was unavailable at the time of writing this. «In 2023, scheduled operators added a total of 112 aircraft to their fleets, marking a 38% increase from the 81 aircraft added in 2022. When considering 21 wet/damp lease aircraft, the overall aircraft induction reaches 133, a substantial 51% rise from the previous year's figure of 88.

West Bengal and promising «a corruption & thieves-free state», Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday urged all to vote for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the coming Lok Sabha polls. «Time has come for a change in West Bengal. We will have to oust the Trinamool Congress from Bengal. Their days are numbered.

Dollars worth Rs 1.39 crore ($166,900) was seized by the BSF at the International Border in West Bengal. BSF reported that its Intelligence Branch alerted on-duty personnel about the attempted smuggling of foreign currency in the Nadia Border Outpost (Betai area). After the information was received, an ambush was made at the said location. Upon sighting suspicious activities, the jawans surrounded the smugglers, who, taking advantage of darkness and dense fog, retreated towards India. Following a thorough search, four bundles of US dollar were found.