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The Bitcoin price funk could be about to get a lot worse if the US government starts selling BTC to run down its balance of 210,000 coins – but Bitcoin alternatives like Bitcoin BSC could be the beneficiaries.

High Court on Monday issued fresh notice to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on a plea by an NGO seeking damages, claiming its documentary «India: The Modi Question» casts a slur on the country's reputation and makes false and defamatory imputations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian judiciary. Besides BBC, Justice Sachin Datta also issued fresh notice to BBC (India) on the plea filed by Gujarat-based NGO Justice On Trial. «Issue fresh notice to the defendants through all permissible modes,» the high court said, and listed the matter for further hearing on December 15. It had on May 22 issued notice to the defendants on the plea which has said BBC (UK) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom and has released the news documentary — «India: The Modi Question» — which has two episodes and BBC (India) is its local operations office.

Microsoft's attempt to buy video game firm Activision Blizzard, the maker of «Call of Duty», paving the way for the US tech titan to close one of the biggest technology acquisitions ever. Microsoft launched its blockbuster $69-billion takeover in January last year, an acquisition that would make it the world's third-largest gaming company by revenue, but it faced stiff scrutiny from US regulators and the UK's Competition and Markets Authority.

Dozens of aging U.S. rail bridges and tracks have been chosen to receive $1.4 billion in federal grants for repairs and upgrades, with businesses and rail commuters expected to benefit from these funds as early as next year. The 70 approved projects, including around 40 that involve bridges, were judged on how they would improve safety, increase capacity of both freight and passenger railroads, and bring economic benefits to the country, officials in the Biden administration said in a briefing.

FALMOUTH HARBOUR, Antigua and Barbuda—Two dozen armed police and five FBI agents fanned out across the harbor here early one morning last year. They raided the Alfa Nero, a 270-foot megayacht believed to be owned by Andrey Grigoryevich Guryev, a Russian phosphates magnate sanctioned by the U.S. for links to President Vladimir Putin.

Sen. Mike Braun, R-In., provides insight on growing fears over the technology on The Evening Edit.

Click here! Maharashtra's Nagpur city witnessed heavy downpour with flooding in most parts. The Ambazari Lake, the city's largest such waterbody, and the Nag river breached their boundaries, leading to severe flooding all through Saturday.

ANI, according to the data from the State Disaster Management Authority, "16 roads remain blocked in Lahaul-Spiti district, 4 in Shimla, 2 in Kullu and 1 each in Kangra and Kinnaur districts." As per data from the State Revenue Minister Jagat Singh Negi, "Since the onset of monsoon fury in the state, 468 people have died, 487 injured and 40 are missing." "2,647 houses have been completely damaged, 1,129 houses damaged partially, 320 shops damaged and 5,977 Cowsheds damaged," it said. Additionally, the data suggested reports of 168 landslide and 72 flash flood incidents during the past three months.

Click here! Earlier in February 2022, the World's largest igloo cafe was opened in Gulmarg, grabbing the eyeballs of the many tourists. In 2023, a glass igloo restaurant was developed by a private entity in Gulmarg.

Bitcoin has achieved a remarkable feat by surpassing Visa in transaction volume. This milestone underscores Bitcoin's growing prominence as a means of value exchange despite its decentralized nature. As Bitcoin continues to redefine the landscape, a new crypto project prompts the query: can Bitcoin Spark harness the same BTC momentum? 

The West Block by Global News. Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels :rocket: Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! “We understand that this can be, and has proven to be, a challenging issue with respect to our relationship with India," he was quoted as saying by Global News. “But at the same time, we have a responsibility to defend the law, defend our citizens, and at the same time make sure that we conduct a thorough investigation and get to the truth." New Delhi expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move to Ottawa's expulsion of an Indian official over the case.

Tigst Assefa broke the women's world record by more than two minutes Sunday at the Berlin Marathon, as Eliud Kipchoge won the men's race for the fifth time but couldn't break his own record. Ethiopian runner Assefa, the winner in Berlin a year ago, ran 2 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds to break the previous women's record of 2:14:04 set by Brigid Kotsgei at the Chicago Marathon in 2019. Kipchoge ran alone from 32 kilometers (20 miles) onward but slowed slightly toward the end. His time of 2 hours, 2 minutes, 42 seconds was more than a minute and a half off the record he set in Berlin last year. Kipchoge broke the two-hour barrier in Vienna in 2019 when he ran 1:59:40 but it was not officially considered the world record.

FOX News' senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram discusses GOP lawmakers blocking an attempt at a House spending bill amid a looming government shutdown and the threat to Kevin McCarthy's speakership.

NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) seven-year space probe's voyage came to a climactic end on Sunday when the US space agency's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert. The capsule was carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected. Notably, Japan, the only other country to bring back asteroid samples, gathered about a teaspoon in a pair of asteroid missions.

Coinbase's Blockchain Security Team recently identified a significant shift in the Zcash network's hash power distribution. A single mining pool, ViaBTC, was found to control over 51% of the network's computational power, raising concerns about potential security vulnerabilities.

pro-Kannada and farmer outfits have called for a Bengaluru bandh on Tuesday (Sep 26) to protest orders to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. Normal life is expected to be disrupted on Tuesday as the Opposition BJP and JDS have pledged support to the bandh call, while the ruling Congress party's resistance seems only symbolic. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has already said protests were part and parcel of democracy and the government would not try to stop them. Some trader organisations have also expressed their support. There were efforts by a section of Kannada outfits to drop Tuesday’s bandh, and instead go for a state-wide bandh on Sep 29 (Friday), but majority of farmer outfits have stuck to their Tuesday’s bandh call.

healthcare is the road map for a "healthy India". He said India has moved from a sectoral and segmented approach to health service delivery to a comprehensive need-based healthcare service and is now seen as a role model in crisis management and preventive healthcare. The minister of state in the Prime Minister's office was speaking at the launch of Jammu and Kashmir's first ever state-of-the-art cancer care facility affiliated to Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), Mumbai in the new block of Government Medical College Kathua. «India has taken a lead in the production of vaccines for the prevention of malignancies like cervavac — the country's first quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine to fight cervical cancer.

Ahad Ahmad, a 26-year-old from Barai Harakh village in Prayagraj's Sringverpur block, is poised to make a remarkable U-turn. From occasionally helping his father, Shehzad Ahmad, repair tyres in a modest shack, Ahad is now on the verge of dispensing justice from the hallowed chambers of the judiciary. Ahad's father, Shehzad Ahmad, aged 50, is the owner of a small tire repair shop, while his mother, Afsana Begum, aged 47, is a skilled dressmaker, crafting clothes for the women in their neighborhood.

ONGC) has signed an agreement to sell crude oil it produces from Mumbai offshore fields to HPCL — the second such agreement in as many months, as India's top oil and gas producer prefers term contracts over auctions where refiners hammer deep discounts. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, ONGC said it has inked 'term agreement with HPCL for sale of crude oil from Mumbai offshore.' While it did not give details, sources aware of the matter said the pact for sale of about 4.5 million tonnes per annum of crude oil to Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd's (HPCL) Mumbai refinery. «This is the second term agreement sealed for sale of Mumbai Offshore crude oil post marketing freedom,» ONGC said. Last month, ONGC had signed a similar pact to sell 4 million tonnes per annum plus an optional 0.5 million tonnes of crude oil to Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), which too has a refinery to convert the crude oil into fuels like petrol and diesel at Mumbai. ONGC produces 13-14 million tonnes per annum of crude oil from its fields in the Arabian Sea, off the Mumbai coast. In June last year, the government abolished a rule that said oil from blocks awarded prior to 1999 must be sold to government-nominated customers, mostly state refiners.

Trayanum's score capped a gutty game-winning drive by Kyle McCord and the Buckeyes that included a fourth-down conversion and a third-and-19 completion that got Ohio State to the Notre Dame 1 with time for two plays. After an incomplete pass on first down, the Buckeyes went to a running play with 3 seconds left took advantage of an overloaded defense to one side and what appeared to be only 10 defenders on the field for the Fighting Irish. Ohio State coach Ryan Day was fired up when it was over, going off on former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz, who called out the Buckeyes toughness in predicting a Fighting Irish victory earlier in the week. “I’d like to know where Lou Holtz is right now,” Day said during a postgame interview with NBC. “What he said about our team, I cannot believe. This is a tough team right here.

Russia's top diplomat denounced the United States and the West on Saturday as self-interested defenders of a fading international power structure, but he didn't discuss his country's war in Ukraine in his speech to the UN General Assembly. «The US and its subordinate Western collective are continuing to fuel conflicts which artificially divide humanity into hostile blocks and hamper the achievement of overall aims. They're doing everything they can to prevent the formation of a genuine multipolar world order,» Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. «They are trying to force the world to play according to their own self-centered rules,» he said. As for the 19-month war in Ukraine, he recapped some historical complaints going back to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, and alluded to the billions of dollars that the US and Western allies have spent in supporting Ukraine.