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The Chinese central bank has unveiled an offline SIM card-based digital yuan “hard” wallet solution that lets users pay with the central bank digital currency (CBDC) with powered-down phones.

alliance after the members said they would allow Ukraine to join the alliance “when allies agree and conditions are met". Following this statement, Zelenskyy blasted the organization’s failure to set a timetable for his country as “absurd." Although many NATO members have funneled arms and ammunition to Zelenskyy’s forces, there is no consensus among the 31 allies for admitting Ukraine into NATO’s ranks.

The Russian tax body says that citizens “can pay” taxes on their crypto earnings, despite the fact that tokens have no legal status in the country.

Signal or Telegram could be «over regulated» with the threat of encryption being compromised, said technology policy experts after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) proposed to regulate such services in its consultation paper released last week. OTT services are currently regulated under the IT Act, which will soon be replaced by the proposed Digital India Bill.

If you haven’t yet renewed your passport ahead of an international trip, prepare to pay plenty to fix the problem. Wait times for passports have increased across the board in recent months. Standard processing times are 10 to 13 weeks, the State Department says.

India has been leading the fight against extremism and no religion is under threat in the country, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has said. He has also termed India an extremely responsible power, which is willing to conduct hot pursuit against terrorist havens when the need arises.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will begin day-to-day hearings from 2 August on a clutch of petitions pertaining to the nullification of Article 370, and recorded a statement by the Union government that it will not rely upon the contents of an affidavit filed a day ago to bring on record the scenario in Jammu and Kashmir since the move. Observing that the challenge to the abrogation of Article 370—which conferred special status on J&K until August 2019— is a “pure question of constitutional validity", a five-judge bench, comprising Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y.

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In Mumbai, the municipal corporation has deployed a sewer cleaning robot to get rid of manual scavenging. The civic body has decided to use robots to clean the clogged sewers in the city instead of using the labourers.

A showdown is underway between America’s tech giants Facebook and Google and Canada because Ottawa is finally going to force them to pay for copyrighted content produced by Canadian media companies that they have stolen for decades. Bill C-18 is Ottawa’s version of what Australia pulled off in 2021, which has been very successful.

A senior official of the US think tank Institute for the Analysis of Global Security has been accused of acting as an unregistered agent of China, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday. Gal Luft, a citizen of the US and Israel, is accused of recruiting and paying a former high-ranking US government official on behalf of principals based in China in 2016, without registering as a foreign agent as required by law.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Megan Thee Stallion will headline this year’s Global Citizen Festival, as the anti-poverty nonprofit looks to focus attention on increasing inequality for girls and young women around the world

Noting that India has been a melting pot of cultures and religions that have co-existed in harmony for centuries, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval Tuesday said Islam occupies a unique and significant "position of pride" amongst the religious groups in the country. The NSA was speaking at an event at the India Islamic Cultural Centre in New Delhi.

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Uniform Civil Code ends in two days, the Law Commission has so far received nearly 46 lakh responses, sources said on Tuesday.The Commission is also likely to call certain organisations and people for a personal hearing in the coming days. Some of these invitation letters have already been sent, they said.

Here is a comparison of special FD rates of SBI, HDFC Bank, and ICICI Bank and let us see which bank is offering the maximum interest rate on these special FDs and what is the last date to invest in them.SBI WeCare FD interest rate The bank provides an additional premium of 50 basis points (bps) over the card rate for the general public, for a total premium of 100 basis points over the card rate for the general public. SBI Wecare offers a 7.50% interest rate. The eligible tenure under the scheme is minimum 5 years to maximum of 10 years. The scheme is available on fresh deposit and renewal of maturing deposits.

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Tuesday said India has been a melting pot of cultures and religions that have co-existed in harmony for centuries, and Islam occupies a unique and significant «position of pride» amongst the religious groups in the country. Doval's remarks came during an event here at the India Islamic Cultural Centre where Muslim World League Secretary General Sheikh Dr Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, who is on an India visit, also addressed the gathering. Doval hailed Al-Issa as an authentic global voice of moderate Islam and a profound scholar with a deep understanding of Islam. Hailing the «excellent» relations between India and Saudi Arabia, Doval the ties were rooted in shared cultural heritage, common values and economic ties. «Our leaders share a common vision for the future and have been closely interacting with each other,» the National Security Advisor said. In his remarks, Doval said India as the world's largest democracy and the mother of democracies is a land of incredible diversity.

Is it mandatory for an Indian resident studying overseas to convert bank savings account in India to non-resident ordinary (NRO) or non-resident external (NRE) account? Also, what conditions will determine one’s residency status for tax purposes?

Schengen Visa Info reveals that India still had the second-highest number of Schengen visa rejections worldwide. Over 100,000 visas were refused, amounting to an estimated loss of Rs87 crore on canceled trips.

Bill seen by ET. But in such cases, the company that is seeking consent for processing children's data must demonstrate that it uses the information in a “verifiably safe” manner, shows the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, seen by ET.

The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework has an adequate level of protection for personal data, the EU's executive commission said. That means it's comparable to the 27-nation's own stringent data protection standards, so companies can use it to move information from Europe to the United States without adding extra security.