Digital Financial News

Mitchell Santner on Thursday acknowledged India's familiarity with the slow pitch here at the DICS, but said his side is ready for a «scrap» in the Champions Trophy final. The Kiwis arrived here on Thursday evening ahead of the ICC showpiece's title clash against India on March 9. «They've played all their games here in Dubai and know that surface. Obviously, the surface will dictate a little bit of how we want to operate. It might be a little bit slower than what we got in Lahore. It might be more of a scrap, but we're down to scrap,» Santner said after touching base in the city. However, Santner said New Zealand can take some solace from their experience of playing against India during the group stage.

White House Crypto Summit on March 7. Trump, who has multiple ties to the crypto industry, will host the sector's top players at a White House summit on Friday. Crypto has enjoyed a renewed momentum following his return to the White House in November. The US crypto community rallied behind Trump's campaign, contributing millions of dollars towards his victory over Joe Biden, whose administration tightened regulations and expressed skepticism toward digital currencies. Now, they're seeing their support pay dividends. Trump has waded into the space personally as well, partnering with exchange platform World Liberty Financial and launching his own «Trump» memecoin in January as his wife Melania did the same — moves that have prompted conflict of interest accusations.

Magellan Aerospace Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Belagavi-headquartered contract manufacturing company Aequs to establish a sand-casting facility at the Belagavi Aerospace Cluster (BAC) in Karnataka on Thursday. The joint venture aims to meet the sand casting demands in the growing aerospace industry. This increased sand-casting capacity would support both commercial and defence sectors, Aequs said. This new venture aims to enhance sand casting capabilities in Southeast Asia. Magellan is a centre of excellence (CoE) for sand castings in North America, and it can cast complex geometries using the chemically bonded sand process.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Advertisers are grappling with trade-offs of AI-powered ad planning and buying tools for automating nearly every step in digital ad campaigns. The tools work by asking buyers for parameters for campaigns, such as budget limits and sales goals, then allow algorithms to decide where ads will run, who they target and, in some cases, how ads appear.

Bitcoin, one of the most popular cryptocurrencies, is reaching new heights as its price is soaring at $91,000. With the current growth, the cryptocurrency is expected to reach the target of $1 million by the end of this year. President Donald Trump’s policies have brought a new revolution in the market, turning tables for crypto. It will be interesting to watch the future growth bar of Bitcoin as Trump will soon host the first crypto summit in his second term.

home loan EMI subvention scheme offered by many builders and developers a decade ago. According to TOI, subvention schemes were supposed to make things easier for buyers, but in many cases, became instruments that gave builders access to loans without accountability and left homebuyers in the city to bear the aftershocks, like demand letters to pay EMIs despite houses running years behind schedule. Also read | How an easy home loan EMI scheme turned into a nightmare for many homebuyers in Delhi NCR

Automobile retail sales across categories, including passenger vehicles and two-wheelers, witnessed a drop of 7 per cent in February amid declining demand, dealers' body FADA said on Thursday. Overall retail sales in the domestic market stood at 18,99,196 units last month, registering a dip of 7 per cent compared to 20,46,328 units in the year-ago period. «February witnessed a broad-based downturn across all categories,» Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) President C S Vigneshwar said in a statement. During the month, dealers began expressing concerns about inventory being pushed to them without their consent, he added.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday stated that the world's leading economies are grappling with a population crisis. Speaking at a book launch, Naidu emphasised that while these countries possess advanced resources such as Artificial Intelligence and cutting-edge technologies, they lack a sufficient workforce to operate them. «All top countries in the world are struggling. There is no population. AI and technology exist, but there are no people to operate them,» he said.

Donald Trump’s threatened reciprocal levies that could upend bilateral and global trade. “Our relations with the US are probably the best they have been,” India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said Wednesday at Chatham House — a London-based independent policy institute. India’s trade minister is holding conversations with his US counterparts, the minister said. Trump told a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday that many nations, including India, set tariff rates too high and reiterated they will be hit by reciprocal levies that take effect from April 2.

DCB Bank has once again cut its fixed deposit (FD) interest rates for deposits less than Rs 3 crore, marking the second such reduction within a month. The bank has reduced up to 25 basis points on select tenures. The highest FD interest rate has been cut from 8.05% to 8%. The revised rates are applicable from March 5, 2025. In February, the bank reduced the interest rate on fixed deposits for select tenures by up to 65 basis points (bps) effective February 14, 2025.

Diljit Dosanjh, a 41-year-old musician, actor and producer from Punjab in northwestern India, is rewriting the formula for success in the world's fastest-growing music market. Moving away from traditional film soundtracks with his hip-hop and rap-infused rhythms and high-profile collaborations with pop icons like Ed Sheeran and Sia, Dosanjh is breaking boundaries and amassing a massive following. Last summer, Dosanjh made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he was introduced as “the biggest Punjabi performer on the planet.” He regaled fans with hits Born to Shine and G.O.A.T.

The train offers larger cabins, noise reduction, and adjustable storage for bicycles and wheelchairs. China, with the world's largest high-speed rail network (47,000 km), plans to use the CR450 to shorten travel times, like the Beijing-Shanghai route from 4.5 hours to just over three. A commercial launch could happen as early as next year.

A similar surge in late February triggered heatwave warnings for two consecutive days, February 25 and 26. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted even hotter days ahead, predicting a maximum temperature of 38°C on Sunday.

«Keeping in mind the sentiments of the people of Maharashtra, he has been suspended by the Speaker,» Shinde told reporters. «Maharashtra will not spare anyone who disrespects Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. This is just the first step; he has just been given a signal that if he does anything like this again, Maharashtra will not forgive him,» he added.

live-fire military exercises in Pocheon, South Korea, a fire official said. An official at Gyeonggi-do Bukbu Fire Services said out of the eight people who had been wounded, four were seriously hurt. Pocheon is about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of Seoul and near the heavily militarised border with North Korea.

Karnataka Minister Sharan Prakash Patil on Wednesday expressed his concerns over the proposed delimitation process and demanded that the Centre should protect the number of seats in the south if they want to do the delimitation. After the all-party meeting on delimitation, Patil told ANI, «The BJP government is not comfortable with the southern states because they don't have numbers in the south. They are trying to do this thing. If they have to be fair, they should protect the number of seats in the south if they want to do the delimitation. He also argued that the number of seats in the Southern states would be affected on account of the delimitationn

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Meta Platforms Inc and Google’s parent Alphabet Inc have raised concerns about Indian rules barring tech giants from monitoring internet browsing by children under 18 as it will make safety filters ineffective, according to three executives privy to the discussions. “The DPDP Act’s rules include an exemption that allows social media intermediaries to use the age of a user as part of the data that the platform can use to identify them.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: JioStar will lay off more than 1,100 employees as the newly formed joint venture between Reliance Industries Ltd's Viacom18 and The Walt Disney Co.'s India unit cuts overlapping roles following the merger, said multiple people aware of the development. “The departures started a month ago, and they are not ending anytime soon," said one of the people quoted above.

NBC Nightly News will now receive an all-new anchor in the form of Tom Llamas, who will be taking over as anchor and managing editor after Lester Hol will be stepping down this summer, as per a recent announcement by NBC Network.

PSG have played against each other in European competitions four times, with each side winning twice.