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In the last 24 hours, popular Solana meme coin DogWifHat ($WIF) has fallen 8% down to $1.54 amidst a wider crypto market rout that has seen Bitcoin ($BTC) prices plummet 4% down to its current level of $58,515.

e-commerce giant JD.com beat estimates for quarterly profit on Thursday, helped by a mid-year sales festival and aggressive price cuts that drove more cost-sensitive consumers to its platform. U.S.-listed shares of the company rose 2.6% in premarket trading. Major Chinese vendors like JD.com and Alibaba have increased focus on discounting and lower-priced goods as the world's second largest economy sees a pullback from customers that as conscious about spending.

B3.fun, a gaming platform founded by former Coinbase alumni and built on Base, Coinbase’s Layer 2 network has officially launched its game discovery platform, BSMNT.fun.

LPL has gained strength yet again in Georgia’s mass-affluent network as it welcomes a five-advisor ensemble from Osaic.

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Indian Army contingent on Thursday celebrated the 78th Indian Independence Day in joint exercise 'Mitra Shakti' with various activities, including a yoga session with their Sri Lankan counterparts. As part of the Independence Day commemorations, the Army troops participating in the Joint Exercise enthusiastically celebrated the day by practising various asanas led by Yoga instructors from the Indian Army contingent. The troops of the Indian Army contingent also undertook the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign at their camp in the Army Training School in Madurouya, Sri Lanka, according to an official statement. «The Tricolour was proudly displayed by the participants, honouring the national pride of all Indians. The effort reflects the pride the Indian Army attaches to the Tricolour, for which every soldier has proudly made the supreme sacrifice over the years,» the statement said.

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Krutrim, the artificial intelligence startup of Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal, said on Thursday that it would launch its first AI chip, Bodhi 1, by 2026 and a superior Bodi 2 two years later. Krutrim’s chips will be custom-built for handling complex AI workloads, Aggarwal said. «They will enable development of faster and more efficient AI systems.» The Bengaluru-based company is working on four chips: Bodhi 1, Bodhi 2, Sarv 1 and Ojas. On Thursday, it announced partnerships with global semiconductor company Arm and Untether AI for the development of CPU and AI chips, platforms and systems.

Financial technology firm Klarna is pushing deeper into banking with its own checking account-like product and a cashback offering that rewards users for shopping via its app.

Ola Electric has unveiled three new electric motorcycles, the Roadster, Roadster X, and Roadster Pro, with prices starting at Rs 74,999. In addition, the company announced it will integrate its battery cells into its own vehicles starting in Q1 FY26. Ola Electric also teased two upcoming motorcycle models, the Sportster and Arrowhead. The newly launched Roadster series offers varied price points and performance capabilities: the Roadster starts at Rs 74,999, the Roadster X at Rs 1,04,999, and the Roadster Pro at Rs 1,99,999. The bikes will hit the roads from January next. Bhavish Aggarwal, Founder and CMD of Ola Electric, highlighted the significance of these new offerings for the Indian market.

Aatmanirbharta' (self-reliance) in defence and gradually emerging as a global manufacturing hub of military equipment due to measures taken by the government in the last few years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday. In his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Modi said there was a time when the majority of the defence budget was used to procure military hardware from abroad, but his government focused on indigenous defence production. «We are becoming self-reliant in the defence sector. Today, we have our own identity in defence manufacturing. India is emerging as a defence manufacturing hub,» he said. The prime minister complimented the defence ministry and the armed forces for taking a series of decisions, including the notification of a number of positive indigenisation lists under which over thousands of items are being procured from the Indian industry in line with designated timelines. According to the defence ministry, a total of 5,600 items have been identified for domestic manufacturing.

RG Kar Medical College & Hospital at midnight with police taking refuge inside bathrooms and seeking help from nurses, the nurses of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital said on Thursday morning after they started protest demanding their safety and security. At least 18 departments, including Emergency department, ICU and HDU and even store room, male wards and bathrooms were vandalized and CCTV cameras were broken, sources told ET. Nurses protested vandalism from today morning as goons rampaged inside the wards at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Calcutta on Thursday morning, hours after unidentified miscreants ransacked medical establishments where a Medical PG student was raped and murdered last week. Nursing staff sits for protest seeking their safety and security. «Emergency department was completely rampaged. The medical equipment broken and the ICU attacked and several departments were vandalized. They are not in a state to provide services,» people in the know told ET.

RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the newly appointed principal, Suhrita Pal said on Thursday that she doesn't know anything about the people who initiated vandalism at the hospital. «If you know anything, please tell me. I don't know anything about them,» she said. Pal, speaking on Independence Day said, «I am going for flag hoisting. We should honour our national flag.»

Google to Netflix, prominent US companies are battling internet boycott calls over their perceived political leanings in a polarising election season that has exposed them to what researchers call "brand disinformation." The online campaigns, which falsely claim both Netflix and Google are funding or favoring Democratic nominee Kamala Harris ahead of the November election, illustrate how brands are vulnerable to political falsehoods that can expose them to financial perils. Those calling for a boycott, researchers say, include fake accounts on the platform X. The site is owned by Elon Musk, who has endorsed Donald Trump and appears to exert an outsized influence on voters through the platform, which has become a hotbed of disinformation.

China has put together a revised draft law that will make it simpler for couples to register their marriage, while filing for divorce will become tougher, a move that drew scorn from netizens and became a top trending online topic on Thursday. The draft, aimed at building a "family friendly society", was released by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs this week for public feedback. People are able to submit comments to the ministry until Sept 11, it said. It comes as policymakers struggle to encourage young couples to get married and have children after the country's population fell for two consecutive years.

SpacePay simplifies point-of-sale (POS) operations for merchants through its simple-to-use application. It allows customers to buy goods and services with cryptocurrency, while the merchant receives funds in their local currencies.

The South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb could shun its long-term banking partnership with NongHyup Bank in favor of a deal with rival bank Kookmin.

Cognizant Technology Solutions is said to have handed out annual salary hikes as low as 1% to some of its employees as the global technology services giant rolled out increments after deferring them by four months. The hikes are as low as 1% and the highest is said to be 5%, at least two people aware of the development told ET on the condition of anonymity. “For a rating of 3, the hike is around 1-3% while a 4 rating has been granted a 4% hike and a 5 rating to an employee is paid an increment of around 4.5% and at the most 5%,” one of the persons said.