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Read more here The first meeting of Congress party's Central Election Committee (CEC) will be held at 6 pm on March 7. The meeting will decide candidates for upcoming Lok Sabha polls 2024, said Jairam Ramesh, Congress party's general secretary in-charge, communications in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Chaired by party president Mallikarjun Kharge, the committee also includes former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, besides AICC general secretary K C Venugopal, Ambika Soni, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and T S Singhdeo, among others.

A growing number of climate-conscious Europeans want to give up flying in favor of long-haul trains, especially younger travelers

The Meta outage that affected Facebook, Messenger and Instagram for a few hours on Tuesday was an inconvenience for most

Elon Musk said that X, his social media platform, is exploring the idea of eliminating the display of like and repost counts on posts.

At 12:30pm, when Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was scheduled to begin his address, the yield on UK 10-Year gilts sat at 4.130% and at remained largely steady throughout the chancellor's speech, according to data from MarketWatch. Since then, it has dropped from a spike at 4.151% down to 4.092% at the time of publishing. Spring Budget 24: UK economy to grow more in 2024 and 2025 than previously forecast The yield on one-, three- and five-year gilt yields followed a similar pattern. Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the chancellor wanted to «to avo...

Bitcoin has hit an all-time high less than two years after the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX severely damaged faith in digital currencies and sent prices plunging

A technical issue had caused widespread login issues for more than an hour across Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms on Tuesday

Attorneys for Meta and founder Mark Zuckerberg are seeking dismissal of shareholder lawsuit alleging the company has deliberately failed to protect users of its social media platforms from human trafficking and child sexual exploitation

A wage law in New York City meant to protect food delivery workers is getting backlash from app companies like Uber, GrubHub and DoorDash

Poland has seen its most violent protest by farmers and supporters yet as some participants threw stones at police and tried to push through barriers around parliament

Zomato through bulk deals on Wednesday, March 6, according to data available on BSE. Antfin offloaded a total of 176.4 million shares of the company within the price range of ₹160.11 to ₹160.40 per share. The Chinese company held a 6.32% stake in the quick commerce services provider, as of December 2023.

NEW DELHI : Indian telecom companies are lobbying the government to get large internet and streaming platforms to pay up for using their infrastructure, taking cues from international markets where such arrangements are beginning to take shape. A leading telecom industry body has written to the finance ministry claiming that the government was forgoing about ₹800 crore in potential annual revenue from licence fees and other levies from telcos if such an arrangement was in place. “All we’re saying is that please recognize that this payment has to be made, that the government recognizes that this requirement is there, and make both parties sit at the table and negotiate with each other," said S.P.

demat account. This account serves as your gateway to stock investing and trading in other securities such as derivatives, bonds, commodities, and mutual funds. The stock market has transitioned entirely from physical share trading to a virtual trading system.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh for information about the suspected bomber in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case in Bengaluru. Posting on its official handle on social media platform X, the agency put up a picture of the suspect captured on a CCTV camera and promised that informants’ identities would be kept confidential. Meanwhile, Karnataka Home minister G Parameshwara said the police had discovered vital clues over the last two days and were close to cracking the case. “If we proceed this way then we will complete the investigation,” he said.

Women business owners from smaller cities and towns across India are frontrunners in adopting digital solutions, according to data from 200,0002 SME members on business financial platform Tide. This year’s International Women’s Day’s theme is ‘Inspire Inclusion’, making women business owners ‘Atmanirbhar’.

It’s the latest musical mashup: Top 40 hits meet financial engineering. A startup is offering securities backed by the royalty streams from songs recorded by such artists as Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and the pop-rock band OneRepublic. Its goal is to bring music investing to the masses.

Social media startup Hunch has raised $23 million in a funding round led by US-based Alpha Wave and South Korea-based Hashed Emergent. The firm did not disclose the valuation at which the funding, which came as a primary infusion, was done. Hunch had earlier raised $3 million in seed funding in December 2022, when it first launched its app, cofounder and chief executive Ish Goel told ET on Wednesday.

The integration provides a seamless on-ramp for fiat-to-crypto purchases to the MetaMask Wallet, simplifying the process of adding cryptocurrencies to self-custodial wallets.Mazen Eljundi, global business head of crypto at Revolut, says: "This service ensures high success rates for transactions done within the Revolut ecosystem and low fees for all customers. We'll offer customers the possibility to buy more than 20 tokens with their fiat currency smoothly, securely, and without obstructions.”Catering to users in the UK and Europe, customers can top-up their wallets from the fiat currency balance in their Revolut account or via purchases with Visa or Mastercard cardsLorenzo Santos, senior product manager at Consensys, the developer of MetaMask says the aim is to make crypto more approachable and less complicated.

India has 87% fintech adoption rate – the highest in the world, 1.26 billion digital IDs, 658 million internet users, 30 million merchants who accept QR codes and the digital lending and insurance sectors are expected to grow to $350 billion and $222 billion respectively by 2025. (Barclays Rise Report) While women form 50% of the country’s population, financial and digital literacy of women is lowest, as per World Bank’s Global Findex Data.

SmartAsset, an online platform connecting consumers with financial advisors, is stepping up its advisor growth game.

CoinSwitch has become the first Indian crypto exchange to surpass 20 million registered users.