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Mumbai: Temasek Holdings Pvt. Ltd has doubled its pace of investments in India, amid the valuation reset in the tech ecosystem, and will increase its focus on due diligence and scrutiny for potential investment opportunities, senior executives Ravi Lambah and Mohit Bhandari said in an interview. Over the past 15 months, the Singapore state investor committed nearly $4 billion in capital, including its stake in Manipal Healthcare Enterprises.

₹30 lakh per episode. Around 70% of talks are geared towards that kind of content," the person added. Queries to Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+Hotstar did not elicit any response.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of the U.S. securities regulator said on Monday the agency was «disappointed» with a judge's recent ruling that Ripple Labs Inc did not violate federal securities laws in a major blow to its efforts to rein in the cryptocurrency sector.

Congress lent much-need support to AAP's campaign to unite the Opposition against the Centre's services ordinance, both the parties walked a political tightrope and denied the development could pave the way for a seat-sharing alliance in Delhi. The two-day Opposition meet in Bengaluru has provided a rare opportunity to Congress and AAP to share a common platform.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management has written down its stake in Twitter by 47% since Elon Musk took the social-media company private last year, Wood said in an interview. “We take fair valuation very seriously and absolutely have had to write that [Twitter] down," Wood said Friday. “The write-down is not representative of our fundamental outlook and belief in the long-term return on investment we believe that it will have for our shareholders." Wood is still bullish on Twitter’s long-term outlook.

Binance slashed its employee benefits last month in the wake of falling profit, a sign of the financial strain hitting the crypto giant. The company told employees that it would stop offering certainbenefits, effective June 19, including mobile-phone reimbursement, fitness reimbursement and work-from-home expenses, among other items, according to former employees and a message from Binance’s internal messenger viewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Considering the current market environment and regulatory climate that has unfortunately led to a decline in profit, we have to be more prudent with our spending," the message read.

₹2 to her account on the pretext of a test transaction. Once the receipt was acknowledged, he initiated another transaction to remit the list price. This time, however, it was a ‘collect’ transaction rather than ‘pay’.

The crypto market has had a good year, recovering some losses suffered in 2022 during the latest crypto winter. While Bitcoin (BTC) broke above $31,000 on June 23 to update the year-to-date (YTD) high, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap still has a long way to go before it breaks above its record-high established at the end of 2021.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said he will “request the GST council for consideration on the new regulatory framework”. The GST Council on July 11 decided to impose a 28% GST on full face value for online gaming companies.Also read: Online gaming companies say only illegal platforms will gain from 28% GST Around 130 online gaming companies and industry associations, including Mobile Premier League (MPL), Nazara Technologies, Gameskraft Technologies and Winzo Games, have appealed to the GST Council to reverse the decision, saying that this would only benefit illegal platforms.

The number of gambling sites accepting Ripple continues to grow. Some of the stand-out benefits of gambling with XRP include anonymity, near-instant payouts, and attractive welcome packages. 

Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (Bitcoin SV) has enjoyed a short-lived rally over the past month, after almost two years of downside slide, but will the recovery flop-or-fail?

Fox Corp on Monday named Anjali Sud, the former longtime head of video-sharing platform Vimeo, as the chief executive of its streaming service Tubi. Sud recently stepped down as the CEO of Vimeo, after about nine years at the streaming platform.

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Ritesh Shukla, CEO of NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of National Payments Council of India (NPCI), Monday said after a successful launch in Singapore and France, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is likely to enter the North America market and other Middle-eastern countries in the coming months. However, he did not give any definite timeline for the launch. “In terms of more interoperability partnerships like what we did in France and Singapore, we will focus on countries which are of importance to Indians when they travel abroad or where we have significantly large Indian diaspora residing like the Middle East and North America and these are the target market for us in the coming days" reported Moneycontrol quoting NIPL CEO as saying in an interaction.

FanCode has acquired the digital rights of FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 from 1Stadia and will livestream all the matches across India on its digital platform. As per the company, the matches can be watched on FanCode’s mobile app, TV app available on Android TV, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Jio STB, Samsung TV, Airtel XStream, OTT Play and on the FanCode website.

The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to France on 13-14 July defined a new era in already-strong bilateral ties between the two countries. The Prime Minister’s official visit to France was significant as well as special, as it also marked the 25th anniversary of the India-France Strategic Partnership. During the visit, the importance of the partnership was highlighted in how it sought to address global challenges, including climate change, clean energy, health, food security, and development, among others.

Over the weekend, India and the UAE signed pacts to allow settlement of bilateral trade in local currencies and also interlink our Unified Payments Interface (UPI) with the UAE’s Instant Payment Platform (IPP). They also agreed to link payment card switches. Linking UPI with IPP will make transfers of money across the Arabian Sea far easier, a matter of a few keystrokes on a phone.

Anime NYC 2023, which is likely to be the biggest anime gathering in North America, will be held in the Javits Center from November 17–19, 2023, for its sixth consecutive year. Anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture fans get together for this thrilling event, which is a dynamic celebration with a wide variety of activities.

After a bi-lateral meeting with India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the sidelines of a G20 meeting, Yellen said the two nations have been collaborating across a range of economic issues, including commercial and technological collaboration and strengthening supply chains. «In particular, we look forward to working with India on an investment platform to deliver a lower cost of capital and increased private investment to speed India's energy transition,» she said in a statement while attending the G20 in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, one of India's most industrialised states.

Austin, TX, United States & Gurugram, Haryana, India – Business Wire India  AlarmZ, a leading player in the cryptocurrency communications space, has launched its pre-sale as it seeks to revolutionize crypto risk mitigation management. With regulators worldwide actively developing new tools for effective monitoring of the risks associated with cryptocurrencies amid concerns over the growing interconnectedness between the traditional financial market and the crypto market, AlarmZ provides a standout solution that simplifies portfolio management for both new and experienced traders. The fast-paced and fragmented nature of the crypto world presents several challenges for traders, including managing multiple crypto addresses from different exchanges and real-time monitoring.

Reuters said that governments across the globe are looking at ways to mitigate the dangers of growing AI technology which has the potential to change the global economy and international security landscapes. The hype around AI and its regulation grew after the advent of generative AI technology like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Bard.