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In the past few years, there has been a gradual positive shift in the right direction. The government has provided clarity on taxation, and crypto exchanges are now reported entities under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). However, the tax rate remains high, which is negatively impacting the growth of the ecosystem. This situation has led to a migration of trading volume to international exchanges, posing higher risks in terms of compliance and customer protection.

Tech enthusiasts can anticipate significant markdowns on essentials like laptops, tablets and smartphones. Whether you're in need of powerful computing tools or the latest in mobile technology, Prime Day offers matchless deals on top brands.Home appliances are another highlight, with discounts expected on essential items such as air conditioners (ACs), televisions (TVs), washing machines, refrigerators, and vacuum cleaners.

India Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for several districts of Himachal Pradesh, predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall on Monday and Tuesday. The weather department also informed that light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning is likely to occur in various districts of Himachal Pradesh. According to the weather department, the districts where rainfall is predicted include Kangra (Dharmsala, Jaisingpur), Mandi (Sarkaghat, Dharmpur, Slapper, Kotli, Mandi, Sundernagar), Hamirpur (Sujanpur Tihra, Hamirpur), Bilaspur (Swarghat, Bilaspur), Chamba Solan, Shimla, Sirmaur, and Kullu.

RLDA), a statutory authority of Indian Railways, has invited bids for the grant of leases for commercial development of railway land at Kailash Puram along National Highway (NH)-16 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. As per the official statement of the RLDA, the development will consist of 60 per cent residential and 40 per cent commercial. The land, with an approximate area of 4.71 acres (19,061 sqm), will be leased for 99 years with a reserve price of Rs 170 crore. The built-up area (BUA) offered is 91,403.31 sqm. It is also highlighted that the site, with a frontage of approximately 60 metres, is located at Dondaparthi Village, (FMB) Survey No. 11, Seethammadhara Mandal, Visakhapatnam.

OnePlus 12 has received a flat ₹5,000 discount during the Amazon Prime Day sale, taking the price to ₹59,999. However, the e-tailer is also providing a discount of up to ₹7,750 by making the payment using SBI Bank Credit Card EMI mode, taking the effective price of the OnePlus 12 to ₹52,249.OnePlus's sole foldable, OnePlus Open is priced at ₹1,39,999 for the 16GB RAM/512GB storage variant.

Airlines struggled on Saturday to contain the effects of Friday’s tech outage that had wrecked travel schedules around the world, delaying or stranding passengers and flight crews. The outage forced over 250 cancellations in India, part of about 7,000 worldwide, leading to chaos at airports. While carriers said they were getting a grip on the situation, the ripple effects were still being felt on Saturday with India’s largest airline IndiGo cancelling around 90 flights. The disruptions were expected to have a cascading effect because airport landing slots and support staff are limited, even with crews working at full stretch. “Regulations also limit how many hours crews can work at a stretch, including time spent waiting at airports. That can force airlines to find and assign other pilots and attendants to take over, leading to further delays,” an airline executive said. The outage, blamed on an errant software update, led to the collapse of Navitaire, the technology platform that’s used primarily by no-frills carriers to check in passengers.

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HDFC Bank will be circumspect about the quality of wholesale and retail loans and how they choose to price. The bank’s chief financial officer Srinivasan Vaidyanathan hinted that intense competition was bringing down profitability on wholesale loans. “On the wholesale category, we have seen that credit demand is high but the rates are benign,” said chief financial officer Srinivasan Vaidyanathan. “The spread over government securities is thinner and competition pushes it even down. We want to be circumspect in how we price and choose (loans). In the retail segment, we are leaders on mortgages but on the unsecured side, we have seen regulators talking about being cautious of credit quality. We are cautious of the credit and calibrate accordingly.” The lender said advances grew 52.6% on year in the June quarter driven by retail loans, which more than doubled. Corporate and wholesale loans grew 18.7% on year. Total loans stood at Rs 24.8 lakh crore.

one of the biggest IT outages affected several sectors and crippled services across the world, Microsoft on Saturday said that a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices.“While software updates may occasionally cause disturbances, significant incidents like the CrowdStrike event are infrequent. We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines," said Microsoft in a blog.Microsoft further added that while the percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that run many critical services.The tech giant said that they are working around the clock and providing ongoing updates and support.“Additionally, CrowdStrike has helped us develop a scalable solution that will help Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure accelerate a fix for CrowdStrike’s faulty update.

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Imported items sourced from local suppliers and royalties, technical charges paid out of India as well as supply of repackaged or refurbished goods will be excluded from the calculation of local content, an official said. These changes are included in the modified public procurement norms with an objective of giving maximum preference to companies that use higher levels of local content in their products. The government prefers made in India goods in their purchases, which run into lakhs of crores of rupees every year. Major preference in government purchases is given to companies whose goods and services have 50 per cent or more local content, a move aimed at promoting 'Make in India' and making the country self-reliant.

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Jitendra Singh on Saturday said all communities must join hands to fight the menace of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. Singh, the minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office, was in Doda, part of his Udhampur parliamentary constituency which was rocked by several terror incidents in over past three months, claiming the lives of 10 security personnel and a village defence guard (VDG). Addressing a public rally before holding a general "public durbar" lasting over three hours, the union minister reaffirmed the revival of VDGs. «The security agencies have a strategy in place to control the security situation in Doda and its adjoining areas in view of the recent incidents of terror, but such strategies are not discussed in public», he said.

G Kishan Reddy on Saturday launched the National District Mineral Foundation (DMF) portal, a centralised platform to gather information on the District Mineral Foundations across the country. The portal provides details of 645 DMFs in the country with enhanced transparency, featuring centralised visibility of activities, project oversight, and dynamic analytics, as well as a repository of best practices for effective implementation, an official release said. Reddy also launched the Mineral Exploration Hackathon focused on innovative mineral hunt techniques. The hackathon is aimed at promoting use of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for geophysical data, integration of multiple mineral exploration data sets such as baseline data, available exploration data, etc, to identify new mineral targets, particularly for deep seated/concealed ore bodies.

Your company may be sufficiently insured if your business is interrupted due to data breaches or hacking incidents. But does it also cover losses due to software updates, especially in a world of interconnected devices, where a buggy software update on a central server could impact multiple devices like computers, smartphones, smart kiosks, ATMs, smart TVs, etc., and hence impact many business channels, simultaneously? Under normal circumstances, such a question would sound odd since one would assume that most companies would have insured themselves against data breaches, ransomware attacks, cyberattacks and other such business interruptions or even power outages.

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Allem Appaiah, the District Medical and Health Officer (DMHO) of Mulugu in Telangana, undertook a challenging journey to deliver essential supplies to remote tribal communities. On July 16, Appaiah set out on a 16km trek that took over five hours, crossing treacherous terrain, wading through a swollen stream, and climbing hills to reach a remote settlement in Wajedu mandal. As per a TOI report, Appaiah's mission was to deliver medicines, mosquito nets, and provisions to 11 tribal families from the Guthi Koya tribe. His efforts were driven not only by the need to provide essentials but also by a desire to convince the families to relocate to the plains for their safety. The challenging conditions in their current location, including the difficulty in accessing medical facilities during emergencies, prompted this request. To better understand the living conditions of the tribe, Appaiah spent the night at the thanda in Penugolu village. This settlement, housing 39 residents including young children, is situated in a hazardous location, making it hard to provide necessary medical support.

Microsoft Systems, exchanges and clearing corporations in India functioned without any major impact, a joint media release by exchanges said on Saturday. Out of over 1,400 trading members' ecosystem, there were only 11 trading members who reported disruptions to their operations, the release said. «Overall, exchanges & clearing corporations have not witnessed any significant impact to the trading and clearing activities in the Indian securities market,» the release said, adding that the issues with the affected members were either resolved during the day, or are being resolved.