Friday, January 31, 2025

BUSINESS/ECONOMY

Punjab asks Centre to provide additional power for paddy sowing

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday urged Union Power Minister R.K. Singh to provide additional power to the state from the central...

Microfinance grows by nearly 10 times in 10 years to cross Rs 5L-crore mark

Microfinance in India has a long history. Since the turn of this century, it has been expanding rapidly as a viable financial services business...

Fighting fraud charges in India, Sandesara brothers flourish in Nigeria

The selection of a firm owned by the family of the Sandesara brothers branded as fugitives by India to drill wells for the...

Award-winning journalist Sreenivasan Jain joins Jindal School of Journalism & Communication faculty

Sreenivasan Jain, the multiple award winning Indian investigative journalist and former Group Editor of NDTV, has joined India's first global journalism school, Jindal...

Recent stock rally could spur risky behaviour typical of bull market

Favourable movement of drivers of equity valuations over the past year and recent stock rally could extend itself into risky behaviour going ahead...

Microsoft to pay $20 mn fine over storing Xbox data for kids

Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle charges that it violated children's privacy by improperly collecting personal information from kids who signed up...

US SEC sues Binance, its CEO over lying to regulators, mishandling funds

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued leading crypto exchange Binance, its CEO Changpeng Zhao and BAM Trading and BAM Management...

Apple’s Vision Pro headset helps gaming company Unity’s stock surge

Gaming company Unity's shares surged more than 17 per cent after Apple said it is working with the game-development software maker for its...

WWDC23: Everything that Apple launched as Vision Pro AR headset stole limelight

The iPhone maker announced a plethora of devices and software updates at its flagship developer event but the star attraction was Reality Pro...

Apple enters AR era with Vision Pro headset, starts at $3,499

Apple on Monday took on Meta's multi-billion dollar dream as the iPhone maker entered the era of augmented/virtual reality (AR-VR) by launching 'Vision Pro'...