MUMBAI: The Cayman Islands, one of the biggest financing hubs for investing globally, has offered to sign memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with markets regulator Sebi and also with the regulator for India’s finance hub GIFT City. The MoUs will facilitate transparent exchange of information between the regulators, André M Ebanks, Premier, the Cayman Islands, said…
Raipur: Dependent wife of a missing govt employee can challenge his ex parte termination and claim service benefits of the employee who has been presumed dead after law-mandated absence of seven years, Chhattisgarh high court ruled earlier this week.With this, the court dismissed a writ petition filed by Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and…
Karunesh Bajaj (left), Mohit Jain (right) Karunesh Bajaj, executive vice president (marketing & exports) at ITC Ltd, was unanimously elected as the chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) for 2025-26 term. Mohit Jain, chief operating officer (Publishing) of Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd and publisher-member on the council, was also unanimously elected as…
NEW DELHI: Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek – the world’s biggest chipset provider to smartphone brands apart from automotive and home product makers – has said that it is ready to get its chips manufactured in India once fab production begins here.MediaTek, which globally designs and contract-manufactures chips for companies such as Xiaomi, Samsung, Oppo and Vivo,…
H-1B visa fee hike impact on Indian IT stocks today: Indian equity markets opened the week on a cautious note as investors digested the shock announcement from Washington, a steep hike in the cost of H-1B visas. This comes after the Trump administration raised the one-time fee for new H-1B petitions to an unprecedented $100,000…
India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has been recognised as the world’s largest retail real-time payment system by transaction volume, accounting for nearly half of all such transactions globally, the government told Parliament on Monday.Citing an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report titled ‘Growing Retail Digital Payments (The Value of Interoperability)’ dated June 2025, the government said…
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (AP photo) TOI Correspondent from Washington: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said in an interview to Fox News that he thinks “India is mostly with us” and that he hopes US President Donald Trump will be able to convince New Delhi to stop purchasing Russian oil. “Yes, we have these questions with energy,…
NOIDA: Every winter, as toxic smog shrouds Delhi-NCR, air pollution dominates headlines and dinner-table conversations. Masks return, air purifiers hum and social media fills with outrage. But in Sector 7x, a cluster of 43 high-rise societies home to over one lakh residents, another crisis unfolds quietly, every day of the year. One that doesn’t cloud…
Man duped of Rs 73 lakhs in investment fraud scam after befriended on Bumble GURGAON: A 50-year-old Gurgaon man employed with a multinational company lost Rs 73 lakh in an online romance-cum-investment scam after being duped by a woman he met on the dating app Bumble.According to police, the victim, a resident of Jalvayu Vihar…
Divya Deshmukh, after her Women’s World Cup victory, revealed her mentors, Csaba Balogh and Abhimanyu Puranik. At the Grand Swiss 2025, Puranik, who had just enjoyed a Disneyland vacation, defeated his protégé, Divya. Puranik, a Mumbai-born Punekar, started chess at five and praised Divya’s amazing mentality and potential for future dominance in Indian chess. NEW…
