Manish Poswal, Author at DD India

November 22, 2024 8:51 PM

Bitcoin at record highs, sets sights on $100,000

Bitcoin touched a fresh record high on Friday, with its sights set firmly on the $100,000 barrier, in a stellar rally for the cryptocurrency sparked by expectations of a more friendly regulatory environment under a Donald Trump administration. It ha...

November 22, 2024 8:39 PM

Air pollution: SC directs Delhi govt, police to immediately set up check-points on all 113 entry points

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Delhi government and Police to immediately set up checkpoints on all 113 entry points to Delhi to check the entry of trucks in the national capital. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Ma...

November 22, 2024 7:12 PM

India’s foreign exchange reserves stand at $657.89 billion

India’s foreign exchange reserves stood at $657.89 billion while the gold component of the kitty was valued at $65.75 billion, as of November 15, according to official figures released by the RBI on Friday. India's foreign exchange reserves were a...

November 22, 2024 6:50 PM

Pakistani town in uproar after 40 Shi’ites gunned down in bus convoy

Angry crowds gathered in the remote Pakistani mountain town of Parachinar on Friday, incensed by an attack on an escorted convoy of buses in which 40 Shi'ite Muslims died after being sprayed with automatic fire in an ambush. The Parachinar district,...

November 22, 2024 5:50 PM

COP29 climate finance draft proposes $250 bln target from wealthy countries

The COP29 presidency on Friday released a new draft climate finance deal that would have developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion per year by 2035. The draft also set a broader goal to raise $1.3 trillion annually by 2035, which wou...

November 22, 2024 5:36 PM

Kremlin says new U.S. sanctions are an attempt to hinder Russian gas exports

The Kremlin on Friday said that new U.S. sanctions on Russia's Gazprombank were an attempt by Washington to hinder the export of Russian gas, but said a solution would be found. Washington imposed new sanctions on Gazprombank on Thursday that preven...

November 22, 2024 4:47 PM

Centre launches World Bank’s ‘jobs at your doorstep’ report

Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan along with Minister of Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday launched a World Bank report titled 'Jobs at Your Doorstep: A Jobs Diagnostics for Young People' that covers six states in India....

November 22, 2024 4:27 PM

At least 10 killed in Afghanistan attack, interior ministry says

At least 10 people were killed by gunmen in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province, Interior Ministry Spokesperson Abdul Mateen Qaniee said on Friday. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. The Taliban took over the country in 202...

November 22, 2024 3:15 PM

COP29 host urges collaboration as deal negotiations enter final stage

COP29 climate summit host Azerbaijan urged participating countries to bridge their differences and come up with a finance deal on Friday, as negotiations at the two-week conference entered their final hours. World governments represented at the meet...

November 22, 2024 5:11 AM

Israeli strikes kill scores in Gaza with many trapped beneath the rubble

The Israeli military bombed at least five crowded homes in northern Gaza early on Thursday with many casualties buried beneath the rubble, Palestinian health officials said, as troops deepened an incursion along the territory's northern edge. Rescue...