Wesley Edens, the co-founder of Fortress Investment Group and co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, was reportedly extorted by a Chinese woman for more than $1 billion. Wesley Edens, co-founder of Fortress Investment Group, was allegedly extorted by Changli ‘Sophia’ Luo for over $1 billion, leading to her indictment on charges of blackmail and record destruction….
A Polymarket advertisement in a subway station in New York, US, on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Prediction market platform Polymarket has completed its first block trade on an artificial intelligence compute infrastructure-related contract, the company shared exclusively with CNBC. The six-figure transaction was between FalconX, a digital asset…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with French President Emmanuel Macron. Photo credit: ANI NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced the expansion of India’s homegrown Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in France. PM Modi also unveiled a series of measures to strengthen bilateral ties, including greater mobility for students and professionals, enhanced educational cooperation,…
Albert Einstein (Image: Wikipedia) Some people move through the world treating almost everything as ordinary. Others notice something remarkable in the same ordinary details. A line widely credited to Albert Einstein names that exact split. “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as…
Iran has reportedly continued exporting oil through its Kharg Island despite the ongoing war with the United States and Israel, while Washington considers seizing the strategic facility.According to TankerTrackers.com, cited by Bloomberg, oil shipments have continued from the island, which remains a key export hub for Iran. Axios reported on March 7 that the US…
The government is open to stakeholder views on reducing capital gains tax on investments in stock markets, aiming to make domestic markets more attractive to foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday. Mumbai: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses the 37th Foundation Day event of the Small Industries Development Bank of…
Royal Challengers Bengaluru all-rounder Krunal Pandya has said he remains hopeful of making an India comeback despite being out of the national side for almost five years.Krunal, who played a key role in RCB’s successful IPL 2026 title defence, contributed with both bat and ball during the season. He scored 226 runs at a strike…
LUCKNOW: Union defence minister and Lucknow MP Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that India has maintained a “balanced and composed” diplomatic approach amid the ongoing West Asia crisis, asserting that the country has successfully carried on strong relations with all sides despite escalating tensions between major international players.His remark came hours after the US and…
Partnerships announced at Bharat Innovates 2026 aim to strengthen academia-industry collaboration London-based consumer technology company Nothing has signed two strategic Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) and the Foundation for Science, Innovation and Development (FSID), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, to accelerate India’s deep-tech innovation ecosystem.The agreements…
Robert A. Heinlein (Image: Wikipedia) History is full of confident predictions that turned out to be spectacularly wrong. Flight was impossible, right up until two bicycle makers got a machine off the ground. Reaching the moon was a fantasy, right up until a man stepped onto it. The science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein captured…
