The first ‘Made in India’ chip will be rolled out this year, said Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. Notably, the chip was supposed to be launched in December 2024, as announced by Vaishnaw at the Davos summit in January last year.

Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, Vaishnaw said industry stakeholders have shown solid confidence in India’s semiconductor programme.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is scheduled to meet Microsoft founder Bill Gates and several other global executives in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, officials said.

On the third day of his visit to the Swiss resort town, the Chief Minister will also meet the officials from the World Economic Forum (WEF), they added.

AAP national convenor and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged Wednesday the BJP is using the city police to disrupt his party's

poll campaign and intimidate voters ahead of the February 5 assembly elections.

India's second richest man, Gautam Adani, continues to grow his business empire. Now, one of his companies, Adani Energy Solutions Ltd (AESL), has secured a project worth Rs 25,000 crore. The Adani firm, whose market cap is Rs 96112 crore, announced that it has bagged the Bhadla-Fatehpur HVDC project worth Rs 25,000 crore, which is the largest transmission order ever won by the Adani Group entity.

A fire at a hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday killed at least 66 people, Turkey's Interior Minister said. Ali Yerlikaya said at least 51 other people were injured in the disaster. “We are in deep pain. We have unfortunately lost 66 lives in the fire that broke out at this hotel,” Yerlikaya told reporters after inspecting the site. Health Minister Kemal Memisoglu said at least one of the injured was in serious condition.

As Donald Trump begins his second term, the H-1B visa programmememe has resurfaced as a key point of contention in debates surrounding America’s economic and labour policies. While his ‘America First’ agenda prioritises domestic employment, business leaders and industry insiders warn that curbing skilled immigration risks stifling America’s competitive edge in global technology and innovation.

Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan is still recovering from knife injuries in Mumbai, but he faces another pressing concern — the vast estates of his family in Madhya Pradesh are nearing government takeover. The properties, valued at an estimated Rs 15,000 crore, are now at the center of a legal dispute, reported NDTV.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has lifted a stay on these properties, which had been in place since 2015.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to BRICS nations, reiterating that any country pursuing de-dollarisation would face a 100 per cent tariff on trade with the United States. The statement was made during a press conference in the Oval Office on Monday, shortly after Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States.

Trump’s remarks were in response to ongoing efforts by some BRICS members — including Russia and China — to reduce the dominance of the US dollar in global trade.

Sebi is looking at introducing a system where an investor can sell shares as soon as they are allotted in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) to curb grey market activity, chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch said on Tuesday.

The chief of the capital markets regulator also announced that the top two proxy advisory firms are on the verge of launching a portal which will be a repository of related party transactions and will be useful in judging the governance standards in a company for any stakeholder.

In his first post on Truth Social after assuming office as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump announced the dismissal of four senior government officials appointed by his predecessor, Joe Biden, and warned that more removals are forthcoming.

“Our first day in the White House is not over yet! My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again,” Trump wrote in his post.

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