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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicCryptocurrencies

Topic: cryptocurrencies

Modi govt plans to make a law to ban cryptocurrency trading

India will encourage blockchain, the technology underlying cryptocurrencies, but isn’t keen on cryptocurrency trading & a bill is expected soon.

Why this China-backed crypto guru wants to unite the world’s blockchains

Connecting fragmented blockchains is key to moving technology underpinning cryptocurrencies beyond trades & speculation to include money transactions, drug-delivery tracing, etc.

How Twitter hackers have left a trail with Bitcoin wallet money transfers

Bitcoin offers users a degree of anonymity, making among criminals. But investigators can still glean valuable information from accounts that transacted with certain US services.

Supreme Court allows cryptocurrency trade in India, strikes down RBI’s 2018 circular

The RBI had prohibited banks & financial institutions from providing services with relation to cryptocurrencies.

Both Modi govt & RBI are uncomfortable with Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra

While the Reserve Bank of India has placed restrictions, the government is drafting a law with stringent penalties on their use.

Bitcoins are not Islamic, a new directive tells Indian Muslims

Bitcoin has no set rules, and is forbidden in Islam, says a new directive from the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.  

Delhi based Coinsecure loses $3 million in a Bitcoin heist

The firm is working hard to recover the money. However, its efforts might be hampered by India’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies even as global prices rebound.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.