KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The upcoming official visit of India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar to Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday (March 27) is poised to serve as a crucial platform for both countries to discuss their visions for the Indo-Pacific region, especially as Malaysia prepares to assume the Asean chair in 2025. Co-Chairman of Asean India...
Industry insiders have expressed concerns about the high crypto tax in India despite the notable surge in Bitcoin prices, which led to significantly increased demand on cryptocurrency exchanges and substantial rises in trading volumes. CoinDCX, a popular Indian cryptocurrency platform, saw its trading volumes multiply fivefold within the past month, escalating from $5 million at the...
NEW DELHI (Bernama): Two restaurant workers in southern India stole a visiting Malaysian family's bag containing their passports and cash. The Malaysian couple and their daughter were travelling from Trichy city in Tamil Nadu state to Puducherry by car on Sunday when they had stopped to have lunch in the Samayapuram area, according to a report...
PETALING JAYA: Businessman Abdul Malik Dasthigeer, who is also known as "Datuk Malik", denies he has any ties to Jaffer Sadiq, who was linked to a RM1.13bil drug bust by India's Narcotics Control Bureau. He said statements linking him to Jaffer were defamatory, adding that he had never met the Tamil film producer. "There are some who...
PETALING JAYA: The Royal Malaysia Police is seeking more information from the Indian authorities regarding allegations by a senior investigative journalist that an "Indian drug kingpin" is a Malaysian citizen. According to Sinar Harian, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said so far, police have not received any information on it. He said checks with...
The woman in the Instagram video appeared shaken. Her face was swollen and bruised. Sitting beside her husband, she began recounting her ordeal. “Something happened to us that we wouldn’t wish on anyone,” she said in Spanish, with captions in English. Her husband then said: “We were assaulted in the tent. We were beaten. They put...
PETALING JAYA: Indian women shuttlers have now joined their men counterparts as champions in the Asian region. They were the surprise winners at this year’s Asia Team Championships in Shah Alam, following the men team’s breakthroughs at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou and the 2022 Thomas Cup Finals in Bangkok. These achievements are enough to show...
AYODHYA, India (Reuters) - The private jet parking lots at airports near the Indian city of Ayodhya are full and the shops have run out of gold-plated idols, as wealthy devotees prepare for the invite-only opening ceremony of one of Hinduism's holiest temples. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani are among...
India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) addressed the notices to Binance, KuCoin, Huobi, Kraken, Gate.io, Bittrex, Bitstamp, MEXC Global, and Bitfinex, according to a circular shared on Dec. 28. Furthermore, the FIU intends to wall off local investors from these platforms and has taken initial steps to block URLs of non-compliant Virtual Digital Assets Service Providers. FIU’s announcement...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he senses a change in India's tone with Ottawa after the United States warned New Delhi about its involvement in a thwarted plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader on U.S. soil, the CBC reported on Wednesday. "I think there is a beginning of an understanding that...
