Tether retreats from $20bn funding ambitions after investor pushback

Tether retreats from $20bn funding ambitions after investor pushback

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tether’s chief executive has downplayed the amount of money it will raise in a new funding round as the world’s largest stablecoin issuer faces investor pushback over its $500bn valuation target.

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Agniveer recruitment rally in Belagavi

Agniveer recruitment rally in Belagavi

A file photo of an Agniveer recruitment rally. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Maratha Light Infantry Regimental Centre Belagavi will conduct an Agniveer Recruitment Rally at Shivaji Stadium on its campus in Belagavi from February 21 to 25. The recruitment will be for the posts of Agniveer General Duty, Agniveer

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Can Sanae Takaichi govern Japan on star power alone?

Can Sanae Takaichi govern Japan on star power alone?

By 2.30pm on Saturday, five days into the shortest election campaign in postwar Japanese history and after half an hour of warm-up by the local Liberal Democratic Party candidate, the 3,000-strong crowd filling the Kanagawa Science Park finally got what it came for. Sanae Takaichi, arch-conservative, populist and on course

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Youth killed as bike rams metro pillar in Kochi

A 26-year-old man was killed after his two-wheeler rammed a metro pillar at Kalamassery in the early hours of Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Muhammed Musthafa, a native of Karipur in Malappuram, who was residing in Kakkanad. Musthafa, who was running an IT start-up in Kochi with his friends,

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I am not in the race for NCP national president: Praful Patel

I am not in the race for NCP national president: Praful Patel

File photo of NCP leader Praful Patel | Photo Credit: PTI- Former Union Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) working president Praful Patel on Tuesday (Febuary 3, 2026) said that he was not in the race for the position of national president of the NCP. That responsibility should be handed

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Disney says parks chief Josh D’Amaro to succeed Bob Iger as CEO

Disney says parks chief Josh D’Amaro to succeed Bob Iger as CEO

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Disney has named 28-year company veteran Josh D’Amaro as its next chief executive, bringing an end to an internal battle over who will succeed longtime boss Bob Iger.  D’Amaro, who

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