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The Patel family’s bodies were found in January 2022 Police in India have arrested two men in connection with the deaths of four people near the US-Canada border in January 2022. The bodies, including that of a three-year-old child, were found lying together frozen in a field in Canada’s Manitoba, 12m away from the US border. Authorities in Gujarat state, where the family was from, said the arrested men were “illegal immigration” agents. Police are also trying to arrest two agents based in the… Source link

Google and Mukesh Ambani’s Jio are hoping to crack one of the world’s largest untapped smartphone markets, launching a device they hope will be cheap enough to convert 450m Indians on “dumb” handsets into smartphone users. The JioPhone Next, a successor to Ambani’s earlier-generation JioPhone, has been designed by the companies to run a custom version of Android. It will offer a blend of Google and Jio apps, with voice assistance in multiple Indian languages for… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The cryptocurrency aficionados’ mantra that Bitcoin is equivalent to digital gold is winning converts among the world’s biggest holders of the precious metal. In India, where households own more than 25,000 tonnes of gold, investments in crypto grew from about $200 million to nearly $40 billion in the past year, according to Chainalysis. That’s despite outright hostility toward the asset class from the central bank and a proposed trading ban. Richi Sood, a 32-year-old… Source link

You can’t keep bitcoin down.  That’s true in a lot of places around the world, from Belarus to Nigeria, where crypto is a workaround for dissidents and a substitute for unreliable monetary systems.   This article is excerpted from The Node, CoinDesk’s daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news. You can subscribe to get the full newsletter here.  Related: Tesla Just Helped Patch a Bug in This Open Source Bitcoin Payment Processor But it’s especially true… Source link

The Cleveland Indians are reportedly preparing to announce a name change this week after years of criticism. President Donald Trump, of course, isn’t happy about it. Donald Trump slams Cleveland’s name change Trump, per usual, took to Twitter on Sunday night shortly after Cleveland’s upcoming name change was first reported. “Oh no! What is going on?” he wrote while sharing a link to a New York Post article. “This is not good news, even for ‘Indians.’ Cancel culture at… Source link

The Cleveland Indians are dropping their long-criticized moniker amid mounting pressure that it’s racist and insensitive, the New York Times reports. The MLB franchise has not confirmed the report. According to the report, the team could announce the news as soon as this week. The team is considering moving forward temporarily without a nickname, similar to the path that the NFL’s Washington Football Team took this season after changing its much-criticized former moniker. The franchise… Source link