Thirty Indian companies have answered the space regulator's call to build and operate constellations of Earth observation (EO) satellites in a groundbreaking private-public partnership to reduce the country's reliance on foreign data for defense, infrastructure management and other critical mapping needs.

The crypto industry is urging Donald Trump’s team to begin his promised crypto policy changes when he becomes president next month. Industry officials say they want him to use executive orders to make cryptocurrencies more mainstream.

Bitcoin pared earlier losses after capping its first weekly decline since Donald Trump’s election victory, while many smaller tokens turned higher on the day.

The original cryptocurrency was down more than 7 per cent for the seven-day period through 9:27am on Monday in Singapore.