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Tovino Thomas and Trisha Krishnan's highly awaited Malayalam thriller Identity is all set to premiere on Zee5 on January 31, 2025. This gripping film, helmed by the talented duo Akhil Paul and Anas Khan, originally debuted in theaters on January 2, 2025. To appeal to a broader audience, Identity has been dubbed into Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada, ensuring accessibility in four languages on the streaming platform.

shares of companies like Wipro, Coforge and Persistent Systems among others are expected to gain attention in the upcoming week as their record dates approach for corporate actions such as dividends, bonus share issuances, and stock splits. The record date is a crucial benchmark set by companies to identify the shareholders entitled to receive benefits such as dividends, stock splits, or bonus shares. Investors must ensure that their shares are reflected in their demat account on or before this date to qualify for the respective corporate actions.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As the world economy continues to work through the challenges of weak growth, likely inflation and political actions shifting economic relations, there is continued interest in whether tax policy can make a difference. The new administration is considering extending the tax cuts and Jobs Act in the US while mulling tariffs on products from India and China.

Secret Service said its agents visited a Chicago elementary school Friday while investigating a threat, hours after school officials mistakenly claimed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had come to the building.

government bonds in the secondary market in the week ending January 17 to ease the liquidity conditions. This is said to be the first such operation by the central bank in the last three years. Data released by RBI shows purchases were made across three sessions. The central bank bought ₹2,570 crore worth of government bonds on January 15, ₹4,480 crore on January 16, and ₹3,125 crore on January 17, the weekly statistical supplement (WSS) shows.

Severance have done a flip to what was implied in the premiere of Season 2. The episode revealed that Lumon did not fire Cobel but was offered a promotion by her. After the three year break, the premiere indicated that Cobel lost her job as Lumon fired her after the uprising and the Macrodata Refinement’s contingency plan. But, the reality was Lumon did not intend to lose Cobel while Milchick had replaced her as floor manager.

Discount store chain Target says it’s joining rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back corporate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

Some steelmakers in Canada and Mexico are telling customers that they are refusing new orders to the United States on concerns that President Donald Trump soon will reimpose duties.

Republic Day, there will be much speechifying about 'the world's largest democracy' and the 'sacred text' that is the Constitution. But if you let the rhetoric cool a bit and let facts do the talking, we may be looking the other way to avoid being caught looking uncomfortable as a democratic nation. PRS Legislative Research's annual report, 'The Annual Review of State Laws' for 2023 released last year, shows that state assemblies met for 23 days in 2023. As many as 12 states met for less than 100 hrs that year. 44% of all bills were passed on the day of introduction or the very next day, giving debates a short shrift. In 2002, a committee set up to review the working of the Constitution recommended that houses of state legislatures with less than 70 members should meet for at least 50 days in a year, and other houses meet for at least 90 days.

fast-track deportation authority nationwide, allowing immigration officers to deport migrants without appearing before a judge as President Donald Trump seeks to make good on a sweeping agenda of removing everyone who is in the US illegally. The administration said it is expanding the use of «expedited removal» authority so it can be used across the country.

Justin Baldoni's camp is firing back at Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, accusing the couple of unfairly silencing his lawyer. The controversy centers around the couple's request for a gag order to prevent Bryan Freedman, Baldoni’s attorney, from speaking to the media about Lively's sexual harassment claims.

The digital-asset sector finally received a supportive executive action from United States president Donald Trump, ending an anxious wait and opening up the tantalizing prospect of rapid progress toward a friendly regulatory backdrop.

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to enhance America's global dominance in artificial intelligence and make it «free from ideological bias or engineered social agenda» by eliminating the Biden administration's policies in the matter. It called for departments and agencies to revise or rescind all policies, directives, regulations, orders, and other actions taken under the Biden AI executive order that are inconsistent with enhancing US leadership in artificial intelligence.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 23 January, the Nifty and the Sensex indices retained their gains but finished below their intraday highs. This was largely due to a strong surge in IT and pharmaceutical stocks that improved market sentiment.

stock broking firms took a beating in the December quarter, bringing the winning run in recent years to a screeching halt in the wake of the regulatory tightening to curb excessive speculation in futures and options, and weakness in the secondary market. Revenues and profits of five leading broking firms in the third quarter showed stress in the sector as firms scramble to recalibrate their growth strategies in a challenging business environment. Angel One, the third-largest broker by client base, posted a 17% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decline in revenues for the December quarter. Its net profit plunged 34%, falling from ₹423 crore in September to ₹281 crore in December.

Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, a remake of the 2008 Xbox 360 action game, was unexpectedly released across multiple platforms, including Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, and Windows PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, during Microsoft’s Xbox Developer Direct 2025.

Ninja Gaiden 4, a sequel to a series of action games Ninja Gaiden, will be released in fall 2025. The video game will be available on Xbox Series X and S, PC via Steam, and PlayStation 5, as per reports. Ninja Gaiden 4 is a day one Xbox Game Pass launch title.

Thawar Chand Gehlot has returned a bill proposing a slew of taxes on mineral rights and mineral-bearing land to the government without assenting it, amid growing resistance to the levies from the mining industry and Union minister HD Kumaraswamy.