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This is part of a series of interviews with the winners of The Economic Times Startup Awards 2024. After having witnessed an unprecedented downturn during the Covid-19 pandemic, which left the company with cash to run just for a fortnight, Accel-backed furniture and electronics rental startup Rentomojo is now gearing up to file for an initial public offering in the next 18 months, its founder and chief executive Geetansh Bamania said. Founded in 2014 — among multiple other furniture and electronic rental startups that came up at the time — Rentomojo had its work cut out to come out on the top.

Now in their 18th year, these awards are intended to honour fund providers, research & ratings teams, wealth managers, fund selectors, service providers, consultancies and individuals who have a key part to play in the evolution of sustainable investing. You can view the award winners here.  We celebrated the winners of the Sustainable Investment Awards at a ceremony attended by judges and guests from across the sector.  Our host for the evening was financial journalist Declan Curry, while we also raised over £5,000 on the night for charity Go Beyond, which gives breaks that last a li...

The Athletics already have carved out Jekyll-and-Hyde legacy as one of Major League Baseball’s most successful and sad-sack franchises with nine World Series titles and 19 seasons of futility punctuated by 100 or more losses

A federal jury has determined toy maker MGA Entertainment must pay $71.5 million in damages for infringing on the name and likeliness of teen pop group OMG Girlz with one of its popular lines of dolls

This is part of a series of interviews with the winners of The Economic Times Startup Awards 2024. Aniket Doegar's vision for Haqdarshak was to create a network of 'government scheme consultants' for Indians, similar to how Life Insurance Corporation of India developed a network of insurance agents across the country. Founded in 2016, Bengaluru-based Haqdarshak provides a ‘Yojana’ card to blue-collar workers, farmers, and factory employees, giving them access to Union government social security programmes as a protective layer for their lives.

Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot accorded sanction for investigation against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has its origins more than three decades ago. The case pertains to alleged allotment of compensatory sites to Siddaramaiah's wife B M Parvathi in an upmarket area in Mysuru, which had higher property value as compared to the location of her land which had been «acquired» by the MUDA. The MUDA had allotted plots to Parvathi under a 50:50 ratio scheme in lieu of 3.16 acres of her land, where it developed a residential layout. Under the controversial scheme, MUDA allotted 50 per cent of developed land to the land losers in lieu of undeveloped land acquired from them for forming residential layouts.

para shuttlers who secured medals at the Paris Paralympics last month. Indian para shuttlers won five medals, including one gold, two silver and as many bronze, at the Paris Games. Nitesh Kumar, who clinched the coveted gold in the men's Singles SL3 category, will receive a prize of Rs 15 lakh, while silver medallists Suhas Yathiraj (men's singles SL4) and Thulasimathi Murugesan (women's singles SU5) will each be awarded Rs 10 lakh. Bronze-medal winners Manisha Ramadass (women's singles SU5) and Nithya Sre Sivan (women's single SH6 category) will each receive Rs 7.5 lakh.

First lady Jill Biden has unveiled a new set of actions to address health inequities faced by women in the United States

Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has flagged 34 major cases of non-compliance by government departments, which diluted its advice of acting against «corrupt» officials. In some cases, these «corrupt» officials were either exonerated or punishment against them were diluted by the departments concerned, according to the CVC's annual report 2023. Of the total, a highest of seven cases involved are under the coal ministry, five in the State Bank of India (SBI), four in the IDBI Bank, three under the steel ministry and two each under the power ministry and NBCC (India) Limited, it said. One such instance each was in the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD), the Ministry of Railways, Airports Authority of India (AAI), Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) and Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) among others, according to the report.

Indian soldiers who laid down their lives during World War I to liberate the northern Israeli coastal city of Haifa from Ottoman rule has been cancelled due to escalating tensions in West Asia. Israel and Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah have carried out widespread strikes on each other, raising tensions, and prompting Israel Home Front command to issue precautionary advisory to citizens. Outdoor gatherings of up to ten and indoor gatherings of up to a hundred people, close to protected shelters, are currently allowed. «Due to the current situation, the Haifa Day commemoration, planned for September 23, 2024 in Haifa, by the Embassy of India, is being cancelled,» an official communication said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NTPC Ltd’s subsidiary NTPC Green Energy seeks to raise ₹10,000 crore from its proposed public issue of fresh shares. Soon after the announcement, NTPC shares hit a lifetime high of ₹431.85 on Thursday.

This is part of a series of interviews with the winners of The Economic Times Startup Awards 2024. From navigating multiple rounds with doctors and pharmaceutical companies in 2020, when no one was willing to test its product, to securing a Central Drug Standard Control Organisation licence and achieving commercialisation in 2024, BrainSight AI has made significant progress. By enabling neurosurgeons to map brains more precisely and interpret MRI scans efficiently — especially as the world grapples with mental health challenges —BrainSight AI earned the Top Innovator award at the ET Startup Awards 2024. This was BrainSight’s second shot at the award, after it emerged runners up in 2023. This year the clinical recognition along with commercial launches made it the jury’s favourite.

arbitral award that a consortium led by ONGC won against the Italian energy multinational ENI Group in 2021. Justice Prateek Jalan passed the stay order after the ENI group deposited over Rs 296 crore in the HC, which also gave liberty to the ONGC to initiate appropriate proceedings with regard to the money lying in the international bank account of the group. However, the HC allowed the Italian energy group to file its objections to the execution petition moved by the ONGC. According to ONGC, the foreign energy company is liable to pay USD 31,577,805 in terms of the award.

Quad scholarships, worth USD 500,000, to students from the Indo-Pacific. This initiative will enable recipients to pursue a four-year undergraduate engineering programme at a Government of India-funded technical institution. Notably, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan, and President Joe Biden of the United States--met for the fourth in-person Quad Leaders Summit, hosted by President Biden in Wilmington, Delaware. Wilmington is Biden's home town.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ripley made me gasp. Netflix’s adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr Ripley is a wonder of black-and-white gorgeousness, and while leading man Andrew Scott may not have had anywhere near as much fun playing Tom Ridley as Matt Damon and the impossibly gorgeous Alain Delon before him, cinematographer Robert Elswit makes up for it with dazzling camerawork somehow reminiscent of both Caravaggio and Hitchcock — at the same time.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Over the summer of 1956 a small but illustrious group gathered at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire; it included Claude Shannon, the begetter of information theory, and Herb Simon, the only person ever to win both the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Turing Award awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery.

KLW Wheelco has supplied 2,000 Ukrainian-make forged wheels to the Indian Railways in the past few weeks, said a senior Indian government official. This is the first such delivery from the war-torn nation since the Russia-Ukraine conflict started in early 2022. The development comes close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Kyiv where he met with his counterpart, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. «Another 3,500 forged wheels are on their way from Ukraine. Orders for 10,000 forged wheels worth ₹72 crore have been placed with the Swiss company earlier this year,» the official told ET. These wheels are being manufactured in Dnipro (Ukraine) by Interpipe Group, a global producer of steel pipes and railway wheels. The wheels are for Bogie Open Wagon with Air Brakes (BOXN wagons), which are largely used for carrying goods such as coal, and are being loaded from an Ukrainian port in the Black Sea.

Highway Infrastructure Trust for Rs 6,661 crore. TOT Bundle-16 is a 251 km long stretch on the Hyderabad-Nagpur corridor of NH-44 in Telangana, the ministry of road transport and highways said. “The concession period of TOT bundle is for 20 years in which the concessionaire will be required to maintain and operate the stretch. In lieu of this, concessionaire will collect and retain user fees for the stretch in accordance with prescribed fee rates under NH Fee Rules,” it added. According to the ministry, the TOT model has been developed to encourage private participation in the highway sector.

NHAI has awarded the 251-km-long stretch of the Hyderabad-Nagpur corridor under the TOT bundle model to Highway Infrastructure Trust for Rs 6,661 crore, an official release said on Friday. The financial bids for TOT Bundle-16 were opened on September 18, 2024, for 251 km long stretch on the Hyderabad-Nagpur corridor of NH-44 in Telangana, the release said. The project has been «awarded to Highway Infrastructure Trust for Rs 6,661 crores», its said. The concession period of TOT bundle is for 20 years in which Concessionaire will be required to maintain and operate the stretch.

The Biden administration is awarding $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and other materials used for electric vehicles, part of a continuing push to reduce China’s global dominance in battery production

Taylor Swift is leading a pretty contained and happy life while having a severe romantic relationship with her partner Travis Kelce who is a Kansas City Chief’s tight end and are getting spotted in several romantic ways together. The US Weekly reported on their cover story that the Connection between Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift has gotten stronger with each passing day in spite of a lot of public scrutiny and challenges and they are planning for a new era of life together following the Eras Tour of Taylor Swift. Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift were seen doing a lot of PDA at the US Open during first half of September where they sang the Darkness song ‘I believe in a Thing Called Love’ screaming together while kissing each other and dancing with each other pretty intensely. Just some days before that, they were seen together at the wedding of model Karen Elson which was at the famous Electric Lady Studios, reported the US Weekly. Also Read: Teamsters, one of the most influential labor unions, not to make any endorsement but two-third members support Trump