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BookMyShow parent Big Tree Entertainment, Anil Makhija, appeared before the Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Monday over a petition alleging irregularities in the sale of tickets for British band Coldplay's upcoming India tour. The Mumbai Police are making a preliminary enquiry after a city-based lawyer lodged a complaint with the EOW against the event's ticketing agent BookMyShow, organiser Live Nation Entertainment and their top management, accusing them of using ticket bots to manipulate the ticketing process. Ordinarily, an FIR is registered if a preliminary enquiry concludes a cognisance offence. Otherwise, it is closed for want of actionable evidence.

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BNB, the native token of the Binance exchange, is considered one of the most influential coins in the crypto world. Investors are always on the hunt to look for opportunities to invest in Binance Coin. With the rise of AI, a lot of traders are moving to third-party platforms to profit from the rising prices of cryptocurrencies like BNB without needing to do the manual work.

Many crypto investors believe that the next upcoming bull market will spark another altcoin rally, pushing the most promising ones to the moon. Rexas Finance (RXS), a promising Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization platform currently priced beneath $0.1, is catching the attention of altcoin investors nowadays.

On Thursday, former president Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he was selling an Official Trump Watch Collection. Available at GetTrumpWatches.com, the timepieces range in price from US$499 and US$799 for silver- and gold-toned automatic watches to US$100,000 for solid gold watches featuring a tourbillon complication. All are limited edition, with the less expensive “Fighter” models coming in a run of 1,000, and each of the three pricier “Victory Tourbillon” lines limited to 147 numbered pieces, a clear reference to the job of 47th president of the United States now in contention.

Atmanirbhar Bharat' initiative, the Army on Monday signed the eighth procurement contract through the Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) platform. The aim of iDEX is to create an ecosystem to foster innovations and encourage technological development in defence and aerospace by engaging research and development institutes, academia, and industries and providing them funding and other support to carry out R&D which has good potential for future adoption by Indian defence and aerospace organisation. Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 12, 2018, during the Defence Expo India, iDEX under the Defence Innovation Organisation has emerged as a front-runner in establishing the right kind of contact with startups and innovators and has gained substantial traction in the defence start-up community, the defence ministry said in a statement. The contract for procurement of 'Generation of Quantum Secure Key (Quantum Key Distribution)' with QuNu Labs was signed in the presence of Lt Gen NC Raja Subramani, Vice Chief of the Army Staff, at the South Block here.

Suri stars in Kotukkali, a film that generated significant buzz even before its release. Directed by P.S. Vinothraj, this critically acclaimed film explores themes of societal resistance and personal challenges, centering on the character Meena, portrayed by Anna Ben. Kotukkali will be available on Amazon Prime Video starting September 27, 2024. Demonte Colony 2

festive season, Swiggy Instamart has rolled out 24x7 free delivery services across Delhi-NCR, TOI reported. The quick commerce platform will now offer rapid delivery of tens of thousands of products within 10-15 minutes, providing consumers in Delhi, Gurgaon, and Noida with round-the-clock access to groceries, snacks, and other essentials. This new service comes as the festive season kicks into high gear, with a surge in late-night and last-minute orders expected as consumers prepare for celebrations like Diwali.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : At a recent informal investor meet-up in Bengaluru, half of the 20-odd participants said they had received calls to buy Swiggy shares ahead of its initial public offering (IPO). The Mint writer's tweet on the subject, asking for comments, elicited hundreds of responses.

In the fast-paced world of cryptocurrency, new projects emerge every day, but only a few stand out with the potential to truly disrupt the market. One of those projects is FXGuys (FXG), an innovative DeFi (Decentralized Finance) token that is quickly capturing the attention of crypto enthusiasts and investors. As 2024 approaches, many are wondering: could FXGuys contend with the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: CarDekho’s early investors including Peak XV, Google Capital and Hillhouse Capital are expected to sell part of their stakes in the automobile marketplace as the company initiates conversations with merchant bankers for an initial public offering next year. CarDekho, which is expected to file its IPO papers in March, may see other early investors also book a profit from its public share offering, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told Mint.

Moo Deng memecoin. The memecoin, inspired by a viral pygmy hippo, saw a rapid surge in value, turning a small investment into a massive return within just two weeks.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Two big shifts are under way in the world of software development. Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, bosses have been falling over themselves to try to find ways to Github, a popular platform for storing and sharing code, living in poorer countries surpassed those from the rich world.

Rappid Valves will debut on the NSE SME platform today. Ahead of the listing, the stock was commanding a GMP of Rs 90 in the grey market. Considering the upper price band of Rs 312, the stock is expected to list with a premium of 41% over the issue price.

WOL 3D India will debut on the NSE SME platform today. Ahead of the listing, the stock was commanding a GMP of Rs 75 in the grey market. Considering the upper price band of Rs 150, the stock is expected to list with a premium of 50% over the issue price.

Persistent Systems is seeing more interest in outcome-based (fixed price) deals than deals that are priced based on time and material, said its chief executive Sandeep Kalra. Kalra told ET that with the maturing of artificial intelligence (AI) firms like Persistent Systems are building more Intellectual Properties such as the SASVA platform, GenAI Hub and iAURA, and creating greater value for customers. More discussions on the outcome-based pricing model have led to an increase in deals on this model, he said. “For example, on the SASVA platform in the enterprise software space, we are now picking up deals which are outcome-based more and more,” he said. “Whether it is doing end-to-end sustaining engineering of a product, which is basically nothing but support of a product, we are picking it up and saying it is not a price into quantity. It is basically what is the outcome and service level. Here is where we are taking it on a fixed bid or an outcome kind of thing.”

Online retailers like Flipkart and Amazon are poised to record 20-25% growth in festive season sales this year, gauging from response to the first three days of sale, according to estimates from Datum Intelligence and senior industry executives briefed on the sale trajectory. During September 26-28, online retailers clocked about 26% rise in sales compared to last year, at about Rs 26,500 crore ($3.2 billion), as per Datum Intelligence, which tracks ecommerce data. The market researcher estimates gross sales of $12 billion this festive season, a growth of about 23%, including discounts and returns. Etail major Flipkart is on track to hit its internal targets for this festive season based on the first three days of sale. The first day of sale was only open to paid VIP and Plus members, similar to Amazon Prime. “Day 1 is usually for the high frequency buyers and the next day it opens to all…Now, with three days of trends in, their (Flipkart) sales remain on target,” said one of the executives cited above.

The music streaming service Spotify was down on Sunday, the company said

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When federal agent Chris Janczewski was trying to strangle the flow of money to an al Qaeda network in 2020, he first considered infiltrating an invite-only forum or hunting for clues on the dark web. Then the Internal Revenue Service criminal investigator found the group talking openly about its scheme in a public forum on Telegram—one of the thousands of channels where people discuss illicit activities ranging from peddling child porn to selling stolen identities.