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₹2 crore ($240,000). While tournaments of this scale are good for gamers, the rising crop of professional esports players have a problem—they’re not being able to monetize their gameplays and social media presence.

upgradation of industrial training institutes (ITIs). Official sources told ET that the ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship (MSDE) will soon kickstart consultations with states and industry associations across potential sectors to firm up the new scheme which envisages a total investment of Rs 60,000 crore over five years to impart skills training in new-age courses to two million youth through 1000 revamped ITIs. The identified sectors include construction sector, green energy, textiles and garments, advanced manufacturing, heavy engineering, automobiles, process industry, electronics, and telecom where rigorous skills training will be imparted to create a pool of skilled workforce.

As more older Americans navigate financial uncertainty, a significant chunk of the workforce is opting to gradually transition into retirement, according to a recent survey by WTW.

Following the opening of the tender offer today (21 August), investors have until 5:30pm British Summer Time on 27 August to decide whether to keep their shares in the company or partake in the tender offer, the trust said in a stock exchange notice.  GIF's assets and liabilities will be valued on 13 September at 5:30pm and further allocated into two pools — the continuing pool and the tender pool, with assets in the tender pool to be realised by the investment adviser and the proceeds used to repurchase the tendered shares. Schroder Japan trust ups discount management efforts with re...

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Volt VC, a micro venture capital (VC) firm, announced the launch of its inaugural fund on Wednesday. The Volt VC Fund-1 aims to raise a corpus of Rs 45 crore to invest in around 20-25 consumer-centric startups at the pre-seed stage across various sectors, with a particular focus on direct-to-consumer (D2C), business-to-consumer (B2C), and business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) models. “In India, lately we have seen a good number of pre-seed and seed funds coming in, but several of them have ticket sizes of between Rs 4 crore and Rs 10 crore. However, many of these startups don’t have the appetite to take in that much money. So, there was a need for someone to enter with a smaller ticket for a smaller stake,” Param Patel, the general partner of the fund told ET.

Oklahoma State will wear QR codes on its helmets this season that link to the general team fund

wealthtech startups. And venture firms are pouring in millions of dollars to support these nascent businesses. Data from market intelligence platform Tracxn shows that investors have collectively put around $228 million into Indian wealthtech startups over the past two years. Till date in 2024, the sector has already attracted investments of around $70 million. The opportunity is huge, industry insiders said, citing the rapidly increasing number of high net-worth individuals (HNIs) in the country.

Rajasthan will undertake land reforms to improve its availability for green field manufacturing units, state Principal Secretary (Industries), Ajitabh Sharma told ET. Sharma said the state had received fresh proposals for renewable energy equipment and petrochemical manufacturing and investment commitments of over Rs 5.2 lakh crore ahead of the Rising Rajasthan Investment Summit. “We are coming out with policies for supporting the development of private industrial parks,” he said, adding that the state is now readying a Private Land Aggregation bill.

Samir Arora, Founder, Helios Capital, says we cannot let go of pockets of flow by just believing that we are getting Rs 20,000 crore a month. The SIP numbers are good, but they are not what you think are. The actual net flows are not Rs 20,000 crore or more per month, they are only Rs 10,000 crore. For some reason, we are only talking about gross flows. When things go bad, things will become very bad if we ignore one big pool of money and more than that, ignore valuations and ignore bad news beyond a point. So one has to balance it. We have done it. I am sure fund managers are doing it. Everybody is saying valuations are expensive, and the markets are due for a correction but look at the ability of the market to shrug off bad news, what it did on election day, the Budget day, and what it has done post that black Monday 10 days ago. Samir Arora: Correct. One of course is flows, but it would look out of place if we were doing it independent of the world. So, basically, the mothership which is the US is also doing the same, not related to the budget or elections, but in general reacting to any bad phases and so it has recovered so well, Japan has recovered. But the FII flows have been quite negative and I think that is because these tax hikes have become untenable. Just to give you one number, the MSCI India Index in dollar terms is up over 17 percent year to date, whereas a $10 billion index is up 13%. So, over time, this is going to hurt and there will be some loss of FII investments in India.

Five people have been charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s death from a ketamine overdose last year, including the actor’s assistant and two doctors, a prosecutor confirmed Thursday.

e-commerce giant JD.com beat estimates for quarterly profit on Thursday, helped by a mid-year sales festival and aggressive price cuts that drove more cost-sensitive consumers to its platform. U.S.-listed shares of the company rose 2.6% in premarket trading. Major Chinese vendors like JD.com and Alibaba have increased focus on discounting and lower-priced goods as the world's second largest economy sees a pullback from customers that as conscious about spending.

ITC Hotels said on Monday it had signed a Welcomhotel property with SRK Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. in Pushkar. Expected to open in 2026, it will be spread across nearly three acres. Located 50 kilometers from the Kishangarh airport, Welcomhotel Pushkar will offer 96 guestrooms, with banquet facilities and various food and beverage offerings including an all-day dining restaurant, lobby lounge, a specialty restaurant and bar. Recreational spaces include a swimming pool, fitness center, spa and a kids’ club. Anil Chadha, Chief Executive, ITC Hotels said the Welcomhotel brand continues to grow under the asset right strategy. «We recently opened the 25th Welcomhotel in Belagavi (Belgaum) Karnataka last month. Pushkar, located close to Ajmer and Jaipur, is one of Rajasthan’s most visited leisure destinations for its versatile offerings. Welcomhotel Pushkar shall showcase the legacy of this charming region,» he added.

Hy-Vee, Inc., a retail grocery company headquartered in west Des Moines, Iowa, has relocated to a new office location spread over 54,000 sqft in Bengaluru, further enhancing its footprint in India. Hy-Vee's move to a new space is part of its plan to leverage India's talent pool for a wide range of technical and non-technical roles, allowing the company to work on projects on a 24/7 basis. The new facility, situated in Karle Tech Park on the Outer Ring Road, under a 10-year lease, aims to drive innovation and enhance operational efficiency. «We are excited to see the HST Global team's growth over the last year and a half and look forward to this new space supporting them as they continue to help move Hy-Vee forward as a retail leader,” said Travis Hoover, Chief Data Officer at HyVee.

Alberta Advantage Immigration Program (AAIP) is a provincial initiative designed to nominate individuals for permanent residency in Alberta, targeting those with skills to address labor shortages or who intend to establish or purchase a business in the province. The program is administered jointly by the Alberta government and the federal government of Canada. Successful nominees, along with their spouse or common-law partner and dependent children, can apply for permanent residency status through Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), which makes the final decision on all applications.

Paris Olympics 2024 but the United States of America topped the medals table finishing above the Asian giant only by virtue of their 44 silvers. China, who were the last nation apart from the U.S. to top the standings when they did it on home soil at the 2008 Beijing Games, managed only 27 silvers. The US also won most total medals with 126 to China's 91.

sports teams in India saw an up to threefold surge in earnings in 2023-24, with cricket dominating the table, according to the latest filings of their owners such as Reliance Industries, United Spirits, Tata Steel and RPSG Ventures. These companies, which run the sports teams as business ventures through subsidiaries, benefited from a larger central revenue pool of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), showed the filings. The revenue pool mainly comprises money earned by the BCCI from selling the broadcasting rights and a portion of it is shared among the Indian Premier League (IPL) teams. For instance, the total income of Reliance Industries' wholly owned subsidiary Indiawin Sports, which owns the Mumbai Indians cricket team, more than doubled to ₹737 crore in 2023-24 from ₹359 crore in the previous fiscal. The company's net profit was ₹110 crore, compared to a net loss of ₹49 crore in 2022-23. The central rights accounted for three-fourths of the revenue in 2023-24, while nearly 22% came from ticketing sales, said the annual report of Reliance Industries.

Canadian beach volleyball players Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson will settle for silver at the Paris Games.

hongben, or red booklets, as proof of ownership. These look just like urban-property certificates. In one village, however, residents are unable to produce them—they say they are being stored by the village authorities (a clue, probably, to who really controls the rights).