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Arun Mathew, a Silicon Valley-based partner at venture capital fund Accel, focuses on investments in the enterprise space, SaaS (software-as-a-service), cloud and security. Mathew, who is also involved in Accel’s Indian portfolio firms like Freshworks and BookMyShow, is bullish about the SaaS ecosystem, highlighting the engineering talent now available to join these companies along with the cost advantages of building global firms from here.

The nation’s labor board ruled on Wednesday that Home Depot violated federal labor law when it fired an employee for refusing to remove the hand-drawn “BLM” acronym for “Black Lives Matter” from a work apron

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Young, aspiring Indians are among customers driving volumes at Italian supercar maker Lamborghini, which posted record sales last year, global chief executive Stephan Winkelmann told ET. Its signature, wedge-shaped sports car is one of the fastest production vehicles available to the seriously wealthy and the marque is seeing demand not only from buyers in the country, but also Indians in the US, Europe and Southeast Asia, where they have second homes, he said. Winkelmann, on his first visit to the country in 10 years, said the improvement in India's infrastructure has «surprised» him. He's also excited that women are increasingly gravitating toward the brand, even in India. The consumer mood in the country is buoyant and if the tax regime continues to remain stable, opportunities to expand sales are robust, he said. «There have been a lot of changes and in terms of infrastructure — this is striking immediately. And for sure, also in our type of business now; the car industry has exploded,» he said. «We think that everybody is in the right place to do business and we have grown as Lamborghini, which is very positive… I think we're very well-positioned.»

The Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) is a retiral body which provides retiral benefits like provident fund, employee pension or family pension to the dependents of the employee in case of death. The Employees’ Provident Fund scheme provides that the employer is required to deduct 12% of the aggregate basic wages & dearness allowance and contribute a matching amount. EPFO declares the annual interest on the provident fund accumulations. Employees can withdraw the provident fund accumulations at the time of superannuation.

Canadians might have to pay more for chocolate and candies this Easter as manufacturers feel the crunch of high cocoa prices, which peaked earlier this month.

MUMBAI : Fantasy gaming app My11Circle on Wednesday won the race to be an official partner of the Indian Premier League (IPL), bidding ₹125 crore per year for a period of five years. The app from Games24x7 trumped incumbent Dream11, which bid ₹103 crore per year for the partner rights for the cricket tournament. Over five years, My11Circle will pay a total of ₹625 crore for the rights, two officials in the BCCI confirmed.

MUMBAI : Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd, the parent of edtech firm Byju’s, said it has secured an order from the Karnataka High Court stating that any resolutions proposed in an emergency meeting called by some of its key investors would be invalid until a final hearing by the court.

global peace and security and bolstering partnership with it should be the cornerstone of Europe's foreign policy, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday. In an address at the inaugural session of the Raisina Dialogue, Mitsotakis described the conflict in Ukraine as much more than a «local war on European soil» and that it is a «brutal challenge» to international stability and the rules-based order that India has supported. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, foreign ministers from a number of countries and a galaxy of strategic affairs experts and academicians attended the session. When it comes to shaping global debates and addressing great challenges, India is now often regarded, and rightly so, as a consensus builder and a voice of reason in an increasingly polarised world, the Greek prime minister said.

Karnataka government’s latest direction, asking multinationals to declare the number of Kannadigas they employ, has surprised sections of industry in the state. Calling the policy “intrusive” and “discriminatory”, former Infosys board member TV Mohandas Pai told ET that it could leave companies open to the risk of vandalism in the name of linguistic pride. “IT companies require talent. They hire people on the basis of open tests and don’t discriminate. If a Kannadiga candidate passes the test, they too get selected,” Pai, who is the chairman of venture capital fund Aarin Capital Partners, said. Karnataka, he added, has historically had a very open culture, especially in Bengaluru, and policies like this — which can cause hooliganism — create a perception of a government that is unable to protect its people.

₹1,332 crore ($160 million). The Murthy couple's initial investment in Cloudtail amounted to ₹417 crore ($50 million), rendering this transaction immensely profitable for them. Also read: Byju's $200 million rights issue fully subscribed; third party agency to check usage of funds: CEO Raveendran The sale of Cloudtail shares has resulted in a substantial profit of around ₹915 crore ($110 million) for Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty, signifying an impressive threefold return on their investment made over eight years ago.

gang that allegedly changed the IMEIs — the unique identifiers of a handset — of stolen mobiles and arrested three individuals, reported TOI. The gang was active in west Delhi and aided several snatchers and mobile thieves, police said. The accused, identified as Narabjeet Singh (26), Manish Singh (23) and Gurmeet Singh (32), are residents of Tilak Nagar. Police seized 79 stolen phones along with a laptop containing software and other evidence from the suspects.

Vladimir Putin's critic Alexei Navalny on 16 February, following which the United Kingdom froze assets of six Russian prison bosses, who were reportedly in charge of the Arctic penal colony housing Navalny. According to media reports, the sanctioned six Russians, including the head and five deputy heads of the penal colony, will also be banned from travelling to UK.

HyperVerge, the leading provider of AI-based identity verification (KYC) has been certified with Level 2 compliance for its liveness technology by a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) accredited biometric testing laboratory. Having already cleared ISO Level 1 certification, HyperVerge has now obtained the Level 2 compliance certification after passing the Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) level 2 test that is used to identify attempts to deceive face recognition-based biometric systems by presenting advanced impersonation artefacts and forgeries such as 3D masks, latex or silicone masks, and other artefacts that are significantly harder to detect. With this certification, HyperVerge becomes one of the very few identity verification solutions in the world to be compliant with ISO 30107-1/30107-3, making its liveness technology among the best.“Being compliant is an area which all companies continue to prioritise.

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Byju Raveendran wrote to shareholders, informing them that the $200 million rights issue is fully subscribed. He also iterated further steps he is taking to ensure transparency on the usage of the funds. Read the full text of Byju's email to employees:

Rohit Srivastava, Strike Money Analytics & Indiacharts, says there are two segments to look for: weakest and strongest. The two weakest sectors in the market right now are FMCG and private banks based on the data from 1st of February to now. So that comes to the forefront in terms of looking at weakness developing all over again. We have seen some short-term bounce back in individual stocks. Not really recommending anything but we have seen HDFC Bank do that. We have seen ICICI Bank go back towards the highs. We look for where the breakdowns start showing up within private banks in the next couple of days and that is where the opportunities may be.” What is the setup looking like? Let us talk clearly about Nifty, Bank Nifty first and then we will talk about areas of the market which are interesting to you. How does the Nifty, Bank Nifty setup look right now? Rohit Srivastava: While the Nifty may have made a new closing high, if I go to a slightly broader index like a Nifty 500 and take the highs of January-February, then we actually have not gone past that. At this point of time, possibly this will end up being a false breakout. We are not taking it as a serious break to new highs indicating that you started a fresh rally and so on.

Delhi Chalo march on Wednesday. After four rounds of negotiations with the union government failed to yield results, the Shambhu border crossing between Punjab and Haryana looks set for a faceoff between protestors and police forces today morning. The first rounds of tear gas shells were fired by police forces around noon.

quoted Tiwary as saying during a press conference at the Kolkata Sports Journalists' Club. “If I hadn't fought with Gambhir in 2013, maybe I would've played for another two or three years, which would have increased my contract amount and strengthened my bank balance. But, I never thought about that." Tiwary then spoke about the reason why his next team, Delhi Capitals, had released him.

Trisha Goddard, former Dancing on Ice contestant has disclosed that she has been diagnosed with untreatable breast cancer. At the time of an interview in Hello magazine, the TV presenter made the explanation that she had got the news nearly 19 months ago, however currently has decided to speak out since she does not wish to be lying about her disease any longer. Goddard said she could not keep on lying and continue concocting stories. She further continued that it reaches a stage after a year and a half when secret keeping is more of a load than anything else. She also shared that she is anxious and it requires to be done.

BlackBerry Ltd. executive John Wall had an epiphany about two years ago after listening to a colleague in the auto industry complain about the high costs of developing basic software — what he called “the underwear.”