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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Aakash Educational Services, once a prized acquisition for Byju's, now finds itself mirroring its parent company’s turmoil. At the heart of the crisis is a fierce legal standoff between shareholders, Ranjan Pai’s Manipal Group, and minority stakeholders, including private equity giant Blackstone and the Chaudhary family, Aakash’s original promoters.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky explored unconventional diplomatic strategies to win favor with the newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump while including a potential deal to purchase the Ukrainian language rights to the memoir of First Lady Melania Trump, reported Daily Beast. The proposed strategy which reportedly never got progressed beyond the initial discussions was actually a part of a broader effort to establish the positive relationship with the new US administration.

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

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.

Delhi to resist alleged attempts to sway their votes through money and gifts, accusing the BJP of distributing gold chains, sarees, shoes, and cash to influence the electorate ahead of the February 5 Assembly elections. «It's your money; take the money. But do not sell your vote for Rs 1,100 or for a saree. Your vote is invaluable,» Kejriwal said, urging citizens in a video message to prioritise democracy over material offerings.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Sales were down last year at the world’s chief auction houses, as wary sellers held onto their prized trophies. But experts at Sotheby’s have found at least one reason to celebrate: Luxury goods, which include everything from dinosaur bones to jewelry to rare sneakers, held up better than expected last year and hint at a possible market turnaround.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. At the Constitution Museum in Sonipat, Haryana, the main aim is to connect people from all walks of life with the document that unites us as a republic. Intertwined with audio-visual presentations and panels of information about the drafting of the Constitution are works of contemporary art inspired by what lies within the document’s pages.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For the winter holiday homework, my daughter’s class was asked to study the Preamble and find out more about fundamental rights, duties and the drafting of the Constitution. They did not just have to learn about the text but also respond to the artwork on the borders as well.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : On 23 January, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) temporarily stayed the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) November 2023 order, which imposed a five-year ban on WhatsApp's data-sharing practices with parent Meta Platforms Inc.-owned companies for advertising purposes. The NCLAT’s decision comes as a major relief for the US tech giant, which has a combined user base of 850 million—350 million on Facebook and over 500 million on WhatsApp.

«Our sense is that the recovery has started, government has started spending again, maybe not to the extent on the budgeted estimate, we will be still short of that, but we believe that the rest of FY25 we could see a sharp recovery coming on the capex side,» says Pankaj Tibrewal, IKIGAI Asset Manager. You have been quite bearish in terms of what you have been indicating in terms of your post and in terms of your communication that markets in the month of November and December had run up. Now that markets have corrected, is it time to be more constructive? Pankaj Tibrewal: So, if you look at it, three-four things have happened which were making us nervous for the last five-six months and we were cautioning all investors that the health of the economy is not in best of the shape. First, the liquidity, we spoke to dealer, distributors across for the last few months and the durable liquidity in the system is extremely tight and that is also reflected on the laf window if you look at the banking liquidity. Clearly, that incrementally with the governor change, our view is that that would be addressed and slowly and gradually if liquidity starts to ease out, that will be the first positive sign for all.

CBI on Friday filed an appeal before the Calcutta High Court, seeking death penalty for RG Kar hospital rape-murder case convict Sanjay Roy. A division bench, presided by Justice Debangsu Basak, said it will hear the CBI's appeal on January 27, along with a prayer by the West Bengal government seeking admission of its appeal with a similar plea.

«The government knows that there is a slowdown, but still the government capex, government spending has not picked up. Now what is leading to that, why this stagnation is there, and what is their thought process it will become clear in a week when the budget comes in,» says Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com. What could be interesting in this market falls could be insurance. Their numbers were not bad. I looked at HDFC Life numbers, decent. Three-four years, like you said, Kotak Mahindra Bank insurance stocks have also done nothing, nobody likes them, nobody owns them, and genuinely I see that there is a turf of growth which seems to be getting made. Sandip Sabharwal: Yes, I would agree like especially for hdfc Life the expectations were low, they reported decent numbers, stock ran up, now it has consolidated a bit. So, I think that could potentially be one stock from the insurance sector which could do well. Similarly, ICICI Lombard number on general insurance were pretty decent.

Asian equities rose, following a rebound in technology stocks that pushed Wall Street to a record high. Oil fell after President Donald Trump urged OPEC to lower crude prices and said he will push for interest-rate cuts. Equity benchmarks rose in Tokyo ahead of a key interest rate decision by the Bank of Japan later Friday, where a hike is expected. Stocks also rose in Sydney and Seoul. The S&P 500 advanced 0.5%, with the gauge topping the 6,100 milestone. Tech shares, which weighed heavily on the market throughout most of the session, rebounded in the final stretch of trading. A gauge of dollar strength was flat.

An image of Elon Musk making a straight-arm, Nazi-like gesture during his speech Monday at U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration was projected onto Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin-Brandenburg on Wednesday night.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A succession of executive orders by the outgoing and the new presidents of the United States have left India’s artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor businesses and the nation’s policymakers worried. It only underscores the need for locally developed core technologies for economic prosperity, while relying on diplomacy to tide over the immediate risk.

overnight variable rate repo (VRR) auction in addition to a pre-announced buyback as liquidity deficit persisted in the banking system. On Thursday, RBI injected more than ₹1.45 lakh crore via two overnight variable rate repo (VRR) auctions and a buyback operation of ₹9,666 crore. The RBI will conduct a similar VRR auction on Friday for ₹2 lakh crore, along with a 14- day auction for ₹1.75 lakh crore, maturing on February 7.

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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.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Monday’s use of the presidential pardon by former President Joe Biden and President Trump have stretched the power’s bounds, legal scholars said. WASHINGTON—U.S.