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Altamount Road, the SoBo Billionaires' Row that's home to Mukesh Ambani, appears to have company in India's other metro cities, such as Bengaluru and Delhi-NCR, for the uber-rich tech and startup czars to stay connected and network with one another — from the comfort of their drawing rooms or gyms and club houses for that matter. In Bengaluru, houses in the Billionaires' Street (Koramangala), Epsilon Villas or Adarsh Palm Retreat (APR) are owned by the likes of Sachin and Binny Bansal, Flipkart cofounders, and its CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy along with a few Infosys co-founders and the Raveendrans. The owners of several new-age firms such as Unacademy's Gaurav Munjal, PhonePe's Sameer Nigam, Meesho's Vidit Aatrey, the Zetwerk founders dot the palm tree and Mercedes-lined APR. 'India's CTO' Nandan Nilekani, Wipro owners — the Premjis, and Rahul Dravid also own homes in Koramangala, where property rates have already built a formidable moat of exclusivity.

Chennai Super Kings batters dazzled before the bowlers ran riot to choke Gujarat Titans in a comprehensive 53-run victory in their second IPL match here on Tuesday.Ruturaj Gaikwad's team has covered all its bases and it was evident as Rachin Ravindra prepared a platform with 20-ball-46 allowing Shivam Dube to unlock his beast mode with a 23-ball-51. In between, Gaikwad himself maintained the balance with 36-ball-46 as Chennai's 206 for 6 was a Herculean total in every sense. Titans in reply could manage only 143/8 as Chahar (2/28 in 4 overs), Mustafizur Rahman (2/30 in 4 overs), Tushar Deshpande (2/21) and Matheesha Pathirana (1/29 in 4 overs) one by one tightened the noose on Titans batting unit. If Gujarat needed to make a match of it, Shubman Gill needed to fire but his poor shot selection of a Deepak Chahar delivery, which wasn't as short as expected for a pull-shot, brought about his downfall. Once Shubman was gone, Gujarat didn't even have a chance in hell with players like Wriddhiman Saha (21 off 17 balls) and B Sai Sudharsan (37, 31 balls), players, who on most days are pillion riders, playing second fiddle to perfection.

Congress leaders' comments on Kangana Ranaut snowballing into a political row, the actress-turned-politician said every woman, irrespective of her background and profession, deserves dignity. Ranaut, who makes her political debut as a BJP candidate from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, said she was particularly pained by the derogatory comments on the constituency that is often referred to as "Chhoti Kashi". The Congress has been in the crosshairs after demeaning remarks on Ranaut and Mandi were posted on the social media handles of its leaders Supriya Shrinate and H S Ahir.

Supriya Shrinate on actress Kangana Ranaut's electoral debut has sparked a fresh controversy. The National Commission of Women has demanded action against the Congress leader. Although Supriya clarified that the post, which has since been removed from Instagram, was posted from a parody account, she has however issued an apology.

Zomato's top executives were on Zoom call lasting more than 20 hours after the food aggregator announced of their 'pure veg' food delivery service, which led to huge backlash, chief executive officer Deepinder Goyal told NDTV in an interview. This service by Zomato will exclusively enlist restaurants offering solely vegetarian cuisine. Delivery partners assigned to this service will strictly deal with vegetarian food packages and will not handle any non-vegetarian items.

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz has ended Red Bull's Formula 1 winning streak when the Spaniard took advantage of Max Verstappen's early retirement to win the Australian Grand Prix just two weeks after missing the previous race in Saudi Arabia due to an emergency appendectomy. Sainz, who started on the front row alongside Verstappen, kept his place into turn one, but passed the Dutchman on lap two at turn nine for the lead and took control once his rival retired two laps later with a fiery mechanical failure. Verstappen had won the first two F1 races of the season in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and was on a nine-race winning streak.

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Election Commission of India has warned CPI candidate in Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency, V S Sunil Kumar against using a photograph of his with leading Malayalam actor Tovino Thomas for the poll campaign. The EC warning came days after Kumar had triggered a row by posting his picture with actor Thomas, who is an ambassador for the Election Commission's Systematic Voter's Education and Electoral Participation programme (SVEEP), on social media. The actor had himself posted on social media, saying he was an ambassador for SVEEP and that it was against law to use his photograph for election campaign. Seizing the opportunity, the BJP-led NDA early this week filed a complaint with the district Collector, who is also the returning officer for the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency, against the Left candidate for allegedly violating the poll code.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said the state government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court demanding a direction to the Centre to immediately release grants under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) to the state, which is reeling under acute drought. Accusing the Centre of sitting on Karnataka's pleas for release of funds though there is a severe drought, he said the state government was compelled to approach the apex court. «Today the Karnataka government filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court against the Centre after waiting for five months. Since there is vacation for a week in the Supreme Court, we did not get the endorsement. We expect it next week,» Siddaramaiah told reporters here. The petition was filed under Article 32 of the Indian Constitution to give directions to the Government of India to release NDR Funds immediately, which was supposed to be released by the Centre according to law, he explained.

cut the interest rates later this year, thus kicking off the rate cut cycle in the market. However, RBI in its Feb 2024 monetary policy meeting (MPC) kept the interest rates unchanged for the sixth time in a row. But this is expected to change as the banking regulator is likely to go for the interest rate cut later this year, Reuters reported.

(Reuters) — Foreign investors continued to accumulate Japanese bonds for the third straight week ahead of a pivotal move by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to exit negative interest rates after 17 years. They pumped in a massive 2.16 trillion yen ($14.26 billion) into long-term Japanese bonds on a net basis last week, the biggest amount in a week since mid-March 2023, data from the Ministry of Finance showed.

The Bank of Canada’s governing council seems to be growing in confidence that the central bank will be able to lower its benchmark interest rate sometime this year, but newly released documents show there’s concern among monetary policymakers about risks to their outlook.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in February from the previous month to the strongest pace in a year as homebuyers were encouraged by a modest pullback in mortgage rates and more properties on the market

Nifty Bank closed in the green on Thursday after closing in the red for the past nine trading sessions in a row. The Nifty Bank rose 374 points to close at 46,684 while the Nifty50 closed 172 points higher above 22,000.

Investing.com — The Federal Reserve kept rates steady on Wednesday, and maintained forecasts for three rate-cuts this year, pointing to the central bank’s confidence that the recent strength in inflation is unlikely to derail the recent progress.

Warren Buffett — all have acknowledged and lauded the power of compounding. The rationale behind this ‘magic’ is simple. If you keep your money invested for a long period, the return keeps getting added to the investment, and in the subsequent years, the return appreciates on the inflated sum.

Eicher Motors jumped 6% on Wednesday to hit the day's high of Rs 3,940 after UBS upgraded the stock to 'Buy' from an earlier 'Neutral' rating while raising its price target to Rs 5,000 from Rs 4,300. With today's gains, the rally has extended to two sessions in a row. Over 13 lakh shares were trading on the NSE around 10:15 am with the traded value standing at Rs 531.50 crore. It was also the top Nifty gainer around this time.

A new report from T. Rowe Price adds to the mountain of evidence about the benefits of formal financial planning for Americans approaching retirement.

Opposition was fighting against a “Shakti". However, Rahul Gandhi, in his comments made on Sunday in Maharashtra, raised concerns about the operation of EVMs to emphasise the Opposition's struggle against the might of the state. “There is a word 'Shakti' (might) in Hinduism.

Prince William and Kate Middleton walked at a farm market in Windsor. The couple can be seen smiling at each other and engrossed in a deep conversation.

ANI reported. Alleging that the local police did not register a First Information Report (FIR) initially, Surya said, “Immediately, Mukesh and the neighbouring shopkeepers tried to reach the nearest police station to register an FIR.