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edtech have called for an extraordinary general meeting on Friday to oust its founder CEO Byju Raveendran and his family members over «mismanagement and failures» at what was once India's hottest tech startups, sources said. The shareholders, who have called the EGM, collectively hold more than 30 per cent stake in Byju's. Raveendran and family own about 26 per cent in the company.

A gunman shoots at a Montreal Jewish school. A Jewish-owned grocery store is set on fire in Toronto. In Ottawa, police disrupt an alleged terrorism plot against the Jewish community.

artificial intelligence (AI) in the next 5-10 years to prevent misuse of such tools in affecting nation states by politicizing the spread of information, said Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder, Inflection AI and DeepMind. “I think the negative consequences here are likely to arise simply because so many people with different organisational interests, different religious and political values will not only affect information but also the real world in practice. I think that is the challenge for nation states,” Suleyman said.

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Unicommerce is expanding its overseas operations by onboarding more clients, a top official said on Tuesday. Unicommerce is already serving 46 clients in Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia and is now expanding these operations by adding more clients. Some of its clients in these markets include the UAE-based fashion brand Redtag, the Philippines-based kids' wear brand Edamama and the UAE-based logistics player RSA Global.

₹32,500 crore. The prime minister also launched or laid the foundation stone of projects worth ₹13,500 crore across the country. PM Modi was received at the Jammu airport by Lt Governor Manoj Sinha, Union Minister Jitendra Singh and prominent BJP leaders including J-K unit president Ravinder Raina.

Samsung Semiconductor India Research has inaugurated its 'Samsung Innovation Campus' programme at the Visvesvaraya Technological University to upskill youth in future tech domains such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) and make them job-ready. Under the programme, Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR) will train 1,100 undergraduate engineering students across Karnataka. Announcing that SSIR has launched the 'Samsung Innovation Campus' programme at Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), a release said the initiative underlines Samsung's commitment towards the government's Skill India initiative as part of the company's vision of powering digital India.

ET had first reported on Tuesday about the senior-level exits at the e-commerce major. Travel booking website Cleartrip’s head Ayyappan R, marketplace and categories leader Amitesh Jha, fintech and payments head Dheeraj A, and growth and retention head Bharath Ram are exiting the firm, Krishnamurthy confirmed to employees.

Entrepreneurs and companies should comply with the rules and laws, irrespective of their size, scale and growth momentum, minister of state for electronics and technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Monday. “I have seen entrepreneurs beginning to trespass because the momentum of entrepreneurship takes them beyond what the regulators have allowed them to do at that particular point in time… even if you are a hard-charging, successful, innovative entrepreneur, you cannot live in denial of the reality that there are rules and laws that have to be complied with, and that applies to big companies, small companies, startups, legacy,” he said at the Mumbai Tech Week.

Two police officers and a firefighter who responded to a domestic situation at a suburban Minneapolis home were killed early Sunday during a standoff by a heavily armed man who shot at police from the home where seven children were also inside.The suspect is dead, and another police officer was injured in the shooting in a neighbourhood in Burnsville, Minnesota, a city of about 64,000 people near Minneapolis.Investigators are still putting together details of the shooting, which unfolded from a domestic call.The suspect, who authorities have not yet identified, was armed with multiple guns and large amounts of ammunition. He had barricaded himself inside the home with his family, who included seven children ages 2 to 15.Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said negotiations lasted for hours before the suspect opened fire.

CBSE Board Exam 2024: Class 10, 12 exams begins today amid farmers protest The education minister was speaking at an event in Chhattisgarh. The union minister on Monday launched the PM SHRI (Prime Minister Schools for Rising India) scheme in Chhattisgarh under which 211 schools of the state will be upgraded.

Listed brokerage and trading platform Angel One Ltd. has appointed Meenal Maheshwari Shah as Group General Counsel. An alumnus of ILS Law Collage Pune from the 2010 batch, Maheshwari started her career with the law firm Khaitan & Co. as an associate. Subsequently, she also joined the Chambers of Mr Snehal Shah as counsel. Also, she joined the private equity investment arm of Bennett, Coleman, and Company Brand Capital India as Senior Legal Counsel.

More people are using crypto in Russia than ever before, a leading Moscow-based academic has claimed.

Classroom of the Elite Season 3 Episode 8 is on the horizon, promising viewers a riveting continuation of the unfolding drama within the walls of Advanced Nurturing High School. As Suzune Horikita's bold move to expel Yamauchi Haruki sends shockwaves through Class C, fans are eagerly anticipating the repercussions in the upcoming episode. Here's a comprehensive guide on the release date, where to watch, expected plot developments, and a quick recap of Episode 7.

₹35-crore loan from Axis Finance, a non-banking subsidiary of private lender Axis Bank. In its plea, Axis Finance sought the court’s urgent intervention to “protect and preserve" the outstanding loan amount, pending the hearing and final disposal of its arbitration petition. The bank had filed the arbitration petition after the Bengaluru-based education trust defaulted on its dues in September.

For many students, the excitement of being accepted into their first-choice college is being tempered this year by a troublesome uncertainty over whether they’ll get the financial aid they need to attend

Trainee doctors in South Korea have begun resigning en masse in protest of a government plan to increase the number of medical students

India Today. He used a caption for Shruti’s video, which was the primary cause that led to the controversy. ALSO READ: Viral video of Saraswati idol ‘without saree’ sparks protests at Tripura govt college “Indian schools and colleges are well known for organizing ‘Sanskritik karyakram’ and performances based on traditional and regional culture, but now it has become a ‘kotha.’ In the name of cultural events, shaking b**ty on item songs is all they call a cultural program.

Electric two-wheeler firm Pure EV on Monday said it has raised USD 8 million (around Rs 66 crore) from a consortium of investors. The funding was led by Bennett Coleman and Company Ltd, Hindustan Times Media Ventures, alongside Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt Ltd, existing investors and high net-worth individuals, Pure EV said in a statement. The Hyderabad-based company said it is currently in the final stage of concluding its Series A1 funding round, amounting to USD 25 million with the participation of a foreign institutional investor.

misconduct hearing after it emerged that he had shared details of injuries via WhatsApp following a stabbing attack on an Indian-origin teenager and her friend in Nottingham last year. According to a report in ‘The Sun' newspaper on Monday, a misconduct hearing last month heard how the officer posted details about students Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber as well as school caretaker Ian Coates soon after they were killed during a knife attack spree by Valdo Calocane in the central England city in June 2023. Think you check all the immigration boxes? Find out A second officer, Police Constable (PC) Matthew Gell, is said to have passed on the “distasteful” message to his wife and a friend.

Vikas Pershad, Fund Manager, M&G Investments, says “one has to think about not just China plus one, but also one plus India. If you are selling into a country, add India; if you are making in another country, you have to think about India now, which I have come around to, I was not a believer in a big way just a couple of years ago.” Markets always follow a style. There is a time when dividend investing will do well. There is a time when growth does well. There is a time when value does well. In the last 18 months, growth has done well in India whether it is some of the defence, cyclicals or infrastructure names and value has made a comeback which is PSU. It is a rarity. Why is that we are seeing a rising tide phenomenon? Vikas Pershad: Before we look abroad, you look internally and look at the retail interest, how the financialisation of savings is happening here in India. Retail investors are now taking money from other sources and putting it into the market and I think that is driving it. You have a lot of people focussed on this market. You have China, on one hand, that has gone from being a specialist market to a generalist market and it is back to being now a specialist market.