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Elon Musk’s X Corp. has agreed to try to settle claims by thousands of former Twitter employees who say they were cheated of severance pay when the billionaire laid them off after acquiring the social media platform last year, according to a memo by a lawyer for the workers seen by Bloomberg News.

Shah Rukh Khan's now famous dialogue «Bete ko hath lagane se pehle, baap se baat kar» (Before touching the son, deal with the father) in "Jawan" wasn't part of the script initially, says the film's dialogue writer Sumit Arora. The dialogue had instantly caught the attention of Shah Rukh's fans when it was first shown in action-entertainer's trailer that was launched a week before its release on September 7. Many fans on social media have linked the dialogue, which was spoken by the superstar's character Vikram Rathore in the climax, as a response to the arrest of his son Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case in October 2021.

Sydney FC has added the head of one of Australia’s biggest social media agencies to its board as it tries to turn a massive groundswell of support for soccer following the FIFA Women’s World Cup into a new fan base.

Jawan" never bothered Sanya Malhotra as the actor says she was more focused on what she could learn from superstar Shah Rukh Khan and the rest of the film's team. Malhotra has a pivotal but small role in the Atlee directorial as Dr Eeram, a former doctor who is part of Shah Rukh's team of vigilantes. The 31-year-old actor said she learnt a lesson on her first film "Dangal", in which she shared the screen with Aamir Khan, and it came in handy when she signed for «Jawan» as well. «Nitesh (Tiwari) sir had told me during Dangal to see what you can give to a script as an actor. How much you'll give or what you are or not, that doesn't matter… Even in 'Dangal', I had wrestled for only a minute or 2, but I trained for over a year for it,» Malhotra told PTI in an interview. The actor also gave the example of Shah Rukh's appearance in Kamal Haasan's 2000 movie «Hey Ram». "(In 'Hey Ram'), he had done a character just for the script and love of acting that gives me a lot of confidence as an actor. When I got this opportunity, it's something I could never have said no to because I'm a huge Shah Rukh Khan fan and to get to work with him, to be around him, to see him work — why would I say no to it even in my dreams?

Indian startup ecosystem. The sector has witnessed one of the worst slowdowns in risk capital funding for startups that has stretched for over a year, drawing the moniker of a “funding winter”. The eleven jurors including top business leaders, startup entrepreneurs who have taken their companies public recently, marquee investors and other founders, would therefore display a razorsharp focus on business models built for the long term.

An operator at Rich Lister Tim Gurner’s wellness and anti-ageing network has sought to calm the nerves of staff, assuring them the founder’s viral comments about entitled workers were not directed at them.

ET Startup Awards 2023 jury meeting, as the members contemplated how much weight should be given to public good, impact and financials. Their final choice was FIA Global, a platform that helps people in some of the most remote areas of the country avail of formal financial services, from opening a bank account and taking a loan to investing in mutual funds and buying digital gold.

Lauren Boebert was escorted out of the 'Beetlejuice' musical show on Sunday for allegedly disturbing other people in the audience. In a report about the incident at the Buell Theater in Denver, it is said, two patrons «received three different complaints» and were accused of «vaping, singing, causing a disturbance.» The identity of these two persons has not been revealed, but when they were requested to leave, they reportedly said, «Do you know who I am?»

₹79,900, maintaining the same price point as the iPhone 12, launched in October 2020. However, this year, the iPhone 15 Pro models are dearer by ₹5,000, while iPhone 15 Pro Max prices have surged by ₹10,000 across all storage variants. Following the launch, Indian handles on social media platform X highlighted the price disparity of the new iPhone models versus global markets, despite the Made-in-India tag.

Samvidhan Sabha on the first day of the five-day session of Parliament beginning September 18. During the session, the government has also listed the bill on the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and other election commissioners to be taken up for consideration and passage.

It isn’t a good sign when a restaurant chain’s investors ask management about the effect of Social Security checks on its future prospects. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has long thrived on its unique formula and down-home charm. For example, it proudly touts not only how many biscuits, eggs and strips of bacon it sells but also the number of rocking chairs and wooden puzzles—around 70,000 and 300,000 a year, respectively.

Patience for after-hours work socializing is wearing thin. After an initial burst of postpandemic happy hours, rubber chicken dinners and mandatory office merriment, many employees are adopting a stricter 5:01-and-I’m-done attitude to their work schedules. More U.S.

start-ups, has been awarded the 2X Flagship Fund status by the 2X Flagship Fund Committee. Caspian Debt’s candidature was proposed by its existing investors Nederlandse Financieringsmaatschappij Voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (FMO) and United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), based on its three-year track record of exceeding the investment commitments to 2X qualified companies, as well as on the gender diversity of its team.

MUMBAI : Several individuals across India are unable to access their bank accounts online for reasons ranging from defunct user credentials to account turning dormant, with the system of resuscitating it an arduous process, a survey has found. Community social media platform LocalCircles said after issues were reported by banking consumers over 18 months, it conducted a survey to understand the type and magnitude of difficulties faced by consumers.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been talking for months about trying to pass bipartisan legislation that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and mitigates its biggest risks

Casino operator MGM Resorts International says resorts are open despite a cybersecurity issue that led to the shutdown of its computer systems across the U.S. The FBI on Tuesday characterized its investigation as ongoing but offered no additional infor...

A record of more than one in five young Chinese are out of work, their career ambitions derailed by a depressed job market as the economy struggles to regain momentum after its long bout with COVID-19

The U.S. government says the former Twitter’s request to end oversight of its data privacy and security practices is “meritless” and owner Elon Musk should not be immune to testifying about the company since he has “first-hand knowledge” of the conduct...

Himanta Biswa Sarma stated his wife and the company she is associated with have not taken or received any subsidies from the Government of India following the Congress party,s alleging that a company run by chief minister's wife has received Rs 10 crore subsidy from ministry of food processing. A social media war of words has broken out between the chief minister and Congress leaders. Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi stated in X, “Adarnya Pradhan Mantri Modi, your government has given Rs 10 crore subsidy to a private company run by the wife of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa’s wife.

unemployment rate when combined with the increase in population clearly shows that a far larger number of people are looking for work than in the past. What could be the cause of this seeming paradox? A conventional explanation has been that India’s demonetization of high-value currency notes in November 2016 followed by GST implementation in mid-2017 delivered a shock to the economy, particularly its informal sector. This shock is said to still persist, causing the high unemployment rate; improved GST collections are then attributed merely to improved performance of the organized formal sector.

Learning Standards (LS) are the spine of the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF), that was released by India’s ministry of education on 23 August 2023. ‘Spine’ because the NCF is built around these Learning Standards, knitting all its elements together to form the whole.