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The future is here: Accolades pour in for Gukesh after historic win
India's D Gukesh has been hailed as a potential future world champion after winning the prestigious Candidates tournament in Toronto. The 17-year-old chess player drew with American Hikaru Nakamura in the final round, becoming the youngest ever challenger to the world title. Viswanathan Anand, five-time world champion and the only other Indian to win the Candidates, congratulated Gukesh for his impressive performance.
Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Dates, schedule, phases, constituencies, candidates, other details; All you need to know
In Tamil Nadu's 2024 Lok Sabha elections, all 39 seats will see voting on April 19, with results expected on June 4. Key battles include Coimbatore, where BJP's K Annamalai competes against DMK's Ganapathy P Rajkumar and AIADMK's Singai Ramachandran. Other significant contests feature DMK's Kanimozhi in Thoothukudi and Congress' Karti Chidambaram in Sivaganga. Tamil Nadu, with 39 seats, played a pivotal role in the 2019 elections, securing a landslide victory for the DMK-led alliance.
Peak XV launches Spark 03 cohort with 14 startups, including 16 female founders
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and healthtech dominate this cohort with four companies in AI and four in healthtech, while others in the group are engaged in building software as a service (SaaS), consumer and B2B platforms, Peak XV said.
HCLTech chief delivery officer Appa Rao VV quits
Rao was the company’s chief human resources officer before he took up the chief delivery officer role in October 2022. Ramachandran Sundararajan had succeeded him as chief HR officer at the time.
HC questions court's impartiality in corruption cases, says it has become part of an unholy alliance
The Madras High Court has expressed concerns over the handling of cases involving disproportionate assets by special courts. The court warned that this approach could lead to the demise of such cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The court observed a pattern where the identities of the accused and the prosecution blur when there is a shift in political power.
Cloud security startup PingSafe raises $3.3 million in funding led by Surge
The freshly raised capital will help the startup advance its cloud security solution and product innovation, and also ramp up its global business development efforts in India and the United States.
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Same-sex marriage: SC cites heavy influx of cases, says impossible to list constitution bench matters unless time rationed
Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, who is heading a five-judge constitution bench which is hearing the matter, said the chief justices before him had not set up constitution benches because of the kind of pressure which is there in terms of the inflow of matters.
SC refuses to entertain plea to restrain lawyer Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri from taking oath as HC judge
On Monday, a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud had in the forenoon put the plea of three Madras HC lawyers opposing the appointment of Gowri for hearing on February 10 but later advanced it to February 7 after senior advocate Raju Ramachandran again mentioned it, saying the Centre has notified her appointment. The petitioner lawyers, Anna Mathew, Sudha Ramalingam and D Nagasaila, in their plea referred to the alleged hate speeches made by Gowri against Muslims and Christians.
Why can’t promoters be in executive roles, asks India Inc
Mahindra’s current 5-year term as the executive chairman is slated to end in November 2021. But as a consequence of the Securities and Exchange Board of India regulations stipulating a non-executive capacity for chairman after March 2020, Mahindra had announced in December that he would relinquish his executive role in April 2020.
Sridhar will talk on rural job creation, nothing more to it: Zoho on RSS event
The technology entrepreneur, and an Accenture top executive, had come under fire on Twitter early this week after a digital poster announced them as guests at an RSS event in Chennai in February. Twitter users called for boycott of products for their association with RSS.
Never agreed to participate in RSS event: Accenture India top exec
Functionaries say the attempts are on to rope in more top executives and entrepreneurs to attend the event. An RSS spokesperson confirmed that Ramachandran would not attend the event, but said there is a clear history of corporate chiefs and technology entrepreneurs openly associating with the organisation, from Shiv Nadar to Ratan Tata to Azim Premji.
Anand Mahindra to step down as executive chairman of Mahindra Group, Anish Shah to replace Pawan Goenka as MD and CEO
M&M names Anish Shah as its managing director and chief executive designate to succeed Pawan Goenka.
Reliance-backed Haptik acquires conversational commerce platform Buzzo.ai
Buzzo.ai joins Reliance Jio-backed Haptik to address the $80 billion voice commerce market for enterprises globally
Fantasy sports platform Fantain ropes in Suresh Raina as brand ambassador
Fantain will unveil its marketing campaign #GameHaathMein which is a call to every fan to become an active one by following his/her favourite sport on their mobiles.
Buy Cyient, target Rs 550: Jay Thakkar
Buy Cyient at a price target of Rs 550 and a stop loss at Rs 495 from entry point.
Bharti Airtel Q1 net profit jumps 10.8% sequentially; mobile data revenue up 34.1%
Consolidated mobile data revenues at Rs 4,640 crore grew by 34.1% YoY. Mobile data traffic at 194.8 billion megabytes in the quarter; growth of 62.5% over the same quarter last year.
Heirs of some of India’s biggest tycoons are charting their own entrepreneurial path
Heirs of some of India’s biggest tycoons are not joining the family businesses yet. They prefer to first chart their own entrepreneurial path.
Success of payment banks to depend on scalability and ability to reduce cost, say experts
The entities with the prize licenses from Reserve Bank of India to set up payment banks will be chasing a volume game with focusing fee-income for the services they offer.
These blood-thirsty people will hang Yakub tomorrow: Anand Grover
Anand Grover appeared for National Law University, Delhi and assisted Yakub's counsel Raju Ramachandran and senior advocate TR Andhyarujina.
Supreme Court's larger bench hears Yakub Memon's plea afresh
The bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra, before rising for lunch recess, said it will pronounce the order today itself, if the counsel for the parties "cooperate".
Soon, shop with your metro, bus smartcard
In a bid to promote electronic payments RBI proposes to allow mass transit operators to issue pre-paid cards that can be used at other merchants.
Why gyms and health clubs are finding it hard to stay profitable
A combination of difficult economics and human sloth has twisted the industry into a tight spot.
N Ramachandran to be next IOA president
N Ramachandran, Rajeev Mehta and Anil Khanna will be elected unopposed as president, secretary general and treasurer respectively of the IOA.
Political parties oppose coming under RTI Act
Major political parties today vehemently opposed any move to bring them under the ambit of the Right to Information Act.
Five reasons why India has failed to produce next gen business icons
The India Inc Team that Ratan Naval Tata began with are all there in one capacity or the other - NRN Murthy, Azim Premji, KV Kamath, Deepak Parekh.
Through the third eye: FDI in retail to Kingfisher Airlines
What makes Anand Sharma exude cool confidence in putting up a spirited defence of the FDI push inside and outside Cabinet?
India Inc wants GenNext to take over the hard way
India's leading business houses want the next generation to take over the hard way, and often encourage them to work their way to the top.
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