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Black Friday generates record $9.8 billion in US online sales
28 Nov

Black Friday generates record $9.8 billion in US online sales

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, India,
Black Friday generated a record $9.8 billion in U.S. online sales, up 7.5% from a year earlier. According to Adobe Analytics, mobile shopping has created $5.3 billion in online sales. Black Friday's best-selling categories were electronics such as smartwatches and televisions, as well as toys and gaming, CNBC reports.Vivek Pandya, a chief analyst at Adobe Digital Insights, was quoted as saying, "We have seen the emergence of very strategic consumers in the last one year where they are really trying to take advantage of these marquee days so that they can get the maximum discounts. Pandya noted that influencer and…
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Amitabh Bachchan gifts Rs 50 crore bungalow Prateeksha to daughter Shweta Bachchan
25 Nov

Amitabh Bachchan gifts Rs 50 crore bungalow Prateeksha to daughter Shweta Bachchan

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, India,
Actor Amitabh Bachchan gifted his daughter Shweta Nanda his bungalow in suburban Juhu of Mumbai, according to official documents.The 'Prateeksha' bungalow is worth over Rs 50.63 crore. It is the megastar's first property in Mumbai and one of the three bungalows the Bachchan family is said to own in the area. According to documents obtained from property registration data aggregator Zapkey.com, Bachchan handed over the bungalow to his daughter on November 9 as a gift and paid Rs 50.65 lakh as stamp duty. The bungalow of Vitthalnagar Cooperative Housing Society is spread over two plots of 674 sq m and…
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First Woman Judge of Supreme Court Justice Fathima Beevi Passes Away at 96 in Kerala
23 Nov

First Woman Judge of Supreme Court Justice Fathima Beevi Passes Away at 96 in Kerala

Business Correspondent0 CommentsIndia
Justice Fathima Beevi, the first woman judge of the Supreme Court and former Governor of Tamil Nadu has passed away at the age of 96 on Thursday, official sources said. She was the first Muslim woman to be appointed as a judge to any higher judiciary. Justice Fathima Beevi was also felicitated with the Bharat Jyoti Award and the US-India Business Council (USIBC) Lifetime Achievement Award. "She was a brave woman who had many records to her name. She was a personality who through her own life showed that willpower and a sense of purpose can overcome any adversity,"Veena George,…
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Instagram now lets users download Reels globally
23 Nov

Instagram now lets users download Reels globally

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndia, Business,
In a recent announcement, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri revealed that users around the world can now download Instagram reels directly to their camera roll from public accounts. The feature, initially launched in the US in June, has gone through beta testing and is now available for iOS and Android users. The feature is similar to the download functionality available on TikTok, which gives users access to the download option under the share button. To protect the original creator's work, downloaded reels are further saved in the device's gallery, watermarked with the original poster's Instagram username. The update applies universally to…
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ED slaps over Rs 9,300 crore FEMA notice against BYJU’s
22 Nov

ED slaps over Rs 9,300 crore FEMA notice against BYJU’s

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, India,
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Tuesday that the adjudicating authority under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) has issued a show-cause notice to BYJUS's parent company Think and Learn Pvt Ltd and CEO Byju Raveendran based on the complaint. 9,362.35 crore of FEMA has been booked against them. The agency said it has initiated an investigation based on various complaints regarding foreign investment received by companies such as M/s Think and Learn Pvt Ltd and the firm's business conduct. "The company was also said to have made substantial foreign remittances outside India and investments abroad, which allegedly violated the…
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South Indian actress Karthika Nair ties knot with beau Rohit
21 Nov

South Indian actress Karthika Nair ties knot with beau Rohit

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEntertainment, India,
Actress Karthika Nair, elder daughter of veteran actress Radha, who made her Tamil debut with the Jiiva-starrer 'Ko' directed by KV Anand, who got engaged recently, got married in a lavish wedding ceremony yesterday. Karthika Nair got married to Rohit Menon on November 19 in Kerala.Megastar Chiranjeevi, Jackie Shroff, Radhika Sarathkumar, Suhasini Maniratnam, Revathy, Menaka and many others were present at the wedding. The beautiful actress, who was last seen in Arya and Vijay Sethupathi-starrer 'Purampokku Engira Podhubudamai' took to social media to share a picture and wrote,"Our Royal fairytale Begins♥️ Blessed and grateful ✨️✨️✨️". Sharing the wedding pictures, Radika…
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Tamannaah Bhatia, Vijay Varma twin in black
21 Nov

Tamannaah Bhatia, Vijay Varma twin in black

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEntertainment, India,
Vijay Varma and Tamannaah Bhatia have become one of the most adorable couples in B-Town. They reveal goals whenever they appear together or talk about each other. The two were spotted out on the town on Monday night attending a party. They were twinning in black dress.While Tamannaah wore a black jumpsuit and left her hair down, sans make-up, Vijay wore a casual black t-shirt. They posed for the paparazzi and as they left, the paps said, "Black and black, nice couple." That made them smile wide and blush.Watch the video here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz5LWTavc_4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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IndiGo surpasses milestone of 2000 daily scheduled flights
18 Nov

IndiGo surpasses milestone of 2000 daily scheduled flights

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, India,
IndiGo is the first Indian carrier to have more than 2,000 scheduled or planned flights daily. The Rahul Bhatia-founded airline, which started flights on August 4, 2006, became the first Indian carrier in December 2017 to operate 1,000 flights a day, taking more than 11 years for the budget carrier to reach that milestone. The second 1,000 came much faster in just six years, despite the bitter feud between the airline's two founder-promoters and then Covid in this period. The airline has been able to benefit from the tailwind of the fact that India has seen a rapid recovery in…
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Amazon cuts ‘several hundred’ jobs in Alexa division
18 Nov

Amazon cuts ‘several hundred’ jobs in Alexa division

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, India,
Amazon is cutting jobs in the Alexa division and laying off "several hundred" employees. Those to be laid off will include employees working in the artificial general intelligence team. The development comes a week after the company cut jobs in music and gaming divisions as well as some human resources roles. Daniel Rausch, Amazon's vice president of Alexa and Fire TV, informed the team of the layoffs on Friday (Nov. 17). He said the company is going to focus its resources on generative AI Read his letter to employees:Team,We’re really encouraged by the progress we’re making with Alexa: customers are…
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For fight over parking spot in Delhi an old man dies
17 Nov

For fight over parking spot in Delhi an old man dies

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A 72 year old man dies after a fight over parking spot in Delhi. It happened in West Delhi’s Subhash Nagar area as the elderly man who sustained critical injuries in a fight died during treatment, said police. This incident occurred on November 5 and according to the Delhi police, a case was registered against the accused, identified as Rajkumar Madan, and his two sons in Rajouri Garden police station upon receiving the information about the incident and the accused are currently in judicial custody. The victim's son Abhishek Pratap Singh, in his complaint to the police, said that he…
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