FEBRUARY 20, 2023
CHENNAI: TVS Capital Funds has bagged the BFSI Investor of the Year Apex Award at the annual PE-VC Summit of Venture Intelligence. The award is instituted by research firm Venture Intelligence.
TVS Capital Funds is a growth private equity fund and has invested in more than 35 companies across its three funds. The firm is investing currently from...
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
New research has cast a harsh spotlight on digital discrimination stemming from the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) use of algorithms and artificial intelligence — a key factor in disproportionate auditing of poor families and taxpayers of color. Earlier this week, the Senate questioned President Biden’s nominee for IRS commissioner, Danny Werfel, about how an IRS algorithm targeted...
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
The legendary investor says India's prime minister Narendra Modi is weakened by the downfall of billionaire Gautam Adani's empire.
George Soros did not need new enemies as the list of his detractors is already long.
The American billionaire of Hungarian origin entered the pantheon of global finance legends in 1992, by pulling off a masterstroke that you don't learn...
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Aftermath of the deadly earthquake in Antakya.
ANTAKYA/KAHRAMANMARAS, TURKEY - Rescue teams pulled three people alive from under collapsed buildings in Turkey on Friday, 11 days after an earthquake that has killed more than 45,000, left millions homeless, and sparked a huge relief effort.
Mosques around the world performed absentee funeral prayers for the dead in Turkey and Syria,...
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
New Delhi: In more embarrassment for Air India, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) chairman Bibek Debroy criticized the Tata-owned airline, saying it was "better before privatisation".
Taking to Twitter, Debroy complained about the services of Air India after his flight got delayed for several hours.
Tata-owned Air India said flight AI 687 got delayed due to...
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has said he's "flattening" the organization's structure and has talked of seeking additional efficiencies. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Meta gave about 10% of its staff performance reviews indicating they were underperforming, WSJ reported.
The performance reviews signal that Meta could be gearing up for another round of layoffs.
Meta let go of about...
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Where SNAP Benefits Are Expiring | There are 32 states ending the enhanced benefits in February 2023.
As the cost of living in the US has gone up, government subsidies to help people pay for basics have disappeared one-by-one. Up next on the chopping block: Emergency allotments of a food-assistance program that supports 30 million Americans living in 32 states.
Enhanced benefits...
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
When Playboy in 1998 named the 100 sexiest female stars of the 20th century, Raquel Welch came in third, after Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. - Sunset Boulevard/Corbis, via Getty Images
Correction: February 15, 2023
An earlier version of this obituary misstated how much time elapsed between Marilyn Monroe’s death and the release of the movie “One Million Years...
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
A special grand jury report on whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies tried to unlawfully interfere in the 2020 election results in Georgia says the grand jurors believe some witnesses may have lied under oath.
"A majority of the grand jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it," a...
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Scientists work at the Thwaites Glacier in the Antartica.
MEXICO CITY - Scientists studying Antarctica's vast Thwaites Glacier - nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier - say warm water is seeping into its weak spots, worsening melting caused by rising temperatures, two papers published in Nature journal showed on Wednesday.
Thwaites, which is roughly the size of Florida, represents more than...
