MUMBAI: There are now more billionaires in Mumbai’s 603 sq km than there are in Beijing’s over 16,000 sq km. By overtaking the Chinese megalopolis, Mumbai has become Asia’s billionaire capital for the first time.While China has 814 billionaires compared to India’s 271, Mumbai hosts 92 billionaires against 91 in Beijing, Hurun Research‘s 2024 Global…
BENGALURU: The lure of online cricket betting took a tragic turn for a Karnataka family, with the husband running up debts in crores to fund his get-rich-quick endeavour, and the wife, driven to despair by the constant harassment and threats from creditors, ending her life, leaving behind a two-year-old son, reported.Darshan Balu, an assistant engineer…
NEW DELHI: In a faceoff on micro-blogging platform X, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Congress MP Jairam Ramesh traded charges over the Atal Pension Yojana, with govt dismissing charges of coercion and enrollment of beneficiaries without their consent.It all began on Tuesday morning with Ramesh citing a study by the Indian Council of Social Science…
NEW DELHI: India’s former left spinner Murali Kartik, who is currently commentating in IPL 2024, embroiled himself in a controversy for his remarks on Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) pacer Yash Dayal.The left-arm pacer Dayal grabbed headlines for all the wrong reasons last year during his time with the Gujarat Titans. He was smacked for five…
(L-R) Dr Amol Patwari, Pallavi Mohadikar & actress Shraddha Kapoor, co-founders, Palmonas New Delhi: Demi-fine jewellery startup, which recently onboarded Bollywood Actor Shraddha Kapoor as a co-founder is in talks for a Pre-Series A funding of around USD 3 million, Pallavi Mohadikar, co-founder of the company told ETRetail. “We have been bootstrapped to date. Now,…
Fears of a slowdown among Chinese shoppers have dogged the luxury industry for the better part of a year. Last week the scale of the problem hit home for one of fashion’s biggest but most exposed brands, Gucci. French group Kering SA saw $9 billion wiped off its market value after warning that sales of…
