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Prabhas as Deva in director Prashanth Neel’s ‘Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Salaar Devaratha Raisaar is back! Prashanth Neel’s recent release Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire starring Prabhas in the lead, is all set to be re-released. The film, also stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shruti Haasan, Bobby Simha, Jagapathi Babu and Sriya Reddy. The film, which was released in theatres on 22 December 2023, is currently streaming on JioHotstar. The makers recently announced that the film has been trending on the OTT platform continuously for a year. While fans are awaiting an update on the film’s…
Ashwin Yardi, CEO of Capgemini Technology Services India at the Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum 2025 in Mumbai on February 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Joining the debate on working hours, IT services company Capgemini India’s chief executive Ashwin Yardi on Tuesday (February 25, 2025) advocated 47.5 hours work per week, and was against sending e-mails to employees on weekends.He was speaking at Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum (NTLF) here. “Forty seven and half hours. We have about nine hours a day and five days a week,” Mr. Yardi said replying to a question on the ideal time to…
Himanshu Srivastava in ‘Unekalavya’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Jharna, a festival of dance curated by Bharata Kalanjali, is slowly gaining momentum as a platform for young, talented dancers to share their art with the connoisseurs of Chennai. In its fourth edition this year, the line-up featured dancers who had been shortlisted based on their applications, and a few guest performances.The idea behind ‘Jharna’ is that dancers are given an opportunity to conceive, choreograph and create an original work.Himanshu Srivastava presented ‘Unekalavya — The riddle of the thumb’ about Ekalavya. Attired aesthetically like a forest dweller, Himanshu began with a…
Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran speaks during the Advantage Assam 2.0 Investment & Infrastructure Summit 2025, in Guwahati, on February 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Tata group chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran on Tuesday (February 25, 2025) said the company will invest around ₹25,000 crore in a large electronics manufacturing unit in Assam over the next few years.He added that the company will collaborate with the State government in the green energy sector, focusing on solar rooftops and renewable energy generation.Speaking at the inauguration of the Advantage Assam business summit, Mr. Chandrasekaran said, “The Tata group has a long and significant…
The manufacturing of the Chikungunya vaccine at BE is expected to generate up to 300 new jobs. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Vaccine firms Biological E. and Bavarian Nordic have formed a strategic partnership to expand access to the latter’s Chikungunya vaccine in low and middle income countries. Initially, they have entered into a contract manufacturing agreement to allow for scaling of capacity towards enabling future supply to endemic LMIC countries. The agreement comprises a technology transfer of the current drug product manufacturing process for the chikungunya vaccine, with an option to transfer the drug substance process at a later stage,…
Jerome Flynn in ‘L2: Empuraan’. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Prithviraj Sukumaran’s L2: Empuraanhas gotten bigger with the addition of Game of Thrones actor Jerome Flynn to its stellar cast. A sequel to the 2019 blockbuster, the highly-anticipated Malayalam movie stars Mohanlal in the lead role.Apart from featuring in Game of Thrones (2011-2019), Flynn has acted as Paddy Garvey of the King’s Fusiliers in the ITV series Soldier Soldier. “I can’t quite remember how I got into this project, but I am so glad I did. It was a completely different experience from what I am used to. To be…
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Like thousands of his countrymen in far-flung places, flower-shop owner Ashish Nagose has been learning about trading cryptocurrencies by attending classes every weekday for the past two months in his home city of Nagpur in western India.Nagose has bought and sold stock options earlier but is now venturing into cryptocurrencies as regulators have made it harder to trade equity derivatives in India. The 28-year-old believes the red-hot crypto asset class can help shield his family-owned flower shop during downturns.”I want to run my family shop, and hope that trading can provide a steady income when business slows down, like in…
Representational image of various medicine pills | Photo Credit: Reuters Its time for Indian pharma companies to look beyond the U.S. market as the Trump administration has threatened to impose 25% tariff on pharmaceutical imports. This move would disrupt India’s dominant position in the U.S. market, where it supplies over 45% of its generic medicines, industry officials said.As of 2023, the size of India’s pharmaceutical sector was estimated at about $55 billion, and the global export pie was worth $27 billion. As per a report by Bain & Company market is projected to touch $130 billion by 2030 and $450 billion by…
Actor Parineeti Chopra. | Photo Credit: MANOJ KUMAR Actor Parineeti Chopra is set to star in an upcoming mystery thriller series on Netflix.The yet untitled project, to be directed by Rensil D’Silva, marks another collaboration of Parineeti with the streaming platform after her 2024 film Amar Singh Chamkila with Diljit Dosanjh.The series is produced by Siddharth P Malhotra and also stars Tahir Raj Bhasin, Anup Soni, Jennifer Winget and Chaitannya Choudhry.Malhotra and D’silva, who are also creators of the series, said in a joint statement, they are thrilled to collaborate on the project.”Working with Netflix has allowed us the creative…