Director Vignesh Shivan’s film ‘Love Insurance Kompany’ is performing well at the box office. He shared insights into his relationship with Nayanthara, describing her anger as ‘terror’ and her involvement in his creative process. Shivan also revealed his ambitious financial goal of accumulating Rs 300-350 crore for fixed deposits, aiming for substantial annual returns. Director…
Kraken parent Payward agreed to acquire Hong Kong-based Reap Technologies for up to $600 million, expanding its push into stablecoin payments and business-to-business (B2B) financial infrastructure. Payward has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Reap for up to $600 million, the company announced Thursday. The deal is set to be paid in a mix…
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a tall, slender palm known as Socratea exorrhiza has sparked one of nature’s most intriguing myths. Often described as a “walking tree”, it is said to slowly shift its position over time, moving a few centimetres each year in search of sunlight. The claim has been widely repeated in travel…
Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini continue dominating NFL headlines as the offseason controversy refuses to fade. Jim Rome claimed the NFL may have used the drama to boost interest in New England’s Week 1 spotlight game, while Chase Daniel and Michael Irvin urged fans to stop obsessing over personal matters. Irvin strongly defended both figures,…
If your weekend felt unusually blinding, no, it was not the sun, it was rhinestones. Between glitter-drenched Coachella and the return of Euphoria (the no glitter one), and this weekend screams that minimalism has left the chat. The clean girl aesthetic? Gone. Replaced by chaotic, sparkly energy that looks like a craft store exploded in…
Aretha Franklin turned a simple song into a civil rights anthem. Image credit – Wikimedia A song that defined a generation and became the greatest of all time for its take on the cultural revolution. “Respect,” recorded by Aretha Franklin in 1967, is considered to be one of the most influential songs in the history…
US Senator Thom Tillis says he will push the Senate Banking Committee to advance the stalled crypto market structure bill, as the text of the bill has made progress and is ready for another vote. Tillis, a key Senate Banking Republican, told reporters on Wednesday that he would ask Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott…
Morgan Stanley is signaling a growing focus on tokenization and blockchain-based infrastructure, framing “onchain” finance as a potential next step in how it serves wealth clients. Speaking during the bank’s first-quarter earnings call, executives described a future where assets and liabilities move more freely across digital rails. “How do you think of a tokenized world?…
Excerpts from the interview:Q: How did this book come about? A: Most of my books start with a character…, not anybody specific but someone from a village in the 1920s. That is what I was picturing in my mind: living in a village, growing there and then emerging from the village during that period, which…
MUMBAI: The identity of the angry woman who confronted minister Girish Mahajan over a traffic jam during the reservation agitation on April 21 was revealed on Saturday. Worli resident Teena Choudhary released a statement on social media.She said she wanted to pick up her daughter from music class when her car got held up for…