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Nov 9, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Shantanu Sharma
Over 100,000 new crorepati taxpayers have emerged in India in three years. What’s driving this rise in higIndia is now home to more than 220,000 people with a taxable income of over Rs 1 crore. This is a staggering five-fold increase over the past decade. …
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Shantanu Sharma
Manoj Jajodia, who is just back from a business trip to northern Italy, says there is a little-known factor fuelling the rise of Indian businesspeople establishing overseas bases: clean air.“The pollution in north Indian cities, especially in winter, is unbearable,” says the 56-year-old managing director of Noida-based ONOMA group, a leading manufacturer of AC and refrigeration components.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Shantanu Sharma
Crime Rates3 hours agoAmerica’s Danger Zones: A Look at the Most Dangerous Cities Across the Nationtheboutiqueadventurer.com - Amanda OBrien • 3hThe USA is known as a country for the free and the brave. But, with much freedom comes a lot of responsibility.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Shantanu Sharma
Urban planning and development experts believe these new satellite cities that tap into the overflow from abutting megacities could be the real answer to India’s urban woes. The Union government recently shared six concept notes with state governments to address unemployment and underemployment in rural areas and bottlenecks holding back job generation in non-metro cities.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Shantanu Sharma
AgenciesRepresentative ImageRelatedThe lure of social media fame is infiltrating the corridors of power. Time to rein in social-savvy bureaucrats? Following a surge in honey-trapping cases and security concerns involving armed forces officers, the government has progressively tightened its social media rules for defence personnel, effectively banning them from most networking platforms.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Shantanu Sharma
iStockRepresentative imageIn August, Tiruchirappalli district Superintendent of Police (SP) V Varun Kumar and his wife Vandita Pandey, SP of Pudukkottai, announced they would stay away from social media after being subjected to intense cyberbullying. Kumar alleged that operatives of a small political party, Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK), were targeting him and his family after he filed a defamation suit against its leader Seeman and a complaint against three members of the party.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Shantanu Sharma
AgenciesParmar, 47, is desolate. In 2005, he left Bhavnagar, a district in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region, for Surat, looking forward to a bright future in its booming diamond industry. Those hopes have now turned to dust. “I don’t know how I will continue my children’s education. We are barely managing to afford two meals a day. I had to borrow from friends and family,” he says. After nearly two decades of polishing gems, he says, “All I see is darkness.” Surat is India’s diamond capital.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Shantanu Sharma |Apoorva Mittal
Sky has never been the limit for them. Almost a decade ago, Sameer Joshi, a fighter pilot, and Julius Amrit, an IIT-IIM alumnus, were part of Team Indus that geared up for an audacious challenge—land a rover on the Moon. Though they didn’t clinch the Google Lunar XPrize, they earned enough funds, as finalists, to dream big. In 2018, Joshi and Amrit launched a defence startup, NewSpace Research and Technologies (NRT), in Bengaluru.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Shantanu Sharma
New Delhi: A venture fund set up by former defence secretary Ajay Kumar has raised Rs 400 crore and closed its first deal, with three more deals approaching finalisation.In a first for a former defence secretary of India, Kumar turned an entrepreneur by launching MGF-Kavachh , an alternative investment fund approved by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, in January, following the completion of his mandatory cooling-off period after retirement."We have so far raised Rs 400 crore with a...
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Shantanu Sharma
Two of India’s most notorious gangsters—Goldy Brar, 30, and Arsh Dala , 28—share more than just their roots in Punjab. From their Canadian bases, they command sprawling crime syndicates that mirror each other’s methods—building terror networks, orchestrating extortion rackets from Ludhiana to Noida, and from Gurgaon to Ganganagar, besides using drones to smuggle weapons and explosives from across the Pakistan border.
