A round-up of the big stories (Representative image)
Here is a collection of the most important stories this evening:
Oscars 2023: 'Naatu Naatu' gets nominated, 'We created history' tweets 'RRR'
Minutes after the Academy Awards announced its nomination for 's 'Naatu Naatu' for Best Original Song, the movie's official Twitter handle said it was music to their ears. In a separate post, the filmmakers tweeted that with this announcement they made history.
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Jet Airways lenders file plea in NCLAT opposing NCLT’s order on ownership transfer to Jalan Kalrock Consortium
In a fresh turn of events, lenders of Jet Airways on January 24 have filed a plea in National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) opposing National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT)'s January 13 order stating that Jalan Kalrock Consortium (JKC) had satisfied conditions precedent for the ownership of the debt-laden airline, reported citing sources.
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Tata Trusts top deck: Siddharth Sharma named CEO, Aparna Uppaluri COO
Tata Trusts on January 24 announced the elevation of its internal candidate Siddharth Sharma as the chief executive officer, and has decided to bring Ford Foundation official Aparna Uppaluri onboard as its chief operating officer.
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Jitender Bhargava writes: Air India’s Internal Committee report in peegate incident has multiple flaws
Last week, the Internal Committee constituted by Air India to examine the incident of a traveller peeing on a co-passenger declared the alleged perpetrator, Shankar Mishra, as ‘unruly’. In the normal course, such reports from Internal Committees signal the end of the issue. However, in this case, the committee has erred and glossed over facts in such a way that Air India must review it to ensure that bloomers aren’t repeated.
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Best iPad under Rs 50,000: iPad 9th Gen vs 10th Gen vs iPad Mini vs iPad Air
Apple sells four main iPad lineups, three of them available under or around Rs 50,000. Most of them look similar but there are distinctions under the hood as well as in some design elements.
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Maruti Suzuki Q3: Profit zooms 130% to Rs 2,391 crore, revenue up 25%
Maruti Suzuki on January 24 reported 129.55 percent jump in consolidated net profit for quarter ended December 2022 at Rs 2,391.5 crore. The profit was Rs 1,041.8 crore in the same quarter last year. The total revenue from operations came in at Rs 29,057.5 crore, rising 24.96 percent from Rs 23,253.3 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago.
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How Vistara may have finally turned the corner
Vistara, the Tata Sons-Singapore Airlines joint venture that is slated to be merged with Air India by March 2024, declared its best-ever performance in the third quarter of FY23. The airline also crossed the $1 billion revenue mark in FY23, with 67 days left in this financial year. Hidden behind the numbers is a story of resilience and focus on growth during the pandemic and is the only carrier, apart from IndiGo, to keep scaling up with a razor-sharp focus on fleet renewal.
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DGCA imposes Rs 10 lakh penalty on Air India for second mid-air peeing incident
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Air India for the delay in reporting another episode of a "drunk" male passenger allegedly "urinating" on the blanket of a female passenger on Air India flight 142 from Paris to New Delhi on December 6.
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India’s growth rate should be in the range of 6%: HDFC Chairman Atanu Chakraborty
Atanu Chakraborty, chairperson of HDFC Bank and a former finance ministry official, spoke of his outlook on growth, inflation, and the rupee. Chakraborty forecasts growth rate to be in the range of 6 percent, helped by domestic consumption, as well as remnants of the base effect, which he thinks would continue at least in the first quarter.
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Airtel hikes price of minimum monthly prepaid recharge plan to Rs 155 in 7 more circles
Telecom major Bharti Airtel on January 24 said it has discontinued the minimum recharge plan of Rs 99 in seven more circles, months after it was scrapped in the two circles of Odisha and Haryana. The move has led to a hike in the price of entry-level plan to Rs 155.
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Union Ministers test 'BharOS', indigenous smartphone OS developed by IIT Madras
Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Ashwini Vaishnaw successfully tested "BharOS", an indigenous operating system developed by IIT Madras. "Poor people of the country will be the main beneficiary of a strong, indigenous, dependable and self-reliant digital infrastructure. 'BharOS' is a successful step towards data privacy," Pradhan said.
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Kumar Mangalam Birla spots five key trends for 2023
Billionaire industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of Aditya Birla Group, on January 24 shared five important trends that he thinks will have a multi-year 'impact'.
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