MUMBAI: Swiggy is selling its retail distribution platform Lynk Logistics to B2B e-commerce startup Udaan, the companies said on Monday. As part of the deal, which has been structured as a share-swap transaction, Swiggy will acquire a 2.8% stake in Udaan.The food and grocery delivery major will also make a cash infusion of Rs 75…
Each year, local re-enactors show how the bloody Northfield raid unfolded. A seven-minute gun battle in a quiet Minnesota town helped bring down America’s most famous outlaw gang, leaving behind physical relics that are still preserved 150 years later. On 7 September 1876, the James-Younger Gang rode into Northfield, Minnesota, planning to rob the First…
Kylie Jenner gives fans a glimpse inside her sprawling five-acre Hidden Hills dream home. (Photo: Instagram/Backgrid) Kylie Jenner has given fans a rare look inside the sprawling “dream house” she has been building for nearly six years, taking viewers through the Hidden Hills, California, property and revealing details of the Italian-inspired home she hopes to…
Blackstone Inc is among global investment firms in the fray to buy a stake in IIFL Finance, just as Fairfax Financial Holdings looks to exit from the company, according to people familiar with the matter.Fairfax, founded by Indian-born Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa, is weighing selling its entire holding in IIFL Finance to comply with regulatory…
General:Something wakes up your daring side today, Gemini. The Moon and Mars stir your courage, and suddenly you’re willing to try what you kept postponing. A difficult call, a quick trip, a fresh pitch, a task others avoid, you may step forward faster than expected. Short journeys are quite possible.This could include making a trip…
Mathematician and programmer Mary Tsingou Menzel When mathematician and programmer Mary Tsingou Menzel sat down in 1952 at Los Alamos National Laboratory to code a complex physics problem on one of the world’s earliest digital computers, she was breaking new ground. Her work helped make possible a landmark experiment that went on to influence chaos…
Photos inside 100-year-old Sunny Italy Café in South Bend When 16-year-old Frances began washing dishes and serving customers at a neighbourhood eatery along the St. Joseph River in South Bend, Indiana, she earned just five cents a day. A century later, the same restaurant is still in her family, serving its famous hand-rolled meatballs and…
Representative Image (AI-generated) More than 14,000 Bogong moths were tagged in an unusual attempt to uncover the secrets of one of Australia’s most remarkable insect migrations. Researchers marked the endangered moths in the Snowy Mountains and hoped to track where they travelled after leaving their summer shelters. Some were marked with non-toxic paint, while others…
Vishal Chaturvedi’s ‘Hanuman Ansh’, now a surprise box office success, had a bumpy road during production. Among the challenges was an unforeseen emergency, the film’s original lead actor fell severely ill. In response, the director chose to audition his own assistant director, Shobhinaw Satyaa, who went on to portray spiritual leader Neem Karoli Baba in…
Colombian woman sells neighborhood gossip. (Photo: Gulf Today) Gossip may be free, but a 67-year-old woman in Colombia claims she has found a way to turn neighbourhood secrets into a lucrative business, one that she says has helped her buy two houses. Miryam, who lives in Armenia in Colombia’s Quindío department, has gone viral after…
General:You’ll start the day in two gears, Taurus. One part of you feels lazy and slow, the other feels strangely ready to take charge. That mixed mood comes from the Moon stirring your mind while Saturn demands effort. So yes, you may drag your feet at first, then suddenly make one strong decision and stick…
Eucalyptus camaldulensis. Image Credit: Par Margaret Donald/Wikipedia A stand of eucalyptus trees planted in Argentina’s vast ‘Pampas grasslands’ was found to be reshaping the water beneath its roots. A study titled ‘Hydrological consequences of Eucalyptus afforestation in the Argentine Pampas’ examined how a 40-hectare plantation of ‘Eucalyptus camaldulensis’ affected local groundwater compared with the surrounding…
