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South Korean writer Han Kang, was awarded 2024 the Nobel Prize in Literature, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million). Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1970. She comes from a literary background, her father being a reputed novelist. Han Kang began her career in 1993 with the publication of several poems in a  South Korean magazine. Her prose debut came in 1995 with the short story collection. Han Kang’s work is characterized by this double exposure of pain, a correspondence between mental and physical torment… Read More »Nobel Prize In Literature Goes To South Korean Author Han Kang

Iconic industrialist, philanthropist and visionary Ratan Tata died in Mumbai on Thursday at the age of 86. He had been ailing for some time and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Breach Candy Hospital. His death – coming two years after that of former group chairman Cyrus Mistry – rings down the curtains on one of the few controversial episodes involving the Tatas. The unseemly six-year feud within one of the country’s most respected conglomerates had generated headlines — their shock effect increasing as the battle moved from board-rooms to tribunals and then went all the way to the Supreme Court. Cyrus Mistry was part of the Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. – the… Read More »Revisiting Feud Between Ratan Tata, Cyrus Mistry: Why It Happened

A Dalit man was beaten up and had casteist abuses used against him by a poultry farm owner and his son in Bihar, all because he asked them for his wages that were due. The man has alleged his employer and two other people also spat on his face and one of them urinated on him, but police said those allegations are being investigated. On October 4, Rinku Manjhi, a daily wage labourer, who had been working for Ramesh Patel in Muzaffarpur’s Chaupar Madan village for a few days, asked him to clear his dues. This enraged Patel, who is a local strongman in addition to being a poultry farm owner, and he and a… Read More »Dalit Man Asks For Wages, Gets Thrashed, Abused With Casteist Slurs In Bihar

The German carmaker – Mercedes-Benz, has launched the all-new E-Class LWB in the country. The prices for the mid-size luxury saloon start from Rs 78.50 lakh, ex-showroom. It is introduced with three engine choices – a 2.0L turbo-petrol, a 2.0L diesel, and a 2.0L straight-six turbo-petrol. The deliveries for the E200 have already started, while the dispatches of the E220d and E450 will happen in a staged manner. The E-Class rivals with a slew of cars in the Indian market. Quite like the compact SUV space, this space sees some heat in our market. Its rivals include the BMW 5-Series LWB, Audi A6, Volvo S90, and Lexus ES 300h. But how does it fare against… Read More »Price Comparison: 2024 Mercedes-Benz E-Class LWB Vs All Of Its Rivals

“Help me, Appa!” Those words echoed in the ears of a retired banker from Madurai last month as his son’s voice pleaded through the phone. He recalls how the call earlier this year left him shaken. “It wasn’t the ransom that scared me; it was the thought of what might be happening to him,” he said, asking for anonymity. The ransom demand, just 5,000 rupees seemed oddly low, which made him stop and check on his son. That’s when he found out his son was safe. Not everyone has been as fortunate. Last year, a scammer used an AI-generated deepfake video to dupe 40,000 rupees from PS Radhakrishnan, a 73-year-old retired government employee in Kozhikode,… Read More »AI Scams Surge: Voice Cloning And Deepfake Threats Sweep India