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‘Lightbox 2.0 will enhance our operational expertise'

Venture capital firm Lightbox Ventures is gearing up to raise a $200million fund. Managing director Sandeep Murthy discusses the company's strategic shift, and future plans in an interview with with Anees Hussain.

Challenges After Childhood Cancer

Young adults typically aspire to achieve financial and emotional stability, seeking a caring and affectionate partner.

Exports Drop 2.4% in Jan, Trade Deficit as Expected

INDIA'S MERCHANDISE TRADE deficit touched $23 billion in January as exports of petroleum products more than halved last month while imports of machinery, raw materials and gold showed significant growth rates.

Misinformation & Myths

Cancer is a complex and often misunderstood disease, and unfortunately, many myths and misinformation surrounding it continue to circulate, causing confusion and fear, usually leading to harmful decisions about treatment and prevention.

Benefits Of Cancer Screening

A recent report in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, Dec 5 2024) estimated that in the US, 5.94 million cancer deaths were averted for breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers combined, of which, cancer prevention and screening efforts averted 8 of 10 of these deaths (4.75 million averted deaths).

India to build first offshore airport

To come up on an artificial island near Mumbai

DeepSeeking AI Action Summit

Even though America signed the 2015 Paris Climate Summit, they continued to feel uneasy about it.

Jio-bp to expand retail infra, EV charging units

Scaling Up

Exports drop 2.4% in January

THE CURRENT ACCOUNT deficit (CAD) has been contained at 1.2% of GDP in the second quarter of 2024-25 due to higher services export earnings.

Higher bank deposit cover on the cards

THE GOVERNMENT IS \"actively considering\" a higher insurance cover for bank deposits from the ceiling of ₹5 lakh fixed less than five years ago, department of financial services (DFS) secretary M Nagaraju said on Monday.

₹2.90-lakh-cr Odisha budget focuses on agriculture, irrigation

ODISHA CHIEF MINISTER Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday presented a ₹2.90-lakh-crore state budget for FY26 with a focus on agriculture and irrigation.

AC Makers in a Fix Over Compressors as Winters Near End

Shortage of Key Component Likely to Weigh on Demand

Healthy performance for Hindalco in FY27

HINDALCO REPORTED Q3FY25 consolidated net sales of ₹58,400 crore, reflecting an 11% y-o-y growth while remaining flat sequentially.

StanChart Appoints PD Singh as CEO for India

STANDARD CHARTERED on Monday said PD Singh will assume charge as the chief executive officer (CEO) for India, effective April 1, 2025.

Wheat crop intact despite rise in temperature

Bright Prospects

German Voters Demand Change

LARS BAUMGUERTEL wants Germany's politicians to get out their cheque books. The 58-year-old executive runs one of the last surviving manufacturers in Gelsenkirchen, a former coal town in the industrialized Ruhr Valley.

₹122 crore carried over five years in a backpack

LIKE LAKHS OF Mumbaikars travelling by local trains, Hitesh Mehta carried a backpack to office and back for five long years.

FM hands over keys to Mumbai homebuyers

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday handed over keys to some homebuyers in Mumbai under the special window for affordable and middle income housing (SWAMIH) fund.

Inclusion of electoral bonds in new I-T Bill raises eyebrows

EXPERTS ARE INTRIGUED by the new Income Tax Bill, 2025, retaining provisions related to electoral bonds, which were rendered unconstitutional by the Supreme Court last year, saying it could be because of legislative oversight or the government's intention to bring it back in some other form.

Asset quality to boost growth for SBI Cards

● Credit cost drop could drive sharp EPS upgrades

Oral Cancers Are Largely Preventable

Oral Cancers are a global problem associated with high mortality attributed primarily to late presentation.

Udaan raises $75 million in Series G funding round

Raised at Flat Valuation

European leaders regroup for strategy huddle

French President Emmanuel Macron called leaders from key European Union nations and the United Kingdom to his ornate Elysee Palace on Monday for an emergency meeting on how to react to the US diplomatic blitz on Ukraine, which left the once rock-solid partner as a potential political liability.

TMC - Enabling Healthcare To All Sections

It is said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

UK offers peacekeeping force

IT'S \"DANGEROUS\" FOR the US and Russia to discuss the war in Ukraine without representatives from Kyiv, an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

I-T Bill: ICSI, ICMAI pitch for members as 'accountants'

APEX BODIES OF company secretaries and cost accountants have urged the government to include these professionals under the definition of 'accountant' in the Income Tax Bill, 2025.

SC unhappy over number of petitions filed on Places of Worship Act

Expressing dismay over

Shein Faces Investor Pressure to Slash Valuation to $30 Billion

FAST-FASHION RETAILER Shein is under pressure to cut its valuation to about $30 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, having in the past been valued at more than three times that amount.

Love lost & found: Xi embraces Ma, other Chinese biz leaders

CHINESE PRESIDENT Xi Jinping presided over a meeting with Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma and other prominent entrepreneurs on Monday, signaling Beijing's endorsement for a long-marginalised private sector now considered key to reviving the world's No. 2 economy.

NTPC plans to spend ₹5.27L cr on 30 GW of nuclear power

STATE-RUN POWER COMPANY NTPC is looking to build 30 gigawatts of nuclear power capacity over the next two decades, three times more than expected, at a cost of ₹527,000 crore, three sources said.