Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) on Thursday announced that it has entered into a master franchise agreement with 7-Eleven Inc (SEI) for the launch of 7-Eleven convenience stores in India. It added that the first 7-Eleven store is set to open on Saturday, October 9, 2021, in Andheri East, Mumbai. The retail…
Australia is moving with new urgency to redraft its defamation laws after a court ruling that publishers can be liable for public comments on online forums like Facebook sent shockwaves through the media industry and beyond. Since the ruling, CNN, which is owned by AT&T Inc, has blocked Australians from its…
Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is all set to offer medical courses from next year. The announcement was made by Institute Director Govindan Rangarajan during the convocation ceremony held virtually on Wednesday. “After about 100 years of excellence in science and engineering, we are planning to…
Bhramam is the second southern remake of the Bollywood hit Andhadhun. Maestro that was released earlier made me question the point of remakes when filmmakers have nothing of value to add to them. After suffering through the Telugu remake, I dreaded the thought of sitting through another version of Andhadhun. I…
Turkey’s parliament ratified the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday, making it the last G20 country to do so, after holding off for years due to what it saw as injustices in its responsibilities as part of the agreement. Turkey has been a signatory to the Paris agreement since April 2016. But Ankara had not…
This year has been unsettling for Chinese business. The ruling Communist Party has gone after the private sector industry by industry. The stock markets have taken a huge hit. The country’s biggest property developer is on the verge of collapse. But for some of the biggest names on Wall Street, China’s economic…
In 2007, within two years of the merger of Dubai-based Emaar and Shravan Gupta-owned MGF, a British Virgin Islands (BVI) firm invested USD 2 million in the joint venture, according to the Pandora Papers. Gupta was the beneficial owner of a company in BVI where its Finance Ministry issued two notices after his name…