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Indian Angel Network (IAN) on Monday said it has made a first close of its second fund, IAN Alpha Fund, at Rs 355 crore.It had announced the launch of the latest fund in October last year, to explore investment opportunities across segments of fintech, healthcare, electronics, manufacturing and other areas. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For…

Neal McDonough stars as a mysterious man known as "the benefactor" in Angel Studio's "The Shift."Angel Studios"Sound of Freedom" broke the Hollywood mold this summer. Now, the studio behind the surprising smash is looking to follow-up that success with a science fiction thriller based on the Bible's Book of Job.Angel Studios is set to release "The Shift" this Friday. The film was crowdfunded by 6,000 investors through the company's "Angel Guild," which contributes money to film and television projects its members want to…

Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi (1940) was the first significant Muslim novel to be published in English. It’s about a family in old Delhi during the first two decades of the 20th century depicting a national, political and cultural decay and its impact on the lives of Indian Muslims. It was seeped in nostalgia — for the Mughal past of the city before the British, for Persian and Urdu poetry. A view of Old Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO) In the decades since, there have been only a handful of notable Delhi…

Sue Fink started L.A.’s Angel City Chorale 30 years ago, in the back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. She’d been teaching voice lessons there when her girlfriend, Jane Emmer, said she was looking for somewhere to sing. It was early in the relationship and Sue offered to start a choir for her. “Jane goes, ‘I don’t like choirs,’” Sue, now 75, recalls. “I said, ‘You’ll like this one.’”Sue was up for the challenge. She came from juicy L.A. stock; her father was the prominent entertainment lawyer Max Fink, who’d…

Image: 20th Century StudiosBack in 2019, James Cameron’s long-in-development adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita released out into the world. Retitled Alita: Battle Angel and with Robert Rodriguez in the director’s seat (but with Cameron on hand as a writer and producer), the movie ended up being pretty good when all was said and done. It didn’t light the world on the fire, but it was a fun action flick propped up by Rosa Salazar.'This is the Best Film I’ve Seen in My Life'Recently during an interview with…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJames Cameron has appeared to confirm that a sequel to the cult sci-fi film Alita: Battle Angel is currently in the works.Released in 2019, the film, adapted from a popular Manga series, starred Rosa Salazar as a cyborg who wakes up in a different body without her memory. Alita received a mixed critical reception at the time of its release but made more than $400m at the box office. In…

Founders of startups will also be measured on governance quotient in addition to intelligence quotient and emotional quotient, Boat cofounder and CMO Aman Gupta said on Saturday. "Apart from other things, Founders need IQ, EQ and GQ. Governance quotient now will become more important than ever and it's good for the ecosystem that Corporate Governance is taken seriously from Day Zero", the startup founder and angel investor tweeted. Angel investor and founder of FemTech startup Sirona, Deep Bajaj feels that startups must…

Have you ever experienced those moments when it feels like the universe is trying to convey a special message to you? You know, those times when a particular set of numbers like 11:11 keeps appearing everywhere, almost like they’re following you around. If you spend time online, you’ve probably encountered discussions about numerology and angel numbers. Many people believe that the appearance of 1111, known as the “1111 angel number,” is a message from the spiritual realm.It can be a bit puzzling, but don’t worry – we’re…

Image: ParamountWhile Strange New Worlds’ largely episodic nature meant there were plenty of threats across season one, it’s not unfair to say the big bad was largely the Gorn, who menace the Enterprise team multiple times during season one, establishing them as a serious threat to the Federation and its citizens. But while the finale also introduced us, through alt-timeline shenanigans, to Strange New World’s take on the Romulan Star Empire, another Trek classic will be making their way to season two: the legendary…

The I-T department's draft rules on valuation of funding in unlisted startups for calculating 'angel tax' will bridge the gap between the rules outlined in FEMA and the Income Tax, but the 10 per cent safe harbour which is proposed for equity investment should be extended to convertible preference shares, experts said. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on May 26 issued draft rules providing more flexibility for valuation of equity investments made in unlisted startups. For non-resident investors the valuation…