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A group of four investors in Byju's led by Dutch investment firm Prosus on Friday moved the Bengaluru bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), filing a petition for oppression and mismanagement of the company.The investors are seeking to remove founder Byju Raveendran as chief executive officer of the troubled edtech firm and overhauling of the board. Raveendran’s wife and Byju’s cofounder Divya Gokulnath, and his brother Riju Raveendran are the other two members of the board at Think & Learn–the parent of…

Kristen Stewart, who shot to stardom as Bella Swan in the iconic Twilight series, recently opened up about her journey, both in Hollywood and in embracing her own identity. In a candid interview with Variety, the acclaimed actor reflected on her decision to come out as gay during her hosting gig on Saturday Night Live in 2017 and the subsequent reactions from the public. Stewart shared the challenges of being in the public eye, particularly during her relationship with co-star Robert Pattinson. The constant curiosity…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Thirteen Brazilian mothers who say they are victims of domestic violence have told researchers of their harrowing experiences inside that country's family court system. The qualitative study—led by Dr. Elizabeth Dalgarno from The University of Manchester—is published today in the Journal of Social Welfare and Family…

For Russia’s liberals, these are unhappy times. A decade or so ago, it was possible to imagine a better, brighter future without Vladimir Putin. Street protests would drive him from power, maybe. And after a dark period of authoritarian rule, Alexei Navalny – or another opposition figure – would bring the country back to democracy and common sense, the hope went.Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this dream has died. Putin has transformed Russia into what he always wanted it to be: a totalitarian state. The last…

Antoine Fuqua’s “Emancipation” is yet another movie about slavery. Our Black colleagues express a resounding fatigue with films on Black oppression and triumph. Watching these films is stressful, and people grieve those ancestors brutalized for profit and pleasure. But the main reason these movies drain so many people is that they risk rendering the past as over and offer only salvation as a route to survival. Critical portrayals of U.S. history are timely: The Supreme Court is debating outlawing affirmative action, and…

Whiteness is a modern, colonial invention. It was devised in the 17th century and used to provide the logic for genocide and slavery. The first recorded mention of "white people," historians concur, is in English playwright Thomas Middleton's 1613 play, The Triumphs of Truth. …