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The popular Telugu movie actress Priyamani, known for her role in the recent hit movie “Jawan” and TV show “The Family Man,” recently bought herself a brand-new Mercedes Benz SUV. Just a few days ago, Priyamani, along with her husband and her mother, took delivery of a brand-new Mercedes Benz GLC SUV worth Rs 85 lakh. The pictures of the actress taking delivery of her new luxury SUV have been shared online by the official page of Mercedes Benz India. View this post on Instagram…

Hi, this is Digbijay here in Bengaluru. It was in January this year that I wrote a couple of stories about two debt funding rounds of significance in the same week. The first was about Dunzo looking to raise new capital through convertible notes for around $75-100 million, the second about B2B ecommerce firm Udaan having raised $200 million in debt.Two seasoned startup executives — one an entrepreneur, the other an investor — told me then how raising debt (pure, or through convertible notes) may extract a high price from…

It's been exactly a year since Rajeev Misra stepped back as the top boss of Japanese multi-billion dollar conglomerate SoftBank’s tech-focussed Vision Fund. ETtech’s Samidha Sharma and Digbijay Mishra caught up with Misra to talk about his new fund One IM. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in this letter:■ ZestMoney gets funding lifeline■ Groww launches UPI-based Groww Pay■ Big IT battles deal rampdowns Rajeev Misra’s $7 biliion fund eyes more India play post Shapoorji Pallonji deal debut Hi,…

Who Clicked That Pic? (2023) is a delightful picture book for children, written by Nandita da Cunha and illustrated by Priya Kuriyan. It pays homage to the legendary Homai Vyarawalla (1913-2012), India’s first woman photojournalist. The writing draws inspiration from real-life events. It is conversational, uncluttered, and has a touch of humour. Homai Vyarawalla at an exhibition of her iconic photographs on 18 August 1998. (Girish Srivastava/HT Archive) 30pp, ₹100; Jugnu Prakashan This is not a biography.…

After a long time, it was Christmas at Byju’s as a US court rejected a plea by its Term Loan B (TLB) lenders to probe a $500-million transfer from the firm’s US-based subsidiary to other entities. Further, Byju’s claimed it had fully paid the provident fund dues of its employees, quelling media reports that alleged it was withholding PF monies. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch. Also in this letter:■ NPCI shutters unregulated co-branding deals of PPIs■ TCS clarifies about jobs scandal■ Prosus reports 80%…

Conglomerate Vedanta Group plans to leverage technologies developed by startups under a partnership with Meity-Nascomm Centre of Excellence, a joint statement said on Monday. Vedanta Group's corporate innovation, accelerator and ventures programme Vedanta Spark has entered into a collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) and Nasscom's Centre of Excellence (CoE) - IoT & AI, to accelerate the adoption of digital technologies-led innovations. "Vedanta's engagement with Nasscom…

Poetry at Sangam has shut down. P@S will now function as an archive carrying its previously published poems by over 250 poets, some audio recordings of poems, essays on poetics and translators’/curatorial notes. Founding editor Priya Sarukkai Chabria and deputy editor Mrinalini Harchandrai spoke about the life of the e-platform, sustaining and securing funding for a literary publication, their editorial and curatorial process, about the focus of the journal and why it is now winding up. PREMIUM Priya Sarukkai…

Priya Anand / Bloomberg: An investigation into Papa, a TaskRabbit-like service for seniors that has raised $240M, finds dozens of allegations of harassment, assault, theft, and more — If you've been to an annual open enrollment fair in the past few years, you may have noticed a new eldercare benefit with the unusual name of Papa. Priya Anand / Bloomberg: An investigation into Papa, a TaskRabbit-like service for seniors that has raised $240M, finds dozens of allegations of harassment, assault,…

Capping months of twists and turns surrounding the ZestMoney-PhonePe deal, founders of the BNPL startup said they are leaving the cash-strapped startup. We’ve been on top of this deal ever since November last year, and have all the details on Monday’s development. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in the letter:■ BluSmart founder buys Mayfield’s stake■ Startup chiefs join fray for IAMAI elections■ ETtech Done Deals ZestMoney founders leaving troubled fintech firm post PhonePe deal collapse ZestMoney…

Writer-director Nida Manzoor's feature directorial debut Polite Society focuses on the strong bond between the Khan sisters that is tested when one of them agrees for an arranged marriage. It is then up to Ria, the younger sibling, to save Lena from a lifetime of drudgery the only way she knows, through some kung fu fighting. The British comedy, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, has some very funny moments as Ria tries to save her family with the help of her friends. Priya Kansara…