Eyes of the India

  IPL 2022: After Dinesh Karthik’s match-winning knock against Rajasthan Royals, Wasim Jaffer posted a tweet appreciating the Royal Challengers Bangalore wicketkeeper. Ever since the beginning of their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 campaign, Dinesh Karthik has been in stunning form for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). In their third match of the campaign against Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday, he played a match-winning knock of 44* off just 23 deliveries to help RCB chase down their target of 170 runs. He came in to bat with the score at 87/5 after 12.3 overs, but put on a 67-run stand with Shahbaz Ahmed (45 off 26) to take his team over the finish line. Former India batter Wasim Jaffer took to Twitter to praise Karthik, who has recently begun his commentary career as well. “The commentator DK can walk the talk,” he wrote in his tweet, before adding “Well played”. His post was accompanied with a picture to indicate that Dinesh Karthik is “not fin...

  Countrywide protests flare up over shortages in fuel, gas and other essentials A state of emergency in Sri Lanka has been revoked after mass protests calling for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to be removed as the country’s economic crisis worsens. On Tuesday, Mr Rajapaksa issued a decree revoking the state of emergency , which gave him sweeping powers, days after it was declared. Protests were sparked by shortages in fuel and gas, electricity and other essentials but, after spreading across the country, led to calls for the president to step down as members of his own party called for an interim government to take over. The president’s ruling party is now a minority in parliament after 42 legislators from his coalition declared they were no longer affiliated with it. “If we don’t act now, there will be a river of blood in the country,” said Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, one of the latest members to defect from Mr Rajapaksa’s party. “We have to forget party politics and ensure an interi...

  Also: “Grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” “vaccine,” and others. AMAZON WILL BLOCK and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining to labor unions, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Intercept. An automatic word monitor would also block a variety of terms that could represent potential critiques of Amazon’s working conditions, like “slave labor,” “prison,” and “plantation,” as well as “restrooms” — presumably related to reports of Amazon employees relieving themselves in bottles to meet punishing quotas. “Our teams are always thinking about new ways to help employees engage with each other,” said Amazon spokesperson Barbara M. Agrait. “This particular program has not been approved yet and may change significantly or even never launch at all.” In November 2021, Amazon convened a high-level meeting in which top executives discussed plans to create an internal social media pro...

  ‘No-fault’ divorces will mean one spouse no longer needs to prove adultery, unreasonable behaviour or desertion Unhappy spouses in England and Wales can now end their marriages without blaming each other. “No-fault” divorces will mean from Wednesday, one spouse no longer needs to prove the other guilty of either adultery, “unreasonable behaviour” or desertion. Previously, without such proof, couples had to live apart for two years before a divorce could be granted — or five years if one partner objected to the proceedings. The biggest reform of divorce law for 50 years brings England and Wales into line with Scotland, the US, Australia and Germany. In 2018, Tini Owens lost a Supreme Court fight when she failed to persuade the judges that her 40-year marriage should end. Her husband had contested her claims of unreasonable behaviour. Judges ruled that being trapped in an unhappy marriage was not in itself grounds for divorce. “No one should have to remain in a loveless marriage ...

  Shares of India’s largest digital payments service provider remain roughly 70% below its IPO price Paytm, India’s largest digital payments service provider, aims to break even on an operating basis by September 2023, as it struggles to appease investors following a disappointing initial public offering in November 2021. The company, which is backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group and China’s Ant Capital, said on Wednesday that its monthly transacting users exceeded 70 million in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2022, and projected strong growth prospects. Paytm’s shares were up 5 per cent to 642 rupees ($8.5) at 11.24am UAE time, following the announcement. “We are encouraged by our business momentum, scale of monetisation and operating leverage,” said Vijay Sharma, founder and chief executive of Paytm. “We expect this to continue, and I believe we should be operating Ebitda [earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation] break even i...

  Airlines are struggling to recruit and train enough staff to cope with the increased demand for travel British Airways has cancelled 78 flights scheduled to go to or from Heathrow Airport on Wednesday, four of them a result of staff absences. EasyJet, which is also grappling with higher than usual rates of staff sickness because of Covid-19, axed at least 30 flights from its schedule from Gatwick Airport on Wednesday. The mass cancellations came as staff shortages because of Covid and issues with rehiring continue to blight the travel industry as it recovers from the pandemic, causing chaos at UK airports. Manchester Airport’s boss stepped down on Tuesday after days of harsh criticism over long queues. Last week BA cancelled many of its flights after a decision to reduce its schedule until the end of May to boost reliability, as well as routes suspended for several months because of ongoing Covid restrictions in some destinations. Passengers at Heathrow have for weeks face...

  Rajeev Jhawar , the son of Brij Kishore Jhawar, is an Indian industrialist with over three decades of experience in strategic management. He is an alumnus of Ranchi University and London Business School. He started his journey as Sr. Vice President (Commercial) and became the Managing Director of Usha Martin Limited in 1998. He has been the Managing Director at Usha Martin Limited since May 19, 2008, and in the three decades that he has been at the helm of the Usha Martin Group, he has accelerated growth, built a meritocracy and enhanced stakeholder value. Usha Martin started its business as a wire rope manufacturing company. The group has set new standards in the manufacture of wire rods, bright bars, steel wires, specialty wires, wire ropes, strand, conveyor cord, wire drawing and cable machinery. The company is also in the business activities of Steel, Wire & Wire Ropes. Rajeev Jhawar is the Director of Neutral Publishing House Ltd. He graduated from London Business Scho...