Eyes of the India

 Joe Lonsdale The claims against Palantir co-founder and popular Silicon Valley venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale will make your stomach turn. In late January, a recent Stanford grad, Elise Clougherty, filed a lawsuit accusing Lonsdale of “a sexually, emotionally, and physically abusive relationship.” Lonsdale, who is also a founder of the VC firm Formation8, has since filed a countersuit claiming their relationship was consensual. The basic facts, which are in both the suit and countersuit, are the following: Lonsdale and Clougherty first met through a mutual friend in New York when she was a Stanford student. About a year later, Lonsdale served as an official mentor for Clougherty in a Stanford tech entrepreneurship program. The two entered into a relationship, which lasted for about a year between 2012 and 2013. Clougherty claims in her suit that Lonsdale hand-picked her to be his mentee, deliberately started a relationship with her, and over the course of the year became increasi...

 The Brazilian model claimed he struggled to satisfy all his partners equally, so he initially established a romp “rota” so he could fulfill each wife’s individual needs. Washington: Managing multiple partners apparently is a lot of work! It is no different for a Brazilian man who claims to have married nine women and to keep each of them happy had even devised a ‘sex time table’! The model and influencer, Arthur O Urso has been trying to implement different things to strengthen his marriage with his nine spouses and has apparently created a ‘sex rota’ so none of the women feel left out. According to a US-based media outlet, Arthur claimed he struggled to satisfy all his partners equally, so he initially established a romp “rota” so he could fulfill each wife’s individual needs. “They all want to fulfill my sexuality at any cost,” New York Post quoted Arthur as saying. However, it’s not as dreamy as it sounds. Finding the sex schedule too structured and stressful, Arthur had to fin...

 Anurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of the BW Businessworld grew up in a middle-class family in Gurgaon. He became a first-generation entrepreneur, after acquiring the iconic business media and magazine brand BW Business World, a 35-year strong media brand as well as the most respected business publication in the country. After his undergraduate studies, Batra went to an engineering school and then to a business school. While he was doing his business studies, he had very limited ambition. During that period, his ambition was to join an IT services company in marketing. Just like his wish, he got placement through campus selection. But just before he joined the firm, came the turning point of his life. Through his friend, Anurag Batra met the people who were setting up Colliers Jardine in India. Batra’s mind changed and he joined Colliers Jardine. It was a joint venture between HDFC and Ireland affairs and did property services. Anurag Batra, the Chairman & Editor-i...

  UN’s cultural body warns of international consequences With more than 160 historical sites having already been damaged or destroyed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UN’s cultural agency is stressing the importance of protecting the world’s heritage during times of conflict. It is 40 years since Unesco launched the first World Heritage Day for monuments and sites, and recently its work has become more important than ever. Eight years since ISIS’s destruction of 80 per cent of Iraq’s historic sites in Mosul, Unesco is only just commencing restoration work. But just weeks before reconstruction work began there in March, Russia invaded Ukraine, putting yet more historic sites in jeopardy. “We are extremely concerned about the development of the situation,” Unesco told The National . “Very serious information has come to us, concerning other cultural sites.” Ukraine’s culture ministry has recorded 166 cultural sites which have been destroyed or damaged as a result of Russian ...

  The awards are a celebration of British theatre An intimate, sold-out production of Cabaret was the big winner at Sunday’s Olivier Awards , taking seven prizes including acting trophies for its high-voltage stars, Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley. Literary adaptation Life of Pi took five awards, including Best New Play. Cabaret was named Best Musical Revival at the ceremony, which saw the Oliviers — Britain’s equivalent of Broadway’s Tony Awards — return to live collective prize-giving after a three-year break imposed by the coronavirus pandemic . Redmayne and Buckley won lead acting prizes for their roles as the Emcee and Sally Bowles in a production of Cabaret that transformed London’s Playhouse Theatre into the Kit Kat Club in 1930s Berlin. Liza Sadovy and Elliot Levey won supporting performer awards for the same production, which continues its London run with new leads — and is rumoured to be Broadway-bound. Buckley, who was praised by Redmayne as “one of the greats”,...

Country’s central bank governor says the action is being taken in good faith, and nation has never defaulted on its debt payments Sri Lanka will temporarily suspend foreign debt payments to avoid a hard default, the central bank governor said on Tuesday, with its limited foreign reserves required for imports of essential items such as fuel. “It has come to a point that making debt payments are challenging and impossible. The best action that can be taken is to restructure debt and avoid a hard default,” Governor P Nandalal Weerasinghe said. Sri Lanka is due to start talks with the International Monetary Fund on a loan programme next week, with the country suffering from prolonged power cuts alongside shortages of food and medicines. The island nation’s foreign reserves stood at a paltry $1.93 billion at the end of March, with foreign debt payments of around $4bn due this year, including a $1bn international sovereign bond maturing in July. The governor said the action was being ta...

  Property developer Damac says incidents are acted on as soon as they are reported Reports of animal abuse and possible illegal puppy sales in Damac Hills 2 resulted in tenants being evicted as authorities crack down on illegal pet traders. The Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment’s biosecure hotline received several reports about villas suspected of being used to illegally sell animals. Although breeding pets is not against the law, there are strict rules against illegal commercial breeding and trade in animals . Law on animal welfare The UAE has strict animal welfare laws and provides a framework to regulate the sale, use and exhibition of animals. Anyone who wants to breed animals for sale must obtain a licence in line with the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment. Operating without one incurs fines ranging from Dh10,000 to Dh700,000, confiscation of the animals and even a prison sentence in some cases. Animal welfare law in the UAE requires dog owner...