Month: April 2025

[ad_1] MUMBAI: Former India captain Virat Kohli has ended his long association with German sports brand Puma to join Agilitas as an investor, sources told TOI. Kohli had inked an eight-year contract with Puma as its brand ambassador in 2017 in a deal pegged at about Rs 110 crore. The cricketer, sources said, declined to extend the partnership, refusing a Rs 300 crore deal offered by the brand for the next eight years. Puma India confirmed the end of the brand's partnership with Kohli. "Puma wishes Virat the best for his future endeavours....it was a wonderful association with him spanning over several years, many outstanding campaigns and path-breaking product collaborations. As a sports brand, Puma will continue to actively invest in the next generation of athletes and aggressively build the future of the sporting ecosystem in India," a spokesperson from […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Funds managed by BlackRock, the global investment behemoth, emerged as the largest subscribers of the $750-million private bond issuance by the Adani Group.The US-based asset manager, overseeing $12 trillion in assets, has taken on one-third of the $750 million issuance, which carries a tenure of 3-5 years, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.This investment comes at a time when Adani Group officials are under scrutiny following a US Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment in a bribery case in Nov last year.BlackRock's move marks its first private placement in India's infrastructure sector - a segment the firm is increasingly bullish on. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Tahawwur Rana with NIA officials (Image Credit: NIA) NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency has released the first photo of Mumbai terror attacks plotter Tahawwur Hussain Rana after he arrived at Indira Gandhi International Airport.In the first photo, Rana, who arrived in India in a special plane from Los Angeles, US. He was seen with three NIA officials who seem to be taking him somewhere. With this photo, NIA said that they have formally arrested Rana following his successful extradition from the US and added that he was escorted to New Delhi by teams of NSG and NIA, comprising senior officials. The NIA investigation team arrested Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin living primarily in Chicago (US), at the airport soon after he emerged from the airplane, after completing all the necessary legal formalities."With the coordinated efforts of […]

[ad_1] 26/11 Mumbai terror attack plotter Tahawwur Rana with NIA officials. (Image Credit: NIA) NEW DELHI: Who should take the credit for the successful extradition of Mumbai terror attacks accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana? Prime Minister Modi-led NDA government or the Congress-led UPA government? Ironically, even before the special flight carrying Rana from US to India had landed - the BJP and the Congress engaged in a bitter tussle to claim credit.BJP's Shehzad Poonawalla claimed Rana's extradition was a "big achievement" of the Modi government and its security agencies. "This extradition is not an ordinary extradition. This is a reflection of new India's resolve which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had described in 2019, saying that if anyone dared to attack India's unity, integrity, respect and its innocent people, the new India would bring such terrorists to justice," Poonawalla said.The BJP spokesperson […]