‘Worst tragedy’: Swiss president on fire that killed 40 in bar fire; flags to fly at half-mast for 5 days

Swiss Federal President Guy Parmelin (AP) Swiss President Guy Parmelin described the deadly fire at the bar in Crans-Montana that killed 40 and injured 115 as “one of the worst tragedies” the country has known.A fire broke out shortly after midnight on Thursday during New Year celebrations at Le Constellation, a bar popular with international…

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Audit push: NFRA releases second audit practice toolkit; focuses on revenue risk assessment

The National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) on Thursday said it has rolled out its second Audit Practice Toolkit to support small and medium audit practitioners across the country, as part of its broader effort to improve the quality of auditing practices, PTI reported.The toolkit, titled ‘Risk & Response Memorandum: ROMM (Risk of Material Misstatement) Assessment…

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Alexandr Wang and other billionaire entrepreneurs who dropped out of college: What they did differently

Every few years, a familiar story resurfaces and sparks debate: a young entrepreneur drops out of college and goes on to build a billion-dollar company. From Bill Gates leaving Harvard to start Microsoft, to Mark Zuckerberg quitting campus life as Facebook took off, these stories have become part of modern business folklore.Now, Alexandr Wang has…

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Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar records double-digit collections for 28 straight days; eyes all-time Hindi box office crown |

Nearly a month after its release, Dhurandhar continues to defy conventional box office trends. The Aditya Dhar–directed action spy thriller, led by Ranveer Singh, has delivered a sustained run rarely seen in Hindi cinema, pushing its India net collection to Rs 739.82 crore in just 28 days from its Hindi release. Consistency, not just scale,…

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Record-breaking: IIT-Hyderabad student lands Rs 2.5 crore package; highest in institute’s history | Hyderabad News

HYDERABAD: Amid a tough job market, a computer science engineering student from Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IITH), has landed a Rs 2.5 crore package from a Netherlands-based firm in this year’s placements. According to IITH, this is the highest package ever bagged by a student in the history of the institution, which started in…

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