December 6, 2023
Amid the ongoing cash crunch at Byju’s, founder and CEO Byju Raveendran told senior executives that he is aiming to address the crisis over the next 45-60 days. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch. Also in this letter:■ Apple taps suppliers in India, South Korea, Japan■ Online gaming firms seek new regulatory model■
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Amid the ongoing cash crunch at Byju’s, founder and CEO Byju Raveendran told a group of senior executives on Tuesday that he is aiming to address the crisis over the next 45-60 days, according to people present on a two-hour long telephonic call. Raveendran also spoke about concerns raised on changes in its business plans
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Claustrophobic rooms, lowered voices, rice rations and threats: a picture is emerging of the distress and discomfort of life in the hands of Hamas, after the Palestinian militant group began releasing women and children as part of a temporary truce deal with Israel. Speaking publicly in the week that dozens of captives were released, relatives
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Queensland is on alert for a tropical cyclone predicted to form off the coast of the state’s far north in the coming days. It is not expected to make a direct impact, which is a much-needed respite after golf-ball-sized hail and 100-kilometre-an-hour winds left more than 10,000 residents without power on Friday night. The alert
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Lue’s coaching staff has set certain targets for how they should play every game. Among them: Taking at least 36 three-pointers, committing fewer than 12 turnovers, and 24 assists. They know where their focus needs to be defensively as well. “I think if we can keep teams in halfcourt sets, not give them easy baskets,
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After 17 days trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel they were building, Indian workers described the horror of their ordeal. After 17 days trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel they were building, Indian workers described the horror of their ordeal, and the hopes and prayers that kept them strong. “We were really scared,
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Rescuers safely brought out all 41 Indian workers from the collapsed Himalayan Road tunnel where they were trapped for 17-days. Indian workers were greeted with wild cheers and flower garlands Tuesday as rescuers safely brought out all 41 from the collapsed Himalayan road tunnel where they were trapped after a marathon 17-day engineering operation. With
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Key Points The workers were pulled out on wheeled stretchers through a 90cm-wide steel pipe. Authorities have not said what caused the cave-in but the region is prone to landslides, earthquakes and floods. Local residents gathered outside the tunnel set off firecrackers and distributed sweets. Rescuers have pulled out all 41 workers trapped for 17
READ MOREThe rescue mission was expected to last only a few days. Instead, it took 17 days to reach 41 construction workers who were trapped when a landslide collapsed a mountain tunnel in northern India earlier this month. The excruciating wait finally ended at nightfall on Tuesday, as temperatures dropped near the accident site in the
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The workers have been trapped since 12 November when a landslide caused a portion of the 4.5 kilometre tunnel they were building to collapse about 200 metres from the entrance. ADVERTISEMENT India’s transportation minister says all 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north for more than two
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