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India Today
26-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
News Menu, May 26: Bharat Forecasting System unveiling, PM's Gujarat blitz today
On May 26, 2014, Narendra Modi was sworn in as India's 15th Prime Minister, marking a significant shift in the country's political landscape. Let's see what else is waiting to make history with the news menu of India Masala: PM Modi's Gujarat BlitzPrime Minister Narendra Modi kicks off a two-day Gujarat visit, launching projects worth over 77,000 crore. From Vadodara to Bhuj, his packed schedule includes roadshows and inaugurations, with Ahmedabad buzzing with cutouts and festive prep. India Today captures the high-octane start to a transformative Global Platter: India's Anti-Terror PushIndia's Operation Sindoor diplomacy goes global, with all-party delegations, including one led by Tharoor in Guyana, briefing world leaders on India's zero-tolerance stance on terrorism. In Bahrain, Owaisi calls Pakistan an aggressor, not a victim, while BJP MP Baijayant Jay Panda reports positive responses. Incidentally, On May 26, 1966, Guyana gained independence from British colonial rule, marking a bold new chapter in its Ghee: Turkiye-Pakistan TalksHigh-level military talks between Turkiye and Pakistan's army chief in Istanbul raise eyebrows. India Today uncovers discussions on expanding military ties, potentially stirring regional tensions. Is this a strategic pivot or a simmering flashpoint? The ghee's getting Spice: RJD's Family FeudRJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav expels his son Tej Pratap for six years over 'irresponsible behaviour' and deviation from family values after Tej's public relationship declaration with Anushka Yadav. Tejashwi and Rohini back Lalu, while JDU and BJP question the move, citing past family controversies. India Today dives into this spicy Bihar drama—family or politics, what's the real issue here?advertisementGDP Buffet: India's $4 Trillion TriumphIndia surpasses Japan to become the world's 4th largest economy at $4 trillion, says NITI Aayog CEO. BJP leaders celebrate, while Congress' Pawan Khera andBhupesh Baghel questions if the growth reaches the masses. India Today dissects this economic milestone—is it a feast or just crumbs for India's poor millions?Monsoon Mix: Record-Breaking RainsThe southwest monsoon hits Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, and the Northeast, marking its earliest onset in 35 years. Heavy rain alerts grip Konkan and western Maharashtra, with Kerala's 11 districts under red alert. Pune's Baramati and Indapur face flood-like conditions, with NDRF deployed. India Today reports Delhi's drizzle, Mumbai's orange alert, and 27 storm deaths across northern India. This monsoon's a relentless force, no umbrella big Tikka: Bharat Forecasting System UnveiledThe government launches the Bharat Forecasting System today, promising hyper-local weather predictions. India Today explores how this tech could reshape agriculture and disaster prep—served with a side of Sizzlers: Political StormsIn Tamil Nadu, TVK chief Vijay claims CM Stalin's Delhi visit for the NITI Aayog meet was a cover to dodge a 1,000 crore TASMAC scam probe. Karnataka revokes the suspension of 18 BJP MLAs, while Manipur sees protests over identity insults, with tear gas fired at marchers heading to Raj Bhavan. The south's cooking with intrigue and Bite: Covid's Sneaky VariantsTwo new Covid variants, under WHO watch, emerge in India. Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Delhi report surges, with Karnataka ramping up testing. India Today urges masks and vigilance as the virus creeps Cuppa: Shah's Maharashtra MissionUnion Home Minister Amit Shah's three-day Maharashtra visit kicks off with a public meeting in Nagpur and a BJP office inauguration in Nanded. India Today follows his trail as he pushes governance and party Special: Taj Mahal ThreatAn email threatening to blow up the Taj Mahal with RDX prompts an FIR and plans for an anti-drone system. India Today probes this high-stakes scare—history's treasures under Taj Mahal, built by Emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, took 22 years (1632–1653) to complete. Over 20,000 artisans and 1,000 elephants contributed to its Bite: On May 26, 2014, during his swearing-in as Prime Minister, Narendra Modi emphasized unity and development, stating, 'India is one. Our dreams and aspirations are one. We have to take India forward together.' With the GDP galloping, the march continues. advertisement
Calgary Herald
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Calgary Herald
Get in Mom's good books: Here are 10 Lower Mainland brunch ideas for Mother's Day
Article content Looking for something special to do with mom this year? Brunch is always a good option. Here are some Mother's Day brunches that just might keep you in her good books. Article content The downtown seafood destination's Mother's Day Brunch Buffet features a chill bar with fresh shucked West Coast oysters, poached tiger prawns, Norwegian smoked salmon and ahi tuna poke. Chef's Herb-Rubbed Canadian Prime Striploin and Steelhead Trout Wellington carving stations and an omelette station will also be available. Article content The Falls Golf Club Article content Article content Article content The Fanny Bay Oyster team will be on-site shucking three varieties of oysters, while the distillery pours its No. 006 Oyster Shell Gin. Distilled with real Fanny Bay oyster shells, the gin is a B.C. Food & Beverage Product of the Year winner. Article content
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Berkshire stock: How the company has outperformed the S&P 500
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B, BRK-A) shares have been consistently outperforming the S&P 500 (^GSPC) over the past 30 years. At Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders meeting over the weekend, chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, 94, announced that he will step down and be succeeded by Berkshire Hathaway Energy Chair Greg Abel at the end of the year. Madison Mills analyzes Berkshire's stock performance under Buffett's leadership and what could be expected with the passing of the torch to Abel in 2026. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here. It's time now for our chart of the day. Let's send it on over to Catalyst co-host, Madison Mills, for a look at Berkshire Hathaway shares under Warren Buffett. Yeah, take a look at this outperformance. Berkshire Hathaway, if you look at the max chart up over 50,000%. Your max on your S&P, it's up about 3,000%. You can see here the huge run-up in Berkshire stock, particularly since 2014 here. So, over a decade worth of these exponential gains. So, how does he do it? That's the big question. How does the Oracle of Omaha make it happen? Well, we know a lot about some of the metrics that he looks at: things like valuation, finding opportunities in the market, being fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. But, there's also something specific to Buffet that's hard to math out because even if you just compare the Berkshire performance to some other indices that track things like valuation, like I just said, he still is outperforming those other metrics. So, there is something specific to Buffet. One of the big questions, of course, for investors in Berkshire: will these gains be able to continue under his successor? Obviously, Warren Buffett announcing over the course of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting that, and the shareholder conference that, he is going to be stepping down from his CEO position at the end of this year. Poor pouring it up in his 90s, taking a little bit of a break understandably, but then you have Greg Abel coming in, an expertise in energy on his resume. So, will he be able to continue these gains? And, of course, another big question, Berkshire has a little over $380 billion in cash on the balance sheet to deploy at the moment. If there are opportunities for those value, what will those opportunities look like? I'm sure investors will eagerly anticipate any opportunity to copycat anything we see Berkshire doing with cash moving forward here. And music to the ears of investors who were at the meeting. Buffet also confirming he has no plans to sell shares of Berkshire as well. That was critical there. Maddie, thanks so much.
Independent Singapore
05-05-2025
- Business
- Independent Singapore
Warren Buffett to step down as CEO by year-end, hands Berkshire Hathaway reins to Greg Abel
Featured image by Depositphotos (for illustration purposes only) INTERNATIONAL: Warren Buffett, the 94-year-old investing legend behind Berkshire Hathaway, will be stepping down as CEO by the end of the year. The Edge Singapore reported that Mr Buffet made the announcement during the company's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday, surprising the board and even his named successor, 62-year-old Greg Abel, vice chairman for the company's non-insurance operations. He also noted that he would still 'hang around' to help, but the final decision on company operations and capital deployment will be Mr Abel's. In 1965, Mr Buffett, who believed that becoming a CEO was never tied to having a college or university degree, transformed what was once a struggling textile business into a conglomerate now worth more than US$1.16 trillion (about S$1.51 trillion), with businesses including BNSF Railway, Geico, See's Candies, and Dairy Queen. While the company reported a steep 14% drop to US$9.64 billion in its first-quarter results on Saturday, due to losses in its insurance unit from the California wildfires, its larger holdings in Treasury bills helped boost investment income. However, in its earnings report, as cited by CNBC, the company stated that 'considerable uncertainty remains' regarding its future operating results due to the impact of ongoing macroeconomic and geopolitical events, as well as changes in industry and company-specific factors or events. /TISG
Telegraph
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
How two French sisters rescued their great-grandmother from history
At first glance, Gabriële Buffet's life story seems to fit a depressingly familiar template: a brilliant young woman meets an egotistical man and finds her artistic ambitions swept aside by his; a talent becomes a muse. Born in 1881, Buffet launched into life with a fierce intelligence and utter disdain for male attention. By autumn 1898, aged 17, she had become the only woman authorised to study musical composition at the elite Schola Cantorum in Paris. Her next stop was Berlin, where she met the composer Edgard Varèse, the first of many men to be inspired by her radical views on music and art. Then, at 27, in Paris, Buffet met the 30-year-old impressionist painter Francis Picabia. Wildly impulsive – and, it now seems probable, suffering from undiagnosed manic depression – Picabia was immediately intoxicated by her 'rebel' intelligence and invited her on a road trip to Brittany. For Buffet, it was a potentially life-defining moment: getting in the car would mean abandoning the orchestra with which she played in Berlin. But, as her granddaughters Anne and Claire Berest put it in their collaborative novel Gabriële, 'it is unthinkable to resist someone like Francis Picabia'. Buffet got in the car. Within months, they were married and she was pregnant with their first child. 'Gabriële's musical career ended,' the Berests write, 'when she met Francis Picabia.' And yet, speaking over Zoom from Anne's home in the seventh arrondissement of Paris (Claire, at 42 the younger sister by three years, lives an hour from the French capital in Estampes) the sisters tell me that their great-grandmother's story does not benefit from what they call a 'feminist sheen'. Gabriële was no victim, they insist, and Picabia did not exploit her. Rather, she was, by choice, a conduit for the genius of others. Or, as one of many personal interludes in the book – which combines fact with fiction – has it: 'What's so troubling about her is that no one prevented her from being famous or successful. She was the one who wanted to be forgotten.' 'She had no ego, unlike the men,' says Claire. But she did have an eye for talent and the 'new', and helped to steer entire artistic movements, from Cubism to Dada. Today, Claire suggests, Buffet would have likely been a 'visionary gallerist, who shaped the art scene, someone like Gertrude Stein'. For example, when she and Picabia travelled to America at the height of his fame, Buffet – who spoke fluent English, while Picabia spoke none – took control of his interviews with the press. Such interviews would go on to define Picabia's legacy. 'Everything 'he' says about painting,' the Berests write, 'harks back to music, so much so that art critics and historians will speak of a 'musicalist' period in his work.' It is clear, for instance, that the following sentence, attributed to Picabia, was really hers: 'I simply equilibrise in colour or shadow tones the sensations which those things give me. They are like the motifs in symphonic music.' In France, the Berests are literary stars. Anne's novel The Postcard, about Jewish relatives who died in Auschwitz, was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize, in 2021. Claire's 2020 novel about Frida Kahlo, Rien n'est noir, won the Elle Readers' Grand Prize. What made them decide to come together to write about their great-grandmother? 'In fact,' says Claire, smiling, 'we had always wanted to write together, to… how do you say…?' She looks at Anne mischievously, who answers: 'Play together!' They had been searching for the 'right' subject for years. Then, in 2013, Anne read a biography of Marcel Duchamp in which Gabriële Buffet was named as the artist's first love, when he was 24 and she 30 (and still married to Picabia). She went on to make him a name overseas. 'And we had no idea!' Claire marvels. After three years of research, they realised the extent to which their great-grandmother had been overlooked by art historians, despite the archives being full of contemporary references to her influence on the avant-garde. 'Apollinaire, Duchamp, Stravinsky, Calder, Picasso – they all had things to say about her,' says Anne. 'And we made sure to include all our research in the footnotes because we wanted to prove that what we were saying was true.' They take care, too, to set Picabia's story straight, both with regards to their great-grandmother – 'ultimately [he] could never have forced Gabriële to do anything she didn't want to do' – and to his own legacy, which has become tainted by accusations that he held unsavoury views. After the war, he was arrested for allegedly collaborating with the Vichy regime (while Gabriële joined the Resistance), though he was cleared on lack of evidence. When I raise the matter, both Berests shake their heads. 'No, no, Picabia was not a fascist,' Claire says. 'He was not an anti-Semite. The truth is, he didn't care about the war. He wanted women, cars, pleasure. He was like a kid – but also a coward.' I mention that critic Jason Farago has described Picabia's wartime paintings – naked women with Aryan muscle men – as 'Nazi porn'. Anne, immediately exasperated, abandons her excellent English for a withering rebuttal in French: 'Le critique se trompe! (That critic is wrong!),' she says. 'The Nazis would have considered his art degenerate. They would have burnt it. So that is an enormous misreading. Clearly, that critic is very muddled.' Gabriële is a pleasure to read, the Belle Époque brought back to life in all its splendour. But how did the writing process work? 'We would each write a chapter and then swap, and rewrite each other's,' says Claire. 'We would rewrite so much that by the end we had no idea who had written what.' And did they squabble? 'Of course! There were many fights, many tears. But at the end of the day your sister is the only person who is allowed to tell you what you've written is s---,' Anne shrugs, and they both laugh. Once the book was finished, the Berests worried how it would be received by one reader in particular: their mother. 'She never spoke about Gabriële,' says Anne, in large part because Gabriële's son, their grandfather Vicente, had died by suicide aged 27, having been neglected by parents who 'loved themselves too much', and their four children not enough. 'He hanged himself right under his mother's bedroom window. He wanted her to find him dead, it's terrible,' says Claire. 'So we just knew Gabriële as our mean great-grandmother who made our mother's father suffer.' The sisters worried that even the act of writing Gabriële would be seen as a treacherous act. As they write in the book, 'Maybe it took two of us to shoulder the betrayal.' Eight years have passed since Gabriële was first published in French; has their mother now read it? 'Yes,' says Claire, although 'at first she only pretended she had. She said, 'It's perfect!' and we knew she hadn't, so we said, 'Tell us one thing that happens in it?' And she couldn't!' Claire chuckles. 'She was scared to read it,' adds Anne. 'But once she did, she was proud. The truth is, to create real art, you have to betray. You have to open doors, and look where you were told not to. As long as your purpose is good, everything is OK.'
