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India.com
19-05-2025
- Business
- India.com
British ruled India for 170 years, looted us, now an Indian is richest person in Britain, richer than Queen, net worth is Rs..., name is...
New Delhi: It is said that the British ruled over India for nearly 200 years and took away a huge amount of wealth and property from here. Despite such a massive looting by the British, today the richest person in Britain is an Indian. This Indian family residing in Britain possesses more wealth than even the Queen of England, and throughout Britain, this family's influence is significant. The Times Magazine's Rich List 2025 has once again chosen this Indian family as number 1. At the top of the Times Rich List 2025 is the name of Gopichand Hinduja and his family. This family has approximately 33.67 lakh crore rupees in assets. They have left behind the David and Simon Reuben family, who are in second place, by a margin of 8 thousand crore rupees. This family is the owner of the multinational company Hinduja Group, which operates in trucking, lubricant, banking, and cable television sectors. About Gopichand Hinduja Gopichand works as the chairman of the Hinduja Group. He assumed this position in May 2023 after the death of his older brother, Srichand Hinduja. The Hinduja family also holds a strong foothold in the real estate sector in London, where the most famous property is the Raffles London Hotel, located in the historic Old War Office building in Whitehall. Graduation from India Gopichand Hinduja completed his graduation in 1959 from Jai Hind College in Mumbai. After that, he obtained a doctorate in law from Westminster University. Gopichand did not stop there; he also pursued a doctorate in economics from Richmond College, London, and then took steps towards starting his own business. Under his leadership, the Hinduja Group acquired Gulf Oil in 1984, and just three years later, also acquired Ashok Leyland. Gopichand currently resides in London, while his younger brother Prakash lives in Monaco, and the youngest brother Ashok stays in Mumbai overseeing Indian businesses. The Hinduja family had to go through a rough phase when a dispute over property among the Hinduja brothers started. It continued for a long time and finally in November 2022, the Hinduja brothers decided to end the dispute. The brothers agreed to halt the lawsuits ongoing across Europe and deemed it appropriate to work together.
New York Times
11-05-2025
- General
- New York Times
How Siblings Shape Us
Happy Mother's Day. The cover story in today's Times Magazine begins with an idea: While parents work hard to mold their offspring, those offspring just as often mold each other. Susan Dominus, who has written many moving pieces about children and families, looks at a growing field of research to see how kids' personalities 'spill over' onto their siblings. It's not always the way you'd think. As the father of three boys (and as a sibling myself), I was rapt. You should read the story. In today's newsletter, I ask Susan a few questions about her findings. What got you interested in this story? My older brother was extremely influential in my own life. When I was 14, and he was home on a break from college, he talked me into starting a school newspaper. He somehow knew before I did (and definitely before my parents did) what kind of work I would love doing. When I started interviewing people about the way their families influenced their lives, I was struck by how often siblings played a pivotal role in their careers — in making an introduction, giving a key piece of advice, setting the bar high. You tell the story of several high-achieving families. But the phenomenon isn't necessarily strongest among the privileged, is it? Not at all. If anything, research suggests that what's known as the 'sibling spillover effect' (a measure of how much siblings influence each other, especially academically) is more powerful in disadvantaged families. In those families, the bond can be more influential — the siblings spend a lot of time together, either because their parents are so busy working, or because the family doesn't have the resources to spend on tons of extracurriculars. My kids have wildly different personalities. Tell me what the research shows about birth-order psychology — the idea that your place among siblings shapes you? Most personality researchers will tell you that the qualities we associate with birth order don't hold up in the best-conducted studies with the widest samples. Oldest children are not, for example, the most conscientious. They likely just seem that way because, as children, they were always the farthest along developmentally. Compared with the general population — and even compared with their own siblings at the same age — the oldest children are not unusually diligent or responsible. As a first child, I reject this finding. As the youngest child, I embrace it. But why does some research say that more competitive athletes are younger siblings? First-born children — who enjoy a brief window as only children, with plenty of enrichment — have a cognitive edge over their younger siblings, the research consistently shows. (The studies also compare them to their siblings when they reach the same age.) Some researchers theorize that younger children naturally gravitate toward a niche like sports to find a domain that they can conquer and call their own. One thing that freaked me out is that even attentive, well-meaning parents are sometimes poor judges of their own kids. Parents can make assessments about which of their children is the 'academic' one — assessments that are not, in fact, accurate — that affect the grades their kids get and the extracurricular choices those kids make. The sibling they've decided is academically better then increasingly outstrips the others. I will endeavor to withhold judgment! Good luck with that! In addition to sibling relationships, you get into genetic determinants in your new book, 'The Family Dynamic,' from which this story is adapted. What can genes tell us? The binary idea of genes versus the environment is too simplistic. People's genetic inclinations elicit responses from the world that in turn shape their personalities and outcomes. And people's genetic influences also likely lead them to certain environments — if available to them — that reinforce their natural leanings. Where do parenting choices fit into all of that? The answer is: less than most parents probably think. I recommend you read Susan's story about siblings and how they shape each other. India-Pakistan Conflict Pope Leo XIV Trade Foreign Policy More on the Trump Administration Other Big Stories The Real ID Act, enacted in 2005 in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, finally took effect this week. Is Real ID still necessary? Yes. It standardizes the identification process across the country, making the ID system more secure. 'There are no kind of bad actors issuing those ID cards, and the system is not penetrated by bad actors,' Magdalena Krajewska, political science at Wingate University, said in an interview on WBUR's On Point. 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It's a difficult time for the dating app industry, a difficult time for human connection, and a difficult time for women in tech. We talked about all of it. You had a lot of growth during the pandemic when everyone was stuck on their apps. You go public in 2021, ring the bell, baby on your hip, and the very next year user growth starts to slow down. What do you think was happening? My opinion is that I ran this company for the first several years as a quality over quantity approach. A telephone provider came to us early on. They said, 'We love your brand, we want to put your app preprogrammed on all of our phones and when people buy our phones, your app will be on the home screen, and you're going to get millions of free downloads.' I said, 'Thank you so much but no thank you.' Nobody could understand what in the world I was doing, and I said it's the wrong way to grow. This is not a social network, this is a double-sided marketplace. 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Mint
26-04-2025
- Politics
- Mint
‘Exaggeration': That's what Trump now calls his ‘end Ukraine war on day 1' promise. But he made the claim ‘53 times'
US President Donald Trump admitted in a recent interview that he "exaggerated" when he said he would end Russia's war against Ukraine 'on Day One.' "Well, I said that figuratively, and I said that as an exaggeration, because to make a point, and you know, it gets, of course, by the fake news [unintelligible]," Trump told the Times Magazine in the interview that was published on Friday. "Obviously, people know that when I said that, it was said in jest, but it was also said that it will be ended," Trump added. Donald Trump had said during his election campaigns between 2023 and 2024 that he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he were elected US president again. He said this not once, but "53 times", if a CNN report is to be believed. The report substantiated its claim by citing the Roll Call database that catalogues Trump's public remarks. A search in the data base showed at least 53 examples of Trump making such comments. As per the report, Trump said over and over again, including at both presidential debates of 2024, that he would have the war 'settled' when he was president-elect, before his inauguration. At a CNN town hall in May 2023, Trump had said: 'They're dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I'll have that done — I'll have that done in 24 hours.' On March 4, 2023, as well, Trump had said, "'Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled. It will be settled quickly. Quickly. I will get the problem solved and I will get it solved in rapid order and it will take me no longer than one day. I know exactly what to say to each of them.' On June 10, 2023, Trump even said, "...In 24 hours between Zelensky and Putin, 24 hours. Everyone says, "Oh, you don't mean that." No, I'd have that thing done in 24 hours…" On June 24, 2023, he against said, "This world is on fire. Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine totally settled. I'll have it done in 24 hours." But that promise never came to fruition, and Trump conveyed earlier that negotiations have been more difficult than expected, NBC reported. "The war has been raging for three years," he told the Time. "I just got here, and you say, what's taken so long? Donald Trump also said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin would "rather go and take the whole thing" when it comes to Ukraine's territory. When asked "if Putin can make peace," Trump said in the interview with Time, 'Yeah, I think Putin will. I think Putin would rather do it a different way. I think he'd rather go and take the whole thing.' The US president went on to say, "Crimea will stay with Russia. And [Ukrainian President] Zelensky understands that, and everybody understands that it's been with them for a long time. It's been with them long before Trump came along." First Published: 26 Apr 2025, 02:29 PM IST
