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New Delhi, India's top billionaires, including Gautam Adani and Sunil Bharti Mittal, mega stars from film industry such as Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan and cricketing icons from Sachin Tendulkar to M S Dhoni are among those invited for pre-wedding celebrations of Mukesh Ambani's youngest son, Anant early next month. Ahead of the wedding ceremony in July, guests from around the world have been invited to three-day pre-wedding festivities beginning March 1, at Gujarat's Jamnagar, which houses Ambani's mega oil refineries. Anant Ambani, the youngest of the three children Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani have, is set to marry Radhika Merchant - the younger daughter of <keyword id="20720133" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="viren-merchant" source="keywords">Viren Merchant</keyword>, CEO of Encore Healthcare, and entrepreneur Shaila Merchant. With Jamnagar not having five-star hotels, ultra-luxury tents housing best of facilities, including tiled bathrooms are being erected for the guests. The guest list includes international business leaders like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Adnoc CEO Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, and EL Rothschild chair Lynn Forester de Rothschild, sources said. Indian business magnates invited include Gautam Adani and family, Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran , Aditya Birla Group Chairperson Kumar Mangalam Birla, and his family, Godrej family, Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani, RPSG Group head Sanjiv Goenka, Wipro's Rishad Premji, banker <keyword id="19998917" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="uday-kotak" source="keywords">Uday Kotak</keyword>, vaccine maker Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla, Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal, Hero's Pawan Munjal, Roshni Nadar of HCL, Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala and Sun Pharma's Dilip Sanghi. Top cricketers, including Sachin Tendulkar and family, MS Dhoni and family, Rohit Sharma, K L Rahul, Hardik and Krunal Pandya and Ishan Kishan too are on the invitee list. <keyword id="19897820" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="bollywood" source="keywords">Bollywood</keyword> will be represented by mega stars Amitabh Bachchan and family, Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and family, Amir Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna, Ajay Devgn and Kajol, Saif Ali Khan and family, Chunky Pandey, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt and <keyword id="19895145" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vicky-kaushal" source="keywords">Vicky Kaushal</keyword> and Katrina Kaif. Madhuri Dikshit and Sriram Nene, Aditya and Rani Chopra, Karan Johar, Boney Kapoor and family, Anil Kapoor and family, <keyword id="19946417" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="varun-dhawan" source="keywords">Varun Dhawan</keyword>, Sidharth Malhotra, Shraddha Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor, Rajnikanth and family are are on the invitee list. The three-day-long event will be themed, according to 'Event Guide' sent to the invitees. Chartered flights have been arranged to ferry guests from Delhi and Mumbai to Jamnagar and back. Guests are expected to arrive by mid-day on March 1. Hollywood pop-icon Rihanna, along with Diljit Dosanjh and others, will enthrall the guests with their performances. Day 1 celebrations are called 'An Evening in Everland' where guests are expected to wear elegant cocktail attire. Day 2 will host 'A Walk on the Wildside' with 'jungle fever' being the suggested dress code. It is set to be held outdoors in the Ambanis' animal rescue centre in Jamnagar. The guests will then proceed to 'Mela Rouge' which will be a potpourri of desi activities and the guests will wear their favourite south Asian attires. For Day 3, two events - 'Tusker Trails' and 'Hashtakshar' are planned. The first event will be an outdoor affair where the guests will enjoy the natural beauty of Jamnagar and for the last and final event, they'll be dressed in 'heritage Indian Wear'. All the guests will be provided with personal laundry services, saree drapers and other custom assistance, the nine-page event guide said.

Billionaires to Bollywood: All invited to Anant Ambani's pre-wedding festivities

<ul><li><keyword id="6354267" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="sachin-tendulkar">Sachin Tendulkar</keyword> has invested $2 million in JetSynthesys, a digital entertainment and technology company.</li><li>JetSynthesys which also co-founded of e-sports company, Nodwin Gaming. Apart from Tendulkar, the company is also backed by former Infosys chairman Kris Gopalakrishnan and Adar Poonawalla of the <keyword id="95879" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Serum-Institute-of-India">Serum Institute of India</keyword> and the family offices of the promoters of Thermax, <keyword id="906497" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Triveni-Group">Triveni Group</keyword>, <keyword id="11748876" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="yohan-poonawalla-group">Yohan Poonawalla Group</keyword> and DSP Group.</li><li>We spoke to <keyword id="25597" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="rajan-navani">Rajan Navani</keyword>, Vice Chairman &amp; Managing Director, JetSynthesys,who talks to us about the company’s journey so far, what the funding means for it, and its future strategies to grow further.</li></ul>Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has invested $2 million in JetSynthesys, a digital entertainment and technology company. Tendulkar already had a joint venture for a digital destination for cricket, 100MB, and cricket games <keyword id="6046220" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sachin-Saga-Cricket-Champions">Sachin Saga Cricket Champions</keyword> and Sachin Saga VR. JetSynthesys has a catalogue of over 300 games across HTML, <keyword id="11749527" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="java-android-and-ios">Java, Android and iOS</keyword> platforms spanning across multiple segments. In India, the company has created several celebrity games. It is also known for developing mobile games with high fidelity and network play and for its global publishing partnerships with the likes of WWE (WWE Racing Showdown), Square Enix (Ludo Zenith), and Sony (for Hollywood film Passenger). JetSynthesys is also the co-founder of e-sports company, Nodwin Gaming. Apart from Tendulkar, the company is also backed by former Infosys chairman Kris Gopalakrishnan and Adar Poonawalla of the Serum Institute of India. It is also backed by the family offices of the promoters of Thermax, Triveni Group, Yohan Poonawalla Group and DSP Group. We recently caught up with Rajan Navani, Vice Chairman &amp; Managing Director, JetSynthesys,who spoke to us about the company’s journey so far, what the funding means for it, and its future strategies to grow further. Excerpts: Q)You have just secured a fresh round of funding of $2 million from Sachin Tendulkar. What is it about JetSynthesys that has attracted investors from such diverse backgrounds? Investors back two things – executable ideas and people. JetSynthesys has both. Since our inception, we’ve successfully managed to rally a known coterie of names (Adar Poonawalla, Kris Gopalakrishnan, and promoters of Thermax, Triveni Group, Yohan Poonawalla Group and DSP Group) on the power of our vision. We also work hard to bring world class talent to the organization and I’d credit our success to the strength of the workforce. Our investors have seen this potential and the fact that we’ve covered so much ground in such a short span of time as a company is a testament to the dedication we collectively have which further bolsters their belief in us. Over the past five years, Sachin and Jetsynthesys have built products and platforms together keeping gamers at the heart of our strategy. This investment gives him a stake in the overall JetSynthesys story and it’s great to have him as part of this journey as we build a global new age digital entertainment and technology platform. When this association began, the aim was to provide an authentic gaming experience for cricket lovers across the globe; together we are looking to diversify that purview to include more cross category digital products and platforms. Q) What kind of growth have you been witnessing? What have your areas of focus been so far? Our gaming vertical has witnessed maximum growth since inception and the pandemic provided an even sharper upswing than before. JetSynthesys saw growth both in terms of consumption and monetization, and the overall player engagement has had a 40% to 150% boost, depending on the particular game in question. We witnessed a surge of monetization through inventory. The downloads also grew by 100-200% depending on what we had planned and player engagement improved from the previous average of 30-45 minutes a day to 50-55 minutes a day. For JetSynthesys, the plan that we had for the next 18 months got realized in a period of 6 months. Overall, the lockdown has been really good for us. Mindfulness, vernacular music, video content verticals have also seen 40-80% growth. Q)With this latest round of investment, what will your key focus be on to further strengthen your position in the market? Cricket is a celebrated sport that is entrenched within the DNA of Indians. In fact, its popularity and following is mirrored in the cricket skill-based gaming category. It has always been a strong focus area for us, and through this investment, we aim to strengthen our existing catalogue of products and platforms under our gaming vertical. Our capabilities will further build consumer love for brand Sachin and these funds will help us expand our roster of partnerships to other known names as well. Q)India is witnessing a boom in e-gaming. What do you think is the potential? Are we there yet, in terms of our talent pool, if not, where do we lack? For India, the gaming market is a sub-billion in a $170 billion industry. So the catch-up for India is massive. We have 13% of the world’s downloads on mobile and the mobile industry is the fastest growing platform. I look at a CAGR of 40-50% annually. Today, there are more global gaming studios that are using Indian talent and the nation becoming a part of the global supply chain in the gaming industry is another interesting format. We saw gaming go from casual to professional and also identified the early opportunity in<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/esports?src=hashtag_click"> esports</a> as a key pillar of the<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gaming?src=hashtag_click"> gaming</a> ecosystem in India when we co-founded Nodwin Gaming. As a category, esports has a bright future. Today, esports gamers have a major impact on gamers’ spending habits with 67% influenced by what influencers eat, 34% by what influencers wear and 18% by listening to music recommended by influencers. It is expected that Indian esports would be playing a key role in the global market by 2023. From the government standpoint, I have had extensive discussions with the commerce as well as the IT ministries. With the respective ministries, we have been vocal about the needs and potential to create livelihoods for young professionals through gaming. I think gaming brings a diverse set of talent pools ranging from engineering and art to animation and visualization. There are tons of pools required as we see this space growing even in terms of advanced technologies like AR or VR. These will all be the key drivers to bring in new types of talent needed for the gaming industry in India and globally. Investing in training infrastructure for this talent pool as well as incentivizing the industry in terms of building more infrastructure in similar lines to what Telangana has been doing – creating technology parks specifically for gaming and animation is required. I am seeing governments both at the state level and national level looking at this opportunity extensively. Being involved with Prime Minister Modi's vision of the new India of 2022, I think I have seen closely how this USD 1 trillion of the new age business economy will be shaping. Soon the government investments and incentives will flourish for the gaming sector, increasing large-scale mobilization of resources. The trillion dollars in that USD 5 trillion global economy will be from gaming and esports. The gaming industry will contribute massively to the global economy soon, hence growing the global pie. Q)What are a few hurdles for the gaming industry in India? With a strong presence beyond Tier I cities, online gaming needs Indian publishers for relevant and localized marketing that keeps diverse players engaged even through changing trends. Moreover, the Indian gaming population is growing but is fragmented, making distribution a challenge. Additionally, although the average revenue per paying user (ARPU) is increasing, it is far behind that of other countries. This has also led to limited institutional capital being deployed so far. The last five years have seen tremendous growth, primarily in casual gaming and real money gaming. With gamers maturing, ARPUs improving through microtransactions, and gaming companies getting exits, the industry is coming of age. The next phase of growth is expected from midcore/hardcore games. Also, while the Covid-19 induced lockdown was a major shot in the arm for the gaming industry, with so much digital action going on, most companies realized that the lack of discovery was becoming the initial challenge. At some point, the ability to grab the attention of a user became a bit more expensive. Even though we have an established gaming studio looking to expand and grow, the talent crunch at the India level is there. There is a dearth of a high-quality talent pool in India. The Indian companies haven't created that much success globally especially in some areas like engineering. We might be good at creatives but when it comes to game design, we lack to deliver deeper products. Being able to build products that can generate several hundred million dollars of revenue a year is still a dream. Another challenge is the significant gap between the way our user is monetised in India and other established global markets. The dependence on a few advertising revenues compared to in-app purchases being higher in countries like India is required. Being a frugal market when it comes to being able to demonstrate value, India still gives high levels of performance. Nobody pushes the price-performance curve as an Indian consumer does, that is what makes us competitive. We can continue to deliver greater performance at a lower price thus becoming super competitive. Hence, I believe in India. We will be able to take new models to the world, take new performance measures, and do at a better price point like has been done in so many other industries. On the upside, the industry today has more opportunities than challenges and our early mover advantage has held us in good stead. One of the things that we have identified in the mobile gaming aspect is the element of ‘disruption’ which we have gone through in these years. This disruption has helped the mobile ecosystem evolve in this state wherein today mobile gaming is the biggest source of revenue generation. When we look at the Indian market, the biggest challenge is monetization. Retention is also another challenge among users, since we identify heavier games as being an issue when it comes to retention amongst gamers. These are the challenges we need to address on our side. New monetization models are evolving in the market. We have to adapt to the new evolution that is happening across in terms of monetization like the Real Money Gaming aspect. Q)Where will JetSynthesys' next phase of growth come from? Not only do we want to be India’s largest digital entertainment and technology company, but we are also pushing ourselves to play the leadership role globally. We understand the role of responsibility in digital, and our goal is to strengthen the trust that we build between JetSynthesys, our consumers, and our gamers. We try to go through all of our products and figure out what is “Gaming for Good” and what is “Digital for Good.” How we can shape and define that in the future is something that excites me. So besides the economic and financial good of the company, building a great company on the right values in an emerging sector, particularly for India, is something that takes greater precedence. Figuring out a way to do this excites us at JetSynthesys and unites us as a team. I am personally looking forward to seeing what the next 5 years hold for us. Also, looking at esports now as entertainment and the new ways of sports entertainment which is emerging- with people watching streamers rather than playing or witnessing the physical sport, is an area that we are very excited about and where we think that we will again strengthen our positioning as we move forward.

With a $2 million funding from Sachin Tendulkar, Rajan Navani of digital entertainment and tech company JetSynthesys shares the roadmap ahead

Almost 90 per cent of people in <keyword id="1334" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="china" source="Orion">China</keyword>'s third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top local official has said, as the country battles an unprecedented surge in cases, media reported. <keyword id="16007465" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="kan-quancheng" source="Orion">Kan Quancheng</keyword>, director of the health commission for central <keyword id="451813" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="henan-province" source="Orion">Henan province</keyword>, told a press conference that "as of January 6, 2023, the province's Covid infection rate is 89 per cent," The Guardian reported. With a population of 99.4 million, the figures suggest about 88.5 million people in <keyword id="380346" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="henan" source="Orion">Henan</keyword> may now have been infected. Visits to fever clinics peaked on December 19, <keyword id="215638" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="kan" source="Orion">Kan</keyword> said, "after which it showed a continuous downward trend." The opening of China's borders on Sunday was one of the last steps in the dismantling of the country's zero-Covid regime, which began last month after historic protests and has led to a huge wave of infections. Covid cases are expected to soar further as the country celebrates lunar new year later this month, with millions set to travel from big cities to visit vulnerable older relatives in the countryside, The Guardian reported. In the first wave of pre-holiday travel, official data showed 34.7 million people travelled domestically on Saturday - up by more than a third compared with last year, according to state media. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/covovax-vaccine-to-get-approval-as-a-booster-in-10-15-days-adar-poonawalla/articleshow/96843527.cms">Covovax vaccine to get approval as a booster in 10-15 days: Adar Poonawalla</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/indian-generic-drug-paxlovid-in-high-demand-in-china-amid-covid-surge/articleshow/96848877.cms">Indian generic drug Paxlovid in high demand in China amid Covid surge</a>

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The <keyword id="1129131" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="scientific-community">scientific community</keyword> has stated that they had hinted to the Central government about the <keyword id="2987267" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="new-variants">new variants</keyword> of Covid-19 virus and also an increase in the cases in May this year. The community, however, did not make any prediction due to lack of data analysis. Dr. M. <keyword id="6541669" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="vidyasagar">Vidyasagar</keyword>, who is a professor at <keyword id="6354859" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="IIt">IIT</keyword> (Hyderabad), stated that by March 13 this year Covid cases were showing an upward trend but as they did not have requisite data available so they did not make any prediction. Vidyasagar further stated that after they hinted, the government said the authorities made long- and medium-term plans to short-term plans. Based on the events of the past few weeks, however, those plans seem to have been inadequate, said Vidyasagar citing the current crisis of oxygen supply across the country. The IIT Kanpur study in April also stated that the daily cases in the second wave will increase by May 8. The Kanpur study also predicted a peak of 38 to 44 lakh active cases between May 14 and May 18. The scientists also stated in March that they had alerted the government about the new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus -- SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium, or INSACOG. The institution was set up by the government in December last year, specifically to detect genomic variants of the coronavirus. The institution examined 10 national laboratories across the country studying virus variants. The institution first detected B.1.617 as early as February. Ajay Parida, director of the state-run <keyword id="3748353" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="institute-of-life-sciences">Institute of Life Sciences</keyword> and a member of INSACOG, reportedly stated that they first detected B.1.617 in February and alerted the government. The <keyword id="83655" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Union-health-ministry">Union Health Ministry</keyword>'s <keyword id="6367874" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="national-centre-for-disease-control">National Centre for Disease Control</keyword> received the finding in March. The finding reportedly stated that the mutations, called E484Q and L452R, were of high concern. It stated E484Q mutant viruses escaping highly neutralising antibodies in cultures, and L452R mutation was responsible for both increased transmissibility and immune escape. The mutated versions of the virus could more easily enter a human cell and counter a person's immune response to it, according to the findings. The ministry put the findings in public domain in March stating that 'more problematic variants required following measures already underway'. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/tata-power-says-it-has-no-such-decision-on-an-ipo-for-its-renewable-energy-business/articleshow/82365533.cms" style="">Tata Power says it has ‘no such decision’ on an IPO for its renewable energy business</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/gaming-startup-winzo-gives-complete-exit-to-hike-kavin-mittal-gets-four-times-return-on-investment/articleshow/82367340.cms" style="">Gaming startup WinZO gives complete exit to Hike – Kavin Mittal gets four times return on investment</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/adar-poonawalla-estimates-two-more-months-of-covid-19-vaccine-shortage-in-india/articleshow/82366770.cms">SII’s Adar Poonawalla estimates two more months of COVID-19 vaccine shortage in India — and the blame game is heating up</a>

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