• Indian school children throws rose flower petals over a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi to pay their tribute on the death anniversary of the Indian founding father, in Chennai on January 30, 2024. The death anniversary of Gandhi, who is widely known in India as Bapu (father), is also observed as Martyrs' Day in the country. (Photo by R. Satish BABU / AFP)
    Indian school children throws rose flower petals over a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi to pay their tribute on the death anniversary of the Indian founding father, in Chennai on January 30, 2024. The death anniversary of Gandhi, who is widely known in India as Bapu (father), is also observed as Martyrs' Day in the country. (Photo by R. Satish BABU / AFP)
  • The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of spiral galaxy NGC 1512, which is 30 million light years from Earth. Reuters
    The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of spiral galaxy NGC 1512, which is 30 million light years from Earth. Reuters
  • A rainbow arcs over the ancient Acropolis, brightening up a gloomy sky in Athens. AP
    A rainbow arcs over the ancient Acropolis, brightening up a gloomy sky in Athens. AP
  • Greenpeace activists protest before the German parliament in Berlin discusses finalising this year’s budget. The message reads ‘Climate money now!’ Reuters
    Greenpeace activists protest before the German parliament in Berlin discusses finalising this year’s budget. The message reads ‘Climate money now!’ Reuters
  • A farmer harvests cloves in Lhoknga, Indonesia's Aceh province. AFP
    A farmer harvests cloves in Lhoknga, Indonesia's Aceh province. AFP
  • Adalberto poses beside a mural that depicts the story of his father Joao Candido, a sailor who led a revolt against the Brazilian Navy, in Sao Joao de Meriti, Brazil. Candido was one of only two mutineers to survive the subsequent torture. AP
    Adalberto poses beside a mural that depicts the story of his father Joao Candido, a sailor who led a revolt against the Brazilian Navy, in Sao Joao de Meriti, Brazil. Candido was one of only two mutineers to survive the subsequent torture. AP
  • Tyler, the Creator, left, and Kanye West attend the Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony for US singer/songwriter Charlie Wilson in Los Angeles. AFP
    Tyler, the Creator, left, and Kanye West attend the Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony for US singer/songwriter Charlie Wilson in Los Angeles. AFP
  • In the last 16 of the Asian Cup in Al Khor, Qatar, Palestine's Oday Dabbagh celebrates scoring the opening goal with his teammates, though the home side edged them out 2-1 to progress. Reuters
    In the last 16 of the Asian Cup in Al Khor, Qatar, Palestine's Oday Dabbagh celebrates scoring the opening goal with his teammates, though the home side edged them out 2-1 to progress. Reuters
  • Sheep cross an old bridge that has emerged from the dwindling waters of the Guadalteba reservoir, during a severe drought near Malaga, southern Spain. Reuters
    Sheep cross an old bridge that has emerged from the dwindling waters of the Guadalteba reservoir, during a severe drought near Malaga, southern Spain. Reuters
  • French farmers block a motorway east of Paris amid nationwide protests over pay, tax and regulations. AFP
    French farmers block a motorway east of Paris amid nationwide protests over pay, tax and regulations. AFP

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January 30, 2024

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Nepotism is the name of the game

Salman Khan’s father, Salim Khan, is one of Bollywood’s most legendary screenwriters. Through his partnership with co-writer Javed Akhtar, Salim is credited with having paved the path for the Indian film industry’s blockbuster format in the 1970s. Something his son now rules the roost of. More importantly, the Salim-Javed duo also created the persona of the “angry young man” for Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan in the 1970s, reflecting the angst of the average Indian. In choosing to be the ordinary man’s “hero” as opposed to a thespian in new Bollywood, Salman Khan remains tightly linked to his father’s oeuvre. Thanks dad. 

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Profile of Udrive

Date started: March 2016

Founder: Hasib Khan

Based: Dubai

Employees: 40

Amount raised (to date): $3.25m – $750,000 seed funding in 2017 and a Seed round of $2.5m last year. Raised $1.3m from Eureeca investors in January 2021 as part of a Series A round with a $5m target.

COMPANY PROFILE

Name: Xpanceo

Started: 2018

Founders: Roman Axelrod, Valentyn Volkov

Based: Dubai, UAE

Industry: Smart contact lenses, augmented/virtual reality

Funding: $40 million

Investor: Opportunity Venture (Asia)

The biog

Age: 46

Number of Children: Four

Hobby: Reading history books

Loves: Sports

Sole survivors
  • Cecelia Crocker was on board Northwest Airlines Flight 255 in 1987 when it crashed in Detroit, killing 154 people, including her parents and brother. The plane had hit a light pole on take off
  • George Lamson Jr, from Minnesota, was on a Galaxy Airlines flight that crashed in Reno in 1985, killing 68 people. His entire seat was launched out of the plane
  • Bahia Bakari, then 12, survived when a Yemenia Airways flight crashed near the Comoros in 2009, killing 152. She was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean for 13 hours.
  • Jim Polehinke was the co-pilot and sole survivor of a 2006 Comair flight that crashed in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49.
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