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Ambani Wedding | The Son Of Asia’s Richest Man Is Set To Marry In The Year’s Most Extravagant Wedding
MUMBAI, India — Global celebrities, corporate tycoons, and politicians began arriving in India’s financial capital on Friday to attend the wedding of Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, emphasizing the billionaire’s astonishing fortune and growing prominence.
Anant Ambani, 29, is marrying his longtime love, Radhika Merchant, in what many are calling the wedding of the year. The celebrations, which take place at the Ambani-owned Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai and their family home, mark the end of months of wedding activities that included performances by musical singers such as Rihanna and Justin Bieber.
The four-day wedding celebrations begin on Friday with a traditional Hindu ceremony and a spectacular banquet that will last the whole weekend. According to local media, former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Boris Johnson will attend, as will Saudi Aramco CEO Amin H. Nasser, Adele, Lana Del Rey, Drake, and David Beckham. The Ambani family still needs to confirm the guest list.
Celebrities including Kim Kardashian and professional wrestler and Hollywood actor John Cena were seen coming on television news networks.
Police have imposed traffic restrictions around the wedding venue from Friday until Monday to accommodate the rush of guests coming into Mumbai. Over the last week, heavy monsoon rains have caused floods and airline difficulties.
However, the spectacle and display of riches associated with this wedding has prompted many to raise concerns about rising inequality in India, where the rich-poor divide is widening. The event has also enraged some Mumbai residents, who say they are dealing with clogged traffic.
“It affects our earnings. “I don’t care about the wedding,” said Vikram, a cab driver who only goes by his first name.
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Ambani The Son Of Asia’s Richest Man Is Set To Marry In The Year’s Most Extravagant Wedding
According to Forbes, the groom’s father, Mukesh Ambani, 66, is the world’s ninth richest man, with $116 billion. He is also the wealthiest person in Asia. His Reliance Industries is a vast conglomerate with over $100 billion in annual revenue and holdings ranging from petrochemicals, oil and gas, telecoms, and retailing.
Among its other properties, the Ambani family has a $1 billion 27-story family estate in Mumbai. The structure has three helipads, a 160-car garage, and a private movie theater.
Anant, Ambani’s son, oversees the conglomerate’s expansion into renewable and green energy. He also maintains a 3,000-acre (1,200-hectare) animal rescue sanctuary in Jamnagar, Gujarat, his family’s homeland.
According to Vogue, the bride, Radhika Merchant, 29, is the daughter of pharmaceutical mogul Viren Merchant and the marketing director for his company, Encore Healthcare.
Critics believe Ambani’s corporation relied on political connections under Congress-led governments in the 1970s and 1980s and when Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in 2014.
The Ambani family’s pre-wedding events were opulent and star-studded.
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Ambani The Son Of Asia’s Richest Man Is Set To Marry In The Year’s Most Extravagant Wedding
In March, they hosted a three-day prenuptial extravaganza for his son, with 1,200 guests, including previous global leaders, tech tycoons, and Bollywood megastars. The ceremony included performances by Rihanna, Akon, and Diljit Dosanjh, a Punjabi musician who rose to international stardom after performing at Coachella. Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, IT millionaires, also attended the ceremony.
According to media accounts, the family hosted guests on a three-day cruise from Italy to France in May, during which Katy Perry sang her hit song “Firework” and Pitbull performed.
As part of the celebrations, the family staged a mass wedding for over 50 impoverished couples on July 2.
Last week, Justin Bieber performed for hundreds of guests at a pre-wedding concert, which also featured Bollywood stars Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh, and Salman Khan.
Ambani also made headlines in 2018 when Beyoncé sang at his daughter’s pre-wedding festivities. Former US Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry met Indian celebrities and Bollywood stars in Udaipur, western India.
SOURCE | AP
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Fugitive Philippines Mayor Alice Guo Captured in Indonesia
Alice Guo, a former mayor from the Philippine who is thought to have ties to Chinese crime groups, was caught in Indonesia.
The Philippine Senate wants Guo, who is also Chinese and goes by the name Guo Hua Ping, because she refused to go to a congressional investigation into her alleged crime ties, according to the Ministry of Justice.
She has denied the claims, saying that she is a natural-born Filipino citizen and that the charges are “malicious.”
Police in Indonesia have confirmed that Ms. Guo is currently in their custody, according to a statement from the Justice Department.
Guo was caught in Tangerang City in Jakarta at 11:58 p.m. on Tuesday. He used to be the mayor of Bamban town, which is about 100 km (62 miles) north of Manila. Asian media shared a video on X that showed police agents leading her up a white-walled staircase.
In the Philippines, the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) and other law enforcement agencies charged Guo and 35 others with money laundering multiple times with the Department of Justice last month.
The AMLC says that Guo and her crime partners laundered more than 100 million pesos ($1.8 million) in stolen money.
Lawyer Stephen David, who is officially Guo’s lawyer, did not reply right away to a request for comment from the Reuters news agency.
Al Jazeera news said that Justice Secretary Boying Remulla said in a statement, “The arrest of Alice Guo is a testament to the tireless efforts of our law enforcement agencies and the strength of international cooperation in bringing fugitives to justice.”
People removed Guo from her job as mayor, and she left the country in July, using her Philippine visa to go to Malaysia, then Singapore, and finally Indonesia.
In May, two months after police raided a casino in Bamban town and found scams being run from a building on land partly owned by the mayor, the Senate began an investigation into her activities.
Public outrage followed the finding, and later, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. banned online gaming companies because he thought they had ties to organised crime.
Marcos also said she would go after those who “helped her escape.”
The government thinks that several hundred illegal online gambling businesses may be running scam sites right in front of them.
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Divers Discover Lost RMS Titanic Bronze Statue After 112 Years
A bronze statue from the Titanic, long considered to be gone forever, was unearthed during a recent trip by the corporation that owns salvage rights to the wreck site.
The journey to the desolate North Atlantic Ocean, where the Titanic sank, coincided with the US Coast Guard’s inquiry into the Titan, a submersible owned by another business, which imploded in June 2023.
The Titan submarine catastrophe killed all five persons on board, including RMS Titanic’s director of underwater research, Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
RMS Titanic Inc. described the results of this summer’s voyage as a “bittersweet mix of preservation and loss.”
The finding of the statue “Diana of Versailles,” which had been missing since 1986, was a major highlight. The firm has now provided a clear and updated image of the statue.
Part of the railing has fallen from the bow of the wreck of the Titanic where statue located
However, RMS Titanic reported that a major piece of the railing surrounding the ship’s bow’s forecastle deck had fallen. According to the company, the railing remained in place until 2022.
“Discovering the Diana statue was a thrilling time. However, the loss of the famous Bow railing and other degradation evidence has only increased our dedication to conserving Titanic’s heritage,” said Tomasina Ray, RMS Titanic’s director of collections.
The group spent 20 days at the location before returning to Providence, Rhode Island, on August 9. They took more than two million high-resolution photos of the wreck. The team also employed modern technology to properly map the crash and its debris field, which will help them better comprehend the site.
Meanwhile, a public hearing on the Coast Guard’s probe into the Titan submarine accident will take place later in September.
Nargeolet’s family has launched a wrongful death case against OceanGate, the Titan submarine’s operator, which has since ceased operations.
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New Titanic Photos Show Major Decay To Legendary Wreck
In the years since the Titanic fell after colliding with an iceberg in 1912, we have grown accustomed to eerie photos of the fatal passenger liner’s bow lying at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. New images shot this summer reveal that the view has changed drastically.
The most recent mission by RMS Titanic Inc., an American corporation with salvage rights to the wreck, discovered that a part of the formerly unbroken railing surrounding the front of the ship’s top deck had fallen off. The 15-foot-long portion is currently on the sea floor, exactly below where it originally was.
Titanic | CNN Image
New Titanic Photos Show Major Decay To Legendary Wreck
“We are saddened by this loss and the inevitable decay of the ship and its debris,” the business said on its website.
“Over the course of the next few weeks and months, we will conduct a more thorough review of Titanic’s condition and her changes over time,” she said.
“Although Titanic’s collapse is inevitable, this evidence strengthens our mission to preserve and document what we can before it is too late,” the statement read.
According to the company, the July expedition was the ninth since it first visited the wreck in 1987. Ocean imaging experts, oceanographers, scientists, and historians collaborated to capture new images of the wreck to review its condition, identify artifacts and areas at risk, and contribute to ongoing conservation efforts.
Over two million photographs were taken, and the crew looked for several relics.
This inquiry led to an exciting discovery.
On the last day of the journey, the team discovered and photographed a two-foot-tall bronze statue of Diana, the Roman goddess of nature and hunting.
According to the business, the statue, which previously sat on the fireplace mantle as a showpiece in the Titanic’s First Class lounge, was wrenched away and flung into the wreck’s debris field when the lounge tore open as the ship sank.
According to the business, the figure was shot during a 1986 excursion, but its position was unknown until this newest voyage due to a tradition of secrecy surrounding the Titanic’s wreck.
New Titanic Photos Show Major Decay To Legendary Wreck
The business said Sunday in an Instagram post about the statue that much of the art that adorned the ship’s halls and quarters “was made of organic materials, breaking down into the earth after many decades submerged in the hostile environment” of the water.
However, Diana “is still resting upright among miles of debris.” Like the ancient Roman deities, she is timeless—and she has been rediscovered thanks to Expedition 2024,” it added.
The renowned wreck is slowly fading as experts rush to preserve its history.
In 2019, footage from a series of dives conducted by Triton Submarines’ research crew revealed the impact of salt corrosion, metal-eating bacteria, and deep current action on the ship’s breakdown.
SOURCE | CNN
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