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Lewis Hamilton
personLewis Hamilton has activated the release option in his Mercedes contract. The seven-time world champion will continue to race for Mercedes this year. He will then leave at the end of the campaign to join Ferrari for 2025. Hamilton will team up with Charles Leclerc but who takes the main seat remains to be seen.
Christopher Steele
personDonald Trump brought legal action against Orbis Business Intelligence. The consultancy was founded by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele. Mr Steele was the author of the so-called Steele dossier. Trump claimed the infamous dossier harmed his reputation.
Mercedes
organizationLewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes at the end of the 2024 season. The seven-time F1 world champion is expected to join Ferrari for the 2025 campaign. Hamilton activated a release clause in the two-year contract extension he signed last year.
Alec Baldwin
personBaldwin, 65, was indicted on the single count by a grand jury Jan. 19. The actor was holding a prop gun on the set of the movie “Rust’ at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe on Oct. 21. Baldwin was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal.
Ferrari
organizationLewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes at the end of this season. The 39-year-old has activated the release option in his Mercedes contract. Ferrari posted profits of more than €1bn (£850m) for the first time.
Hemant Soren
personHemant Soren was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate, the nation’s federal anti-money laundering agency. His party governs the north-eastern state in a coalition with the Indian National Congress. Several tribal outfits gave a call for Jharkhand bandh on Thursday.
The Reserve Bank of India
organizationThe Reserve Bank of India issued stringent new restrictions on Wednesday. The watchdog had warned the fintech pioneer repeatedly in the past two years. Fears that the move could erode revenue from the company's main payments business.
Finance
organizationBSE Sensex was trading at 71,802.66, up 50 points or 0.070%. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim budget for 2024. PSU banks will have more money for lending, and focus on the infrastructure sector.
Nirmala Sitharaman
personB S Yediyurappa praises FM Nirmala Sitharaman over interim budget. Former Karnataka Chief Minister praises FM for presenting ‘progressive’ interim budget that will improve standard of living of people.
Alphabet
organizationFutures on the Nasdaq 100 lost 1.2% while those on the S&P 500 fell 0.1%. Microsoft fell around 1%, a dent of some £30billion in its hefty market cap. Fed makes its first interest rate decision of the year later this afternoon.
Ron DeSantis
personDisney sued Gov. Ron DeSantis after he stripped it of control of its special taxing district. The entertainment giant criticized a law limiting classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity. A federal judge ruled that Disney did not have legal standing to sue the governor.
Tesla
organizationElon Musk was awarded a $56 billion pay package by Tesla in 2018. A judge in Delaware has ruled that the deal is invalid and unfair to shareholders. The compensation plan represents a large chunk of Musk's wealth.
Mark Zuckerberg
personSen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., gave a harsh rebuke to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Graham referenced South Carolina State Rep. Brandon Guffey, who is suing Instagram after his 17-year-old son Gavin died by suicide.
Nicola Sturgeon
personFormer Scottish leader admits deleting COVID-era WhatsApps. Sturgeon was Scotland's longest-serving first minister. Her legacy has been damaged by a police investigation into the SNP.
Bushra Bibi
personPakistan ex-PM Imran Khan, wife, jailed for 14 years in graft case, his party says. Comes a day after Khan was given a prison sentence of 10 years in a case related to leaking state secrets.
TikTok
organizationUniversal Music Group said it would stop licensing content to TikTok. Current contract is set to expire Wednesday, and no new agreement has been reached. Seven of 2023's top 10 most-streamed artists worldwide on Spotify are leaving TikTok as a result.
Elon Musk
personElon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, suffered a stunning rebuke on Tuesday. A Delaware judge voided the pay package that helped make him a billionaire. The ruling threatens to drop Musk to the third-richest person in the world.
Universal Music Group
organizationUniversal Music Group said it will cease licensing its music to TikTok. The music label accused the short-form video giant of bullying. TikTok responded to UMG's allegations on Wednesday.
IMF
organizationIMF raises 2024 global growth forecast to 3.1% citing unexpected'resilience' In the most advanced economies, the agency expects inflation to drop this year to 2.6%.
Mahek Bukhari
personMahek Bukhari, 24, and her mother Ansreen, 46, recruited a gang. Saqib Hussain, 21, and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, 21 were killed in the attack. Mr Hussain had threatened to use sexually explicit material to expose a long-running affair he had been having with Ansreen Bukhari.