<p>Ananya Birla, daughter of Aditya Birla Group's billionaire chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, has slammed a US restaurant for being "racist". She, in a series of tweets on Monday, said the Italian-American dining place in California "literally threw" her and her family out of their premises.</p>

<p>The Scopa Italian Roots restaurant is an Italian-American dining place by chef Antonia Lofaso in California.</p>

<p>The singer and artist tweeted: "This restaurant @ScopaRestaurant literally threw my family and I, out of their premises. So racist. So sad. You really need to treat your customers right. Very racist. This is not okay."</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">This restaurant <a href="https://twitter.com/ScopaRestaurant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScopaRestaurant</a> literally threw my family and I, out of their premises. So racist. So sad. You really need to treat your customers right. Very racist. This is not okay.</p>
— Ananya Birla (@ananya_birla) <a href="https://twitter.com/ananya_birla/status/1319885474744332288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>"We waited for 3 hours to eat at your restaurant. @chefantonia Your waiter Joshua Silverman was extremely rude to my mother, bordering racist. This isn''t okay," Ananya said in another tweet.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">We waited for 3 hours to eat at your restaurant. <a href="https://twitter.com/chefantonia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chefantonia</a> Your waiter Joshua Silverman was extremely rude to my mother, bordering racist. This isn’t okay.</p>
— Ananya Birla (@ananya_birla) <a href="https://twitter.com/ananya_birla/status/1319890820950970368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>She is also the daughter of educationist and mental health activist Neerja Birla.</p>

<p>In a tweet, Neerja Birla slammed the restaurant for ill-treating them.</p>

<p>"Very shocking... absolutely ridiculous behaviour by @ScopaRestaurant. &nbsp;You have no right to treat any of your customers like this," she said.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Very shocking ..absolutely ridiculous behaviour by <a href="https://twitter.com/ScopaRestaurant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScopaRestaurant</a> . You have no right to treat any of your customers like this. <a href="https://t.co/szUkdxAgNh">https://t.co/szUkdxAgNh</a></p>
— Neerja Birla (@NeerjaBirla) <a href="https://twitter.com/NeerjaBirla/status/1319887579236454400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>"I have never experienced anything of this sort. Racism exists and is real. Unbelievable. @ScopaRestaurant," their son Aryaman Birla also tweeted.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">I have never experienced anything of this sort. Racism exists and is real. Unbelievable. <a href="https://twitter.com/ScopaRestaurant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScopaRestaurant</a> <a href="https://t.co/FU0NE8e7Qu">https://t.co/FU0NE8e7Qu</a></p>
— Aryaman Birla (@AryamanBirla) <a href="https://twitter.com/AryamanBirla/status/1319889254831607809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ananya Birla, daughter of Aditya Birla Group's billionaire chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, has slammed a US restaurant for being "racist". She, in a series of tweets on Monday, said the Italian-American dining place in California "literally threw" her and her family out of their premises.

Ananya Birla, daughter of Aditya Birla Group's billionaire chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, has slammed a US restaurant for being "racist". She, in a series of tweets on Monday, said the Italian-American dining place in California "literally threw" her and her family out of their premises. The Scopa Italian Roots restaurant is an Italian-American dining place by chef Antonia Lofaso in California. The singer and artist tweeted: "This restaurant @ScopaRestaurant literally threw my family and I, out of their premises. So racist. So sad. You really need to treat your customers right. Very racist. This is not okay." This restaurant @ScopaRestaurant literally threw my family and I, out of their premises. So racist. So sad. You really need to treat your customers right. Very racist. This is not okay. — Ananya Birla (@ananya_birla) October 24, 2020 × "We waited for 3 hours to eat at your restaurant. @chefantonia Your waiter Joshua Silverman was extremely rude to my mother, bordering racist. This isn''t okay," Ananya said in another tweet. We waited for 3 hours to eat at your restaurant. @chefantonia Your waiter Joshua Silverman was extremely rude to my mother, bordering racist. This isn’t okay. — Ananya Birla (@ananya_birla) October 24, 2020 × She is also the daughter of educationist and mental health activist Neerja Birla. In a tweet, Neerja Birla slammed the restaurant for ill-treating them. "Very shocking... absolutely ridiculous behaviour by @ScopaRestaurant. You have no right to treat any of your customers like this," she said. Very shocking ..absolutely ridiculous behaviour by @ScopaRestaurant . You have no right to treat any of your customers like this. https://t.co/szUkdxAgNh — Neerja Birla (@NeerjaBirla) October 24, 2020 × "I have never experienced anything of this sort. Racism exists and is real. Unbelievable. @ScopaRestaurant," their son Aryaman Birla also tweeted. I have never experienced anything of this sort. Racism exists and is real. Unbelievable. @ScopaRestaurant https://t.co/FU0NE8e7Qu — Aryaman Birla (@AryamanBirla) October 24, 2020 ×

Ananya Birla, daughter of Aditya Birla Group chairman, slams US restaurant for being racist

<p><br />
After the successful <a href="http://www.wionews.com/business-economy/aditya-birla-capital-lists-on-nse-marks-aditya-birla-nuvos-merger-with-grasim-19754" target="_blank">listing of its financial services company Aditya Birla Capital</a> on Friday, the Kumar Mangalam Birla-led Aditya Birla Group has added another feather to its cap.</p>

<p>The conglomerate has crossed the $50 billion mark in terms of market capitalisation for the first time, according to a report in <em>The Times of India</em>.</p>

<p>Aditya Birla Capital listed on the NSE at a price of Rs 255 per share after Aditya Birla Nuvo merged with Grasim and the group&#39;s financial services business was spun off into a separate entity.</p>

<p>By achieving a market capitalisation of $50 billion, Aditya Birla Group has become the third largest after Tata Sons and Reliance Industries.</p>


The milestone was reached after the successful completion of merger of Aditya Birla Nuvo with Grasim on Friday

After the successful listing of its financial services company Aditya Birla Capital on Friday, the Kumar Mangalam Birla-led Aditya Birla Group has added another feather to its cap. The conglomerate has crossed the $50 billion mark in terms of market capitalisation for the first time, according to a report in The Times of India. Aditya Birla Capital listed on the NSE at a price of Rs 255 per share after Aditya Birla Nuvo merged with Grasim and the group's financial services business was spun off into a separate entity. By achieving a market capitalisation of $50 billion, Aditya Birla Group has become the third largest after Tata Sons and Reliance Industries.

Aditya Birla Group crosses $50 billion in market capitalisation

<p>Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the Aditya Birla group, expressed his ignorance Friday about the allegations made a few days by Rahul Gandhi. Gandhi had alleged Birla&#39;s firm had paid bribes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi while he was Gujarat chief minister.</p>

<p>&quot;I don&#39;t even know about it and I do not wish to talk on that issue. The matter is subjudice,&quot; he told reporters after being asked repeatedly about the allegations.</p>

<p>Birla kept his responses to speaking about his new role as chairman of the Indian Insitute of Managment-Ahmedabad&#39;s board of governors while on a&nbsp;two-day visit to the institute on Friday.</p>

<p>Birla was at IIM-A Friday for the first time after being appointed chairman by the ministry of human resource development two months ago.</p>

<p>Birla said he would act as a bridge between the corporate world and the premier business school.</p>

<p>Reacting to Gandhi&#39;s allegations, union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said the charges were &quot;baseless, false, shameful and mala fide&quot; and an attempt to divert attention from the AgustaWestland probe in which the names of Congress leaders and the &quot;family&quot; -- he was referring to the Gandhi family -- were coming up.</p>

<p>This is not the first time such allegations have been made against the Prime Minister, although the charges date back to the time he was Gujarat chief minister.</p>

<p>Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan had levelled the same charges, based on the same documents, against Modi in the Supreme Court.</p>

<p>The court however has so far refused to entertain his PIL, which asks that a special investigation team probe the evidence.&nbsp;</p>

<p>(WION)</p>


On Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi had alleged Birla officials gave bribes to Modi while he was Gujarat chief minister

Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the Aditya Birla group, expressed his ignorance Friday about the allegations made a few days by Rahul Gandhi. Gandhi had alleged Birla's firm had paid bribes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi while he was Gujarat chief minister. "I don't even know about it and I do not wish to talk on that issue. The matter is subjudice," he told reporters after being asked repeatedly about the allegations. Birla kept his responses to speaking about his new role as chairman of the Indian Insitute of Managment-Ahmedabad's board of governors while on a two-day visit to the institute on Friday. Birla was at IIM-A Friday for the first time after being appointed chairman by the ministry of human resource development two months ago. Birla said he would act as a bridge between the corporate world and the premier business school. Reacting to Gandhi's allegations, union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said the charges were "baseless, false, shameful and mala fide" and an attempt to divert attention from the AgustaWestland probe in which the names of Congress leaders and the "family" -- he was referring to the Gandhi family -- were coming up. This is not the first time such allegations have been made against the Prime Minister, although the charges date back to the time he was Gujarat chief minister. Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan had levelled the same charges, based on the same documents, against Modi in the Supreme Court. The court however has so far refused to entertain his PIL, which asks that a special investigation team probe the evidence. (WION)

'I don't even know about it,' Birla says about alleged payments to Modi

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Idea Cellular, India&#39;s No 3. mobile phone carrier, on Tuesday strongly denied a report that it was in exploratory talks about a merger with larger rival Vodafone India and termed the news &quot;baseless and absolutely false.&quot;&nbsp;<br />
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A spokeswoman for Idea&#39;s parent conglomerate, the Aditya Birla Group, said in an email that the company had &quot;no such intent&quot; and that the report by CNBC TV18 was &quot;absolutely untrue and preposterous.&quot; &nbsp;Idea&#39;s closed 6.9 percent higher on Tuesday after the TV channel said the two sides were in talks, citing unnamed sources.<br />
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Vodafone India, India&#39;s No. 2 operator by market share and the local arm of Britain&#39;s Vodafone Group Plc, &nbsp;has declined to comment on the report.<br />
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&quot;Both of them are struggling with their data revenue market share and ahead of a big competitive change in the industry they might want to get bigger,&quot; IDFC securities analyst Abhishek Gupta said of Idea and Vodafone India.<br />
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Any such deal would also face tough regulatory scrutiny and analysts say approvals would be unlikely, as the companies would breach the 50 percent revenue market share limit in many regions of the country if they did try to merge.<br />
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&quot;It&#39;s very unlikely,&quot; PhillipCapital (India) analyst Naveen Kulkarni said, citing the regulatory hurdles.<br />
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&quot;I&#39;m doubtful whether this can go through but there could be some other form of merger, such as spectrum-sharing deals,&quot; he added.<br />
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Industrialist and India&#39;s richest man Mukesh Ambani&#39;s telecom venture, Reliance Jio, is set to give them competition once it launches its commercial operations in the coming months.<br />
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India is the world&#39;s second-biggest mobile phone market by subscriptions, behind China, but high competition in the crowded market has kept profits under pressure.</p>

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A spokeswoman for Idea's parent conglomerate , the Aditya Birla Group, called the CNBC TV18 reports 'absolutely untrue and preposterous'

Idea Cellular, India's No 3. mobile phone carrier, on Tuesday strongly denied a report that it was in exploratory talks about a merger with larger rival Vodafone India and termed the news "baseless and absolutely false." A spokeswoman for Idea's parent conglomerate, the Aditya Birla Group, said in an email that the company had "no such intent" and that the report by CNBC TV18 was "absolutely untrue and preposterous." Idea's closed 6.9 percent higher on Tuesday after the TV channel said the two sides were in talks, citing unnamed sources. Vodafone India, India's No. 2 operator by market share and the local arm of Britain's Vodafone Group Plc, has declined to comment on the report. "Both of them are struggling with their data revenue market share and ahead of a big competitive change in the industry they might want to get bigger," IDFC securities analyst Abhishek Gupta said of Idea and Vodafone India. Any such deal would also face tough regulatory scrutiny and analysts say approvals would be unlikely, as the companies would breach the 50 percent revenue market share limit in many regions of the country if they did try to merge. "It's very unlikely," PhillipCapital (India) analyst Naveen Kulkarni said, citing the regulatory hurdles. "I'm doubtful whether this can go through but there could be some other form of merger, such as spectrum-sharing deals," he added. Industrialist and India's richest man Mukesh Ambani's telecom venture, Reliance Jio, is set to give them competition once it launches its commercial operations in the coming months. India is the world's second-biggest mobile phone market by subscriptions, behind China, but high competition in the crowded market has kept profits under pressure. (Reuters)

Idea Cellular says reports of merger with Vodafone 'baseless'

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Ananya Birla, daughter of Aditya Birla Group chairman, slams US restaurant for being racist

Aditya Birla Group crosses $50 billion in market capitalisation

'I don't even know about it,' Birla says about alleged payments to Modi

Idea Cellular says reports of merger with Vodafone 'baseless'