Billionaire Mehta Brothers’ Torrent To Buy Stake In India’s JB Pharma In $1.4 Billion Deal

A JB Chemicals factory in Gujarat in western India. Courtesy of JB Chemicals Torrent Pharmaceuticals—controlled by India billionaire brothers Sudhir and Samir Mehta—has agreed to buy U.S. private equity giant KKR’s stake in JB Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals in a deal valued at 119.1 billion rupees ($1.4 billion). Torrent Pharma will buy a 46.4% stake in…

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I buy my kids vapes to control their addiction

Ruth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter, BBC News Getty Images Emma is doing something she swore she would never do. In an attempt to have some control over her children’s vaping habits, she’s resorted to buying them the vapes herself. She’s not proud of it, but says it feels like the only way to keep…

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Harrods’ top buyer hails Dior, Watanabe, Saint Laurent, and Lemaire menswear at Paris shows

Harrods’ fashion buying director Simon Longland has been pulling together his thoughts on Paris Fashion Week‘s menswear and in a week when there was “a rare sense of cohesion”, his favourite collections were from Dior, Junya Watanabe, Saint Laurent, and Lemaire. See catwalkDior Men – Spring-Summer2026 – Menswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight Longland…

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