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Uruguay’s win creates frenzy on Twitter
MUMBAI: Bouncing back after a knee recovery, Luis Suarez scored twice to give Uruguay a 2-1 victory over England at the FIFA World Cup to revive his team’s Group D campaign.
The action in Brazil played out on twitter with fans, players and celebrities expressing themselves in 140 characters.
There were a total of 6.7 million tweets during the match window. It wasn’t surprising that the Liverpool striker Suarez received 1.5 million mentions of his twitter handle @luis16suarez during the game.
The star players of Uruguay who found the most mentions were Luis Suarez, Alvaro Pereira and Edinson Cavani while from the English team Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard and Daniel Sturridge received the most number tweets with their respective twitter handle mentions.
The top three peak moments of the game were when Suarez scored the first goal which had twitter abuzz with 2,14,246 tweets while English star player Rooney lone goal generated a total of 2,07,730 tweets and 1,47,428 tweets when Suarez scored the second and final goal.
The most shared tweet from the riveting game was from OneDirection’s Liam Payne’s tweet which received more than 48,000 thousand retweets. The other popular tweets were from Dutch footballer Robin Van Persie, Rolling Stones founder vocalist Mick Jagger and Rihanna.
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Tips Music CEO Hari Nair to step down
Girish Taurani and Sushant Dalmia to jointly steer the company as the hunt for a new chief begins
MUMBAI: A leadership shuffle is under way at Tips Music. Hari Nair, the company’s chief executive, will step down on April 30 as the music label begins the search for a successor.
The company said Girish Taurani, executive director, and Sushant Dalmia, chief financial officer, will jointly oversee operations during the transition while the board identifies a permanent replacement.
Nair joined Tips Music in 2023 and set about reshaping the veteran music label into a more digital, data-led enterprise. During his tenure, the company secured licensing and partnership deals with global platforms including Sony Music Publishing and TikTok, while renewing agreements with Warner Music Group.
Drawing on earlier experience in technology and entertainment, including a stint at ByteDance, Nair pushed the organisation towards a performance-driven culture. He built a brand partnerships division and introduced proprietary software systems aimed at strengthening digital distribution and data capabilities.
Kumar Taurani, chairman and managing director, credited Nair with embedding a data-led culture within the company and driving revenue growth in line with shareholder commitments.
In his resignation note, Nair said that after helping transition the label into a modern, digitally focused and process-driven organisation, the time had come to pursue his next leadership challenge.
The leadership change comes as the broader Tips Films group shows signs of financial stabilisation. In the third quarter of FY26 the company reported a net loss of Rs 2.86 crore, narrowing sharply from Rs 14.2 crore in the previous quarter. For the nine months ended December, losses stood at Rs 12.37 crore.
Yet revenue told a more volatile story. Income from operations slid to Rs 4 crore in Q3 FY26 from Rs 56 crore in the preceding quarter, taking total operating income to Rs 4.56 crore.
For a company built on a catalogue of more than 34,000 tracks and decades of Bollywood hits, the next chief will inherit both a digital engine and a volatile music market. The playlist may be familiar, but the next act at Tips Music is only just beginning.
