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circus music festival 2024 A 33-year-old man has lodged a complaint with the police stating that he was extorted by loan sharks despite repaying the loan amount he had taken from a couple of apps. According to the police, the complainant is a resident of Pen, Raigad and works in a private company. A few months ago, he had taken Rs 10000 from an instant loan app and then from another loan app he took Rs24000. The complainant had timely re-paid both these loans. However, last month, he received a phone call from an unknown person who asked the complainant to pay back the money. The scammers also shared the complainant’s phone contact list with him on WhatsApp and threatened him that they would call everyone in his contact list if he did not pay them the money. They also morphed photographs of some people from the man’s contact list and threatened to make those photographs viral if the complainant refused to pay the money. On November 14, out of fear, the victim transferred Rs 18,900 in six online transactions to the scammers. However, when the scammers kept demanding more money the complainant approached the police and got an offence registered. A case has been registered under sections 351 (criminal intimidation), 318 (cheating) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and 66D (cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the Information Technology Act. The complainant has also shared details of the fraudulent loan apps and the contact details of the scammers with the police.Viking® named its newest ocean ship, the Viking Vela®, with a traditional ceremony in Trieste, Italy. The naming of the Viking Vela also served as a celebration of Viking’s longtime partnership with Fincantieri, which is one of the world’s largest shipbuilding groups and is based in Trieste. With its rich maritime history, Trieste is considered the endpoint to the maritime Silk Road and is now Italy’s most important commercial port. Serving as ceremonial godmother of the Viking Vela was Ivana Elice, Vice President and Project Manager of the Fincantieri Cruise Business Unit, who has overseen the design and engineering of Viking’s ocean ships for 12 years. “We are proud to welcome the Viking Vela to our growing, award-winning fleet. With Fincantieri as our partner, we believe we have built the world’s most elegant fleet of small ocean ships,” said Torstein Hagen, Chairman and CEO of Viking. “We thank Ivana Elice for being godmother of the Viking Vela. In her role at Fincantieri, she has cared for our ocean ships during their construction just as a godmother would, and we are very appreciative of her contributions as a member of the extended Viking family.” In keeping with the naming tradition, during the ceremony, Ivana was presented with a historic Viking broad axe by Ann Ziff, the esteemed philanthropist, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera and godmother of the Viking Saturn®. The same axe was previously used in the naming of the Viking Saturn in June 2023. After the axe presentation, Ivana pressed a button that allowed a bottle of Norwegian aquavit to break on the ship’s hull. Guests also enjoyed performances by Sissel Kyrkjebø, one of the world’s leading crossover sopranos and godmother of the Viking Jupiter®, and acclaimed Italian singer Alessandro Safina, who paid tribute to the cultures of both Norway and Italy in song. Ivana Elice, Vice President and Project Manager of the Fincantieri Cruise Business Unit, has enjoyed a distinguished career in naval and mechanical engineering, helping support the expansion of the Viking ocean fleet for the past 12 years. In 2012, Ms. Elice was appointed by Fincantieri to oversee the build of Viking’s first ocean ship, the Viking Star®, and she has continued to serve as valuable support for the expansion of Viking’s fleet of sister ships. She joined Fincantieri in 1985 after graduating from the University of Genoa with a master’s degree in naval architecture and mechanical engineering. Her initial role as a noise and vibration specialist within the company’s Naval Vessel Division involved assisting with the design of surface ships and submarines. Since 1993, she has held several positions within Fincantieri’s Merchant Division in the areas of hydrodynamics, ship construction, production engineering and more. The Viking Vela is the newest ship in Viking’s award-winning ocean fleet of sister ships. Classified as a small ship, as are all Viking ocean ships, the Viking Vela has a gross tonnage of 54,300 tons, with 499 staterooms that can host 998 guests; the ships feature all veranda staterooms, elegant Scandinavian design, light-filled public spaces and abundant al fresco dining options. The Viking Vela will spend her inaugural season sailing itineraries during the “quiet season” in the Mediterranean before continuing to Northern Europe. Viking is working on a project for a partial hybrid propulsion system for future ocean ships based on liquid hydrogen and fuel cells, which could allow the company to operate at zero-emission in the Norwegian Fjords and other sensitive environments. The Viking Vela has been designed with the future in mind, ensuring she can be retrofitted to incorporate these new technologies as they become available. The naming of the Viking Vela follows a string of recent accolades for the company. Viking was rated #1 for Oceans, #1 for Rivers and #1 for Expeditions by Condé Nast Traveler in the 2024 Readers’ Choice Awards for the second consecutive year. This achievement marked the first time a travel company won these three categories in back-to-back years. Viking was also named Best Luxury Line, Best Line for Couples and Best Line in the Mediterranean in U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Cruise Lines ranking for the fourth consecutive year. Viking’s ocean ships have been rated and “Recommended” as part of the Forbes Travel Guide 2024 Star Awards, an annual independent evaluation for luxury travel brands. Additionally, Viking received seven awards at the 2023 Cruise Critic Editors’ Picks Awards—more than any other line—across the luxury, river and expedition categories. Source: Viking

For those pondering a contribution to your stock portfolio , we are closing in on one of the seasonally strongest investing weeks of the year -- as if the holiday season weren't festive enough! Seasonal investing trends should never trump fundamental analysis for the long-term investor. However, it might not hurt to at least be aware of what parts of the year tend to be weak or strong for the stock market, especially if one is thinking about buying or selling stocks in the near term. Here's how often this aptly named year-end investing trend proves out and how much investors can expect to gain from it. Santa Claus is coming to town The final trading week of the year and the first two days of January historically see stocks rise more frequently than any other time of the year. This curious phenomenon is often referred to as the Santa Claus Rally . Yale Hirsch first coined the term in the Stock Trader's Almanac back in 1972, so this phenomenon has been occurring for a long time -- likely a majority of the modern American stock market era. According to Carson Investment Research, from 1950 through 2022, the Santa Claus period sees a rise in the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC 0.25% ) about 80% of the time, with an average gain of 1.32%. That may not sound like much, but it's actually quite a hefty gain for just one week. In fact, the Santa Claus week has the third-highest historical return of any seven-day period, and it's the week with the highest frequency of gains. Why does the Santa Claus rally happen? The causes of seasonal patterns in the stock market, including the Santa Claus rally, aren't known with precision. Once established, trends may be somewhat self-fulfilling, as investors buy into known strong periods and sell into weak ones. However, there are several possible causes of the Santa Claus rally phenomenon: If Santa doesn't come? Meanwhile, if Santa doesn't come, that could be a sign that the following year may turn into a lump of coal. Again, according to Carson Research, of the mere six times over the past 30 years that there wasn't a Santa Claus rally and the final week of the year had negative returns, January was subsequently lower five times. Moreover, the following full year had negative returns four out of those six times. That said, a Santa Claus rally is also no guarantee of an up year, either. While most years that follow a Santa Claus rally are positive, it's also true that the stock market has positive returns roughly 70%-75% of the time. But there are exceptions. For instance, at the end of 2021, there was a Santa Claus rally, but the market went on to see a brutal 19.4% market decline in 2022. Should you play seasonal trends? While this knowledge may be helpful, seasonal trends shouldn't necessarily influence your long-term investing plan. The stock market is inherently unpredictable, and as noted in the example above, there are always exceptions -- potentially big ones. If one does attempt to time the market , investors should also take into account whether stocks are expensive or cheap, the state of the economy, and a host of other fundamental factors. Moreover, over the long term, stock market investors tend to do well if they stick with a set strategy. While the S&P 500 is up 75% in all years since 1928, there can also be long stretches, as in the 1930s, 1970s, or 2000s, with negative or flat returns. That said, the longer you stay in the market, the higher the probability of positive returns. If you invest in the S&P 500 and hold on for 10 years, the probability of a positive return rises to a whopping 94%. And if you stick with the S&P 500 for 20 years, those odds rise to 100%. That's right -- based on history, S&P 500 investors have seen positive returns every time they held the index for 20 years or more, even when entering the market at the worst possible time. This is all the more reason to develop a process-driven, unemotional method of investing for the long term. That said, if your process does dictate a contribution to your portfolio in the near future, you may want to do so before Christmas.Pride, bragging rights and more than $115M at stake when final college playoff rankings come out

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