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From Hotstar and Amazon Prime to Zee5, OTT players forging collaborations

Will partnerships such as these be the norm in the digital entertainment market in India?




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Know who is the inspiration of Viacom18 Studios’ Ajit Andhare

Elon Musk for his sheer audacity of dreaming unabashedly and then making those impossible dreams come true, says Ajit Andhare, COO, Viacom18 Studios.




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Know who is the inspiration of The Glitch co-founder Rohit Raj

The Messy Middle. The book talks about the middle stages of every start-up, the troubles it goes through, and how crossing that hurdle is important yet tricky




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Agency versus consultantcy is the wrong focus: Nikki Mendonca, Global President, Accenture Interactive Operations | Interview

Success in today’s digital-first world depends on a marketing organisation’s ability to create and activate hyper-relevant, data-driven and omnichannel customer experiences, says Nikki Mendonca.




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BIG FM CEO Abraham Thomas shares his wanderlust, life’s inspiration and favourite movie

The Godfather, of course. It is a cult classic. Another movie that I would like to watch again is Andhadhun for its unpredictable storyline and performances.




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Nikon announces reorganization of corporate structure (PDF:276KB)




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Corporate Information:A new video "Nikon's challenge" has been added.




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News:Announcement of obtaining a license for manufacturing regenerative medicine products by Nikon CeLL innovation Co., Ltd.




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Corporate Information:The story of Trustworthiness and Creativity behind the photo: “One Photo, One Story” has been added.




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The context, theme and impact of Keshavananda Bharati Case

Kesavananda Bharati V. state of Kerala that outlined the basic structure doctrine of the constitution. The judgment was delivered by the largest SC bench so far i.e. 13 judges.




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​Career in Arbitration By Mr. Ratan K Singh, FCIArb

Want to make a carrer in arbitration law? here is what Mr. Ratan K Singh, FCIArb advises you to do.




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Overview of FOSFA: International Arbitrations

An over view of FOSFA (Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Associations Limited) International Arbitrations




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Bigg Boss 13: Sidharth Shukla's late 'Balika Vadhu' co-star Pratyusha Banerjee's mom shared he visited their house once & ate litti-chokha!

The latest promos of the ongoing Bigg Boss 13 show reveal that Rashami Desai's alleged boyfriend Arhaan Khan who entered as wild card contestant along with Hindustani Bhau(Vikas Fhatak), Khesari Lal Yadav, Shefali Jariwala, Himanshi Khurana and Tehseen Poonawalla, has already challenged the thick jodi of BB 13, Sidharth Shukla




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"Will Not Tolerate This": SC Pulls Up Centre, States Over Pollution

New Delhi: The Supreme Court came down hard on Centre and states over the issue of pollution in the national capital. Citing examples of developed nations, the Court questioned why Delhi is choking every year. "Delhi is choking every year and we are not able to do anything.Every year




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Virat Kohli Speaks About Difficulties Of Playing Behind Closed Doors

Virat Kohli feels that it would be difficult to create the magic of playing in front of thousands of fans if games are held behind closed doors.




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Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma Donate Rs 5 Lakh Each For Mumbai Police

Virat Kohli and wife Anushka Sharma have donated Rs 5 lakh each for Mumbai police welfare amid the coronavirus outbreak.




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Ramadan 2020: This Khoya Khurchan Paratha Can Be A Unique Addition To Your Iftar Meal

This Ramadan, try this incredibly delicious paratha recipe for iftar that will leave you drooling for more.



  • Food & Drinks

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Why Settle For Aloo? When You Can Have A Loaded Aloo-Paneer Paratha

Aloo paratha is arguablythe most famous form stuffed paratha, but what if we told you can make your aloo paratha much more wholesome by stuffing a bit of paneer in it.



  • Food & Drinks

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Trump Administration Working On Temporary Ban On Visas Like H-1B: Report

The US is working to temporarily ban the issuance of some work-based visas like H-1B, popular among highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, as well as students visas and work authorisation that...




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"Never Give Up": Queen Elizabeth In Tribute To World War II Generation

Queen Elizabeth II on Friday invoked the wartime spirit to "never despair" as Britain marked 75 years since the end of World War II in Europe under the shadow of coronavirus.




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Coronavirus Recovery Rate At 43% In Uttar Pradesh Despite Surge In Cases

The number of active cases of coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh went up to 1,800 on Saturday, while nearly 1,400 people have been discharged so far, a senior official said.




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Prannoy Roy's Townhall: Thomas Piketty, IBM Chief And Nobel Winner Sir Ratcliffe

With India exiting its lockdown, where does it stand in its efforts to check coronavirus? In a global townhall with some of the world's biggest experts, NDTV's Dr Prannoy Roy talks to Economist...




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Governor Carney Launches Delaware One Stop to Help Entrepreneurs Start, Operate, and Grow Businesses

Delaware One Stop is a convenient, centralized transactional platform created to help business owners work through the necessary steps to begin operation in Delaware.




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Tension Between Stability and Representativeness in a Democratic Setting

Victorien Barbet, Juliette Rouchier, Noé Guiraud and Vincent Laperrière: We present a model showing the evolution of an organization of agents who discuss democratically about good practices. This model feeds on a field study we did for about twelve years in France where we followed NPOs, called AMAP, and observed their construction through time at the regional and national level. Most of the hypothesis we make are here either based on the literature on opinion diffusion or on the results of our field study. By defining dynamics where agents influence each other, make collective decision at the group level, and decide to stay in or leave their respective groups, we analyse the effect of different forms of vertical communication that is meant to spread good practices within the organization. Our main indicators of the good functioning of the democratic dynamics are stability and representativeness. We show that if communication about norms is well designed, it has a positive impact on both stability and representativeness. Interestingly the effect of communication increases with the number of dimensions discussed in the groups. Communication about norms is thus a valuable tool to use in groups that wish to improve their democratic practices without jeopardizing stability.




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Metamodels for Evaluating, Calibrating and Applying Agent-Based Models: A Review

Bruno Pietzsch, Sebastian Fiedler, Kai G. Mertens, Markus Richter, Cédric Scherer, Kirana Widyastuti, Marie-Christin Wimmler, Liubov Zakharova and Uta Berger: The recent advancement of agent-based modeling is characterized by higher demands on the parameterization, evaluation and documentation of these computationally expensive models. Accordingly, there is also a growing request for "easy to go" applications just mimicking the input-output behavior of such models. Metamodels are being increasingly used for these tasks. In this paper, we provide an overview of common metamodel types and the purposes of their usage in an agent-based modeling context. To guide modelers in the selection and application of metamodels for their own needs, we further assessed their implementation effort and performance. We performed a literature research in January 2019 using four different databases. Five different terms paraphrasing metamodels (approximation, emulator, meta-model, metamodel and surrogate) were used to capture the whole range of relevant literature in all disciplines. All metamodel applications found were then categorized into specific metamodel types and rated by different junior and senior researches from varying disciplines (including forest sciences, landscape ecology, or economics) regarding the implementation effort and performance. Specifically, we captured the metamodel performance according to (i) the consideration of uncertainties, (ii) the suitability assessment provided by the authors for the particular purpose, and (iii) the number of valuation criteria provided for suitability assessment. We selected 40 distinct metamodel applications from studies published in peer-reviewed journals from 2005 to 2019. These were used for the sensitivity analysis, calibration and upscaling of agent-based models, as well to mimic their prediction for different scenarios. This review provides information about the most applicable metamodel types for each purpose and forms a first guidance for the implementation and validation of metamodels for agent-based models.




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Emergence of Small-World Networks in an Overlapping-Generations Model of Social Dynamics, Trust and Economic Performance

Katarzyna Growiec, Jakub Growiec and Bogumił Kamiński: We study the impact of endogenous creation and destruction of social ties in an artificial society on aggregate outcomes such as generalized trust, willingness to cooperate, social utility and economic performance. To this end we put forward a computational multi-agent model where agents of overlapping generations interact in a dynamically evolving social network. In the model, four distinct dimensions of individuals’ social capital: degree, centrality, heterophilous and homophilous interactions, determine their generalized trust and willingness to cooperate, altogether helping them achieve certain levels of social utility (i.e., utility from social contacts) and economic performance. We find that the stationary state of the simulated social network exhibits realistic small-world topology. We also observe that societies whose social networks are relatively frequently reconfigured, display relatively higher generalized trust, willingness to cooperate, and economic performance – at the cost of lower social utility. Similar outcomes are found for societies where social tie dissolution is relatively weakly linked to family closeness.




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Homophily as a Process Generating Social Networks: Insights from Social Distance Attachment Model

Szymon Talaga and Andrzej Nowak: Real-world social networks often exhibit high levels of clustering, positive degree assortativity, short average path lengths (small-world property) and right-skewed but rarely power law degree distributions. On the other hand homophily, defined as the propensity of similar agents to connect to each other, is one of the most fundamental social processes observed in many human and animal societies. In this paper we examine the extent to which homophily is sufficient to produce the typical structural properties of social networks. To do so, we conduct a simulation study based on the Social Distance Attachment (SDA) model, a particular kind of Random Geometric Graph (RGG), in which nodes are embedded in a social space and connection probabilities depend functionally on distances between nodes. We derive the form of the model from first principles based on existing analytical results and argue that the mathematical construction of RGGs corresponds directly to the homophily principle, so they provide a good model for it. We find that homophily, especially when combined with a random edge rewiring, is sufficient to reproduce many of the characteristic features of social networks. Additionally, we devise a hybrid model combining SDA with the configuration model that allows generating homophilic networks with arbitrary degree sequences and we use it to study interactions of homophily with processes imposing constraints on degree distributions. We show that the effects of homophily on clustering are robust with respect to distribution constraints, while degree assortativity can be highly dependent on the particular kind of enforced degree sequence.




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Flags lowered to half-staff today to honor victims of Boston Marathon bombings

Governor Markell ordered flags to be lowered between April 16 and 22 as a mark of respect for the victims of the April 15 bombings in Boston, Massachusetts.



  • Flag Status
  • Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017)
  • Office of Management and Budget
  • Office of the Governor

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Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination Announces Release of 2015 Strategies for State Policies and Spending

The Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination announces the release of the draft 2015 Strategies for State Policies and Spending Update.




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Budget Director Visalli to Depart Administration with Legacy of Responsible Governance and Investments in Delaware’s Future

Director Ann Shepard Visalli will conclude her tenure leading Delaware’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) next month following more than seven years leading the Markell Administration’s efforts to balance challenging budgets while making key investments that have strengthened the economy, improved the education system, and enhanced quality of life throughout the state.



  • Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017)
  • Office of Management and Budget
  • Office of the Governor

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Moratorium under the Insolvency And Bankruptcy Code

Moratorium under the Insolvency And Bankruptcy Code




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Administrative Tribunal Act, 1985

Administrative Tribunal Act, 1985




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Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act 1959

Andhra Pradesh and Madras (Alteration of Boundaries) Act 1959




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Arbitration as a Career: Webinar with Ratan K Singh, FCIArb

Arbitration as a Career: Webinar with Ratan K Singh, FCIArb




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Gov. Markell, cabinet secretaries join Delmarva Wellnet to celebrate success of food-scrap recycling program REPLENISH

Governor Jack Markell, DNREC Secretary Collin O’Mara and Delaware Department of Agriculture Secretary Ed Kee joined Delmarva Wellnet Foundation-EDEN Delmarva members to celebrate the success of the foundation’s food recycling project REPLENISH.



  • Department of Agriculture
  • Department of Justice Press Releases
  • Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
  • Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017)
  • Office of the Governor
  • Delaware Dept. of Agriculture
  • dnrec
  • Gov. Jack Markell
  • recycling
  • RGGI
  • Sussex County

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Redden State Forest project is part of Chesapeake Bay restoration effort

The long-term battle to restore the Chesapeake Bay is quietly being waged on the Deep Creek Tract of Redden State Forest in Georgetown.



  • Department of Agriculture
  • Division of Watershed Stewardship
  • Forest Service

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Free cooking and food demonstrations at Delaware State Fair

Visitors to the Delaware State Fair can learn how to cook Japanese foods, carve a chicken, eat healthy on a budget and make a watermelon banana split – all in one place, at the Department of Agriculture’s Education Building. Starting Friday, July 19, DDA and its partners will offer a lineup of free food and cooking demonstrations every day of the fair.



  • Department of Agriculture

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Gov. Markell celebrates Arbor Day with over 500 students at McIlvaine Early Childhood Center

Governor Jack Markell celebrated Arbor Day by joining over 500 kindergarten students at McIlvaine Early Childhood Center for a ribbon-cutting to unveil the school's new "Tree Walk & Talk Arboretum." Gov. Markell also honored winners of the Delaware Forest Service's annual Arbor School Poster Contest and joined in commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the adoption of the American holly as Delaware's state tree in 1939.



  • Department of Agriculture
  • Forest Service
  • Arbor Day
  • Delaware Forest Service
  • Governor Jack Markell
  • McIlvaine Early Childhood Center
  • Project Learning Tree
  • U.S. Forest Service

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Growing First State agricultural opportunity celebrated at Delaware State Fair

Delaware Governor Jack Markell, Perdue Farms Chairman & CEO Jim Perdue, and DuPont Pioneer representatives celebrated a venture today that is increasing economic opportunity for Delaware farmers and creating healthier foods for consumers. In remarks at the Delaware Department of Agriculture's Education Building, officials and company executives shared the successes and plans for future growth of DuPont Pioneer's Plenish brand high-oleic soybean oil, a soy-based trans fat-free alternative for food companies and for foodservice operators.



  • Department of Agriculture

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Smokey Bear celebrates 70th year by visiting over 90 Delaware schools

To honor October as “Fire Prevention Month,” Smokey Bear will visit over 90 Delaware schools to teach children that “only you can prevent wildfires.” Ashley Peebles, trainer-educator for the Delaware Forest Service, oversees the annual Smokey Bear program, which reached almost 8,000 children last year. 2014 marks the 70th Anniversary of Smokey Bear's introduction in 1944, which has evolved into the longest running public service campaign in U.S. history.




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Delaware businesses help celebrate First State agriculture with special art project

A special exhibition of Delaware’s agricultural heritage is receiving strong support from the Delaware business community. The Century Farm art exhibition will open at the Delaware Agricultural Museum & Village in Dover from May 1 – June 30, with a special public reception on May 14, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.



  • Department of Agriculture
  • News

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Gov. Markell Celebrates Arbor Day at Appoquinimink

Governor Jack A. Markell celebrated Arbor Day today by honoring the winners of the Delaware Forest Service's annual school poster contest and joining Appoquinimink High School students and staff to plant more than 30 trees donated by Delmarva Power, which was also recognized with a "Tree Line USA" Award.



  • Department of Agriculture
  • Forest Service
  • Appoquinimink High School
  • Appoquinimink School District
  • Arbor Day
  • Arbor Day poster contest
  • Delaware Forest Service

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Governor’s Weekly Message: Celebrating Ongoing Agricultural Efforts at the Delaware State Fair

Governor Markell shares his highlights from Governor’s Day at the 2015 Delaware State Fair.




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Governor Markell celebrates Arbor Day in Dover

Governor Markell joined state officials and members of the General Assembly to honor the winners of the Delaware Forest Service's annual Arbor Day Poster Contest, recognize the City of Dover as the First State's longest-running Tree City USA, and honor Delmarva Power as a Tree Line USA utility and for its volunteer work in underwriting the cost of Arbor Day observances throughout the state.




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U.S. Senator Thomas R. Carper celebrates “Delaware Arbor Day” at Dover Air Force Base

U.S. Senator Thomas R. Carper joined public officials and schoolchildren to observe "Delaware Arbor Day" at Dover Air Force Base, which celebrated its 25th Year as a Tree City USA. The last Friday in April is commemorated as Arbor Day in the First State, an occasion to encourage tree planting and highlight the numerous benefits that trees provide: cleaner air and water, natural beauty, valuable wood products and food, reduced storm water runoff, and improved property values. The ceremony also honored the winners of the Delaware Forest Service's annual school poster contest and included a ceremonial tree planting of an American holly (Ilex opaca), Delaware's state tree.



  • Department of Agriculture
  • Forest Service
  • Arbor Day
  • Arbor Day poster contest
  • Delaware Agriculture Secretary Michael Scuse
  • Delaware Department of Agriculture
  • Delaware Forest Service
  • Delaware State University
  • Dover Air Force Base

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Collaboration leads to largest round of Delaware farmland preservation in several years

“I am proud to announce the largest round of Delaware farmland permanently preserved through the Delaware Agricultural Lands Preservation Program in the last several years. This is a result of federal funding from the Natural Resources Conservation Service and funding from both New Castle County and Kent County,” said Delaware Secretary of Agriculture Michael Scuse. More than 124,000 acres of Delaware farmland are now permanently preserved for future generations, with 3,039 acres of easements selected into the state’s preservation program.



  • Agriculture
  • Department of Agriculture
  • Governor John Carney
  • Office of the Governor
  • agriculture
  • Delaware Department of Agriculture
  • Delaware Secretary of Agriculture Michael Scuse
  • Kent county levy court
  • New Castle County

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Governor Carney celebrates Arbor Day at St. Jones Reserve in Dover

Governor John C. Carney, Jr. presided over the Delaware Forest Service's 2018 Arbor Day Celebration at DNERR St. Jones Reserve in Dover on Friday, May 4. Joined by Rep. Harvey Kenton, Rep. David Wilson, Agriculture Secretary Michael T. Scuse, and DNREC Secretary Shawn M. Garvin, Governor Carney honored the winners of the Delaware Forest Service's Arbor Day School Poster Contest, including Statewide Winner Amelia Meyer of Southern Delaware School of the Arts in Selbyville. The 2018 poster contest theme was "Trees are Terrific... and Perfect for Pollinators!" The Governor also recognized representatives from some of Delaware's 17 Tree City USA communities, including Dover Air Force Base and Arden. The event culminated with the planting of two new hawthorn trees, part of a new "science garden" at the reserve, in keeping the 2018 poster contest theme and its focus on pollinators.




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Collaboration leads to largest round of Delaware farmland preservation in four years

More than 127,000 acres of Delaware farmland are now permanently preserved for future generations, with the purchase of the development rights of 41 farms totaling 3,534 acres. This is the 22nd consecutive year of easement selections by the Delaware Agricultural Lands Preservation Foundation.



  • Department of Agriculture
  • Delaware Agricultural Lands Preservation Program
  • Delaware Department of Agriculture
  • Delaware Secretary of Agriculture Michael T. Scuse
  • easements
  • farmland
  • Kent county levy court
  • New Castle County
  • Preservation
  • Sussex County
  • USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

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Delaware requests emergency declaration from USDA for crop damage due to recent storms

DOVER, Del. — Too much rain at the wrong time, like Delaware experienced in April and May, has destroyed several high dollar crops and threatens the yield of many others, leaving farmers to wonder what the future holds. In surveying the state and listening to farmers, Secretary of Agriculture Michael T. Scuse made a request […]




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Spotted lanternfly hatch out as temperatures rise

DOVER, Del. – The steady increase in daily temperatures has spurred spotted lanternfly nymphs to hatch out of their egg masses. While the hatching will continue for the next few weeks, this causes concern for businesses, residents, and the agriculture industry because this notorious hitchhiker will be on the move. “From the time we enacted […]