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I&B Ministry summons Netflix content head over IC-814 series row

The depiction of hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight from Kathmandu to Delhi has kicked off a row with a section of viewers objecting to the 'humane' projection of the perpetrators




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‘IC-814’ series row: I&B Ministry summons Netflix executive

A section of irate social media users said pseudonyms for hijackers “whitewashed” their real identities




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Devotional platform AppsForBharat raises $18 mn led by Fundamentum

The funds will be used to expand the Sri Mandir app’s operations in India and internationally, onboard new temples, launch new services, and build an all-encompassing tech infrastructure for the devotional ecosystem




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Average price of movie ticket in 2023 was ₹130: Multiplex Association of India

Reacting to statements of filmmaker Karan Johar, The industry body said that movie ticket pricing fluctuates based on factors like location, day of the week, seat type, film format, and cinema format as well as inflationary pressures




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Ola Electric shares plunge following CEO’s Twitter spat with comedian 

Stand-up comic Kunal Kamra and Ola CEO Bhavish Agarwal’s dispute, centred around customer service issues with Ola’s electric scooters, played out publicly on X over the weekend




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Ratan Tata: The dogs lose a best friend 

Canine friends of Bombay House are the only denizens who can walk in without an access card”




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Tata Sons Chairman shares touching tribute to late Ratan Tata 

There really was no one like Ratan Tata: N Chandrasekaran




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Scan, pay, repeat: Behavioural shift on payment modes drives UPI transactions of over ₹617 trillion in past 102 months

Even small amounts of ₹1 are transacted on the ‘Made-In-India’ UPI platform




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After delivery in 10 min, Blinkit promises returns in 10 min 

The service, which has been under testing in Delhi NCR, is now available in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune, with plans for expansion to additional cities




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Indian box office collections hit ₹1,066 crore in September: Ormax Media

However, the cumulative box office for January-September releases was estimated at about ₹7,949 crore, which is 9.5 per cent less than the same period in 2023




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YouTube expands shopping in India with Flipkart, Myntra partnership 

YouTube Shopping affiliate programme allows creators to earn by recommending products, across videos, shorts and live streams




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Digital vigilante takes on scams in app stores of tech giants 

“I started because I was curious enough and this issue was not being fixed by the app stores,” says Babu Lal




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Diwali cheer: Singham Again, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 sparkle recording a ₹100-crore plus opening

Both films entered the ₹100-crore club within the first three days of their release




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India has more philanthropists than China with over ₹100 crore annual donations

Shiv Nadar leads philanthropy list with record ₹2,153 crore donation




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The solar sucker-punch 

How the BJP upended the Opposition parties’ power freebies



  • From the Viewsroom

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In charts| Indian auto-component industry 

Indian auto-component industry is dominated by demand from domestic OEMs, says ICRA




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Depression declared over Bay of Bengal, to cross Chennai coast by Thursday morning 

Heavy to very heavy to extremely heavy rain outlook extended to parts of TN, south AP on Wednesday as well




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Cotton Corporation plans to sell 15 lakh bales

The government should sell it to domestic market, says SIMA




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H-1B fee hike plan rattles IT firms




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Network 18 to massively ‘downsize staff, cut costs’




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BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs in face of $1 billion Q2 loss




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Oil marketing companies to get Rs. 11,000 crore subsidy in Q1




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Hero MotoCorp posts Rs.883 crore net in Q1

The company is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the remaining months of the financial year




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Union Budget 2021 | Firms with the highest profits paid the least effective tax in FY2019

In FY2019, the corporate tax rate in India was 25.71%




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Airtel Chief Sunil Mittal's remuneration falls nearly 5% to ₹15.39 crore in FY22

In FY22, Sunil Mittal's salary and allowances were at about ₹10 crore and the performance-linked incentive was ₹4.5 crore




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Data | Layoffs by IT firms in the U.S. will greatly impact H-1B workers from India

Indians are most worried as the waiting time to get an appointment in U.S. embassies back home is over a year




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Workplaces assessed for health commitments 

Arogya World honours winners of ‘2022 Healthy Workplace’




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E-commerce firm Meesho lays off 251 employees

Founder and CEO Vidit Aatrey informed about the decision in an email to employees




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Businesses with turnover of over 5 crore required to generate e-invoice from August 1

Finance ministry will reduce threshold for generating e-invoice for B2B transactions from ₹10 crore to ₹5 crore, starting August 1.




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#InternationalWomensDay: HimVani Top 10 Women Achievers of Himachal 2017-18

She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the Universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings.” The beauty of these lines doesn’t just rest on the words written, they also evoke the true strength women brace. Women have broken the shackles and forged their way […]




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Himalayan Startup Trek 2018 Is Here! Are You Ready To Kickstart Your Entrepreneurial Journey?

When: 28th & 29th April 2018 Where: IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh Last Date To Apply: 31st March 2018 Startups have witnessed a boom throughout India since the last decade and the hillstate of Himachal Pradesh is no exception to it. The startup trend in Himachal Pradesh has been growing rapidly and a major contribution to […]





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‘MGNREGS allocation should be no less than ₹1 lakh crore’




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Nearly 40,000 people living in 1 sq km




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How Covid-19 has disrupted shipping operations and seafarers' lives

Covid-19 has dealt a cruel blow to over two lakh seafarers and their families, by disrupting shipping operations and schedules. P Manoj reports




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Covid-19: A blessing in disguise




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Rare birds show up at unlikely spaces in Chennai on October 15 and 16

The recent Chennai Rains, one marked by the advent of the north east monsoon on October 15, might not have followed the original script, the one penned by weather watching professionals, but it has taken a predictable course in one sense: throwing birds off course. During this period, two birders had unlikely visitors in their neck of the woods — a chestnut winged cuckoo in Pallikaranai and a lesser frigate bird in Perambur




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Managing Chennai monsoon

The city requires a new imagination of its relationship to the unpredictable showers, the sea, and its water reservoirs. Here are five takeaways from the recent rains




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A pair of hornbills consumes 90,000 fruits and 17,000 insects a year, reveals forest watcher




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World lags on 2030 nature goals headed into UN COP16 talks

Governments have missed deadlines on biodiversity action plans and funding for conservation is billions of dollars away from meeting a 2025 goal




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Leaders urge world to pay up to save nature as COP16 talks open

Two years earlier, countries adopted the landmark Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement with a list of 23 goals to help halt nature loss by 2030.




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Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: Famous Animals! 

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened: Anatole France




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Green Humour by Rohan Chakravarty on the first great Indian bustard born through IVF 




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99 cities recorded ‘poor’ air quality a day after Deepavali 

Ambala in Haryana recorded the highest AQI of 367 followed by Amritsar in Punjab at 350, while Delhi’s average AQI was 339; PM2.5 levels in Delhi reached values seen only in mid-winter months.




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UN COP16 nature summit creates permanent body for Indigenous peoples

Nearly 200 countries convened in the city of Cali, aiming to implement the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement




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What are the key takeaways from COP-16?

Is a bigger corpus going to be available for the conservation and preservation of biological diversity?




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COP16 suspended without agreement on new fund for nature

COP16 aimed at assessing the progress on the agreement reached in 2022 in Canada to halt biodiversity loss, with more funding for biodiversity protection being a central issue.




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Himalayan glacial lakes saw 10.81% area expansion from 2011 to 2024: Report

The Central Water Commission's (CWC) report, states that with a 33.7% expansion of the surface area, the lakes in India experienced an even more substantial rise




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Mount Fuji gets its trademark snowcap after longest delay in 130 years, but still not official

Late snowfall on iconic Mt. Fuji sparks climate change concerns, breaking records and delaying official confirmation




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Oncology innovation thrives in India, despite funding challenges: Report 

The oncology sector continues to evolve with innovative solutions leveraging AI, robotics and genome sequencing