Recruitment experts at Manpower, KellyOCG, PeopleStrong, and Xpheno predict that even as many sectors see widespread layoffs, there will be a silver lining in sectors like edtech, ecommerce/internet, transport and logistics, as well as pharma that continue to hire.

Major retail chains including Viveks, Shahs, Girias, Vasanth and Co are among the signatories of the letter, which fears job losses might start impacting one lakh of families, besides a steep drop in direct and indirect tax revenues to the state.

Recruitment experts at Manpower, KellyOCG, PeopleStrong, and Xpheno predict that even as many sectors see widespread layoffs, there will be a silver lining in sectors like edtech, ecommerce/internet, transport and logistics, as well as pharma that continue to hire.

HighLife Samples has announced the release of a new sample pack by Planet Samples. Trance Vocals Vol. 2 includes 5 vocal construction kits for your next Trance production. The royalty free pack includes dry and wet vocals for each kit, over 20 instruments loops, and 20 MIDI files. For producers looking to simply drag and […]

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BOOM Library has announced the release of its brand-new software plugin Grip, a collaboration with Pole Position Production. Grip lets you create dynamic and authentic skids, bumps, friction, rolling noises and much more with a variety of wheel configurations, ground materials and perspectives. Load Grip in your DAW of choice and design tyre and chassis […]

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IK Multimedia has announced the launch of its Spring Strings Krazy Deal, offering a 73% discount on two of its virtual instrument for a limited time. Get the “bread and butter” virtual instrument sounds you need for your next song or project with SampleTank 4 SE or compose with a living, breathing orchestra with Miroslav […]

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Voxengo has announced an update to the Marvel GEQ free linear-phase 16-band graphic equalizer plugin with multi-channel operation support. Marvel GEQ allows audio engineers and musicians to apply quick EQ shape adjustments, both to audio tracks and full mixes. The linear-phase filtering offered by Marvel GEQ is suitable for equalization tasks where high quality and […]

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Audentity Records has introduced its latest sample pack Boom Bap Hip Hop 4, a collection of over 200 loops and one-shots. Boom Bap Hip Hop 4 includes atmospheres, brass, fx, synth, guitar, keys, drums & percussion, strings, bass, and more. Our team spent weeks in the studio to bring you one of our best Boom […]

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Freaky Loops has released a new sample pack titled Hip Hop Paradise, a collection of loops and samples for new and old-skool Hip Hop productions. Contains a variety of fresh and inspirational sounds; from wonky drums to hiphop melodies, smokey basses to shimmering instruments sounds, punchy snares to inspirational combi files, percussions, vox, fx and […]

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No Dough Music has announced its new online House/Techno/Electronic music production hub The Archive, which features content from all of No Dough’s current sample packs repackaged with loads of new features. The Archive will offer sound packs, Ableton projects, production technique and how to blogs, podcasts, interviews, and video content. Available now, Underground Electronics is […]

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Apollo Sound has released the fourth part of its chill oriented series of guitar packs. Chill-Tempo Jazzy Guitar features the sounds of a hollow body electric guitar performed by gifted chillhop producer and professional session guitar player Michael Melkumian. This guitar is considered the standard in lofi, chillhop, jazz music & has it’s own unique […]

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Audiofier has announced the release of VenKatt, a multi-layer ambient machine for ambient/electronic productions and film scores. The Kontakt instrument offers 4 sound layers with unique features: Attack, Sustain, Reverse and Rhythmic. The Attack layer includes only transient sounds. The Sustain layer includes only sustaining sounds without transients. When combining two different instruments’ characters, brand […]

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AngelicVibes is offering discounts of up to 67% off on all of its sample packs and synth presets for a limited time. Everything on our website is on sale this week. Take advantage of this before it’s too late. Go shopping and have some fun ???? The sale includes the latest sample packs Street Smart, […]

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Loopmasters has launched a sample pack by Dubmatix and turntablist The Hip Assassin titled Hip Hop & Beatbox – The Style Bots Arrive, a collection of dark synthesized bass sounds, original tight beat box grooves, sci-fi effects and disturbing alien vocals. This unique collection introduces the Style Bots – robots from either the future or […]

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Applied Acoustics Systems has released its new sound pack Kicks & Snares, a collection of 100 drum sounds for the Ultra Analog VA-3 synthesizer and AAS Player plugin. You can never have too many kicks and snares! Resident sound designer Adam Pietruszko signs off on an expertly crafted and clever collection of punchy bass drum […]

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VST Buzz has launched a two week sale on the Dronar Orchestral Bundle by Gothic Instruments, offering a 67% discount on the collection of 3 cinematic instrument libraries for Kontakt. Including Dronar Brass, Distorchestra, and World Flutes, the bundle features over 16GB of content to create inspiring soundscapes and atmospheres. The “Dronar Orchestral Bundle” consists […]

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Reverb Machine has released a new synthwave tutorial guest-written by retrowave artist Forhill, in which he uncovers the patching and mixing techniques used to craft his signature sound. The article covers topics such as programming custom synth patches, using EQ to shape sounds, using stereo modulation and delay effects to create wide stereo sounds, and […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on the Spiral sample pack featuring 400 designed sound effects inspired by geometry, mathematics and motion. On sale at over 80% off the regular price, the Spiral pack includes 1 GB of content which has been meticulously crafted to compliment modern music, game and multimedia productions in need of […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched an exclusive sale on the Palindrome granular morph plotting sampler by Glitchmachines, offering a 75% discount for the next few days. The basic concept behind Palindrome is to fuse four granular samplers with a coordinate plotting grid and complex modulation sources in order to facilitate the creation of morphing sound effects […]

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HighLife Samples has launched the third volume in the Trance Midi Melodies series of sound packs, delivering a fresh batch of MIDI melodies and samples for Trance producers who want to get instant inspiration for their music productions. The pack includes 20 melodies and 20 bass loops in both MIDI and Wav formats (80 files […]

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Audio Plugin Deals has launched a sale on the Christina Soto Vocal Atmospheres & Arctic Chill Bundle, offering a 60% discount on two vocal sample libraries by Black Octopus Sound. Vocal Atmospheres is a pack filled to the brim with ambient, lush and evolving vocals, which are perfect for all genres of music production that […]

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UVI has launched a sale on its String Machines 2 instrument library, offering 40% off on the warm vintage sounds from a collection of 62 string synthesizers. Over 60 string synthesizers spanning 50+ years of design innovation from around the globe have been carefully collected, restored and recorded to create one remarkable instrument: String Machines […]

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Wally Cescato is offering a collection of 640 patches for the Trans Computer Maschine VST instrument as a free download to help you in these difficult times of lockdown. They are intended for normal keyboard playing, without using the sequencer section and most of them use just two oscillators. That’s because they date back to […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on the Texture effects plugin with the heart of a synth by Devious Machines. Texture comes with over 340 inspirational in-built sounds to choose from, and you can also import any sample as a texture source with full access to Texture’s powerful granular synthesis engine. Part FX plug-in, part-synth; […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched an exclusive sale on That Thing by BeatSkillz, offering 65% off on the soundscape multi-fx processor for a limited time. “That Thing” is a multi-effects processor that was designed to get you “That Thing” missing from digitally perfect tracks today. It features a beautiful wide and deep chorus section great to […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on the Organetta Kontakt library by AudioThing, featuring the sounds of a small portable reed organ made in the late 50s by the German company Hohner. The sound is generated by an electric fan that blows air into a set of brass reeds hence the sound is reminiscent of […]

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Eventide Audio has announced the release of its new dual-voice pitch shifter plugin for Windows and Mac. MicroPitch is the latest incarnation of an iconic effect originated by Eventide in the 1970s. With each generation, Eventide has added to, refined, enhanced and built on its legendary predecessors. MicroPitch is a fine-resolution pitch shifter providing effects […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched a sale on the VirtualCZ software synthesizer, offering a 40% discount on the plugin that recreates the unique synthesis engine of the Casio CZ synths. The CZ series are digital synths that use a technique known as Phase Distortion – a close relative of Frequency Modulation (FM) made popular by Yamaha’s […]

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Thick Sounds has released its new sample pack Jungle Colossus 2, a new collection of loops and samples for Jungle and Drum & Bass, Breakbeat, Dub, Reggae and beyond. Inspired by sounds of Benny Page, Congo Natty, Serial Killaz and Run Tingz to name a few, ‘Jungle Colossus’ is designed for producers who’s looking for […]

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HISS and a ROAR has announced the release of Scaffolding, a new sound library that features recordings of a scaffolding support structure. While musicians relish playing their instrument, gaining access to a new sonic playground for a sound FX recordist is a heavenly joy! So it was a pleasure to eventually find a scaffolding company […]

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Apollo Sound has released a new sample pack titled Real Rap Vocal, a compact vocal pack for any Trap, Hip-Hop or EDM producer. The pack includes 226 royalty free vocal samples and loops. As a modern producer you can’t produce any track without good vocal shouts, rappin’ vocal hooks or pre-drop pitched vocal phrase. So […]

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Plugin Boutique has launched an exclusive sale on Bass Engine, offering 50% off the hip hop bass instrument by DopeSONIX. With Bass Engine we have studied the last three decades of Hip Hop production and have the selected the most representative bass sounds of that era. These basses include everything from dusty jazzy upright bass […]

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Monster Sounds has released its new sample pack Hip Hop Acapellas Vol. 2, a new collection of royalty free Hip Hop acapellas by Scor-zay-zee. Following on from the amazing response from the first volume, Monster Sounds put the call in and linked up for a second time with one of the UK Hip Hop Scenes […]

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While big-box retailers that enjoy a revenue-sharing model with malls will have some cushion to absorb the impact of the lockdown, smaller brands and restaurants may have to pay the price by reducing the number of outlets.

Over the past few weeks, chief executives of Unilever, Mondelez, Hershey's Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Kimberly Clark have said India’s Covid-19 lockdown protocols had led to severe supply chain disruptions and labour shortages, hurting business in the key market.

FMCG major Hindustan Unilever on Thursday reported a decline of 3.93 per cent in consolidated profit to Rs 1,512 crore for the fourth quarter, impacted by the coronavirus crisis from mid-March.

PepsiCo India had volunteered to support the scale up of India's COVID-19 testing capacity through support provided to FIND.

The 5.7% stake in Hindustan Unilever that is now on the market, was accepted by GSK as payment for the sale of the malted drink brand and other nutrition brands to Unilever, agreed in late 2018.

I don’t know the type of person I would be if I were an only child, and honestly I don’t even want to imagine that version of myself. My older sister Isabel has taught me so much in my brief 19 years, both through her successes and her (occasional) mistakes. We weren’t the best of friends as children; my mom always tells me she was legitimately worried we would hurt each other in one of our epic brawls. My dad even started calling family game night “family fight night” because they would usually end with Isabel and me being sent to our rooms. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve begun to understand the complex person that is my sister. Isabel is probably the most courageous, self-sufficient person I’ve ever known. She won’t back down from anyone or anything. At 16 she decided to spend six months in the south of France as an exchange student, despite having taken only two years of French. I can’t imagine taking that chance now much less in high school, but that just shows how different we are.

I believe in thank you notes. I believe in sending them and in receiving them. Absolutely for gifts – every gift REQUIRES written acknowledgement – but also for random acts of kindness or thoughtful behavior and for hospitality. Ask anyone, “Hey, how are you doing?” and they will most likely respond, “Busy. I am SOOO busy. There is just too much going on.” People are busy. Everyone is busy. Work. Play. Shopping. Recreation. Family. Cooking. Errands. Laundry. School. Housework. Social commitments. Yard work. Commuting. Volunteering. It’s hard to make time for yourself, much less for others. That’s why it is so darned special when someone takes the time to do something nice. It may be something small, such as checking to see if you have books that need to be returned to the library since they are going. Or something bigger, like inviting you over for dinner because they know you’ve spent the day carting around mulch in the yard and will be too tired to cook. I believe people who make the

I cry every day. My tears are tears of anguish but also tears of the most intense joy. I don’t think I am depressed. I think I am responding appropriately to our contradictory and often terrifying world of conflict and violence. I think I am also in a constant state of amazement and wonder at the many quotidian miracles I witness…and how astonishing is Mother Nature’s delicate balance. Recently my husband and I saw a tiny baby black bear chasing a newborn spotted fawn dashing precariously across South Atherton Street, just before the town of Boalsburg. We still cannot believe it happened. I have discovered that some of us have been nourished by a profound sense of beauty and empathy at life on Planet Earth. This doesn’t mean I don’t also feel repelled by institutional racism, rampant cruelty, indifference, and denial. It’s hard work, but I am learning to reconcile these extremes and keep repugnance at bay—enough so that I am still under the magical sway of precious life. I believe the

I believe in Jeopardy. Growing up, my family had a dinnertime routine. No matter what food we were eating or who was sitting around the kitchen table that night, we would always watch Jeopardy! at 7 o’clock. As Alex Trebek read the questions (or, as they’re known in Jeopardy terms, answers), we ate leftover lasagna and tried to remember facts about world geography and Shakespeare. The first person to shout out the correct answer was the winner. There was never any prize for us playing along at home, but that didn’t matter to me; being smarter than my parents and my sister was all the reward I needed. It was during these nightly viewings of Jeopardy that I first realized I didn’t like not knowing things. Nothing was worse to me than watching an entire category of clues go by while I knew nothing. I devoted my time to reading almanacs, newspapers, and even the dictionary in an attempt to learning everything about, well, everything. I don’t consider myself a competitive person; I lose

I believe in party dresses. My mother and I both use clothes to make a statement. For 26 years, my mother, Margaret Simmons, worked as a high school home ec teacher. She can sew anything: business suits, wedding dresses. She must have altered a hundred prom dresses over the years for her students who were not conventionally sized. My mother loves fabric in bright colors, purples and reds. But she went to work every day in rather conservative business suits. That was her cry for some modicum of respect from school administrators who thought nothing of interrupting her class to get a cup of coffee from the home ec room kitchen. My mother started college in the 1950s. Teaching and nursing were pretty much the only fields that were open to her. Like most of her female classmates, she dropped out to get married. Three kids later, she finished her degree at the age of 40, staring down the difficult reality of single parenthood. She needed respect and a living wage. She didn’t get either.

I believe in mental health awareness. I believe that one cannot be physically healthy without being mentally healthy. Mental health has always been something I take very seriously. One’s emotions and mental stability can change their whole life, for better or for worse. And in doing that, it can change the lives of individuals around them. After being diagnosed with anxiety in the summer of 2017, I was immediately put on medication and placed into therapeutic and psychiatric help. Once I started talking things through and getting used to my medication, I realized that this thing called “anxiety” had been living in me for longer than I thought. I always assumed it was normal to have trouble breathing before major events, while meeting new people, or in a situation of sadness or stress. It was what my mind and body were used to. Once I found myself not being able to leave my dorm room, excessively sweating through the night and losing my appetite, I knew that this had gone way beyond a

I believe in movie theaters. The first time I went to a movie theater, I was about 6 years old. My parents took my brothers and me to the Rowland Theater in Philipsburg to see the original Disney version of 101 Dalmatians – it was around 1969. I remember sitting in the balcony. I remember a night scene where a car was barreling down a road with a network of dogs barking. I was scared and I was fascinated, and, doggone it, I couldn’t see the whole screen. There was a bar that ran across the front of the section, and it cut through the middle of the screen blocking my view. I had to keep scooching down in my seat, trying not to spill my popcorn. Cruella DeVil terrified me, and yet I wanted to see everything. I grew up going to matinees at the theater, as did almost everyone in my generation who grew up around Philipsburg. We all have memories of the 102-year-old movie palace that still draws people to our beloved town. This theater ties us together. The years have flown by since that

“For all of you out there, there’s an old cliché: Go out on a limb—that’s where all the fruit is.” I listened to Colin Cowherd say this years ago, right after he left ESPN to work at Fox Sports. As an aspiring sports broadcaster, I’ve always loved watching Cowherd, but I never bought that dumb saying. However, it’s turned out to be a saying that’s defined much of my life. My family moved around a bit when I was young, but when I was six, my parents settled us down in Horsham, Pennsylvania. I loved Horsham. It was the first place I lived where I could make friends with neighbors, classmates, and not fear having to leave them in a few months. I was able to create a life for myself, and it was a life that was very comfortable. Then in middle school, my parents’ marriage started to fail. In the 8th grade, my father told me he was moving to Charleston, South Carolina because he’d accepted a teaching job there. He also told me the time had come for him and my mother to split. Where I fit

I believe in running. If you asked me how I felt about running five years ago, I would have laughed at you. My feelings about running? Pure, undeniable disgust. Coupled with my asthma and general lack of motivation, I considered running as one of my worst enemies. When I was younger, I always dreaded the days in gym class when the teacher announced that we would be running the mile. I would drag myself to the starting line, a little behind everyone else, and wait for the whistle to blow. After the whistle blew, I started off in step with my classmates, but felt an all too familiar pit in my stomach as my classmates pulled ahead. My lungs began to burn, and my legs felt like they’d give out any minute. My breath would hitch in my chest as I slowed to a walk, shamefully looking up to see my classmates run past. My mind would race, and I’d constantly berate myself for walking. Why can’t I just run like everyone else? I’d ask. My lungs wouldn’t allow it, and I felt like they held me back.

I believe in empathy. Part of empathy is understanding that every life we meet goes beyond the small part we see. One day, seven years ago, my family and I learned this life lesson together while on a family walk. To everyone outside, it looked like we were on an idyllic family stroll. In truth, we were walking to the hospital where we would learn whether I could survive my brain cancer. Just like the people who saw us, we too had no idea about the invisible struggles anyone else on the sidewalk faced. This experience has helped us have empathy for others. Before that, when I was wronged, my knee-jerk reaction was judgment. But now, I’m learning to have patience and to imagine what the other person might be going through, from roommate conflicts to a lost internship. This new perspective saves everyone involved unnecessary grief and bitterness, leaving room for happier things. Many behaviors change from condemnable to understandable with additional information. For example, a misdeed

I believe in Bunco. As a trailing spouse, I’ve lived in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Morocco, Boston, New York City, and Jacksonville, North Carolina. What’s a trailing spouse? Well, I followed my husband around the world for his career. We took our possessions, worked, traveled, and had children in these places. While it sounds exciting, when we arrived in a new city or country, I felt apprehensive about meeting new people. But through a game called Bunco, I was able to make life-long friends and gain valuable knowledge about the local community. Bunco is a dice game. It requires little skill, except the rolling of dice. It’s mostly a lot of gabbing, chatting and maybe a glass of wine…or two. It’s a great excuse to get out of the house for a few hours, away from chores and child rearing. The first time I played Bunco was in Jacksonville. One day when I was at the grocery store, I met a woman named Jen. We bumped into each other while scouring the shelves for gnocchi, and we struck