Tinder working on its own streaming series

Tinder working on its own streaming series

Location-based dating service major Tinder has become the latest app to contemplate entering original video content as it works on its own streaming series as the battle for eyeballs heats up. The company has reportedly developed a lengthy “Choose Your Own Adventure” style series about a group of characters facing the end of the world. […]

Sanyal pitches for more rate cuts from RBI to boost growth

Sanyal pitches for more rate cuts from RBI to boost growth

Principal Economic Adviser Sanjeev Sanyal on Tuesday indirectly pitched for further rate cuts from RBI to support the growth where he said there is far more space on the monetary side than the fiscal front for lifting economic growth. Noting the gloomy start to the current fiscal with a dismal 5 per cent growth in […]

NZ PM welcomes Facebook’s action against extremism

NZ PM welcomes Facebook’s action against extremism

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday welcomed Facebook’s initiative on technology improvement and policy shift to prevent the harm of social media. “These are the kinds of efforts the Christchurch Call to Action was designed for as we try to eliminate the spread of terrorist and violent extremist content online,” Ardern said. Facebook […]

IIT Kharagpur researchers generate power from wet textiles

IIT Kharagpur researchers generate power from wet textiles

Researchers from IIT Kharagpur have developed a unique approach of generating electricity from clothes drying in natural ambience, which is otherwise a part and parcel of daily life, according to the premier institute. The researchers have utilised tiny channels, so-called nanochannels, in the cellulose-based fabric network traditionally woven, to generate electrical power through guided movement […]

Facebook adds new features to video capabilities

Facebook adds new features to video capabilities

Aimed at video creators and publishers, Facebook has announced some new features to its video capabilities and now publishers will have more tools to use with its Watch Party and Creator Studio tools. The social networking giant made the announcement during a session at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) taking place here. For Live Videos, […]

Ashwini-Satwik advance with stunning win at China Open

Ashwini-Satwik advance with stunning win at China Open

Indian duo Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy made an emphatic start to their campaign at the China Open World Tour Super 1000 tournament by defeating World No. 7 Indonesian pair of Praveen Jordan and Melati Daeva Oktavianti in the first round of the mixed doubles event in Changzhou on Tuesday. The Indian pair defeated the […]

How can PSA be slapped against Farooq Abdullah

How can PSA be slapped against Farooq Abdullah

How can PSA or Public Safety Act be slapped against National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah who has been in public life for 50 years, someone who has been an MP, and a three time Chief Minister, asks National Conference MP Justice Hasnain Masoodi in an interview with IANS. “Dr Abdullah has put forth the Kashmir […]

Abhishek Bachchan starts shooting for next film

Abhishek Bachchan starts shooting for next film

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan has started shooting for director Kookie Gulati’s yet-untitled-film. Abhishek on Monday posted a photograph of the film’s clapboard and captioned it: “Here we go! A new journey, a new beginning. Need your best wishes. Ajay Devgn, Kookie Gulati.” The film is produced by Ajay Devgn films. The film marks the reunion […]

August WPI rate remains unchanged, eases on YoY basis

August WPI rate remains unchanged, eases on YoY basis

The rise in India’s August wholesale price inflation (WPI) rate remained flat sequentially, but eased on a year-on-year basis, official data showed on Monday. Accordingly, the rise in August’s WPI remained unchanged at 1.08 per cent on a sequential basis. However, it eased on a YoY basis. In August 2018, the WPI had risen to […]