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23 Mar

AI-art captures popular Bollywood faces as pop-culture characters

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBollywood, Indiaentertainment, INDIA

Fanfiction takes an interesting turn as several Indian actors have been recreated as hugely popular Hollywood movie characters using the AI art generator program Midjourney V5. Indian design studio Lazy Eight has released a series of six images that might answer the question – what if popular Bollywood actors were cast in roles like Rambo and The Joker among others? "As a fun, lighthearted lab experiment we wanted to test the power of the new Midjourney V5 by recasting Bollywood actors as iconic Hollywood characters," they tweeted. The series stars actor Shah Rukh Khan as John Rambo, Ajay Devgn as…

23 Mar

FM Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to meet CEOs of PSU banks on Saturday

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndiaBusiness, INDIA

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to meet managing directors of public sector banks (PSBs) on March 25 to review performance in the backdrop of several bank failures in the US and Credit Suisse's liquidity crisis, according to news agency PTI. Sources said the meeting will review the progress of banks in achieving the targets of various government schemes including Kisan Credit Card (KCC), Stand-Up India, Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) and Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) to help businesses affected by Covid-19. Notably, this is the first full review meeting after the presentation of Budget 2023-24 and…

22 Mar

Bollywood songs removed from Spotify app

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBollywoodBollywood, entertainment, INDIA

Music app Spotify was forced to remove its entire catalog of Bollywood songs from the Zee Music company after talks to renew their licensing deal fell through last week. Bollywood music users and fans are taking to social media to express their displeasure over the move. Zee Music also did not renew its licensing agreement with music app Song and cut ties with them in 2022. A few months later, Ghana became a subscription-only service. As per the report by Billboard, the music app said in a statement, "Spotify and Zee Music have been unable to reach a licensing agreement.…

22 Mar

Snapdeal starts receiving orders through ONDC

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusinessINDIA

Bengaluru-based e-commerce company Snapdeal on Tuesday announced that it has started accepting orders through Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC). The Kunal Bahl-co-founded company went live earlier this month and has so far received orders from various parts of the country including Ajmer, Gurdaspur, Kakinada, Amravati, Aligarh, and Indore. The top product categories that gained the most traction were home and kitchen products including bed linen, towels, tableware, storage and serving sets, and kitchen appliances. Commenting on this development, Snapdeal Marketplace CEO Himanshu Chakrabarti said, “As we go live at ONDC, we want to reiterate our belief that enabling India's…

21 Mar

Kirron Kher tests positive for Covid-19

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEntertainment, Indiaentertainment, INDIA

On MondayVeteran actress and MP Kirron Kher tested positive for Covid-19. In a tweet, Kirron wrote, 'I have tested positive for Covid. So anyone who has come in contact with me please get yourself tested.' https://twitter.com/KirronKherBJP/status/1637788277934620673?s=20 In 2021, Kirron Kher was diagnosed with multiple myeloma( one kind of blood cancer). She returned after recovering from cancer. She was also seen as a judge on India's Got Talent reality show. Her son Sikander, through numerous social media posts, frequently updates fans about her health.

21 Mar

India and Japan sign fourth phase loan for bullet train project

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaBusiness, INDIA

India and Japan on Monday signed two documents in Japan renewing the memorandum of cooperation and exchange of notes on the 300 billion Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) loan for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train. At a special briefing by Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's visit to India, he said, "Two documents were signed on the side- the renewal of the MOC (Memorandum of Cooperation) in Japanese, mainly focusing on higher. level language education and the second agreement was the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high - 300 billion note exchange of JICA loan for the speed railway project.” Before…

20 Mar

Amritpal Singh used drug rehab centers to recruit ‘human bombs’

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndiaINDIA

Khalistani separatist Amritpal Singh, who has been on the run since the Punjab police launched a massive crackdown on Waris Punjab De members in the state, used rehabilitation centers to recruit "human bombs", according to a report. A dossier by intelligence agencies suggested that Waris Punjab D chief Amritpal Singh was using drug rehabilitation centers and a gurudwara to stockpile weapons and prepare youths to carry out suicide attacks, PTI reported. The dossier claims that Singh, who returned from Dubai last year at the behest of Pakistan's ISI and Khalistan supporters living abroad, was mainly engaged in brainwashing youths to…

20 Mar

Alka Yagnik becomes the most-streamed artist on YouTube

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBollywood, Entertainment, India, North Eastentertainment, INDIA

Playback singer Alka Yagnik's army has a bit more power than BTS ARMY as the singer was the most streamed artist worldwide on YouTube last year. She has several accolades including two National Awards to her name. Moreover, she is the Bollywood female vocalist with the most number of solo songs. And if you think it's a record, wait until you know about her latest victory. According to Guinness World Book Records, Alka Yagnik was the most streamed artist on YouTube worldwide in 2022. It had 15.3 billion streams last year, and an average of 42 million streams per day.…

18 Mar

OG Night Manager Tom Hiddleston video calls Aditya Roy Kapur after watching Indian remake

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEntertainment, Indiaentertainment, INDIA

Aditya Roy Kapur, who played the lead role in the Indian adaptation of The Night Manager, is on cloud nine today. The reason? The "OG" night manager, Tom Hiddleston, or should I say, Jonathan Pine, had "something kind to say" about the remake of the 2016 British series produced by David Farr. On Thursday Tom and other members of the original series watched the Hindi version of this series in the UK. After the screening, the Loki actor congratulated his Indian counterpart through a video call and made his day. Aditya, who plays Shaan Sengupta in the series, uploaded two…

18 Mar

Tata scrapped plans to acquire Bisleri

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaINDIA

Tata Consumer Products (TCPL) has scrapped plans to acquire drinking water brand Bisleri International from the Ramesh Chauhan group. "The company wishes to update that it has now terminated discussions with Bisleri regarding a potential transaction and would like to confirm that the company has not entered into any definitive agreement or binding commitment in this regard," the Tata firm said in an exchange filing. "The above announcement is issued voluntarily to prevent any speculation in this regard," Tata said. There were reports that Bisleri was in talks to sell Bisleri for around Rs 6,000-7,000 crore. “The company had earlier…