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18 Jan

Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaBusiness, INDIA

Google has laid off more than 1,000 employees across various departments since January 10. The announcement came in the form of an internal memo from CEO Sundar Pichai, who warned employees to brace themselves for additional cuts in the future, as reported by The Verge. Pichai addressed the entire Google workforce on Wednesday, revealing, "We have ambitious goals and will invest in our big priorities this year." The CEO acknowledged the challenges ahead, saying, "The reality is that to build this investment capacity, we have to make difficult choices." The impact of these "tough choices" has already been felt across…

17 Jan

People turn Atal Setu into ‘picnic spot’, triggers discontent among netizens

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PM Modi inaugurated Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri-Nhava Sheva Atal Setu in Navi Mumbai on January 12. The bridge was build with an objective to providing expeditious connectivity to Mumbai International Airport, and Navi Mumbai International Airport. After 2-3 days of the inauguration ceremony, videos of people breaking traffic rules started surfacing on social media. While some can be seen parking their vehicles on the side of the bridge and clicking selfies, others can be seen littering on the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL). https://twitter.com/rushikesh_agre_/status/1746420279860236607?s=20 https://twitter.com/mumbaimatterz/status/1746264060478558432?s=20 One user said, ''Sad. Need to respect all our public infrastructure. Considering the whole stretch…

17 Jan

Akshay Kumar celebrates ‘super woman’ wife Twinkle Khanna’s graduation

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEntertainment, Indiaentertainment, INDIA

Akshay Kumar penned an emotional note congratulating his wife Twinkle Khanna on her graduation. Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, Akshay also shared a picture with Twinkle from his graduation ceremony. In the picture, Akshay and Twinkle Khanna hugged each other and smiled. For his special day, Akshay wore a black coat, pants, and a sweater under matching pants. Twinkle opted for a green saree underneath her black cape. He also wore his graduation cap. They posed outside for the camera. Akshay shared the picture and captioned the post, “Two years ago when you told me you wanted to take up…

17 Jan

India has the fourth powerful military globally

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Today The United States has the most powerful military globally, followed by Russia and China in second and third place, respectively, as per Global Firepower’s Military Strength Rankings for 2024. India holds the fourth position and South Korea has been ranked fifth. Actually the other countries in the top 10 are United Kingdom, Japan, Turkey, Pakistan and Italy. This is actually good news as today India has very powerful military making the country strong. Actually for country like India military is very important as it protects the country. Presently in every corner of the world war is going on and…

16 Jan

Farsi to be include in India’s classical languages

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Recently External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said India has decided to include Farsi as one of its classical languages in the New Education Policy. The other classical languages include Sanskrit, Kannada, Telgu, Malayalam, Tamil and Odia. Actually Jaishankar met his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Tehran and they discussed further developing bilateral relations. This is actually good news as today India is making good relationship with neighboring country like Iran and becoming important globally. If you see both India and Iran have very good connection with each other from long time and it is very important for everyone.…

13 Jan

Internet applauds Shah Rukh Khan’s gesture towards ISRO Scientists

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEntertainment, Indiaentertainment, INDIA

Shah Rukh Khan recently got a chance to meet the esteemed scientists of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) at an event. On the occasion of the CNN-News18 Indian of the Year 2023 event held on Wednesday, they not only engaged in interaction but also posed together on stage for photographs. A video capturing their interaction has now emerged, and it has garnered widespread praise for Shah Rukh Khan's thoughtful gesture. In particular, the Don actor confirmed that Palanivel Veeramuthuvel, a respected ISRO scientist and project director of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, was not left in the background during the group…

12 Jan

The critically acclaimed ‘Bijoyar Pore’ film has been released in your nearest theaters

Business Bureau0 CommentsBollywood, Entertainment, India

The critically acclaimed Bengali film 'Bijoyar Pore', has won awards at Kolkata and Dhaka International Film Festival, has been released in theaters on January 12, featuring renowned actors Swastika Mukherjee, Mir Afsar Ali, Mamata Shankar, Dipankar Dey, Bidipta Chakraborty, and Ritabrata Mukherjee in special roles. Music is provided by Zee Music. Lagnajita Chakraborty and Shaoni Majumdar have sung songs in the film. The film is produced by Sujit Raha and directed by Abhijit Sridas. As both are residents of Siliguri, a special program of the film has been organized on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 4.30 pm at Dinabandhu Mancha…

12 Jan

On Thursday earthquake tremors were felt in Delhi-NCR and adjoining areas

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Recently earthquake tremors were felt in Delhi-NCR and adjoining areas on Thursday. Actually several reports also said that earthquake tremors were felt by people residing in Chandigarh. Several people from neighboring country Pakistan also took to social media saying that they felt strong earthquake tremors. The National Centre for Seismology reported that a 6.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in Afghanistan. This is actually very important news as people need to be aware of disaster like earthquake so that they can survive. Today earthquake is very serious issue and it is happening every time. For this reason it becomes very important to…

12 Jan

Rishi Kapoor had a special bond with Kashmir

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The Kapoor family shares a deep rooted connection with Kashmir. In fact from Prithviraj to Ranbir Kapoor, the Kapoor family has strong ties to the valley. Raj Kapoor pioneered filmmaking in the region with ‘Barsaat’ and Rishi Kapoor’s debut film, ‘Bobby’, was shot in Kashmir, making the region special to him. Actually when he revisited Kashmir after years, it evoked nostalgia, cementing the bond. This is actually very good thing as people like to remember about past and feel very happy. Actually Kashmir is a beautiful place and many people want to go there. Also for Indian cinema Kashmir is…

11 Jan

Recently list of India’s cleanest cities released

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Recently Indore and Surat have together ranked number 1 in the list of India’s cleanest cities as per the Swachh Survekshan 2023 Awards given out by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry. With it Navi Mumbai ranked third, Visakhapatnam fourth and Bhopal ranked fifth. Actually this is the seventh consecutive time that Indore has bagged the cleanest city award. This is actually good as today people of India is thinking about making their place clean. For any place cleanliness is very important and for this reason people in India is actually working very hard. Actually cleanliness is a basic habit…