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29 Apr

Swiggy starts charging Rs 2 on every food order

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaBusiness, INDIA

Process-backed food tech giant Swiggy has started charging all users a Rs 2 "platform fee" per order, regardless of cart value, as the company seeks to control its costs. The additional charge, initially introduced for users in cities like Bengaluru and Hyderabad, is currently being levied only on food orders and is yet to be introduced on quick-trade or Instamart orders. According to research, Swiggy is yet to introduce these charges in major cities like Delhi and Mumbai. The platform fee is for food delivery only. Whether they are Swiggy One customers or not, this is different from the handling…

27 Apr

Actor Chrisann Pereira released from Sharjah jail after being arrested in drug smuggling case

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEntertainment, Indiaentertainment, INDIA

According to a new study by market research group Kantar, Netflix's password-sharing crackdown cost Spain a million users in the first quarter of 2023. This translates to a decrease of about 15% of its total users.The streaming platform introduced the new system in Spain in early February, asking users for a €5.99 monthly fee to share their passwords with other households. According to Kantar, this is directly linked to the decline in the number of users in the country. Two-thirds of the one million users who log out of Netflix benefit from password sharing. One-third were actually paying for the…

27 Apr

Netflix Spain lost 1 Million users last quarter

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEntertainment, Indiaentertainment, INDIA

According to a new study by market research group Kantar, Netflix's password-sharing crackdown cost Spain a million users in the first quarter of 2023. This translates to a decrease of about 15% of its total users.The streaming platform introduced the new system in Spain in early February, asking users for a €5.99 monthly fee to share their passwords with other households. According to Kantar, this is directly linked to the decline in the number of users in the country. Two-thirds of the one million users who log out of Netflix benefit from password sharing. One-third were actually paying for the…

26 Apr

Former Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal dies at 95

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndiaINDIA

Five-time former Punjab chief minister and Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal died on Tuesday at a private hospital in Mohali. He was 95 years old."S.Prakash Singh Badal succumbed to his illness despite proper medical management. Fortis Hospital Mohali deeply mourns the death of S.Prakash Singh Badal," a statement from the hospital said. Hospital director Abhijit Singh told the news agency PTI that the Punjab leader died around 8 pm..The former chief minister was admitted to Fortis Hospital in Mohali a week ago after complaining of discomfort while breathing.

26 Apr

Aditya Roy Kapoor replaces Shahid Kapoor as brand ambassador of Nautica

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBollywood, Entertainment, Indiaentertainment, INDIA

Nautica, one of the leading global lifestyle brands, has announced renowned Bollywood actor and dapper heart-throb Aditya Roy Kapur as its new brand ambassador. Aditya Roy Kapur will front the new campaign that marks the arrival of Nautica's Spring Summer-23 collection for men. The brand enjoys a loyal customer base in metros, tier 1 and tier 2 cities and beyond. With Aditya Roy Kapur as the face of Natika's new campaign, the brand aims to create deep brand resonance with fashion-forward men aged 30-45 and establish itself as one of the leading men's fashion brands in the country.

25 Apr

India logs 6,660 fresh Covid cases

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsCovid-19, Health, IndiaCovid-19, INDIA

With 6,660 new Covid cases registered in India in the last 24 hours, the active caseload in the country has come down to 63,380, updated Union Health Ministry data on Tuesday. On the last day, 24 people died due to this virus. While the daily positivity rate was recorded at 3.52 percent, the positivity rate was estimated at 5.42 percent on a weekly basis. The number of Covid cases has been recorded at 4.49 crore. India's active cases now account for 0.14 percent of the total infections.According to ministry data, the national recovery rate has been recorded at 98.67 percent.The…

25 Apr

Adani Group begins $130 million debt buyback

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaBusiness, INDIA

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zones, a subsidiary of India's troubled Adani Group, on Monday announced a buyback program of certain debt securities. The move aims to partially repay the outstanding debt in 2024.Adani Ports disclosed in a filing to the stock exchange that it has issued a tender for outstanding loans of up to $130 million.The company is taking this step to boost investor confidence, as Adani Group shares were badly hit after a negative report by US short-sellers earlier this year.The report added, "The group is likely to start with the first tranche of anywhere between $250 million…

24 Apr

Amritpal Singh arrested, sent to jail in Assam

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More than a month after a massive manhunt for him, Waris Punjab De leader Amritpal Singh, 30, was arrested on Sunday morning outside a gurdwara in Rode village in Punjab's Moga district.The road is the ancestral village of slain Sikh militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwal, after whom Amritpal styles himself. It was in Moga district that Amritpal evaded arrest on March 18, when a crackdown on him and his organization began.Amritpal's arrest came days after his wife, a British national, Kirandeep Kaur was prevented from boarding a flight to Birmingham at Amritsar airport on April 20. Police said he was…

24 Apr

Esri India launches ArcGIS business analyst

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaBusiness, INDIA

Esri India, a provider of location intelligence software and solutions, has announced the availability of ArcGIS Business Analyst, a location intelligence solution suite designed to help organizations make data-driven smart decisions. Some of the target markets for this solution are banking and financial services companies, manufacturing companies, retail chains, insurance, real estate companies, healthcare, hospitality, transportation, logistics, etc. All such companies have business data to which a location element is attached, and using ArcGIS Business Analyst they can realize the full value of their data in decisions and gain a competitive advantage. ArcGIS Business Analyst for India will include various…

22 Apr

ISRO’s PSLV-C55/TeLEOS-2 lifts off from Sriharikota

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Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C55 (PSLV-C55) carrying Singapore's TeLEOS-2 as primary satellite and Lumelite-4 as the co-passenger satellite takes off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. 22 April. "Congratulations to PSLV and NSIL for this successful launch," ISRO Chairperson S. "Interesting things" are lined up in the near future, says Somnath As detailed by ISRO, PSLV-C55 is a dedicated commercial PSLV mission of Newspace India Limited (NSIL), which is an international satellite customer in Singapore. TeLEOS-2 a synthetic aperture radar satellite will be the primary satellite and Lumelite-4 a technology demonstration nano-satellite will be the…