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World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit in November alongside the International Film Festival of India in Goa, with I&B Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw promising to strengthen the ecosystem for the protection of intellectual property rights in the media and entertainment sector. Vaishnaw and Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant made the announcement of the first World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES) in Goa from November 20-24 and described it as a visionary initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as India seeks to make a mark in the media and entertainment sector. «IP rights hold huge value in the media and entertainment sector. We will be strengthening the ecosystem for protecting IP rights,» Vaishnaw, the Information and Broadcasting Minister, said in his address at the curtain raiser event for WAVES. Vaishnaw said the government was also exploring ways to make available low-cost funds to the media and entertainment sector with learnings from the venture capital model.

HSBC Holdings Plc won the dismissal of most claims brought by First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. over the hiring of dozens of Silicon Valley Bank employees following the lender’s collapse last year.

Devil Wears Prada. Get ready for more high fashion drama as Aline Brosh McKenna, the writer behind the original film, steps into discussions to pen the follow-up. The announcement of this long-overdue sequel also includes news that Aline Brosh McKenna, the writer behind the original film as well as «Crazy Ex-Girlfriend» and «Cruella,» is in talks to pen the follow-up.

The State of Fashion 2024, 75% of Gen Z aged 11-26 consumers consider sustainability when making purchases. In India, thrifting began humbly in friends' homes, where clothes were piled on to beds and sifted through together. Garage sales and informal swaps were also known, but weren't a popular concept.

Gujarat's Bharuch district, an official said on Saturday. Videos of a massive queue, marked by pushing and shoving as aspirants tried to get a toehold on a ramp leading to the entrance of a hotel where the interviews were being held, had gone viral on Thursday on social media. On July 2, the company at Jhagadia conducted a recruitment drive at a hotel in Ankleshwar in the district where hundreds of aspirants turned up for 40 vacancies, District Employment Officer Sanjay Gohil said. «After the video went viral, we learnt about the incident and talked to the plant manager and HR managers of the company and carried out an inspection of the plant on July 12,» he said.

The Associated Press says it will provide free campaign and election night coverage to dozens of small and independent newsrooms located in swing states, through a program funded by a Knight Foundation grant

FI-Index, capturing the extent of financial inclusion across the country, rose to 64.2 in March 2024, showing growth across all parameters. The index captures information on various aspects of financial inclusion in a single value ranging between 0 and 100, where 0 represents complete financial exclusion and 100 indicates full financial inclusion. «The value of the index for March 2024 stands at 64.2 vis-a-vis 60.1 in March 2023, with growth witnessed across all sub-indices,» the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a statement on Tuesday. Improvement in FI-Index is mainly contributed by usage dimension, reflecting deepening of financial inclusion, it added.

Kim Kardashian revealed a startling injury. The 43-year-old reality TV personality disclosed that she snapped off her fingertip, calling the agony «more excruciating than giving birth.» This comes after several months of seeing her with bandages on her hands, as per the reports of 'Metro.co.uk'.

Brazil’s national data protection authority determined on Tuesday that Meta cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence

improve the accessibility of all government websites, digital applications, and services in the government-to-government, government-to-business or government-to-citizen space, a senior government official told ET. The ministry of electronics and information technology will anchor this project and suggest ways to improve page and website loading times, have better user interfaces on websites and apps, and make them more accessible for people with disabilities, the official said.

In the wake of a domain attack involving Squarespace, numerous DeFi protocols have released post-mortem reports and updates to inform their communities about the incident’s impact and their subsequent actions.

NBCC has shown interest in taking over all the pending projects of real estate developer Supertech, which has been facing multiple cases from homebuyers over delayed deliveries besides an Enforcement Directorate investigation into alleged money laundering. During the insolvency proceedings of one of the group companies of Supertech, the interim resolution professional (IRP) had approached NBCC. NBCC has informed IRP and lender Union Bank of India that it is ready to take all the projects of Supertech, provided it is given complete access to the details of the projects and all the data related to them.

By James Day, University of California, San Diego San Diego: Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites — rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together — only 385 or so stones came from the planet Mars. It's not that hard for scientists to work out that these meteorites come from Mars. Various landers and rovers have been exploring Mars' surface for decades. Some of the early missions — the Viking landers — had the equipment to measure the composition of the planet's atmosphere. Scientists have shown that you can see this unique Martian atmospheric composition reflected in some of these meteorites. Mars also has unique oxygen. Everything on Earth, including humans and the air we breathe, is made up of a specific composition of the three isotopes of the element oxygen: oxygen-16, oxygen-17 and oxygen-18. But Mars has an entirely different composition — it's like a geochemical fingerprint for being Martian.

NEET-UG 2024 had been compromised. The top court directed the National Testing Agency (NTA), that conducts the exam, and the Union government to submit comprehensive affidavits, and requested a status update from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by July 10 regarding the NEET UG examination.In an affidavit submitted on July 10, the Union government said that the Ministry of Education had requested IIT Madras to conduct comprehensive data analytics of the results of NEET-UG 2024 candidates, in compliance with the Supreme Court's directives.

Delhi University (DU) is likely to be postponed to August 16, due to a delay in the release of the Central University Entrance Test (CUET-UG) results, Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh announced on Saturday. Initially scheduled to start on August 1, the delay in the publication of results has disrupted the academic calendar. Vice Chancellor Singh said classes for other semesters will begin as per scheduled on August 1.

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase faced increased impersonation scams last week, targeting at least four users. Crypto thieves used social engineering and impersonation tactics to deceive victims into revealing sensitive financial information. One victim lost over $1M in cryptocurrency to the scammers.

government is considering the option of handing over operations of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) to BSNL through an agreement, instead of pursuing a merger route, a source privy to the development said. A final call on this is likely to be taken in a month's time. The source said the option of handing over debt-laden MTNL's operations to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) through an agreement is being looked into. The source said that given MTNL's high debt, a merger with BSNL was not a favourable option. Once the decision is taken, the proposal would be placed before the Committee of Secretaries, and thereafter taken to the Cabinet.

Air India cancelled a scheduled flight from the US to India and used the Boeing 777 plane for running a charter to ferry the Indian cricket team back home from Barbados, prompting the civil aviation regulator to seek a response from the Tata Group-owned airline, according to people with knowledge of the matter. A special Air India flight, chartered by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), is carrying the T20 World Cup-winning Indian team and support staff from Barbados in the Caribbean to Delhi. The flight took off from Grantley Adams International airport in Bridgetown on Wednesday and was scheduled to land in New Delhi on Thursday at around 6 AM.

Also read: Ministry of I&B tweaks self-declaration rules for advertisers This is evident from a 12-month survey conducted by McAfee, in which 75% of Indians responded that they encountered some form of deepfake content, with 38% saying they had fallen victim to deepfake scams and 18% directly affected by such fraudulent schemes. Alarmingly, among those targeted, 57% mistook celebrity deepfakes for genuine content.

governance and bring about a paradigm shift in citizen-centric delivery of services. Imagine a student applying for college admissions. Instead of separately applying for numerous universities and colleges with the need for filling multiple applications with repetitive data each time, an AI-driven system would proactively collate the basic demographic information about the student and suggest the probable list of colleges based on his/her score in the qualifying examination.

Budget Expectations: As India eagerly anticipates the Union Budget 2024, one area of keen interest for taxpayers, especially corporates, is the refinement of the faceless assessment scheme. Despite its noble intentions and innovative approach, the implementation of the faceless assessment scheme has encountered several significant challenges, which, if appropriately addressed, can pave the way for meeting the underlying intended objectives and play a pivotal role for ‘Ease of Doing Business’ in India. Typically, in case of large corporate taxpayers, before concluding the assessments, the Faceless Officer calls for copious amounts of data, justification etc. from the taxpayer such, as reconciliation of revenue with the GST returns, reconciliation of information reported on the Insight Portal, details of expenses in pre-defined formats etc. These information requests are often issued close to the statutory deadline for concluding such proceedings, leaving taxpayers with very limited time to provide the reconciliation and the necessary supporting documents, ultimately leading to unwarranted additions.