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stampede at Bandra railway station in Mumbai on Sunday, reported PTI, citing official. The incident took place at 5.56 am on platform number one at the Bandra Terminus. There was rush for boarding train 22921 Bandra-Gorakhpur Express, the official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said.

Crunchyroll and Netflix will handle distribution in the UK, while Hulu will join for U.S. viewers. Fans can watch each new episode weekly.

Terrifier 3, the latest in the horror franchise, has announced its digital release date and streaming plans. Fans eager to watch at home can look forward to its availability on November 26, 2024.

social media platforms to make reasonable efforts to disallow such malicious acts including hoax bomb threats from being disseminated on their platforms. In an advisory sent to platforms, the ministry of electronics and information technology has said that all social media companies must follow the due diligence obligations to promptly remove any such “misinformation that affects public order and security of the state”. “Further, the scale of spread of such hoax bomb threats has been observed to be dangerously unrestrained due to the availability of the option of “forwarding/re-sharing/ re-posting/ re-tweeting” on social media platforms. Such hoax bomb threats are mostly misinformation that is massively disrupting the public order, operations of airlines and security of the airline travellers,” the IT ministry said in its advisory.

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advisory to social media companies such as X (formerly Twitter) and Meta, in the face of increasing hoax bomb threats to Indian airlines, reported TOI. The advisory calls for these platforms to make «reasonable efforts to disallow such malicious acts including hoax bomb threats from being disseminated on their platforms.» «The scale of spread of such hoax bomb threats has been observed to be dangerously unrestrained due to the availability of the option of 'forwarding/re-sharing/re-posting/re-tweeting' on the social media platforms,» the Ministry of Electronics and IT highlighted on Friday. These hoax threats primarily consist of misinformation that significantly disrupts public order, airline operations, and the security of travellers. According to the TOI report, social media intermediaries are required to «observe their due diligence obligations that include the prompt removal or disabling access to such unlawful information specified under the IT Rules, 2021, including hoax bomb threats, well within the strict timelines as prescribed under the IT Rules, 2021.»

JioHotstar domain name has taken yet another unexpected twist, reminiscent of the crime thrillers available on the platforms involved. The mysterious techie who previously sought ₹1 crore from Reliance Industries for the coveted domain has vanished from the narrative, leaving behind an intriguing message about a sibling duo from the UAE dedicated to helping underprivileged children.This development has sent the internet buzzing with speculation on what might have happened.Earlier this week, an unnamed app developer from Delhi revealed they had acquired the JioHotstar domain in 2023, just before the anticipated merger between JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar.With the potential merger set to create a new streaming giant, the techie offered to sell the domain to Reliance Industries, the parent company of Jio, for ₹1 crore—the price of their dream course at Cambridge University.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Online shoppers are beginning to earn like influencers by creating content on brands they like, as digital shopping platforms find more value in promoting reviews bearing a more credible cachet of authenticity. Fashion retailer Myntra and direct-to-consumer firms such as snacking platform Farmley are paying customers as much as ₹20,000 per video to promote their reviews.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) is considering if there are grounds to open an investigation into the grievances expressed by a trade body against quick commerce platforms Zepto, Blinkit and Instamart.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is seeking to protect his personal social media accounts from being sold in the upcoming auction of his Infowars media platform to pay more than $1 billion he owes relatives of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

An American cryptocurrency executive held in Nigeria for the past eight months has been released after authorities there announced that they were ending his money laundering trial on health and diplomatic grounds

Atmecs Global said it will host the grand finale of its GenAI hackathon in Hyderabad on October 26-27. The hackathon, commenced on August 30 in collaboration with HackerEarth, has provided a platform for participants to demonstrate their technical prowess and creativity. The finale will focus on the themes, each of which poses a unique challenge for developers to address using Generative AI technologies, the company said in a statement. These themes are: 1. Enterprise RAG – Revolutionizing Decision-Making with Generative AI; 2. NIM (NVIDIA Inference Microservices) – Scaling AI Performance and Efficiency and 3. Healthcare Innovation – Transforming Medicine with Multimodal AI, the company with offices in Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore and Hyderabad, added in its statement.

Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has urged the Karnataka government to hand over the contract for the upkeep of Bengaluru’s roads to Electronic City Township Authority (Elcita) after heavy rains over the last few days left many areas flooded and roads damaged. Elcita, a statutory entity with municipal powers with taxation powers, manages the 902-acre industrial township on Bengaluru’s outskirts that is home to more than 300 companies. Shaw, who is also the Executive Chairperson of Biocon, urged the government to give the contract to fix Bengaluru’s roads to Elcita, and not to the contractors of BBMP, the City’s civic body, in her posts on the micro-blogging platform X. She also used pictures of well-maintained roads in electronic city, one of which said, Elcita uses road metrics, an AI tool, to scan roads every fortnight for defects. This data allows them to fix issues quickly before they worsen.

biomedical experiments to study the effects of microgravity on human physiology, cell biology, and fluid dynamics in space and help discover crucial information for future space missions. The US-based Space Exploration & Research Agency (SERA) on Friday announced that it has partnered with Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of Austin (UATX)-- institutions that predominantly work in space research– for the upcoming Blue Origin mission, founded by Jeff Bezos. New Shepard – a reusable suborbital rocket – has plans to fly six astronauts on an 11-minute journey past the Kármán line (100 km), the internationally recognised boundary of space. The dates of the mission are yet to be made public. Earlier in July, the agency partnered with Blue Origin to secure six seats on the New Shepard rocket–of which India is a partner nation. Five seats are reserved for nations with few or no astronauts, while the sixth is open to anyone from a partner nation. Anyone can apply and will be based on public voting.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Quick-commerce platform Zepto is planning to appoint a managed office operator for its new head office in Bengaluru, said three people familiar with the development. The startup, which is in the process of moving base from Mumbai to the southern city, is in talks with flexible workspace providers such as WeWork India, IndiQube and Awfis, the people said on the condition of anonymity.

Originally premiering on January 21, 1998, CID quickly became a staple of Indian television, featuring the legendary trio of ACP Pradyuman (Shivaji Satam), Sr Inspector Daya (Dayanand Shetty), and Sr Inspector Abhijit (Aditya Shrivastava). With a remarkable total of 1,547 episodes, it holds the record as one of India's longest-running shows. As excitement builds for the second edition, fans have taken to social media, filling platforms with memes and nostalgic reflections.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Creators are looking forward to "a wave of brand deals" headed their way with YouTube now allowing them to place product links in their videos. They can now earn a commission on sales of products that shoppers can now directly buy while watching a video, without leaving the app.

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Falguni Nayar, founder and chief executive of beauty and fashion retailer Nykaa, said quick commerce has impacted offline channels such as general and modern trade within the personal care category, and that the Mumbai-based company would not get into multiple categories of quick commerce “just for the sake of” ultra-fast delivery. “The industry is developing in a manner…where quick commerce is taking demand from traditional neighbourhood stores,” she said in a virtual interview with ET, ahead of launching the second edition of Nykaaland, the company’s beauty and lifestyle festival where it collaborates with brands for new launches. Nayar’s comment on the fast-growing quick-commerce channel comes at a time when various retail formats — including ecommerce — is impacted by the rapid rise of platforms like Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart besides new entrants such as Flipkart Minutes, offering deliveries as fast as in 10 minutes.