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A recent incident involving a child's snack box on an American Airways flight has ignited outrage across social media platforms. The incident came to light when a Twitter user with the handle @dynamicallydara shared a series of tweets detailing her unsettling experience with American Airlines. According to her account, a flight attendant unexpectedly confiscated her nephew's snack box to show a friend of hers, without seeking permission. The user's tweets included a photograph of the opened assortment of snacks, revealing a variety of items such as jam sandwiches, cereals, pulses, crackers, and peanut butter.

TT, Bengaluru Smashers and Puneri Paltan Table Tennis for the fifth season. “We are committed to promoting the game of table tennis and we believe that Jaipur Patriots will help us take the sport to a new region," added Dani.

Also read: Chandrayaan 3: What is India's mission to moon? Why is it important? Aside from the live-streaming of this historic event, officials have announced the arrangement of special guest shows at 9:30 am and 10:30 am. These shows will feature 30-minute video presentations sharing insights into the science and history of the spacecraft and India's lunar missions. Throughout the day, there are five shows planned for the general public, offering glimpses of India's remarkable lunar missions.

₹69 to ₹499 for one-time access. The film will be available for 30 days but must be viewed within a 48-hour window.

Zomato, Paytm, PB Fintech, Nykaa, Delhivery and others have seen rising interest from foreign investors over the past one year as these companies seem to have been improving their business models and reporting decent growth with operational efficiencies. The Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) have raised their shareholding in these new-age tech companies, as seen in the June quarter shareholding pattern.

Narendra Modi on 23 August is scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the Day 2 of the 15th BRICS Summit. Then later in the day, the prime minister is also scheduled to attend open and closed plenary sessions in Johannesburg. The plenaries will be followed by a cultural performance and a banquet dinner hosted by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Twitch has announced that it has started testing its Discovery feed, which the company introduced last month. «Our first Discovery Feed experiment starts rolling out to select users today,» the company posted on X. «Feature Clips after every stream to get discovered in the Feed, even if you're not in the experiment.» The company also mentioned that this limited experience will help the platform train its algorithm and get users' feedback. In a separate post, the streaming platform said, «We're rolling out horizontal Clips to start, but you'll see more vertical Clips as the feed evolves.» The company is also testing «Popular & Featured Clips» before switching to exclusively Featured Clips. Also, the user's feed will be personalised «over time.» Twitch had first introduced the Discovery feed at its TwitchCon Paris event last month and described it as a scrollable feed in the app that would show users a personalised mix of Clips. The platform had also said that users would be able to mark Clips as featured in their Creator Dashboard this month. In June, the streaming platform had introduced a new programme — Partner Plus — which is scheduled to be launched on October 1 and will offer 70 per cent share on net subscription revenue to streamers who meet the qualification criteria. Streamers in the new programme will receive a 70/30 revenue share on net subscription revenue — money from recurring monthly subscriptions and gift subscriptions --, for 12 months and up to $1,00,000. For three consecutive months, streamers must maintain a sub count of at least 350 recurring paid subscriptions in order to be eligible.

Also read: What is biggest challenge in Chandrayaan-3's landing on moon? Expert says this ISRO is on a mission to achieve a successful soft landing on the Moon, if accomplished it will elevate India to the ranks of the world's fourth country to achieve this milestone, following the United States, Russia, and China. India is poised to become the first nation to reach the Moon's south polar region if the Chandrayaan-3 mission achieves its objectives.

taxation of debt mutual funds has changed from FY 2023-24. According to the amended income tax laws, investment made in specified debt mutual funds on or after April 1, 2023, would be taxed at income tax slabs applicable to your income at the time of redemption. For investments made till March 31, 2023, the redemptions from such specified mutual funds will be taxed as per the holding period of the mutual fund schemes.

The Reserve Bank’s market trials of an eAUD – as its proposed central bank digital currency is known – rightly focused on applications that could deliver the biggest efficiency gains to the Australian economy.

unemployment rate, RPG Group Chairman Harsh Goenka has highlighted another key issue that is affecting his business. He believes that while people are complaining about unemployment, his company is facing a shortage of 'skilled' workers. According to Goenka's post on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter), "We want construction workers- we can’t find enough! We want truck drivers- huge shortage! We want plantation workers- they are not available! Can’t understand solution".

Chandrayaan-3 is poised to make an indelible mark in history by successfully landing on the unexplored southern region of the Moon. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel lauded the significance of this feat, crediting India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's vision. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the organisation in charge of Chandrayaan-3, was set up under Nehru in 1962.

Education Policy (NEP 2020), the authorities said as reported by ANI. -As per the authorities, this AI School facility will be initially available to students from classes 8 to 12.

Narendra Modi played up India’s economic growth story during his remarks at the BRICS Business Forum Leaders’ Dialogue in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Modi is visiting South Africa for the 15th BRICS Leaders’ Summit. The prime minister said there was no doubt that India would be a growth engine for the world.

Brazilian police have asked courts to freeze the crypto holdings of suspected electronics-trading fraudsters as part of a “mega operation.”

The Reserve Bank of Australia says a central bank digital currency could increase “efficiency and resilience in some areas of the payments system”, but warns more research is required to deal with legal, regulatory, technical and operational issues to ensure any eAUD operates safely.

Meta's Facebook or Instagram and Google’s YouTube Kids will be able to directly fetch and verify documents of teenagers’ parents from DigiLocker and use it to avail parental consent, people aware of the matter, told ET. The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, defines children as those below 18 years, which is above the global threshold. Users above 13 years of age are allowed on many social media platforms. For users in India between 13 and 18 years of age to access any platform or avail services on the internet, apps may now have to get parental consent by verifying the identity of the children and their parents. If the parent agrees to share the data with the social media platform, she will have to enter a one-time password to provide consent.

PVR Inox has been an outperformer on the bourses in the past month as the release of several big-ticket and highly awaited films such as Oppenheimer, Gadar 2, Mission Impossible 7, Jailer and OMG 2 over the last few weeks has raised expectations of a revival of the industry's fortunes. PVR shares have gained 13.4% in the past month as against the near flat performance of the benchmark BSE 500 index in the period.

Bharat Billpay is preparing to enter into person to person (P2P)-based transactions, expanding into a completely new sector beyond its core bill payments business. After the Reserve Bank of India said in December last year that Bharat Billpay can expand into new payment modes across both recurring and non recurring payments, the newly-formed company wants to go after both government payments and P2P transactions. “We intend to enable all kinds of collection payments, and become the defacto collections platform across use cases. With BBPS it does not matter whether one uses a credit card or UPI or a debit card or even cash to make a transaction — we are truly mode agnostic,” said Noopur Chaturvedi, chief executive officer of NPCI Bharat Billpay. Chaturvedi joined Bharat Billpay in August 2021.

Through successful fundraising, acquisitions and a marketing campaign to lure financial advisors put off by the pending Charles Schwab-TD Ameritrade mega-merger, Altruist has established itself as a significant player on the asset custody market with ambitions to grow even larger.

Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star, is set to debut its fifth season on Netflix in September 2023, following its earlier airing on the BBC. The show aims to discover skilled makeup artists. Since 2019, Netflix has been the exclusive global streaming platform for Glow Up, except in the United Kingdom. Each year, new seasons become available on Netflix a few months after they air on BBC Three in the UK. This pattern continues in 2023 with season 5.Glow Up Season 5 will officially land on Netflix on September 12, 2023. The season comprises eight episodes, which were broadcasted from May 2 to June 21. Leomie Anderson takes over as the host from Maya Jama, while Val Garland and Dominic Skinner continue as judges. Notably, the new season features a special Netflix crossover in its first episode. Contestants are tasked with creating makeup looks inspired by characters from the period drama series, Bridgerton. The release schedule for Glow Up Season 5 on Netflix UK remains uncertain. In January 2023, Season 4 briefly appeared on Netflix UK before being removed at the end of the month. The future availability of Season 5 on Netflix UK is yet to be determined, and until then, the newer seasons can be exclusively accessed via BBC iPlayer.