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SanchiConnect, a community focused on deeptech startups, investors and corporations, unveiled its PreSeed Accelerator's latest milestone in driving innovation and sustainability. Six exceptional startups have been selected for acceleration and capital infusion of INR 75 Lac, coupled with 100 days of focused market access support, through the pioneering PreSeed Accelerator program. This initiative is set to catapult the development of innovative solutions in the realm of green mobility. The program received 552 applications from all over the country, of which 6 startups after 75 days of intense screening and diligence were picked for investments.

Thailand authorities have issued a warning to the social media giant Facebook, threatening to seek a criminal court order to sever its operations in the nation, over the rampant investment and cryptocurrency scam ads.

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DTH) platforms has declined by 1.37 million to 65.25 million for the quarter ended March from 66.6 million in the trailing quarter, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) performance indicator report. For the quarter under review, Tata Play's subscriber base dropped to 21.3 million from 21.78 million in the trailing quarter. Bharti Telemedia's subscriber base fell to 17.46 million from 17.55 million.Dish TV has seen a reduction in its subscriber base to 14.21 million from 14.89 million.

New Delhi: DBS Bank India has announced its partnership with five of India's top badminton stars –- Lakshya Sen, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, Treesa Jolly, and Gayatri Gopichand –- to enhance its brand presence in the country and connect with its diverse audience, the company said in a statement here today. “Badminton is gaining popularity across India, and this partnership provides a great opportunity for us to extend our support to five young athletes who truly have the potential to be the stars of tomorrow!" said Shoma Narayanan, Managing Director - Group Strategic Marketing & Communications at DBS Bank India.

Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is planning to start removing headlines from news articles. Under the new changes, articles will appear on users' timelines with just a headline and URL, while individuals will have to add their own description above the post. According to a report by Fortune, X wants users to write a more ‘engaging post’ by removing the headline and other context from the post.

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RM, the leader of the acclaimed K-pop sensation BTS, recently engaged in a candid conversation with his fans, shedding light on his current circumstances and activities. RM openly discussed how his busy schedule has led to weight gain and increased stress.

Data Observatory today. The survey found more the majority of Indian small businesses plan to implement marketing activities for their website, including advertising on social media platforms (77%), creating a responsive design for their website (70%), positioning the company better on search engines (70%), and monitoring the traffic of their pages (68%). GoDaddy’s Data Observatory finds 48% of small businesses in India, who currently do not have a business website, plan to build one within the next three months and 43% plan to do it in the next year. This underscores the continued importance of social media and creating a holistic digital marketing strategy.

Meta Platforms on Tuesday asked a court in Norway to stop a fine that the country's data regulator has imposed on the owner of Facebook and Instagram for breaching user privacy, in a case that could have wider European implications. Since Aug. 14, Meta Platforms has been fined 1 million crowns ($94,313) per day for harvesting user data and using it to target advertising at them, called behavioural advertising, a practice common to Big Tech. The company is asking for a temporary injunction against the order, which imposes a daily fine through to Nov.

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Tuesday said that the Mission Operations Complex (MOX), located at the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) here, is buzzing with energy and excitement. It also shared the images of the moon captured by the Lander Position Detection Camera (LPDC) from an altitude of about 70 km, on August 19, 2023, that assist the Lander Module in determining its position (latitude and longitude) by matching them against an onboard moon reference map. “The mission is on schedule.

The speech will provide a chance to give his latest views on whether more policy tightening will be needed to bring down inflation amid surprisingly strong economic growth, or if enough progress on disinflation has been made to hold rates steady. Other top crypto tokens, BNB (3.5%), XRP (1.6%), Cardano (3.4%), Solana (2.7%), Polygon (4.8%), and Shiba Inu (4.6%) were also trading lower on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the global cryptocurrency market cap declined 0.76% to around $1.05 trillion.

Chandrayaan-3 is poised for a soft landing on the moon's surface on August 23, an event that will be witnessed live by the entire nation across multiple platforms. ISRO Chairman S Somanath has earlier said Chandrayaan-3's ‘failure-based design’ is one of the key reasons to believe that it will not meet the same fate as its predecessor ‘Chandrayaan-2’.

Airport on Monday announced on Saturday that all the scheduled international flights from the airport will leave from Terminal 2 from August 31 onwards. In a post on social media platform X, Bengaluru Airport noted, “We are happy to announce that commencing 10:45 am on August 31, 2023, all scheduled International flights will arrive and depart from Terminal 2." Bengaluru Airport noted in the tweet noted that passengers can download the BLR Pulse app for information related flights and estimated queues and wait times.

Mega 157 broke on Chiranjeevi's birthday. The official announcement arrived through a striking poster shared by UV Creations, the production house behind the venture. With this film, expectations are sky-high, considering it's touted to be the most lavish project in Chiranjeevi's illustrious career.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cryptocurrency, the price of Bitcoin price currently hovers at $26,051, experiencing a marginal decrease of 0.25% on Tuesday.

inflation on an annual basis, Indians are still not opting for high-priced large consumer product packs, a TOI report showed on Tuesday. Citing research from retail intelligence platform Bizom, the report said that the sales growth in high-value packs across FMCG categories shrank in July over the previous year. Low-and-mid-priced packs still figured among the preferred alternatives for most Indians as prices of large packs remain higher than expected. «When the price of a pack rises above a certain psychological threshold — say a Rs 100 pack becomes Rs 110 — then it's difficult to get consumers to purchase these packs. Moreover, e-commerce and quick commerce, where consumers make impulse purchases of small-and-mid-priced packs, continues to grow faster than modern trade where high-value packs are usually bought,» said Mayank Shah, senior category head at Parle Products. He added that consumers are okay with grammage reductions because extra money does not go out of their pockets.

CarTrade Tech share price rallied more than 6% on Tuesday, with the stock hitting an intraday high of ₹518.00 apiece on the BSE. The gains in CarTrade Tech shares came after analysts maintained their positive view on the company’s acquisition of Sobek Auto India Private Limited, which includes OLX classifieds platform as well as OLX Autos C2B transactions business.

Also read: Chandrayaan-3 Update: Three days to landing on Moon; ISRO shares timing. See here The live coverage of this historic event is scheduled to commence on August 23, 2023, at 5:27 PM. Viewers can watch the soft landing live on various platforms, including the ISRO Website, ISRO's YouTube channel, ISRO's Facebook page, and DD National TV channel as well as National Geographic TV channel.

American streaming platform Netflix has announced that the fourth season of its comedy drama Sex Education, will premiere on 22 September. It stars Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Alistair Petrie, Mimi Keene, and Aimee Lou Wood. Viewership of international content on over-the-top (OTT) video streaming platforms in India has nearly doubled in 2022 as audiences took to original and dubbed versions of English, Turkish, Spanish and Korean shows and films.

Elon Musk-led social media giant X (formerly Twitter) has acknowledged a major glitch that caused images and other media links prior to 2014 to disappear. The company has noted that the bug has been fixed and the issue should be fully resolved in the coming days.