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Coldplay returning to India after a gap of nine years has taken the fandom by storm. While diehard fans of the rock icons are scrambling to lay their hands on the exorbitantly priced tickets, the Coldplay fandom was left devastated when several tickets resurfaced on reselling websites. Earlier, millions of fans had visited the BookMyShow website and app for three shows at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai for a chance at one of the 1.5 lakh seats. However, reseller websites prospered as tickets became scarce and grievances flooded social media. Since then, ticket prices have increased by 10 to 20 times on platforms like Viagogo, and many others have taken to social media to sell «extra» tickets they had already bought. This happened when millions of people were presumably waiting in line for Coldplay's announcement of a third gig in response to the ‘phenomenal’ demand.

NCPCR) met representatives from major social media platforms to address issues related to the safety of children online and explore ways to protect them. In a recent meeting with representatives from companies like Google, YouTube, Meta, X, Snapchat, Reddit, Sharechat, and Bumble, the Commission sought to explore ways to protect children from harmful content and online exploitation. Key issues discussed included mechanisms for age verification, tools for identifying and blocking Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), support for law enforcement agencies, and parameters for reporting cases to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The apex child rights body emphasised the need for enhanced safety features on social media platforms, with a focus on keeping children safe from predators and explicit content.

Abhijit Chakraborty, founder of Alphanumero, has introduced a progressive leave policy designed to celebrate personal milestones. The «Birthday Plus One» initiative allows employees to take two extra days off each year: one for their birthday and another for a close family member or friend's birthday. This policy, shared in a heartfelt LinkedIn post, aims to promote a healthier work-life balance in a corporate environment often dominated by professional demands. Chakraborty’s decision comes against the backdrop of increasing conversations about workplace toxicity and the stress associated with rigid corporate cultures. Reflecting on his own experiences, he recalled a time when he faced disapproval from a superior for requesting a day off to celebrate his birthday. «If it’s someone’s birthday, they deserve a gift, not a leave deduction and negative reactions,» he stated. His candid acknowledgment of past challenges emphasizes the importance of recognizing personal celebrations without guilt.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In an interview published on the Booker Prize website, Australian writer Charlotte Wood offers a key insight to unlocking her unusual and absorbing novel, Stone Yard Devotional, shortlisted for the 2024 prize earlier this week. “I wanted nothing trivial, nothing insincere in this book," she says, taking a cue from the American master, Saul Bellow.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines festival thusly: a time of celebration marked by special observances; an often periodic celebration or programme of events or entertainment having a special focus; gaiety, conviviality. The West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have inadvertently coined a new meaning for the word.

Air India has refunded the airfare to an India-origin CEO who had complained about facilities in the first class cabin during his recent Chicago-Delhi flight. His video showing various shortcomings in the cabin had gone viral. There was no official comment from Air India. «Come with me on the worst first class cabin I have ever been on,» Anip Patel said in a recent video posted on Instagram and also mentioned in detail about his flight. On the social media platform, Patel mentioned that he recently endured a 15-hour non-stop flight from Chicago to Delhi and that it was far from pleasant.

Supreme Court gave Elon Musk-owned social platform X five days to present documents validating its new legal representative in the country, a court decision showed on Saturday. X lawyers said late on Friday that it had named a legal representative in Brazil, addressing one of the demands imposed by the court to allow the social platform to resume operations in the country. In his Saturday decision, Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes gave five days for X to provide commercial registries and other documents proving that X formally signed Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao as its Brazil legal representative.

Atishi on Saturday took oath as the new chief minister of Delhi following Arvind Kejriwal's resignation. As per the recent announcement, Atishi will head the 13 existing departments (that she had, earlier) including Education, Finance, Power, Water. AAP leader and Cabinet minister Saurabh Bharadwaj will take charge of eight departments including Health, Urban Development and Social Welfare. Minister Gopal Rai will have three departments including Environment.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet says he's pulling his country out of a development agreement with neighboring Vietnam and Laos following protests that it was benefiting foreign interests

2024 election looming, the first since the mass popularization of generative artificial intelligence, experts feared the worst: social media flooded with AI-generated deepfakes that were so realistic, baffled voters wouldn't know what to believe. So far, that hasn't happened. Instead, what voters are seeing is far more absurd: A video of former President Donald Trump riding a cat while wielding an assault rifle. A mustachioed Vice President Kamala Harris dressed in communist attire. Trump and Harris sharing a passionate embrace. AI is playing a major role in the presidential campaign, even if the greatest fears about how it could threaten the US presidential election haven't materialized yet. Fake AI-generated images regularly ricochet around the web, but many of them are so cartoonish and absurd that even the most naive viewer couldn't take them seriously.

Sikh activists to assure them that the US government is committed to protecting Americans from any acts of transnational aggression on its soil, a community leader has said. The meeting comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's three-day visit to the US during which he will attend the Quad summit in Delaware and address the 'Summit of the Future' at the UN General Assembly in New York. Held inside the White House complex on Thursday, the meeting was attended by Pritpal Singh of the American Sikh Caucus Committee and representatives from the Sikh Coalition and Sikh American Legal Defence and Education Fund (SALDEF). «Yesterday we had the chance to thank senior federal government officials for saving the lives of Sikh Americans and for vigilance in protecting our community. We asked them to do more, and we will hold them to their assurances that they will,» Pritpal Singh, founder of the American Sikh Caucus Committee told PTI on Friday.

Nayib Bukele met in the United States on Friday with tech billionaire Elon Musk to discuss artificial intelligence and other topics, after which the pair piled on mutual praise. «It was a pleasure to spend several hours talking with one of the great minds of our time @elonmusk,» Bukele said on X, the social network owned by Musk. The Salvadoran president posted a short video showing Musk receiving him at his gigafactory plant in Austin, Texas, where batteries for Tesla electric cars are manufactured.

Generative artificial intelligence is playing a major role in the presidential campaign, even if the greatest fears about how it could threaten the U.S. presidential election haven’t materialized yet

Kamala Harris has been on the receiving end of the rumors which are going on around in social media in recent times. Snopes reported that just some hours before the US Presidential Debate, there was post by Facebook page SpaceX Fanclub claiming Vice President Kamala Harris as the ‘worst student ever’ has been said by the professors of Kamala Harris from Howard University. According to Snopes, the SpaceX Fanclub Facebook post gained around 50,000 reactions of different kind adding on to the fact that the post was shared for 28,000 times receiving 13,000 comments at the same time. Some people actually took the post pretty seriously while individuals commented that Vice President Kamala Harris had failed her first bar exam and she is actually a pretty bad student. Also Read: Monsters Season 3: Release window, cast, and all about Ed Gein

Ashtavakra Gita is not very well known; most Indians have heard of only one: the Bhagavad Gita, a part of the Mahabharata. Most don't know that there are some 60 Gitas in the Mahabharata, besides others that are not part of larger treatises. The Ashtavakra Gita is one of the most profound and yet most esoteric of those standalones, whose most recent English translation is, appropriately, by Bibek Debroy, who has also written about the Mahabharata's other Gitas. In New Delhi last week, Nirmala Sitharaman launched Life, Death and the Ashtavakra Gita by Bibek Debroy and Hindol Sengupta not as finance minister (as Debroy also did not translate it as chairman of the PM's Economic Advisory Council!) and «not even as Nirmala Sitharaman», as she put it. And the portions she read out from the ancient treatise, which is a conversation between Ashtavakra and King Janaka, explained her seemingly cryptic assertion. Chapter 5, Verse 4 of the Ashtavakra Gita, as translated by Debroy avers: «You are not the body. The body is not yours. You are not the enjoyer, or the doer. Your form is that of pure consciousness. You are the constant witness, indifferent. Roam around happy.» The gentle smile on Sitharaman's face indicated that she has indeed internalised this wisdom, perhaps because she had been already introduced to Ashtavakra Gita's wisdom as a child by her grandmother.

Shares of Trump Media have slumped to new lows on the first trading day that its biggest shareholder, former President Donald Trump, is free to sell his stake in the company behind the Truth Social platform

West Bengal government's social welfare schemes, including Kanyashree and Rupashree, have been instrumental and key drivers for the social upliftment of our state, said Chief of Field Office of UNICEF-West Bengal Monjur Hossain said. He was speaking at the 'Impact East 2024 conclave organised by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) Eastern Region in Kolkata. Kanyasree, which helped in girl child education is a brainchild of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee which has received United Nations' recognition.

With 115 million shares in his control, Trump now faces the opportunity to cash in on a potential windfall or hold onto his stake, despite the financial pressures surrounding his portfolio. Truth Social, the platform launched by Trump in response to being banned from major social media outlets in the aftermath of the January 6 Capitol incident, has become a symbol of free speech for many of his supporters.

Sterlite Copper, a unit of Vedanta Ltd, has entered into a partnership with Green Line Mobility Solutions for the deployment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles for transportation. This partnership marks a significant step in the company's ongoing efforts to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and reduce its carbon footprint as part of its commitment to environmental, social and governance principles. «Sterlite Copper… announced the launch of its LNG vehicles at the flag-off event held at Vedanta's Copper Plant in Silvassa,» the company said in a statement. LNG vehicles will be used for transporting finished goods to the north zone, replacing traditional diesel trucks, in a reverse logistics model.