Author: Brett Arends

A restrained lockdown relaxation is really a week away, but may be the city ready for an impressive shift to non-public private transport in big, unmanageable figures? Fuelled through the anxiety about smashing the social-distance in public places transport, thousands could shift for their cars and bikes. May be the city ready? The chance of an unparalleled boost in using personal vehicles is real. Inside a white-colored paper posted towards the Center lately, a group of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) researchers cautioned this would trigger increased traffic congestion, elevated air and environmental noise ultimately resulting in adverse health impacts. Social-distancing is likely to emerge because the primary precautionary measure, a brand new normal despite the lockdown is...

NEW DELHI: In welcoming the high-fashion model to "The Tonight Show," host Jimmy Fallon began by congratulating Hadid "on expecting a baby." "Thank you so much," Hadid said in the prerecorded interview. "Obviously, we wish we could have announced it on our own terms. But we're very excited and happy and grateful for everyone's well wishes and support." Reports have been circulating for days that Hadid, 25, and partner Zayn Malik, a former member of the band One Direction, are expecting a baby. Gigi Hadid Confirms Pregnancy With Zayn Malik To Jimmy Fallon On 'Tonight Show' NEW DELHI: In welcoming the high-fashion model to "The Tonight Show," host Jimmy Fallon began by congratulating Hadid "on expecting a baby." "Thank you so much," Hadid said in the prerecorded interview. "...

In an interview with CNBC, Butterfield said: "What we have seen over the past couple of months is that Teams is not a competitor to Slack." "When Microsoft talk about the product, they never mention the fundamentals that Slack does, and it's been 3 plus years at this point that they've been bundling it, giving it away for free, and talking about us," Butterfield was quoted as saying. According to him, Slack's main argument about its Teams competition is that Microsoft is not as focused on users and their interactions with the app. "I think there's this perpetual question, which at this point is a little puzzling for us, that at some point Microsoft is going to kill us," he added. He had earlier said that Microsoft Teams has less them 30 per cent adoption rate among the user...

The Over-The-Top media services (OTT) market in India is predicted to grow at 21.8% CAGR from Rs 4,464 crore in 2018 to Rs. 11,976 crore in 2023, according to PwC’s Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2019–2023. There’s been a lot of buzz about the potential winners and losers of the streaming wars, with home-grown players like Hotstar, Voot, SonyLiv, Zee5, MxPlayer and Alt Balaji giving Netflix and Amazon prime a run for their money. As the rising impact of COVID-19 continues to overturn everyday life, consumption of video streaming platforms continues to spike, as per Nielsen smartphone panel report for week 4 spike in Metros is around 19% vs Non Metro 23%, averaging almost 4hrs/per week VOD consumption. The outbreak is also driving increased content consumption across devices....

On Saturday, former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha hit out at 'Bhakts' and said that for him the Constitution of India is supreme and he shall defend it till his last breath. Sinha said that "Bhakts" abused him for his previous tweet on Hindu Rashtra. He wrote, "My tweet of yesterday on Hindu Rashtra on DD has so far 7900 likes, 1,800 retweets and 3,400 comments, most of them abusive. I want to tell the Bhakts I am as good a Hindu as any, but for me the Constitution of India is supreme and I shall defend it till last breath." Earlier, on Friday, Sinha had said that Doordarshan's managers consider that India has already become a Hindu Rashtra. Taking to Twitter, he had written, "For the managers of public broadcaster Doordarshan, India is already a Hindu Rashtra. Govt of India is takin...