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AI Takes Over Delhi Election Campaign

From dubbing voices to putting faces with the help of AI, political campaigns are undergoing a Bollywood makeover. Among the favourites is a scene from the Anil Kapoor-starrer Nayak, posted by the......

Carnatic Music Goes From Raga To Rage

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not......

Publicise undertaking given to govt in 2021: SC to WhatsApp on privacy policy

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed WhatsApp to widely publicise its undertaking given to the Centre that it will not limit functionality for users not agreeing to its 2021 privacy policy but......

'3 drinks are more than enough on a long flight'

'Passengers feel since they have paid for the ticket it means they are entitled to unlimited free drinks.' Kindly note all images in this feature have only been published for representational......

Is the Modi government scared of faceless mobs?

If there is a lesson to be learnt from the 1980s, it is that mobocracy never works.And a government that yields before public protests will have ceded its right to govern, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.......

IIT, IISc scientists dislike Facebook's Free Basics

Net neutrality activists have alleged that Free Basics would discriminate access to a large number of Indians Computer science teachers and scientists of leading Indian institutes have come out......

Facebook shuts Free Basics programme in India

This puts an end to Facebook's Free Basics and Airtel's zero rating plans in India. Image Free Basics is no longer available to people in India. Photograph: Reuters In a boost to......

Zuckerberg makes renewed pitch for Free Basics service

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Monday made renewed pitch for its controversial Free Basics Internet service in yet another marketing blitz saying it protects net neutrality. Facebook's......

After Free Basics, Facebook taps BSNL for India WiFi foray

Facebook's plan is to offer WiFi-enabled broadband services under their initiative Express WiFi, which is currently in beta phase After the launch of Free Basics in India, social media platform......

Free Basics and what the debate is all about

Much of the loudest opposition comes from those in the start-up world, who fear this would put them at a disadvantage in reaching new users Both supporters and opponents of Facebook's "Free......

MX Player Is The Horse To Bet On In OTT Biz

At 250 million unique visitors a month, MX Player has for long been in the same bracket as YouTube (454 million) and Meta (324 million) in reach. Bhay traces the life and mysterious death of......

Facebook Posts Masquerading As Movies

'The directors of these movies to me are less like artists and more like red-pen remarkists, whose idea of a script is basically checking off the broadest of issues in the broadest possible ways:......

'Salman Khan and his family sabotaged my career'

'Salman Khan family is the head of this venomous serpent.' IMAGE: Salman Khan in Dabangg. Director Abhinav Singh Kashyap appealed to the government to launch a detailed investigation into actor......

The lady who wrote Badhaai Ho, Good Newwz

'The producer will wear these gold ornaments, but they will not part with Rs 30,000 or Rs 50,000 to pay the writer.' IMAGE: Jyoti Kapoor. Photograph: Kind courtesy Jyoti Kapoor/Facebook "No one......

How Bollywood's writers are fighting back

'The writer remains the most creative force in the process.''Producers need to be inventive in how they reward good writing.'Ranjita Ganesan reports. IMAGE: Excel Entertainment, producers of Gully......

Bio-secure bubble makes IPL 2020 corruption free?

Even though the Indian Premier League will be played in a bio-secure bubble, Ajit Singh, head of BCCI Anti-Corruption Unit says players could be approached for corrupt practices through......

Bereaved ATK Mohun Bagan keeper is now COVID frontline warrior

IMAGE: ATK Mohun Bagan keeper Arindam Bhattacharya lost his mother to COVID-19 on May 10. Photograph: Arindam Bhattacharya/Facebook Arindam Bhattacharya knows the feeling of being the 'last line......

Inspiring! This Marathoner wants you to break free

Partially paralysed, but with unbreakable will power and determination, Nihad Panju beat the odds to run his 4th Mumbai Marathon on Sunday.The 26 year old tells Rediff.com's Norma Godinho he wants......