TVS Motor company has announced that it has acquired Norton Motorcycles Holdings Ltd and Norton Motorcycles UK in an all-cash deal of GBP16 million. The legal advice for the transaction was provided by Khaitan & Co, and Slaughter and May. Norton Motorcycles was started by James Lansdowne Norton in Birmingham, […]
Montreux Jazz Festival cancelled amid coronavirus pandemic
The iconic Montreux Jazz Festival announced Friday the cancellation of this year’s edition due to the pandemic, marking the first time since 1967 that the show cannot go on. “It is with deep regret that the organisers of the Montreux Jazz Festival must today announce that this year’s event, which […]
Ford Mustang turns 56, wins the best selling sports car title for fifth year
It seems that no one can with the fireproof Ford Mustang . The American pony car has been chaining successes since it became a global model, running as the best-selling sports car on the planet. For five consecutive years the Ford Mustang has positioned itself as the best-selling sports car in the world. What makes it sweeter […]
Multitasking models: Fashion industry’s novel idea to carry on shoot!
Usually magazine photoshoots, designer campaigns and look book shoots need a whole team of art directors, makeup artists,stylists and photographers to bring a concept to life. But with staying and working from home, along with social distancing becoming the new normal, the fashion industry had to find out a smart […]
Make quarantine fun for kids
The lockdown is making us do all kinds of things like cooking and organising our homes. But when it comes to children, it becomes a tricky area. Especially during this time, when ideally it would have been their summer vacation, you would want them to be engaged in productive activities. […]
Netflix adds $50 million to relief fund for production workers
Netflix Inc has increased the amount of money in its coronavirus emergency relief fund by $50 million, bringing the total for displaced production workers to $150 million, a company spokeswoman said on Friday. Film and TV production has been shut down around the world as people shelter at home to […]
CBSE may revise syllabus of classes 9-12 to compensate for loss of time due to lockdown
After the new academic calendar of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) was released by HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on Thursday, CBSE is also working towards a revised or rationalised syllabus for students of classes 9 to 12. The CBSE is trying to revise the syllabus for […]
FBI official says foreign hackers have targeted Covid-19 research
A senior cybersecurity official with the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Thursday that foreign government hackers have broken into companies conducting research into treatments for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus. FBI Deputy Assistant Director Tonya Ugoretz told participants in an online panel discussion hosted by the Aspen […]
JNU to take disciplinary action against students violating lockdown
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Friday warned students of disciplinary action if they violated lockdown guidelines imposed on the campus. In a notice issued by Chief Proctor Professor Dhananjay Singh, it was stated that some students were found violating the guidelines. “Even as the essential service providers of JNU […]
WhatsApp to extend group call limit to take on Houseparty, Google Duo and others
WhatsApp is working on extending the group call limit to more than four participants. WhatsApp’s decision comes at a time when video and voice calling is seeing an all-time high due to Covid-19 lockdowns across the globe. WhatsApp hasn’t rolled out the feature yet but it is in the works, WABetaInfo confirmed. […]
IIT- Gandhinagar to undertake study to find out survival of coronavirus in human waste
In an effort to build an early warning system for Covid-19, the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) has joined a global consortium of 51 premier universities and research institutes to undertake surveillance of sewage water to help determine and quantify excretion of the Sars-Cov-2 virus, which causes Covid-19. On […]
How to delete your Zoom account
Zoom has been dealing with a host of security concerns lately and more and more institutions and organisations have been either banning the video-calling app or have been warning people to not use it for meetings. Relatively unknown before the Covid-19 lockdown, Zoom became immensely popular recently with many offices […]
Private schools in Bihar withhold salaries of teachers, cite low fee collection
While the government’s order to private schools for waiving fees for the months of March and April brought some respite to parents, scores of teaching and non-teaching staff in the state capital are facing the fallout of the order as they have been denied full salary this month. The authorities […]
Before Joker, Joaquin Phoenix was supposed to play Batman, but was rejected
Before he played the iconic villain Joker and won an Oscar for it, actor Joaquin Phoenix was director Darren Aronofsky’s first choice to play Batman. Aronofsky was slated to make a Batman film in the early 2000s, before the project fell apart and Christopher Nolan rebooted the franchise with Christian Bale. Part […]
New changes to PUBG Global Series announced
In the latest move by a major esports company to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, PUBG Corporation, the company behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, announced Friday it is replacing its PUBG Global Series (PGS) with a trio of regional competitions in 2020. According to a press release from the company, switching to […]