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Applause Entertainment partners with Amar Chitra Katha to create animated contents

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New Delhi: Aditya Birla Group-owned content studio Applause Entertainment on Tuesday announced an exclusive partnership with India’s iconic comics Amar Chitra Katha marking its foray into animation content. As a part of the collaboration, the studio has acquired the license to the Amar Chitra Katha’s catalogue comprising more than 400 titles which will be developed and produced into animated content. So far Applause has produced and released 25 original series such as Scam 1992, Criminal Justice, City of Dreams, Undekhi, Mind the Malhotras and Hostages, among others, that have streamed on Disney+Hotstar, Amazon Prime, SonyLIV, Netflix and MX Player. Amar Chitra Katha titles cut across genres such as epics and mythology, history, fables and humour, stories of bravehearts and visionaries. Founded in 1967 by the legendary Anant Pai, Amar Chitra Katha has been a pioneer in comic book storytelling for children and is a cultural phenomenon in India. “Like millions of other people, I have grown up reading these comics and as a child, imagined them with dynamic visuals and dramatic sound and action. This is our opportunity to realize that dream. This partnership is also a small step towards helping export Indian culture by taking a unique and deep-rooted cultural brand like Amar Chitra Katha to screens across the globe,” Sameer Nair, CEO, Applause Entertainment said in a statement. In the recent past, Amar Chitra Katha has forayed into the digital space with all its books available on the Amar Chitra Katha app, besides remaining present on multiple digital platforms such as Alexa, YouTube and others. Preeti Vyas, president and CEO, Amar Chitra Katha said the partnership with Applause Entertainment would help to take its rich storytelling heritage to Indian and global audiences through animation. “While we continue to keep our founder, Anant Pai’s dream alive by telling new stories and creating fresh content in print and digital formats, we are also keen on presenting our stories in an animated avatar. We are confident that the (Applause) team, by adapting our stories to animation will help in providing the new and future generations of Indians a crucial link to our past,” Vyas added. Source: Mint

DMK is on the way to give a professional touch to temple appointments

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According to its electoral promise, to appoint aspirants belonging from all castes as temple priests, the DMK government on Saturday appointed 24 trained ‘archakas’, belonging to various communities as priests in the shrine. The appointment orders were handed over by chief minister M K Stalin, the orders were of the Hindu religious charitable Endowments Department for 75 personals making appointments to 208 positions in various segments. The appointments also include 24 aspirants who completed their training in the state-run center for becominga priest in Hindu temples with 34 others as well, who had completed their training in ‘pathshala’ as ‘archaka’.  Also, these 208 appointments include “Bhattacharyas, “Odhuvars” Poojaris, and technical and office assistant. They were all recruited after due process, said the government.  In this recruitment we can see, Bhttacharyas who are Vaishanaite priests, Odhuvars who are trained in Tamil Devotionalhymns composed by Shaivite saints which also include Appar and Manikavasagar in praise lord of shiva. Source: theeconomictimes.com

An Indian population-specific cancer gene panel launched by 4basecare

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A panel was chosen from the whole-exome and transcriptome data of over 1500 cancer patients, for 28 different types of cancer.  As per the company, most patients as a part of data sampling were on stage III and IV of the disease. Along with that, all the options in the standard of care were exhausted.  As per the company, the TARGT indigene cancer panel is based on data generated from tumor tissues resulting in better success rates using precision medicine in the treatment of cancer.  Dr. Hitesh Goswami, CEO 4basecare, said, “Our vision is to leverage technology to develop affordable solutions, to customize the patient care in oncology. With TarGTIndiegene, we wish to help out with precise ways to personalize the treatments for Indian Cancer Patients. The data collected from the research have helped build the largest source of mutational signature identified in a cancer patient in India”.  Source: Healthworl.com

IIM Ahmedabad goes a level up hi-tech: Launches the center for data science and artificial intelligence

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The Indian Institute of Management has launched the Brij Disa center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (CDSA). This center will be devoted to assure high-quality research in the fields of data science and artificial intelligence. The research findings are aimed towards supporting the government, policymaking, and businesses. The objective of this center is to bridge the gap between scholars and practitioners within the data-intensive organization. With that, there will be undertaking case study pattern research to analyze and understand the ongoing industry practices. Which will also help in developing case studies for classroom learning. The philanthropic support for the establishment of this center has been done by Deepak Gupta, Joint Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Group.  The CDSA will also be focused on the dissemination of knowledge to a large audience through conducting workshops and conferences. The center will also be looking forward to taking up various consulting projects that demand critical thinking and have considerable importance in the industry with vibrant players. Source: Indianexpress.com

Balaji Telefilms focused on making investments in original content and create affordable subscription

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Balaji Telefilms said the Covid-19 lockdown brought the world towards a new era of digitalization. This gave a supportive twist to the OTT platform as the main source of entertainment. Keeping the huge scope in mind, Balaji telefilms is all set to persuade and invest in the original content, with providing an affordable subscription rate.  While the company intends to invest in more original content, it also wishes to focus on delivering content serving various audience genres to ensure having something for all on the platter.  While a success rate of release of movies has been witnessed on OTT. The OTT platforms are also aiming towards providing a space of performance for small-budget deep content releases.  The speed with which OTT platforms have got subscriptions by audiences is commendable. A new establishment of the entertainment industry has been witnessed. The OTT platforms are all set to revolutionize the ways of entertainment consumption habits for people. Thus, having a huge space to experiment with content and have something for all. Source: theeconomictimes.com

Bihar CM announces 11% hike in DA for govt employees, pensioners

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Employees and pensioners of Bihar government will now receive 28 per cent dearness allowance (DA) instead of 17 per cent. This hike will come into effect from July 1. The announcement about the increment in DA was made by chief minister Nitish Kumar on the occasion of Independence Day. Another announcement that brought much cheer to the women of the State is that the Bihar government’s incentive programme for examinees belonging to other backward classes (OBC) and economically backward classes (EBC), for the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) and Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exams, will now be offered to all girls, regardless of the section of the society they come from. The scheme provides candidates who clear the preliminary exams of BPSC Rs 50,000 each and those who clear the UPSC prelims Rs one lakh each. Additionally, the income limit for students to avail the post-matric scholarship has also been increased from Rs 2.5 lakh per family per year, to Rs 3 lakhs per family per year. This benefit is extended to students from scheduled castes (SC), scheduled tribes (ST), other backward classes (OBC) and economically backward classes (EBC). This year, in April, the Government of Bihar had announced a month’s salary as bonus for all its frontline healthcare workers. This was granted to them in appreciation of their efforts in helping fight the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Source: HR Katha

Vaccination along with public behavior to decide third wave: AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria

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Visakhapatnam: The magnitude of the Covid-19 third wave will depend on adherence to appropriate behaviour, the extent of vaccination and aggressive surveillance, said Dr Randeep Guleria, noted pulmonologist and AIIMS Delhi director. Dr Guleria was bestowed Gitam Deemed-to-be University’s 41st Foundation Award in Visakhapatnam on Saturday. In an interview done by TOI, Dr Guleria said the only unpredictable factor that may affect the trajectory of the third wave could be constant mutations of the virus. “However, I believe the impact of the third wave may not be as bad as the second wave. But people should understand we are yet to overcome the second wave as India is still reporting about 40,000 cases a day,” said Dr Guleria. When asked if any vaccine tweaking is needed for the mutations, the AIIMS director said existing Covid-19 vaccines are effective against all variants. Even if vaccine recipients contract the virus, the disease will be milder and prevent deaths, he said. In reply to a question on the need for booster shots, Dr Guleria said booster shots can be considered only after vaccinating all people in the country. Answering a query on the anticipated impact of the third wave on children, Dr Guleria said there is no scientific evidence to prove that it may disproportionately affect kids. “It is only a general assumption. As per the recent sero-survey, about 50% of kids have developed antibodies against the virus, which points to the fact that they may have contracted the virus from other infected family members, but might have remained asymptomatic or escaped with mild symptoms,” said Dr Guleria. Source: TOI

Engineering Students Can Opt For Other Engineering Course Through Lateral Entry: AICTE

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New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) said that, BTech students can take admission to other branches of Engineering, in addition to their main course, through lateral entry. The council said it was receiving requests from students regarding admission to an additional BTech course through lateral entry. “The proposal was placed before the AICTE Executive Committee…and EC opined that technical universities can facilitate such students to take admission to BTech /BE by allowing them to get admission at appropriate level of BTech programme in another discipline/branch of Engineering,” the AICTE said. The council mentioned that the students do not need to study the courses they have already studied in their first discipline when they take admission to the additional programme. “The Executive Committee approved the exemption from pursuing courses already done in the first discipline of BTech programme and such students be appropriately guided to complete other requirements of the second discipline. As there is a practical component involved, students will be required to take admission in an institution/college as a regular student and the concerned university will ensure this and make necessary provision in their statutes accordingly.” The AICTE has also said the additional degree course will be completed in two to three years, “without compromising on the credit requirements in core discipline and attainment of learning outcomes of the new programme.” They have also asked institutions to make necessary changes to their statute and to take appropriate steps to provide additional courses to BTech students. Source: Careers360

Gender Diversity and Inclusivity In The Indian Workplace

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“No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of it s women and deprives itself of the contribution of half its citizens.”- Michelle Obama In India, women are now found working in almost all sectors. There was a time when iconic women revolutionaries like Ahilyabai Holkar had to fight for the right to education. Luckily, we are in the 21st century where most women are encouraged to learn and educate themselves to work and become independent.  The gender disparity in India still exists, and the number of women holding high-level positions in various fields like finance, operations, engineering, IT, research, law, etc. is still less when compared to men.  Women are essential in the workplace to propel the growth of an organization. If given equal opportunities, women have the potential to excel in all aspects of work.  A good company or an organization will always ensure that the organization has equality in all respects. However, when we talk about gender diversity and inclusivity, we forget to include the LGTBQ+ in the parameters. The main topic of discussion here is that despite their identities, all humans, especially women and the LGBTQ+ community should be given equal importance and opportunities at the workplace.  While hiring, the sole focus should be on the talent, and aspects like race, colour, caste, creed or gender shouldn’t influence your decisions.  In India, talking about the LGBTQ+ community is still somewhat of a taboo. In the modern age, the present-day workplace should be inclusive of all genders and should focus on building new policies and prioritizing inclusiveness to make their brand stand out. This will also help in establishing your organization as a benchmark and soon, others will follow in your footsteps, making India an inclusive place for people all over the world.  Promoting gender diversity increases productivity and teamwork. Therefore, it’s time to pledge for gender equality, diversity and inclusiveness to redefine the Indian workplace.

Google Cloud Gears Up To Hire Employees With Autism

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Rob Enslin, president- cloud sales, Google has announced the beginning of the Autism Career Programme which aims to develop a system that provides a fair selection process for candidates with autism who wish to apply for a job position.  To ease the process they will work with experts from the Stanford Neurodiversity Project which is a part of Stanford School of Medicine to make this project worthy. People with autism applying for jobs often have to go through certain difficulties in the selection process for example having face to face interviews and needing more time during them but Google Cloud has provided them with an option to extend the duration of face to face interviews or to give them via Google docs to make the process easier. 500 Managers working in Google cloud who will conduct these processes will be helped by Stanford in handling people with autism and will help in facilitating people’s interaction with their employees and new managers. Autism is still sometimes considered a myth and autistic people often become victims of bullying and many meaningless stereotypes. This is a very healthy and equitable process to provide equal and fair treatment and represented these communities.