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‘Laal Singh Chaddha’, starring Aamir Khan, earns Rs 10 crore on Day 1; Akshay Kumar starrer ‘Raksha Bandhan’ manages Rs 8 crore on opening

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Laal Singh Chaddha, starring Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan, debuted on Thursday (August 11) to mixed reviews after two weeks of controversy and boycott demands. The film’s producers, Aamir Khan Productions, had their eyes on the extended Independence Day weekend and hoped to make a fortune, but early ticket sales revealed a different pattern. Surprisingly few people saw the movie in theatres. Bollywood Hungama reports that as of Wednesday morning, the highly anticipated movie had only sold about 30,000 tickets at national chains like PVR and Cinepolis in Tier-1 cities. On its first day, the film was able to sell about 57,000 tickets throughout India. Despite having a great star cast, “Laal Singh Chaddha” made Rs 10.60 crore on its first day, according to film trade analyst Rohit Jaiswal. According to the BoxOfficeIndia report, the Raksha Bandhan festivities provided the movie a joyous boost in the late afternoon, which led to a double-digit figure. According to the report, the movie performs best in Delhi and Punjab. The movie struggled to get any traction at the box office in the Hindi circuits, though. According to Sumit Kadel, another film trade analyst, “Laal Singh Chaddha” would have grossed at least Rs 20 crore on Day 1 if it hadn’t become mired in the boycott controversy. After his box office flop “Thugs of Hindostan” in 2018, Khan made a comeback with the movie “Laal Singh Chaddha,” four years later. Along with Aamir Khan, the film also stars Naga Chaitanya, Mona Singh, and Kareena Kapoor Khan. The Telugu actor makes his Bollywood debut with this movie. In the meantime, the Thursday box office competition between “Laal Singh Chaddha” and “Raksha Bandhan,” starring Akshay Kumar, got off to a poor start. According to the film critic Jaiswal, “Raksha Bandhan” made Rs 8 crore on Day 1. Numerous theatrical Bollywood movies since the pandemic, including the “83” directed by Kabir Khan, “Bachchhan Paandey,” “Shamshera,” “Jayeshbhai Jordaar,” and “Samrat Prithviraj,” among others, have performed miserably at the box office. On the other side, this year’s major blockbusters in India have been Southern releases like “RRR,” “KGF: Chapter 2,” and “Vikram.” It would be interesting to watch if these new Bollywood films receive any reprieve from the long weekend.

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Microsoft fires 200 employees from its R&D projects and gives them 60 days to find other jobs

/ Human Resource Community

Microsoft reportedly fired 200 more employees soon after firing 1800 employees as part of a restructuring effort. This time, it has requested that members of its R&D team look for alternative positions inside the Company within two months or else be prepared to take a severance. This particular situation has an effect on even contract employees. This comes as a bit of a surprise as Microsoft announced plans to add more personnel soon at the same time it laid off the initial batch of 1800 employees. About 1% of the employees in consulting, customer, and partner solutions lost their jobs in the previous round. This time, the impacted staff members are from the company’s Modern Life Experiences (MLX) business, which was established roughly four years ago to concentrate on customer retention, reports Business Inside. In July, the software behemoth already reduced employment, citing a need for restructuring. According to recent reports, the software company is attempting to reduce expenses and costs. Employees have been instructed to cut back on spending on official gatherings, business travel, and outside training. According to media reports, managers have reportedly started paying for the food and beverages at team meetings out of their own pockets rather than billing the company for them. Companies seem to be halting or stopping recruiting and turning to layoffs due to a fear of a recession.

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Dr. Kuldeep Kumar Raina, Vice Chancellor, M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, tells how they transformed during pandemic

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“One of the important and significant features of Ramaiah University is that we are truly multidisciplinary and if we look at in the context of the new education policy, I think it fulfils most of the objectives that are laid down there,” says Dr. Kuldeep Kumar Raina, Vice Chancellor, M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences in an interview with Chandan Anand, Founding Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETbengaluru If I use the three words, physical then digital and phygital what weightage would you like to give and why? So, frankly it is 30 30 30 because both are interdependent on each other as on date but I know that in the days ahead it is going to be more towards the digital era. The dream of our honourable prime minister is to make India digital and that Digital Drive I think there is going to be more and more people aligning towards the digital learning tools. I see there is a hope for the nation, hope for the next generation and when we look at the aspiration of the people I think they want to go more in the digital mode but we cannot compromise on the face-to-face learning tools as well. Any case study or keynotes which you want to share about how Ramaiah University transformed which could be helpful or useful for others who will be listening? Yeah, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences as we all know has been there for the last six decades catering to the needs of Education. One of the important and significant features of Ramaiah University is that we are truly multidisciplinary and if we look at in the context of the new education policy I think it fulfils most of the objectives that are laid down there. Pandemic was certainly a breakthrough in shifting our thought process from the face-to-face learning online. I think with lot many specializations that we offer nearly 75 specializations in medical in Health Sciences in engineering and Technology, social science it was not an easy path for us to adopt anyone so the Blended was the solution. So, what we did in the first place we used all our ERP tool systems to reach the larger diversity of the students and thereafter we give opportunity to students to come to the lab and work on the experiments wherever they had certain doubts I think I would say that during the pandemic Ramaiah University was in the Forefront of providing all possible tools and the services for the stakeholders and students. I would like to understand how does such kind of forums where we have a connect of government academia and industry helps overall the education community or a society at large? It is the need of the hour Mr Anand because you know people have aspirations from the government and government used to serve the society. This embedding system government the private players academics the corporates there has to be a wonderful tie up and the way you are creating this synergy is really wonderful fantastic indeed. I’m happy and glad to share with you that today we are proudly celebrating our first anniversary, any message would you like to share for ArdorComm Media? My compliments to you, this year have been I’m sure great learning for you but I know that you know you have to go a long way in making people satisfied with the process and the procedures that you adopt. The beginning is wonderful I compliment you and I through you appealed all people follow the practices what this great company is going to have for the society for the students of this country. I wish you all the best in your future endeavours, let us grow together.

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Dr. Kiran Kumar Ravulakollu, Dean, Woxsen University emphasizes on internationalization of education

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“One of our university’s prime pillar is internationalization where we used to have a lot of faculty from many universities across the globe to deliver lectures to our students,” says Dr. Kiran Kumar Ravulakollu, Dean, Woxsen University in an interview with Chandan Anand, Founding Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETbengaluru Will you like to share some experience of today’s summit? Definitely, thank you very much for having me and it was a wonderful conclave you have here, usually the conclaves like this only have either educators or tech companies over there but you have a mixed match of both of them it is a very good platform for people like me, will be looking forward in the future to participate many of these kinds of things. How has your institute evolved during this last two and a half years of struggle for existence? Over the last two years has been concerned we are primarily the organization that has turned into university in 2020 May itself which is the pandemic time and though we are aspiring ourselves to a bigger goal but that particular point of pandemic hit did not stop us. We did take the particular challenge we put all the efforts towards the technology. We embrace the technology to a greater extent we provide the support of all possible educational standards and requirements to our students. One of our university’s prime pillar is internationalization where we used to have a lot of faculty from many universities across the globe to deliver lectures to our students and in the pandemic time embracing the technology has highly helped us and that’s where we are able to deliver the quality and requirement to our students and that’s I think in this particular platform also that legacy we are not stopping we are still continuing the same legacy and we see that this kind of platforms will enrich to bring us towards a greater extent where the technologies and educators can come together and do many such great things. Any message would you like to give to the institutions who are from a digital divide area maybe a two tier, three tier or a smaller town, how do they upgrade or enhance themselves in this digital era? That’s an interesting question, never fear that technology is costly, it is never costly it is how we perceive it. The way we should be able to see is technology is nowadays the modern tool for education. Education and knowledge as its own it has its value and procession at the same time technology is only the tool that will be able to empower it to a greater extent. Then modern educators are new upcoming universities, colleges and all the people especially the operations who are embracing the multi-disciplinary culture they should be able to see the technology as a mere tool then the objective the bigger opportunity to what we’re looking for will definitely be achieved. I would also like to share that today we are celebrating the first anniversary of ArdorComm Media, and this last one year has been very exciting very struggling and very experiencing, any message would you like to give for ArdorComm Media Group? It was a wonderful initiative that has been taken first of all and at the same time I was happy that through the pandemic you have able to successfully complete one year of all these particular hurdles and the way I see it the gathering the size the amount of energies that have been left over here is clearly visible that your vision has been much better and stronger. Though as a single university, Woxsen University from Hyderabad, we are smaller but we wish a good amount of success and a lot amount of participation in the future and when your next event is happened in Hyderabad I would like to be prima facie of this particular event.  

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Gujarat University launches a course on innovation and design thinking for students

/ Education Community

A course on innovation, entrepreneurship, and design thinking for schoolchildren was introduced by Gujarat University’s chief minister, Bhupendra Patel, on Wednesday. Under the direction of the Gujarat University Startup and Entrepreneurship Council (GUSEC) and UNICEF, the Vikram Sarabhai National Children Innovation Centre (VSCIC) developed the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC). The CM interacted with startups and honoured young innovators who were actively involved in the VSCIC as well as the finalists of herSTART, the GUSEC platform for promoting women-focused startups. According to a statement made by the CM that was included in an official release sent out by the GUSEC, “Everything comes down to the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat, a vision that startups are boosting by generating jobs and encouraging innovation.”  With the support of UNICEF, GUSEC established the Vikram Sarabhai National Children Innovation Center as a national resource centre.

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100 million Corbevax doses were supplied to the centre: Biological E. Ltd

/ Health & Wellness Community

The Center has received doses of Corbevax, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Biological E. Ltd. (BE), totaling 10 crore (100 million), the company reported on Thursday. The city-based vaccine manufacturer stated in a release: “Biological E. Limited has delivered 10 crore doses of Corbevax to the Government of India till now. PanIndia roll-out of Corbevax in children 12-14 years of age was initiated on March 16, 2022 and till now almost seven crore doses have been administered and 2.9 crore children have completed the two-dose vaccination regimen.” The Union Health Ministry also gave Corbevax approval as a heterologous COVID-19 booster dosage under emergency use authorization for people 18 years of age and older after primary immunisation (two doses) with Covaxin or Covishield, the company reported. The COVID-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group (NTAGI) on Immunization’s recent recommendations served as the foundation for the Health Ministry’s approval. From August 12, 2022, Corbevax is anticipated to be offered as a booster dosage through the CoWIN App in public and private vaccination centers. The vaccine was previously given the go-ahead for emergency use as a heterologous COVID-19 booster dosage for those age 18 and over on June 4, 2022, by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI). In a series of approvals from December 2021 to April 2022, the vaccine had gained emergency use authorisation as the primary two-dose immunisation schedule in adults, adolescents, and children aged five and above. For private COVID-19 vaccination centers, Corbevax is available for Rs. 250, GST inclusive. The price was set at Rs 400 for the consumer, including taxes and administrative expenses. Source: PTI

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Prof. Bishnu Pal, Dean School of Engineering and Academics, Mahindra University emphasizes on teaching-learning practices

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“I used to be at IIT Delhi for 35 years I never used PowerPoint there but now here I use because of this problem,” says Prof. Bishnu Pal, Dean School of Engineering and Academics, Mahindra University in an interview with Chandan Anand, Founding Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’ #HEETbengaluru We have seen and witnessed how the overall education industries has transformed since last two and a half years what has been the role of your university and how you have transformed your teaching learning practices? Till we have been hit by the covid, we were still in classical mode of teaching but because of the covid we had to innovate and try to maximize for the transfer of knowledge through online mode because there are no students who are allowed to come into the class. So, all the lectures were held online, when it’s the large class it was through zoom and for medium to smaller classes it was by MS Teams. The problem that we eventually experienced is that we don’t know whether the student is really listening to them. You know he’s on but this applies to a percentage of students who are not so serious that they are trying to tell themselves that I am very smart, but that is not true the good students are still attending that we can see in the in the examination. They are delivering in the examination against questions but there are some certain problems that you cannot do it since it is engineering. When you carry out the calculation step by step in that process also students’ brain is working but if you just show directly a PowerPoint right it does not work so well in engineering and most importantly the practical process laboratory classes are very difficult. So, what we did was that we teachers actually carry out the experiment and video recorded then shared with the students but whether they have understood or not that we tested by having some viva voice examinations. How does a blended education overall transform the teacher student dynamics in terms of their relation of grasping the lecture delivery? We have flagged problems there because what you do in a physical class, by just looking at the face of the student you can make out whether what you have told has been absorbed by the students from the face itself will tell. You can walk around those students who are not very serious not listen, you walk towards the end of the class and then you can ask physically you can’t do it on a blended part it’s very difficult. I’ve seen so many people are working so many ed-tech companies are working we have fantastic you know IT people around in the country so I’m very hopeful that there will be a lot of new innovations which will try to minimize these problems. Yes, completely is difficult but I also said at the end there is also a lot of positives of the online like for example you can store your figures already and that you can simultaneously use while you are writing on the board so you have that facility in the class otherwise that was not there. So, these are certain positives, it did not be completely PowerPoint. I used to be at IIT Delhi for 35 years I never used PowerPoint there but now here I use because of this problem. There also is a problem so there are innovations you have to make for every one line you can bring into animation that’s what I do and my US friend says that is a good idea because otherwise students focus on the whole board so these are the innovations. Today is also a very special day for ArdorComm Media as we are celebrating our first anniversary and one year of difficult and interesting struggle of existence, any message would you like to give to ArdorComm Media Groups? The message is you have to continuously innovate today product lifecycle is very short, I’m actually a specialist in optical communication, in telecom the general rule is that 25 years survival of a product but in optical communications during the boom time it happened within five years or four years. You need to develop an impact so this applies also to companies like you who are involved with that. So, you have to continuously innovate come out with new ideas.

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Microsoft partners with ONDC to accelerate the adoption of e-commerce across India

/ Governance Community

Microsoft joined the government’s Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) on Tuesday in an effort to provide social e-commerce via its app in the Indian market. The internet giant plans to develop a shopping app for Indian consumers as well as their social network to get the best pricing among stores and sellers. According to T Koshy, MD and CEO of ONDC, Microsoft can quickly deploy its cutting-edge concepts, including social commerce, by using the strength of its open network users. By 2030, it is anticipated that the Indian e-commerce market would be worth $400 billion, expanding at a 19% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). “Initiatives like ONDC can be a game changer amid this boom. Their UPI-like network for digital commerce is a win-win for both buyers and sellers as it will enable them to connect without dependency on any eCommerce solution,” said a Microsoft spokesperson. By bringing online micro, small, and medium-sized businesses as well as small traders, the government is attempting to build the largest interoperable open platform with ONDC, a project similar to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to support open networks. This is done in an effort to break up e-commerce monopolies and create a more democratic digital marketplace. Businesses like Dunzo for Business (D4B), Go Frugal, Paytm, Digit, PhonePe, and Loadshare are now part of the ONDC network. This month, the e-commerce site Snapdeal will make its ONDC debut.

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Odisha will introduce a gender equity curriculum in government schools

/ Education Community

A gender equity curriculum will be incorporated into the curriculum for students in all government schools in Odisha in order to change their views, aspirations, and behaviour. The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-Pal), South Asia, and the women’s rights organisation Breakthrough inked a memorandum of understanding with the School Education Department on Monday in Bhubaneswar. According to a formal statement, the curriculum includes interactive class discussions to educate adolescent boys and girls to consider the culturally embedded gender norms, roles, and discriminatory practises. By August, it will be included in the social studies curriculum for both boys and girls in classes 6 – 10 at more than 18,000 elementary and 5,000 secondary schools. J-Pal South Asia executive director Shobhini Mukerji said, “Adolescence presents a crucial window of opportunity to change even deeply-rooted norms and instil more progressive gender attitudes.” Breakthrough will collaborate with the department to integrate the curriculum into the syllabus, contextualise it, educate teachers, gather teacher feedback, hold workshops, and involve parents in the process. To make sure the programme is meeting its goals to produce insights for long-term, high-quality government implementation of the curriculum, J-Pal will carry out independent monitoring activities. “Gender equality is very important. We are working on it.” School Education Minister Samir Dash said. Positive gender attitudes, parental support for daughters’ education, an improvement in the sex ratio, and higher rates of female labour force participation are all anticipated outcomes of the programme. The project intends to offer girls options for their education and employment, keep them in school for a greater number of years, reduce dropout rates, and raise the age of marriage and first childbirth. Sohini Bhattacharya, the chief executive officer of Breakthrough, emphasised that gender perceptions are developed at a young age. “Therefore, we need to ensure that children, especially those between the 10-15 years, have access to the right information related to gender equality, legal rights, and healthy gender behaviours,” Bhattacharya stated. The state’s sustainable development goals (SDG) of gender equality and high-quality education would be more easily attained with the support of the Gender Equity Programme. Principal secretary, school education secretary department, Bishnupada Sethi said, “We’ll have wide-ranging topics that will be covered in schools as part of this programme in our continued efforts to build a gender-equal world.” Source: PTI

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Jio completes 5G coverage planning for the top 1,000 cities

/ Media Entertainment & Art Community

Reliance Jio, a major telecom provider, has completed planning 5G coverage for 1,000 cities and has done field tests of its own 5G telecom equipment, according to Reliance Industries’ annual report for 2021–2022. According to the report, Jio has finished its 5G coverage strategy in the top 1,000 cities based on consumer target usage and income potential using heat maps, 3D maps, and ray tracing technology. According to the report, Jio has actively tested a variety of 5G use cases, including augmented reality and virtual reality, low-latency cloud gaming, network slicing and multi-tenancy for video delivery, TV streaming, connected hospitals, and industrial applications. The Mukesh Ambani-led telco placed first in the recently concluded 5G auctions, submitting a total bid of 88,078 crore for 24,740 MHz of spectrum spread across five bands. Jio was the first telco to purchase the exclusive premium 700MHz spectrum, which will allow it to roll out fully-fledged independent 5G networks. Jio also has exclusive access to the 3.5GHz band, another essential 5G band. To speed up research and standardisation in 6G, Jio has also partnered with the University of Oulu in Finland, which is in charge of the first significant 6G research programme in the world. Jio and Google signed into a strategic relationship for Jio’s Cloud Solutions to enable both the enterprise and consumer 5G experiences in India. The Department of Telecom estimates that 5G technology will have up to three times the spectrum efficiency and 10 times the download speed of 4G. Jio, which rose to the top of the fixed broadband market and now targets connecting 50 million homes and 50 million MSMBs in India, sees fixed broadband as a big greenfield opportunity. Key differentiators will include its extensive intra-city fibre network, execution skills, exceptional customer experience, and varied suite and packaging of digital content, tech-enabled tools, and solutions.

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