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Many companies gave a better hike to employees despite the second wave hitting the market

According to industry experts and a recent survey, the second wave impact seems muted with the green shoots visible across sectors. As per data, the actual average salary increments for 2021 across companies in the country was 7.9% as compared to 7.3%, which was the projection in March, from the Covid-19 impact and HR Trends’ survey by human resources consulting firm OmamConsultants. Following the current scenario, HR and compensation experts consider higher increments due to various factors which involve the economy doing better on an overall basis. On the other hand, some companies also attempted for higher increment for making up with the last year’s non increment gap of employees, in particular sectors that are doing well during the pandemic and it is setting the new trends of life for corporate India. With that companies have also looked towards the second wave as a humanitarian crisis, and many companies decided to support their employees morally and financially with an increment in the salary, as per the experts. Source: theeconomictimes.com

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OTT platforms aiming towards more release of kid’s specific programs with original Intellectual property

Most of the video streaming platforms are betting heavily on the kid’s prone content, especially towards the original animation IPs (intellectual properties), as its clear children have been staying mostly athome due to the pandemic and schools shut. Earlier the focus was on primary content which was already on these platforms to be released or to be brought from the linear TV. In recent practices, these OTT platforms are focusing more on the kid’s related programs. As they understand while staying at home watching TV is one of the major ways to keep the kids engaged. In this run, Telegu streaming services aha Video has introduced a brand dedicated to children, Hungama is looking forwards to bring short videos for children daily on its kid’s app while planning to deliver long-form content. Along with that Disney+Hotstar saw a huge response for its animated show The legend of Hanuman, while about 60% of the total Netflix subscription is being done to watch kids and family content. Source: livemint.com

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The government refuses to accept 14 Collegium picks for HC Judges

The union government has refused to accept the 14 names for appointment in the high court as judges, asking the Supreme Court collegium to review its recommendations. These numbers included the oldest recommendations made by the collegium back in July 2019.  As per the people who are in contact with the development, the government took more than a year to decide on returning 10 of these 14 names whereas two of them have been sent back for the second time even after the collegium reiterated them. The names which were returned for reconsideration this month included five names for appointment in the Calcutta High court, which was pending with the government since July 2019, despite the final recommendation from the SC collegium. In the same way, one name for Jammu and Kashmir has been pending for 21 months while the other one was not accepted by the governmentfor the same court and was forwardedin March this year after additional inputs. Source: hindustantime.com

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OTT Platforms opening new possibilities for media content

OTT platforms have boomed in the time of the pandemic. When movie theaters were shut and daily soaps were stopped, a new adoption of entertainment related to the OTT platforms likes; Netflix, Amazon Prime, Zee5, and many more took place. Also, we can expect a lot of newer platforms to arrive in the coming time. This can also be called a revolution in the media and entertainment segment.  There are a lot of perks and benefits when a person looks up to OTT (Over the top). Content delivery on the internet in the era where people nearly do not have many options to go for. While on OTT you get almost everything and variety under the sun and maybe in the coming days it can cover things over the sun as well. No one knows the limits of possibilities these OTT platforms can give you as an audience. Some various features and criteria make OTT platforms unique.  It gives you a lot of freedom without checks and balances, which lets the audience explore a set of unexplored facets of entertainment. No forceful advertisement to watch: Gone are days when the audience was supposed to watch ads as a compulsion for every episode or other content they watched on television. There were times when surfing the other channels too was not an option as ads used to get played simultaneously on all almost all prime channels.  So here you go entertainment without interruption on the OTT platforms. You can watch any movie, series, or drama without any interruption.  Unwanted waits are over: Gone are the days when you have to watch an episode and wait for another day patiently to watch another. In that case, the cruelest day seems to be the weekend where the waiting use to become even more longer. Now the moment a series or content is released on the OTT platform, you get the privilege to watch every episode or on the same days in one stretch depending on your preferences. Or you can leave wherever you want and start again from there whenever you wish to. No boundaries and criteria defined: There were times when a lot of series and movies could not even get released. Just because they could not meet up with the expected standards of the censor board committees. Well not to worry now. An unexplored world of entertainment with no filters is available for its audience without any barriers. To give its audience a touch of entertainment with reality. These OTT platforms are revolutionary as well as unpredictable. Therefore, a lot of expectations are yet to be met by OTT platforms in the coming times. With that audience will also have to decide where they want to set their standards for saturation and from where they wish to come back to the normal content. Or will they not come ever.

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