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<ul><li><keyword id="345488" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="qia" source="Orion">QIA</keyword> gives financial backing to <keyword id="13149844" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="bodhi-tree-investment-platform" source="Orion">Bodhi Tree Investment Platform</keyword>, a strategic partnership Of Lupa Systems And <keyword id="105547" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="uday-shankar" source="Orion">Uday Shankar</keyword>.</li><li><keyword id="131171" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="bodhi-tree" source="Orion">Bodhi Tree</keyword> to focus on media and consumer technology opportunities in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on India; QIA to commit up to $US1.5 billion to the venture and its opportunities.</li></ul>Lupa Systems Founder and CEO James Murdoch and Uday Shankar, the former Chairman and CEO of Star India and the former President of Walt Disney Asia Pacific, announced today they are forming a new venture, "Bodhi Tree," an <keyword id="4964195" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="investment-platform" source="Orion">investment platform</keyword> that will be financially supported by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). This new venture is designed to invest in media and consumer technology opportunities in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on India. Bodhi Tree will leverage technology to provide disruptive solutions that drive transformational outcomes in sectors with deep consumer engagement – including media, education and healthcare – to positively impact millions of consumers across the region. Bodhi Tree will be investing at scale to achieve these outcomes. The newly formed venture will be run by Murdoch and Shankar as co-chairs, combining decades of experience influencing the region's media landscape and emerging consumers. QIA will be committing up to $US1.5 billion in Bodhi Tree's vision being pursued by Murdoch and Shankar. "We are very pleased to announce Bodhi Tree," Messrs Murdoch and Shankar said. "Opportunities abound to scale exciting businesses in India and the broader Southeast Asia region. Our continued focus on investing and building relationships in these regions comes from our deep conviction in the long-term growth of these economies and the incredible power of these consumers, as these sectors are transformed by technology." QIA CEO Mansoor bin Ebrahim Al-Mahmoud said: "QIA is proud to play a key role in bringing Bodhi Tree to reality. QIA is investing i n the technology and media space and India is a key market for us. QIA looks forward to backing Bodhi Tree as they drive forward their growth plans in the future."

Uday Shankar and Lupa Systems enter into a strategic partnership to form an investment platform

<ul><li><keyword id="105547" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uday-Shankar">Uday Shankar</keyword> will step down from his position of President, <keyword id="9435264" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="the-walt-disney-company-apac">The Walt Disney Company APAC</keyword> and chairman, Star &amp; Disney India, effective as of December 31, 2020.</li><li>The announcement was made by <keyword id="247788" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rebecca-Campbell">Rebecca Campbell</keyword>, chairman of Disney’s Direct-to-Consumer &amp; International segment.</li><li>Over the next three months, Shankar will work closely with Ms. Campbell to identify his successor to ensure a smooth transition.</li></ul>Uday Shankar will step down as president, The Walt Disney Company APAC and chairman, Star &amp; Disney India, effective as of December 31, 2020, it was announced today by Rebecca Campbell, chairman of Disney’s Direct-to-Consumer &amp; International segment. Over the next three months, Shankar will work closely with Ms. Campbell to identify his successor to ensure a smooth transition. “I want to thank Uday for his leadership and dedication to our APAC business. With the successful launch of Disney+ throughout the region, he has helped put The Walt Disney Company in a commanding position in this dynamic and incredibly strategic part of the world. His vast experience and expertise have been invaluable in bringing together a strong, cohesive APAC leadership team to chart a path forward for our streaming businesses in the region and beyond,” said Ms. Campbell. “Uday has been a great friend, colleague and valued counselor to me personally, and I know I speak for all of DTCI when I say he will be greatly missed. At the same time, I understand and respect his desire to make this change. I am extremely grateful that he has agreed to stay on to help ensure a seamless transition.” Commenting on his decision to step down, Mr. Shankar said, “I have always believed in the power of creativity and cutting-edge technology to create a better world and consider myself incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to do so at Star, 21CF and now at The Walt Disney Company. As I look back on this journey, I take pride in having set ambitious goals in my professional career, and achieving all that we set out to do. For some time now, I have been contemplating the question of how I give back to the country, community and the industry that have given me so much. I think the best way to express my gratitude to all of them will be to support and mentor a new generation of entrepreneurs as they set out to create transformational solutions that will have a positive impact on countless lives. I intend to partner with global investors and pioneers to achieve this.” Since February 2019, Mr. Shankar has served as president, The Walt Disney Company APAC and chairman, Star &amp; Disney India. Previously, he was president of 21st Century Fox for Asia and the chairman &amp; CEO of Star India. He took over the leadership of Star India in 2007 and transformed not only the Star business into one of the largest and most successful media companies in Asia but has also played a significant role in revolutionizing the media landscape of the region with a great team, audacious strategy and meticulous execution. A believer in the power of local execution, Shankar led Star’s aggressive foray into regional and local language programming, transforming Star into a content powerhouse which now broadcasts more than 30,000 hours of content every year. He also consolidated Star’s <keyword id="10070894" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="sports-broadcasting-operations">sports broadcasting operations</keyword> through 21st Century Fox’s acquisition of its joint venture with <keyword id="56400" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="ESPN">ESPN</keyword>. Today, Star Sports is India’s largest sports broadcaster and is fundamentally redefining India’s sports ecosystem. In a notoriously single sport country, Star has launched multiple domestic sports leagues like those in Kabaddi and Football and has pioneered the agenda of creating a thriving multi-sports culture. Under Shankar’s leadership, Star has also made strides in disrupting the country’s digital landscape with the launch of Hotstar, which is now India’s largest over-the-top (OTT) platform for professionally produced content and has gone global in its footprint with offerings in the US, Canada and the UK. He previously served as CEO and editor of Star News, which was the first 24-hour news channel in India. He was also the editor and news director at TV Today Group, where he spearheaded the launch of Aaj Tak, a leading Hindi news channel, in 2000 and Headlines Today, a leading English news channel, in 2003. Over the past decade, Shankar has played a key role in shaping the media and entertainment sector in India, bringing reforms for the industry and its consumers. A former president of Indian Broadcasting Federation (IBF), he is currently senior vice president of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) and in line to take over as its next president.

Uday Shankar to step down as President, Walt Disney Company (APAC), Star & Disney India

<keyword id="6354512" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Infosys">Infosys</keyword> has appointed former <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Philips+">Philips</a> executive <keyword id="196155" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Krish-Shankar">Krish Shankar</keyword> as its global <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Human+Resource+">Human Resource</a> head, a post which was vacant for about six months. The India's second-largest software services exporter wants to become an <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=employee+friendly+">employee-friendly</a> firm. 
 
Shankar's appointment comes at a time when <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Vishal+Sikka+">Infosys’s chief executive officer Vishal Sikka</a> is looking to change the way company handles its employees. After his appointment as Infosys’ CEO last year, Sikka has come up with several changes including the removal of the company's formal dress code. 
 
Announcing Shankar’s appointed in a conference on Monday, Sikka said that he would be the key to transform people strategy, which would be the key in implementing the firm’s overall strategy. 
 
In the past few months, Infosys has seen a great improvement in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=v">employee satisfaction</a>, as measured by a drastic drop in its attrition rate. 
 
For the quarter ended September 30, Infosys reported an annualized standalone attrition rate of 14.1%, down marginally from the June quarter, and down nearly 700 basis points from the year ago period. 
 
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To turn into an employee-friendly firm, Infosys appoints Krish Shankar as global HR head

Mumbai, Music composer and singer <keyword id="19908058" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="shankar-mahadevan" source="keywords">Shankar Mahadevan</keyword> has expressed his gratitude with a heart-felt note after his and Zakir Hussain's <keyword id="19955942" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="shakti" source="keywords">Shakti</keyword> band Shakti won the Best Global Music Album award at the Grammys 2024. He said that this is the moment from which he can say that dreams do come true. <keyword id="20293270" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mahadevan" source="keywords">Mahadevan</keyword> took to Instagram, where he shared a string of pictures from Grammy 2024 and said that he never imagined that a band from where he learnt his music would eventually win a Grammy. He wrote alongside a picture where he is seen posing with a golden gramophone: "WE DID IT. I never imagined that a band from where I have learnt my music and my musical aesthetics would be the band with whom I would eventually perform and win a Grammy. This is the moment from which I can easily say that dreams do come true. "Shakti was a dream which came true! Thank you Almighty for making this happen! It's truly 'THIS MOMENT.'" Mahadevan and Zakir's band, which features guitarist John McLaughlin, percussionist <keyword id="20458654" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="v-selvaganesh" source="keywords">V Selvaganesh</keyword>, and violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan, gave a heartening speech. He said: "Thank you boys. Thank you God, family, friends and India. India, we are proud of you." He added: "Last but not the least, I would like to dedicate this award to my wife, whom every note of my music is dedicated to."

Dreams do come true says Shankar Mahadevan after Grammy win

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Amazon's "<keyword id="7542439" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-expanse">The Expanse</keyword>" season five finale debuted on Wednesday.</li><li>Showrunner Naren Shankar talked to Insider about how the finale sets up the next and final season.</li></ul>Warning: This story contains spoilers for "The Expanse" season five finale.Amazon's sci-fi series <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-expanse-cast-season-4-saved-by-amazon-prime-video-2019-12">"The Expanse"</a> knows a thing or two about endings - and revivals.The show was canceled at its original home Syfy in 2018 after three seasons but <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-expanse-season-4-is-a-hit-after-amazon-saved-2019-12">revived by Amazon</a> after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/syfy-cancels-the-expanse-could-be-renewed-by-another-network-2018-5">fans rallied for a streamer to save it</a>. And in November, ahead of the fifth season premiere in December, Amazon announced it renewed "The Expanse" for a sixth and final season.During an interview ahead of the season five finale on Wednesday, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-making-of-the-expanse-season-four-2019-12">"The Expanse"</a> showrunner Naren Shankar told Insider that "if there's a chance to do more" after season six, he'll take it. After all, each season has closely followed the novels the show is based on (by authors Daniel Abraham &amp; Ty Franck) and a ninth installment hits book shelves this year.But he said that's a question for the show's production company, Alcon <keyword id="4578" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="entertainment">Entertainment</keyword>. Right now, Shankar is focused on the final season, which he said began filming last week.Even if "The Expanse" is done for good after season six, season five sets up a clear conclusion. Shankar said that the sixth novel, "Babylon's Ashes," is "an ending of sorts.""Books five and six are one story," Shankar said. "Each novel before them had an individual shape, but five is the beginning of a war story and six is a war story."One main character did meet the ultimate end in Wednesday's season five finale: the pilot Alex Kamal, played by Cas Anvar, dies during a mission to rescue Naomi.Alcon <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/06/the-expanse-star-cas-anvar-investigation-sexual-misconduct-allegations-1202971689/">launched an independent investigation</a> into claims of sexual harassment and assault against Anvar in June. Anvar denied the allegations, but was removed from the series. Amazon did not return a request for comment on his removal.Kamal is still alive in the "Expanse" novels, but Shankar noted that while the series has used the books as a template, the show has strayed creatively before. Fred Johnson, played by Chad Coleman, dies in a "very different way later in the books" than how he does in season five, Shankar said.And Kamal's death on the show "raises the stakes" for the final season, Shankar said. "The problem in some sci fi is 'plot armor,'" Shankar said. "Main characters feel safe. It was appropriate to make the characters' struggles have an incredibly poignant cost ... that idea of loss hangs over season six."

'The Expanse' showrunner says season 5 sets up a series ending, but that he'd be interested in keeping the show going beyond season 6

Telecom minister <keyword id="6354886" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ravi-Shankar-Prasad">Ravi Shankar Prasad</keyword> has said that no spectrum will be given for free, even as telecom operators have demanded a cut in the proposed auction price for airwaves. The minister was talking to ET, when he highlighted how the public sector is busy combining infrastructure and leveraging the expertise of BSNL and the postal department so that the government plays is in a situation for a competitive battle with private players. 
 
"Operators will not be given free spectrum even if that were to make me the most popular telecom minister," Prasad said. He declined to comment on reconsidering the proposed price. 
 
"700MHz is the most attractive band to penetrate through thick walls," Prasad said while justifying the reasons for this high price. He also said that he doesn't expect that this decision would allow trading and sharing of spectrum that were approved after the 2015 airwave auctions to come in the way of the upcoming auction. He thinks that the size of the Indian market justifies further investment into the spectrum. 
 
Talking of the other end of the deal, telecom operators have said that the price suggested by the telecom regulator for the auction of 700MHz spectrum is too steep. 
 
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Ravi Shankar Prasad says no to free spectrum to telecom operators

<ul><li>In the last few years, Indian skincare start-ups and conglomerates have been focusing on ‘Clean Beauty.’</li><li>Plum was one of the first boot-strapped home-grown start-ups to bring veganism to the beauty and skincare industry in India.</li><li>As the focus on sustainability, clean beauty and veganism increases in our country, we speak to Shankar Prasad, CEO and Founder at Plum about upcoming trends in the skincare and beauty industry, and Plum’s goals for 2022 in India.</li></ul>The ‘clean beauty’ and skincare industry has seen the entry of several new brands. Mamaearth, Taavi, Wow Skin Sciences, Clovia Botaniqa and Lotus Botanicals. One of the first start-ups to bring veganism to the beauty industry in India was Plum. Launched in 2014, boot-strap start-up Plum caught consumers’ attention for its Kajal in a year and last year, the D2C brand launched its first Exclusive Brand Outlet (EBO) in Mumbai. It now reaches over 225 towns and cities in India through 850+ assisted outlets and over 10,000 unassisted outlets. The new-age beauty brand has been focusing on bolstering its product portfolio and brand expansion in India and across US, Middle East and South Asia. It recently launched bath and body products and added new products to its skincare line. Based on this new portfolio and existing product range, the brand is aiming to achieve Rs 300 crore annualised revenue run rate by the first quarter of FY23. A lot of the brand’s growth has come from word-of-mouth and Performance Marketing. However, now after onboarding Mithila Palkar as its first brand ambassador, the brand will start focusing on traditional B2C marketing. Advertising and marketing get about 30-45% of its annual revenue share, which was Rs 225 crore-plus in December 2021, with digital continuing to take the bigger chunk of the pie. In recent times, consumers have started looking for clean-beauty products that are made using natural products and brands that make a case for sustainability, whose growth is further fuelled by Direct-to-Consumer channels. Globally, as per Brandessense Market Research, the Clean beauty market was estimated to be $5439.6 Million in 2020 and is expected to reach $ 11558.5 Million in 2027, growing at a CAGR of 12.07% from 2020 to 2027. And in India, as per a Statista report, the Natural Cosmetics segment amounts to US$853.9m in 2022. The market is expected to grow annually by 2.90% (CAGR 2022-2026). As Plum further drives the vegan movement in the beauty segment in India, we speak to Shankar Prasad, CEO and Founder at Plum about upcoming trends in the skincare and beauty industry, and Plum’s goals for 2022. Excerpts: Q. From performance marketing to B2C communication, how has your marketing strategy changed over the years? Initially, like all brands, we also started with performance marketing. We only bothered about how much we were selling through the ads that we were running and the communication was completely product-focused. Then, as we evolved, we looked at influencer marketing, launch marketing, launch events, social media marketing, creating a buzz around the brand with fresh new ideas and content marketing. Now, a very important piece is also being added, which is community. I think Plum is one of those few brands which stands for something more than just a product to people, it's almost a way of thinking about being good as a philosophy. And we want to leverage that to build a community of like-minded people who are here not just for the deals, offers and products but also are united by a certain view of life. That’d be one of our focus areas this year. Q. What does your media plan look like now? How has your marketing budget changed this year? As a percentage of revenue, marketing spend varies anywhere between 30% to 45% of the overall revenue. While that percentage stays constant, as we continue to grow and scale the absolute number being spent on marketing is going up. There, we are finding a new mix to deploy the budget. Traditional media will get included now as part of our plan, as early as this quarter or early next quarter. But we continue to be overweighted on digital media because the majority of our sales is still online and a majority of our customers are also online. Also, the measurability of it is very attractive. Therefore, we will continue to focus on digital media first, and then non-traditional media. Slowly, as distribution expands further, we will start looking at more traditional media. Q. You were one of the first platforms to bring veganism to the beauty industry. How important do you think veganism is to consumers of today? The popularity of veganism has picked up in the last decade and a half. To us, veganism is an interesting subset of our overall philosophy. When we go out and ask people, ‘What do you think Plum is about?’ The answer is almost unanimously that it stands for real goodness. And veganism is a subset and I feel people make a lot of hue and cry about it. In my understanding, veganism is a simple philosophy where you can get by without interfering with other living beings. That to me is the most simplistic view of veganism. And when it comes to beauty, for example, what you will realise is that compared to foods where it's more difficult to let go of dairy or eggs or meat, in the case of beauty, it is relatively easy to do so. Therefore, I am not saying being vegan as a skincare brand is a technical challenge. It's more sort of a philosophy, a way of life, that is a subset of our overall message of Be Good as a brand. And along with that, veganism, particularly in beauty is a no-brainer to be following. And because vegan formulations are modern formulations, by default, they end up being clean, which is avoiding some ingredients that are not completely safety clear, or where there are doubts about. So, in effect vegan also becomes a proxy for clean in many ways. Q. Has the trend caught on in Tier II and III markets? It is very popular in Tier II and III. I was surprised at some of the numbers. The top six metros or cities account for less than 30% of our overall sales. I would have expected that number to be closer to 50. The remaining 70% is a very, very long tail of cities and towns. So there is no particular concentration in any of these geographies. If any, the skew is very profoundly towards the smaller cities and towns. Most of the early adopters tend to come from large cities. But I also noticed that even five-six years ago we were getting orders from places where none of the couriers are available. So to service them, we used to speed post it to them. Now, of course, we have courier services to most cities and towns. Q. Are more brands taking the cruelty-free movement seriously? Today, by sheer market pressures that have come on brands, most brands are cruelty-free. Also, from a regulatory perspective, it has become mandatory to be cruelty-free. So by definition, almost everybody in the market uses cruelty-free products. Having said so, vegan is still a subset of the market. I think about less than 10% of the market today talks about being vegan or care about being vegan. But the good news is that the remaining 90% of people who may or may not care about veganism, understand that it is a good thing. So, overall, it's a good place to be. And one can only see the concern for clean beauty or any form of conscious beauty, growing. It is only going up and that is a definite trend that we’ve seen. Q. What kind of changes are you bringing about to make your business more eco-friendly? Sustainability is sort of baked into our core values. So to begin with, 1% of every sale goes towards wildlife protection. As habitat shrinks, and as we continue to develop as a nation somewhere, I think it's important for us to understand that we are also willy-nilly destroying the biodiversity that has naturally existed, which sustains a lot more species than we can imagine. Second is your recycling program. We are, in fact, the first brand in India to have started a online recycling program, wherein we pick up empties for free and for every bottle empty bottle that you send us, we'll give you shopping credits. The program has been quite successful. The third thing is minimizing the use of packaging; where we don't need a mono carton, we don't put them on a carton, where we can do glass we do glass. See, plastic at the end of the day is a useful material, but one has to be careful with its use. One has to make sure that it is as recyclable as possible, enable that recycling and make it as circular an economy as possible. It's not possible to make it entirely so. But as a brand, we are doing everything we can to make it as sustainable as possible. Sustainability is a journey. It's not as if anybody can raise their hands and say I'm totally sustainable. At the end of the day, we all consume resources. It's really about how thoughtfully and how frugally you consume the resource, and how much you put back into what you're consuming. To that, end of this year, we not just want to do things ourselves, but involve our customers in this quest for sustainability. And the packaging task is ongoing. Until and unless you're able to completely get into recycled mode -- for every single piece of plastic that we use, we can't also say that we are being very sustainable. So that's another thing that's going to be done. Lastly, in terms of the shipping of our DTC orders, that consumes quite a lot of paper and a lot of cushioning material. So efforts are being done there so that we are able to reach order safely to people yet minimize the usage of resources. Q. Considering that your online recycling program has done well, do you think a brand's ecological footprint is a big decision-making factor for consumers today? What else are consumers expecting from brands of today? Sustainability in India is not that big on people's minds right now. It is there for a very small subset of people. But it's growing thankfully. Most people today are worried about what ingredients are we using and how proven are those ingredients. Simply saying it is natural is not cutting ice with a lot of people nowadays. So they need proof that it works and is safe. They need somebody trustworthy to come and tell them that this is good on your skin, and it does good things for you. So India is still on this journey toward ‘clean beauty.’ I think sustainability is the next horizon topic. Again, we are a little ahead of our time in talking about sustainability. But believe it or not, it's going to dawn on people sooner than later that it's in our own larger interest that we move towards sustainability. Government regulations, and evolving sort of landscape there is also going to have an impact on how brands and consumers look at sustainability but that to me is some time away. Q. What do your expansion plans look like? Are you planning to go deeper into the country since a majority of your revenue comes from Tier II and III towns? So we are currently in about 250-270 cities which we expanded from around 200 at the beginning of the year, so 50% growth there. Not only are we looking to expand this to 320 to 350 but more importantly, deepen our presence in these cities because in most of the cities, I'll probably have one or two outlets whereas the market can support many more. In terms of the number of outlets, we are present at close to 850 assisted points of sale and close to 10,000 unassisted points of sale, we want that number to increase to about 1200 assisted points of sales and about 15,000-20,000 unassisted points of sale sooner than later this year. EBOs, we have one operational and three under fitout. I think by December, we should be looking at at least 15 to 20 operational EBOs. So, there's a good flow of properties that we see and we're moving fast wherever we find a good fit with the brand or the demographic. Q. What are some of the trends that you're expecting to see in the beauty and skincare industry? Number one, the movement towards cleaner formulations. Number two, I think I'm expecting consolidation to pick up this year. It already started last year, it will pick up this year, where many more smaller brands will become part of larger agglomerations of brands. Also, from a consumer point of view, people will start gravitating towards more established and proven concepts rather than too much experimentation. I think 2020, as well as 2021, led to a lot of experimentation with people. But at least the top layers of the crowd that have been experimenting a lot, I'm expecting them to start a little bit more of consolidating around fewer brands and fewer concepts as opposed to wildly experimenting. And therefore that will further accelerate this process of consolidation. All the categories that we operate in, whether it is skin, makeup, hair, bath, and body, male grooming, all of them are going to see good growth prospects. Q. What is your larger vision for the brand? The larger vision is to be India's most loved, and globally recognized Clean beauty brand.

This year, we want to involve consumers in our quest for sustainability: Shankar Prasad, Plum

Mumbai, Director <keyword id="7936" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vidhu-vinod-chopra" source="Orion">Vidhu Vinod Chopra</keyword>'s "<keyword id="15771130" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="12th-fail" source="Orion">12th Fail</keyword>" has earned Rs 50.68 crore in nett box office collections, the makers on Wednesday said. Starring <keyword id="189215" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vikrant-massey" source="Orion">Vikrant Massey</keyword> and <keyword id="3273821" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Medha-Shankar" source="Orion">Medha Shankar</keyword>, the film released in theatres on October 27 in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada. "12th Fail" is based on Anurag Pathak's bestselling novel about the journey of IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma and IRS officer Shraddha Joshi. "In a remarkable feat, the Vidhu Vinod Chopra directorial '12th Fail' has crossed the 50 crores nett mark in its sixth week, totalling Rs 50.68 crore nett signalling a resounding success for content-driven cinema. Starring Vikrant Massey and Medha Shankar, this real-life tale has not only captured hearts but also emerged as a triumph at the box office," the makers said in a statement. "12th Fail" also stars Anant V Joshi, Anshumaan Pushkar, <keyword id="5500198" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="sanjay-bishnoi" source="Orion">Sanjay Bishnoi</keyword> and Priyanshu Chatterjee.

Vikrant Massey's 12th Fail crosses ₹50 crore-mark at box office

<ul><li><keyword id="2739840" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hotstar">Hotstar</keyword> is going to focus on bridging the gap between the platform and its viewers by focusing more on interactive content.</li><li><keyword id="105547" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uday-Shankar">Uday Shankar</keyword>, President The Walt Disney Company APAC and Chairman of Star and Disney India is confident that both interactive content and gamification will play a key role in Hotstar's next phase of growth.</li><li>The idea is to give its audience a place where they can share their voice and opinions.</li></ul> For a while now, OTT players have been experimenting with interactive content and gamification. Remember when <keyword id="128682" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Netflix">Netflix</keyword> got the world talking with its experimental movie, <keyword id="8431750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="black-mirror-bandersnatch">Black Mirror: Bandersnatch</keyword>, where viewers could decide the course of the story? The success of the experiment might be debatable but it got consumers talking, and brands sitting up and taking notice. Uday Shankar, President The Walt Disney Company APAC and Chairman of Star and Disney India however believes that gamification and interactive content is the way forward, and shared that Hotstar will be focusing on it, to not just break the clutter but also create another touchpoint for reaching out to its audience. During the VIVO <keyword id="6354312" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="IPL">IPL</keyword> 2019, Hotstar saw some impressive engagement around its interactive game Watch ‘N Play that opened up a two-way conversation with its viewers. According to data that the platform shared, around 64 million viewers (2X of VIVO IPL 2018) participated in the game. During the course of the tournament, close to people used close to 6 billion emojis to express themselves while around 44 million comments were shared live during the matches. For Shankar, this presents a massive opportunity. Speaking at the launch of Hotstar’s India Watch Report 2019, he said that content consumption is a social initiative where consumers want to have a voice and express their opinions. He added that content where viewers can talk to the platform and gamification will help them bridge that gap and help them grow. “We have created a false notion that TV audiences just want to sit with their hands folded and watch content. It so happened that they did not get the opportunity. The same audience, when they go to a sports arena or a cinema hall claps, whistles and hoots. We want to give the same level of engagement to people who are watching content on a screen. We have realized that people want to have a voice. We will be very focused on offering an increasingly evolved package of connectivity with content where users can interact, communicate and share. That is going to be a very big part of our roadmap ahead,” he said.

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<ul><li><keyword id="6354886" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ravi-Shankar-Prasad">Ravi Shankar Prasad</keyword> has returned to the Modi’s Cabinet of ministers.</li><li>Prasad has retained all the ministries he had – Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Law and Justice. </li></ul>Ravi Shankar Prasad returns as a Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet. Prasad who took oath in the 9th position during the swearing-in ceremony held at the national capital, has been given all his previous ministries once again. In the first term of the Modi government, Prasad held the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology and the Minister of Law and Justice from 2016-2019. From 2014-2016, Prasad was the Minister of Communications. However, Prasad was not new to the ministerial position in 2014. During the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, he held the positions – Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal and Mines, Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Prasad, who earlier held the ministerial positions from his Rajya Sabha MP seat, will this time represent Patna Sahib constituency in the Lok Sabha. This Lok Sabha elections 2019 was Prasad’s debut in the elections for the lower house of the parliament. Interestingly, even with his debut, Prasad defeated Bollywood actor and politician Shatrughan Sinha by 2.84 lakh votes. Sinha had got a ticket from the Congress party.

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<keyword id="2540" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="President">President</keyword> Ram Nath Kovind accepted the resignations of 12 Union <keyword id="6364618" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="ministers">ministers</keyword>, including <keyword id="6354886" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ravi-Shankar-Prasad">Ravi Shankar Prasad</keyword>, Prakash Javadekar and Harsh Vardhan, with immediate effect, according to an official statement on Wednesday. These resignations came ahead of a major expansion and <keyword id="44078" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="reshuffle">reshuffle</keyword> of the <keyword id="11590054" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="union-council-of-ministers-later-in">Union Council of Ministers later in</keyword> the day. In all, <keyword id="11590055" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="six-cabinet-ministers">six Cabinet Ministers</keyword>, one Minister of <keyword id="6355728" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="state">State</keyword> (Independent Charge) and five Ministers of State have resigned. Those resigned include Cabinet Ministers D V Sadananda Gowda (Chemical and Fertilizers), Ravi Shankar Prasad (Law and Justice, Communications, Electronics &amp; Information Technology), <keyword id="2839463" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Thaawarchand-Gehlot">Thaawarchand Gehlot</keyword> (<keyword id="112438" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="social-justice">Social Justice</keyword> and Empowerment), Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' (Education), Harsh Vardhan (Health and Family Welfare) and Prakash Javadekar (Environment, Forest and Climate Change). The resignation of Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Labour and Employment, has also been accepted by the president. Five Ministers of State -- Babul Supriyo (Environment, Forest and Climate Change), Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao (Education), Rattan Lal Kataria (Jal Shakti), Pratap Chandra Sarangi (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) and Debasree Chaudhuri (Women and Child Development) -- have also resigned. The President, as advised by the Prime Minister, has accepted the resignations of these ministers from the Council of Ministers with immediate effect, the statement said. SEE ALSO - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/gr-infraprojects-ipo-good-ipo-bet-for-long-term-as-per-analysts/articleshow/84193656.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">GR Infraprojects IPO is for long term investors, say analysts</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/clean-science-and-technology-ipo-maximum-broking-house-recommending-this-ipo/articleshow/84193873.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Clean Science and Technology, an Indian supplier to Bayer, has opened its IPO ⁠— and ‘subscribe’ is the unanimous call from analysts</a>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">EverlawEverlaw CEO and founder AJ Shankar</div></div></div>In the late 2000's, AJ Shankar was a grad student in UC Berkeley's computer science department when a local law by firm came in looking for a technical expert on a case. It led Shankar to stay on as a moonlighting consultant with the law firm while he finished his degree.And in 2010, he took everything he learned at the law firm and founded his startup <a href="http://www.everlaw.com">Everlaw</a>.Today, Everlaw announces an $8.1 million round of funding from high-profile VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, with ex-Microsoft Windows boss Steven Sinofsky joining the company's board. Everlaw is a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help lawyers quickly and easily sift through the "couple million documents" of emails, reports, and presentations that winning a big case can require, as Shankar describes it."The volume of data is insane, and only getting bigger," says Shankar. <h2>Discovery</h2>The technical term for what Everlaw does is "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/logikcull-is-trying-to-fix-ediscovery-2015-5">eDiscovery</a>," and it's a big deal, as law firms either task paralegals to go through those documents by hand, or else use business software from HP Autonomy and other firms. If you've seen the end of the second season of Silicon Valley, where startup Pied Piper gets buried under dozens of boxes of printed documents by archnemesis Hooli in an attempt to handicap their legal defense, you can guess why eDiscovery is so necessary.Right now, Everlaw is being used by lawyers in the litigation over the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-trial-in-nyc-set-to-air-gm-ignition-switch-recall-issues-2016-1">General Motors faulty ignition switch recall</a>. And it's going to use that Andreesen Horowitz cash to keep improving its technology and marketing both in an effort to keep landing big cases.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">REUTERS/John GressA recalled Chevy Cobalt ignition switch is seen at Raymond Chevrolet in Antioch, Illinois, July 17, 2014.</div></div></div>The overall legal market is an attractive opportunity for tech companies. Law is a $400 billion industry in the US alone, according to <a href="http://legaltransformationinstitute.com/blog/2014/2/22/make-that-400-billion-for-us">some estimates</a>.And<a href="http://www.kvn.com/news/news-items/3-E-discovery-Trends-You-Can-t-Afford-to-Ignore-Matthew-Werdegar-Ben-Hur"> eDiscovery can account for as much as 70% of the cost of any legal action</a> or lawsuit - for a lawsuit that costs a litigant $2.5 million, as much as $1.75 million of that can go toward discovery. Law firms often spend as much as $100,000 a month on eDiscovery, and one analyst in 2012 found the <a href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1208.html">average cost was about $18,000 per gigabyte</a>.Plus, those existing solutions are often based on aging, creaky software, Shankar says.But Everlaw charges a comparatively straightforward price per gigabyte of documents stored and scanned. It simplifies pricing for customers, Shankar says, while also generally reducing their costs. <h2>Human After All</h2>Another huge edge, Shankar says, is Everlaw's design and speed.In a recent $450 million class action case, Shankar says, a law firm tried out Everlaw versus their usual go-to solution - and saved 700 manhours of search. "People are desperate for it and will pay for it," Shankar says.But it's the technology under the hood that makes Everlaw so useful to lawyers who want to move faster, Shankhar says."We actually bring to bear really sophisticated artificial intelligence," he says. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">EverlawEverlaw screenshot</div></div></div>Once you're up and running with the Everlaw software, it starts to notice which documents you're bothering to open, which ones you're spending time on, and which you're sharing. From there, it can suggest which document you might like to to look at next, and the next one, and the next one. It means that in all those mountains of data, a lawyer is much more likely to have just the file they need."Fewer things fall through the cracks," Shankar says. Still, Shankar doesn't exactly think Everlaw will replace the need for human lawyers anytime soon: When a case can hinge on a judge's interpretation of one sentence of one e-mail, machines just don't have the capacity to understand the right level of nuance. "As a computer scientist, where we are now, we're not even close," Shankar says. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/strangs-problem-with-justice-system-2016-1">The lawyer from 'Making A Murderer' describes what's wrong with America's criminal justice system</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="xmOG40MDE6JkSDjXMYbzeaJnM_bJm1Pw" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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