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    Maharashtra issues new COVID-19 guidelines: Private offices, theatres to operate at 50% capacity

    • 19.03.2021
    • Livemint

    As per the government directive, all drama theatres and auditoriums will be operating at 50% capacity and one will be able to enter the premises without wearing proper masks.

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    Streaming Service Subscriptions Surpass 1 Billion as Global Box Office Craters

    • 18.03.2021
    • Variety

    After a year in which most people were stuck indoors, it should come as little surprise that streaming platforms skyrocketed in popularity over the past 12 months. For the first time ever, subscriptions to streaming services surpassed one billion, reaching 1.1 billion globally.

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    Despite Solitude, Lockdown Wasn’t A Creative Boon for Screenwriters

    • 18.03.2021
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    Writing was the rare Hollywood vocation that never had to shut down, but A-list scribes including Damon Lindelof and Courtney Kemp describe a different reality: "I've written less in the last year than I have my entire career."

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    U.S. Box Office Fell 80 Percent in 2020 as Streaming Boomed

    • 18.03.2021
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    Digital subscribers hit the 1 billion mark globally for the first time as moviegoing collapsed last year amid the pandemic, the annual report of the Motion Picture Association shows.

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    India top country in world in use of mobile Apps: Ravi Shankar Prasad

    • 18.03.2021
    • Livemint

    India has become the top country in the world in the use of mobile applications and the government is encouraging and promoting Indian innovators to create apps, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

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    Why India needs to look east at Taiwan

    • 18.03.2021
    • Livemint

    If there is one country India should be using as a role model for pandemic management, as well as putting its Make-in-India initiatives on a stronger foundation, it is Taiwan.

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    AltBalaji plans to capitalise on the next billion ‘electrifying’ internet users from the ‘Hindi heartlands’

    • 18.03.2021
    • Business Insider

    Homegrown OTT platform ALTBalaji, known for its Hindi originals, which has sold over 16 lakh subscriptions in the third quarter, said that their focus in the coming time is going to be the "electrifying market" of next billion internet users hailing from the Hindi heartlands across the Tier 2, 3, and 4 cities.

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    India among highest adopters of digital tech during pandemic: EY survey

    • 18.03.2021
    • Livemint

    The findings are based on a survey of more than 2,000 global HHS professionals in India, Australia, Italy, UAE, the UK and the US, and includes 359 respondents from India.

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    India got VC investments worth $10 bn last year, 7,000 new startups: report

    • 18.03.2021
    • Business Standard

    Consumer tech and SaaS saw 'continued momentum' despite lockdowns to contain Covid-19, says report.

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    Responsible AI — the need for ethical guard rails

    • 18.03.2021
    • The Hindu

    Without adequate safeguards, AI can widen social and economic schisms, leading to discriminatory outcomes.

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