Month: January 2020

Business

Pay By Reliance Jio UPI-Powered Payment Process

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Reliance Jioannounced its entrance in the UPI-powered payment space. It offered this facility to over 370 million customers through an app update. Available only to selected customers in the beginning, Jio’s UPI payment facility will soon be available for others.

Reliance Jio’s UPI-payment facility

Mukesh Ambani led telecom company is eying into the flourishing market of UPI-payment. Presently this market is ruled by Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm and several others. Jio would be the first in the telecom companies and second in payment banks to start UPI-payment service. It already has a wallet service called JioMoney. The UPI option has been integrated in the main app MyJio and it works similar to others.

Users will be asked to sign up to get virtual payment address (VPA) with UPI handle @Jio. They would require providing their mobile numbers and debit card numbers attached with their bank accounts for generating UPI PIN. It is anticipated that the new service would be rolled out with the brand name JioPay. Presently Reliance provides autopay facility under JioPay. Under this service, the users are allowed to recharge their phone numbers five-days in advance before their recharges are due or after exhausting 90% data.

WhatsApp working on UPI-payment

The Facebook-owned instant messenger has been in talks with the government to launch its payment service but it is yet to receive a nod from NPCI. There is uncertainty over data localization and other regulatory hurdles. UPI-payment space has grown 3x in 2019 and the battle is expected to further intensify with entrance of new players including Jio and WhatsApp.

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Business

IMF World Economic Outlook: India Growth Would Impact Global Growth Story

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Gita Gopinath of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that India would have an effect on the global growth story. She further maintained that India had already pushed the global forecast down by 0.1%. She’s the Chief Economist of the IMF.

India projection of IMF

The world body has slashed India’s growth forecast in its World Economic Outlook released in Davos, Switzerland. It sees India’s growth to remain at 4.8% but it is 1.3% lesser in three months. Ms. Gopinath said that IMF revised the global growth down for 2019 by 0.1% considering the size of the Indian economy and its impact on global growth. She further said that the vast majority of the downgrade was from India.

Issue with India growth

Ms. Gopinath minced no words in highlighting the issue ailing the Indian economy. She said that the biggest issue was in the financial space. She indicated the stress in the financial sector, especially in non-bank financial corporations. The weakness in credit growth is visible and there appears to be an increased risk in lending in the markets. Also, there had been a weakness in rural income growth. But there was the hope of recovering GDP by up to 6.5% by 2021. The monetary and fiscal stimulus and subdued oil prices could support growth.

IMF on social unrest

The IMF report highlighted the link between social unrest and the erosion of trust in established institutions. Also, there was a lack of representation in governance structures. Ms. Gopinath said that nations should protect the vulnerable so that they weren’t left behind in the growth story.

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Media & Entertainment

SAG Awards 2020: What Was The Backstage Drama Of Brad Pitt And Jennifer Aniston?

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The SAG Awards 2020 were announced on Monday but the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were the only two names that were trending all the day on Internet and Twitter.

Backstage giggling of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston

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Pitt was seen giggling at the backstage with his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston. And it was soon after Aniston finished her speech on the stage. While Aniston was buy delivering her speech, Pitt waited for his ex-wife to finish her speech and come to backstage for a friendly conversation. But Internet couldn’t stop from clicking some adorable images of award-winning actor and actress.

SAG Awards 2020 for Pitt and Aniston

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Brad Pitt was selected for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood while Jennifer Aniston was awardedfor the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series category for The Morning Show.

Pitt and Aniston at SAG Awards 2020

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Media & Entertainment

Weathering With You: The Movie Wraps A Bigger Concern In A Romantic Way

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Weathering With You is a 2019 Japanese animated romantic fantasy movie centering on the psychic powers to control weather. In Japan, a novel adaption of the movie was released on the second of its release. The movie was so popular that it won the award of the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.

Story

Hodaka Morishima is a high school freshman. He runs away from his home and reaches Tokyo via a ferry. On the way, he escaped a freak accident due to rough weather but is saved by Keisuke Suga. Later Hodaka joins Suga’s publishing house where he befriends Suga’s niece, Natsumi. At that time, Japan was going through very rough weather conditions. They both learn about girls with psychic powers to control weather. One day Hodaka meets a teenage girl, Hina, with those powers. But she has to be rescued from dancing at a sketchy club. Hodaka convinces to start a business where Hina would use his powers to give clear weather to people.

Highlights of the movie

• It is a luminously beautiful film where Shinkai’s artists intelligently captured both micro and macroscopic details

• Concept of the movie has a metaphor for global climate change

• It is about an ordinary teenage romance that turned into a magical-realist journey

• It is full overcharged emotions of a runaway kid and a Sun girl

Weathering With You First Look & Poster

Since it is an animated movie, the poster wears a bookish look. It has both the protagonists standing in rain. Hina, the Sun girl, is staring at the sky with one hand at the Sun. She is praying … Read the rest

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Bad Boys: Will Smith And Martin Lawrence Are Back With Their Comic Action Sequel

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Bad Boys for Life is a buddy action-comedy. It is the third of the Bad Boys trilogy and a sequel to the 2003 movie Bad Boys. The movie starts in a flashback when detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnet were in the police department. Their past haunts their present life.

Story

Mike Lowrey is a hard-changing super cop in the Miami police department but his long-time partner, Marcus Bennet starts thinking for early retirement due to his family responsibilities. But their past comes to haunt their present life. A Mexican cartel leader, now escaped from prison, dispatches her son who’s brutal and vengeance-minded to execute her plans. There is a reason for Marcus Bennet to rejoin the police force to eliminate the threat. What ensues is lots of car chases in narrow streets and action between the two warring factions. Would the super cop be able to eliminate the threat?

Highlights of the movie

• Filmography of the movie is said to be of the highest level

• Mike and Marcus decently align themselves with a team of young cops

• As a family man, Marcus looks very protective and impressive

• Will Smith promised that this movie would prove to better than the others

• The movie is said to funnier and more focused on the theme of friendship

Bad Boys for Life First Look & Poster

The poster has Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the attire of policemen. They look aging especially Martin Lawrence but still, they have some juice remaining to eliminate the threat. The front is covered with the movie name and the city is seen in the backdrop.

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Sports

PUBG: Role Of Vehicles In The Gameplay

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PUBG is a popular war game that involves high-end weapons but it also offers vehicles that give speed to the players. Enthusiasts can make the game even more interesting by using those vehicles in an intelligent manner.

Here’re 5 tips for using vehicles in PUBG

Locate and identify vehicles

As soon as you land in the war, you should look for the vehicles you can use to cover short distances. Also, you should keep the passenger capacity of those vehicles so that you can choose the right vehicle for your needs.

Know when to use vehicles

Some vehicles aren’t suitable for entering into a war-zone due to their stiff controls. Also, sometimes it isn’t advisable to ride a vehicle because it could attract enemy-fire. You can choose to enter stealthily in the enemy area on foot.

Precautions with refueling

Vehicles run on fuel that you can get with inventory but you need to stop to refuel your vehicle. You should refuel your vehicle in a safe are or in the company of a partner that could give security cover while you refuel your vehicle.

Using vehicles as weapons

As a trained driver, you should know how to kill enemies with your vehicle. For example, you can drive your truck as a high speed over the enemies in order to kill them. But you shouldn’t drive straight in the line of fire.

Save a ride

Your vehicle gets overturned and there is no-one to help. What will you do? You should simply use a fragmentation grenade under the middle of your vehicle to flip it over.

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News & Politics

Bihar Makes 16,351 KM Long Human Chain With 4.27 Crore People For Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumarwill make a Guinness Book record by making a human chain stretching 16,351 km and reaching all over Bihar. A total of 4.27 crore people are expected to take part in the human chain process

Bihar human chain for environment

This human chain will in support of the pro-environment conservation efforts of the Bihar government. The efforts are to impede the climate change with the name of “Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali”. But it isn’t the first time that a human chain is attempted. In the first attempt, 2 crore people made a 11,292 km long human-chain in 2017. The second time a human chain was made in 2017 when 4 crore people made a 14,000 km long chain in 2018.

Greenery in Bihar

The state has only 4% of land under forest cover but it wants to improve its forest land up to 33%. And the government has a budget of Rs. 24,500 crore for the “Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali” project aimed at bolstering forest and water resources mandatory for all forms of life. The government has sanctioned 19 crore from the fund for this project.

The Bihar human chain

Starting from Gandhi Maidan in Patna to stretching to Kishanganj in east and Bagaha in the northwest. Bihar government has hire 15 choppers for videography of the chain formation. Videographers would shoot the formation of human-chain from sky. State education department official Vinodanand Jha would coordinate the event. He said that the BJP has instructed all its cadres including the legislators to join the chain.

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Sports

UFC 246 Live Stream: Could McGregor Make An Impressive Comeback After One Year?

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Crazy to see two champions – Donald Cerrone and Conor McGregor, people are hurriedly searching information UFC 246 live Stream. It has been over a year when McGregor last appeared in the UFC and this is what driving people crazy about the fight.

Conor McGregor

Known for fastest knockout in UFC, McGregor holds two simultaneous bets and a 21-4 record. Be he would need making some extraordinary efforts in order to win the battle with Cerrone.

Donald Cerrone

Cerrone boasts of an impressive record in both the most UFC wins and finishes. His score rating is 36-13 win ratio. And for this reason, he’s called Donald “Cowboy”Cerrone.

Quick facts about UFC 246

• Undoubtedly it is the return of Conor McGregor from retirement that is driving people crazy about the fight

• McGregor is currently the hot favorite for the fight

• His winning odds for this fight are 3/1 for win

• He would bet $5 million for the fight but the 31-year old fighter says that He could get up to $80 from his Reebok sponsorship

• Last time he appeared in the ring was in 2018 in Las Vegas

• He suffered defeat at the hands of Russian fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov

Live Stream UFC 246

UFC fans excited to see McGregor in form can watch the fight only and use a VPN to change their IP addresses, if airing of the fight is geo-blocked in their countries. Also, the fight will be aired on ESPN+. You can also find a reliable channel to watch the fight in your country.

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Business

Jeff Bezos Announced $1 Billion Investment In India By Amazon

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Amazon chief JeffBezos announced $1 billion (£770m) investment in India. He said that the investment would be used to digitalize small and medium businesses. It would help the businesses to operate and sell their products online.

Jeff Bezos in India

He was in New Delhi to attend a company event where he said that the 21st Century was going to be the Indian century. He was on his three-day visit to India. While addressing the audience at the event, he said that democracy had dynamism, energy and growth.

Mr. Bezos said that Amazon would export goods worth $10 billion from India by 2025. Also, he underlined that the online retail giant had already committed its $5.5 billion investment in the country.

Jeff Bezos met with protests

Thousands of small traders from 300 cities registered their protest against Amazon that they alleged to have a negative impact on their businesses in the local market. They said that the retail giant was driving them out of market by offering lucrative discount offers and promoting a few big sellers on his platform.

Ecommerce market in India

India’s ecommerce market is presently dominated by Amazon and Flipkart that is owned by US retail giant Walmart. Also, Mukesh Ambani is preparing to launch his ecommerce website in competition to Amazon and Flipkart. Mukesh Ambani’s Jiomart would take advantage of its large mobile phone consumer base to expand its reach.

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The US-China Took First Concrete Step Towards Defusing Trade War

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The United States and China signed a trade truce after nearly two decades of conflict. This truce came as a big breather for the global businesses that had been suffering losses due to the trade war between the two dominant economic powers of the world.

The US-China trade deal

Beijing would import an additional $200 billion in US products over two years and it would include additional $32 billion in agricultural goods. The current import would be bigger than the purchases of 2017 before Trump launched an offensive on China.

The trade war resulted in soyabeen exports to China reducing to only $3 billion from $12 billion in 2017. Due to the export slump, the Trump administration had to pay $28 billion to farmers as aid in the last two years. But leading economists are questioning whether the US farmers would be able to meet the growing demand for soyabeen.

Twice-yearly dialogue process is also restored in the deal. Previous US administration used to conduct the dialogue regularly before Trump scrapped the process.

Trump said the deal was momentous

US President Donald Trump said that he took a momentous step that was never taken before with China. He signed a deal with China’s Vice Premier Liu He. The Chinese Vice Premier said that deal was good for China, the Us and the world at large.

Trump said that the negotiations were tough but he was righting the wrongs of the past. He even thanked the Chinese Vice Premier and said that he would visit China soon.

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