Author: News Desk

https://youtu.be/GzgL94vUsZM The Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is on a mission. It is working with Truecaller to provide passengers with greater trust in communication. Truecaller verified identity will aim to reduce fraud. A way to assure that booking details and PNR status are being delivered by IRCTC. The integrated Railways Helpline 139 will now be verified by Truecaller Business Identity solutions. A green verified business badge logo will be seen while making calls to 139. Additionally, users will also see verified SMS message headers. This would ensure that the communications about bookings are from IRCTC only. The verified…

https://youtu.be/qBsWlHrkeIMThe Reliance JioPhone Next will hit stores on Diwali. The phone is priced at Rs 6,499. Buy the budget 4G smartphone from Reliance Jio by paying Rs 1,999. And, pay the remaining amount via an easy EMI scheme within 18-24 months. The smartphone runs on the Android-based Pragathi OS system developed by Google. The JioPhone Next comes with a 5.5-inch HD+ display with a 720 x 1440 resolution.  It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 215 SoC under the hood. The phone packs a 3,500 mAh battery and 32GB of internal storage. The back camera is 13MP while the front one has an 8MP sensor for selfies and video calls

https://youtu.be/NsLfunJxhwM Digital insurer ACKO has joined the unicorn club raising $255 million in a Series D round. The round led by General Atlantic and Multiples Private Equity has valued the fintech startup at $1.1 billion. The transaction is subject to approval by the insurance regulator, IRDAI. The total funds raised by ACKO now stand at $450 million. It had earlier raised capital from Amazon, Accel, and Flipkart’s co-founder Binny Bansal, among others. ACKO sells bite-sized insurance products in partnership with Amazon, Ola, redBus etc. ACKO also covers nearly 1 mn gig workers through partnerships with Zomato, Swiggy and others.

https://youtu.be/EJTylic948k The healthcare system is usually not affordable to commoners. They can’t afford medicines or medical equipment. How is it possible to make medical equipment affordable? Neha Mittal, a young entrepreneur had this thought. ‘One Above Health Care’, the Punjab-based startup helmed by Neha, was started to achieve this. This firm is providing medical equipment to pharmaceutical traders, wholesalers and dealers at low rates. They have up to 300 clients. Neha’s startup started operations in 2018. OneAbove Healthcare was started with an initial investment of Rs One crore. Since then, the startup gained a 10% growth rate every month. The company…

https://youtu.be/5RBn5qzZblIWhen a popular social media platform like Facebook changes its name, will its fans and critics stay silent? Soon after Facebook announced its new name, ‘Meta’ became the most searched news on Google and the popular hashtag on Twitter. Here are some of the interesting comments that came after Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, announced the name change.  “Meta”- “Mark Evading True Accountability”, — coverup the truth, was the reaction of the writer and messaging guru Rick Horowitz. US Democratic leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who had earlier criticised Zuckerberg in the US Congress, said that even if the company…

https://youtu.be/ni3zkq7Vtg8 Online travel platform Easemytrip has acquired business-to-business travel marketplace Traviate This is EaseMyTrip’s first acquisition. Traviate enables peer-to-peer transactions among hotels, online travel agencies and travel agents. The company has over 1.2 million hotels listed on its platform. Traviate claims that 70% of the hotel’s inventory is sold by B2B channels. The acquisition would help EaseMyTrip scale up its hotel and holiday business. EaseMyTrip has a market cap of Rs 5,345 crore as of October 28. It aims to further strengthen its B2B offerings with this acquisition.

https://youtu.be/V82uLpcak9A A new indigenous mechanized scavenging system has been successfully demonstrated. It was developed within eight months by CSIR-CMERI. The system was benchmarked with the available system in the Indian market. Its exclusive features make it the first of its kind system in India. The commonly used rodding mechanism may erode the inside surface of the sewer pipe. CSIR-CMERI’s system uses a high flow rate system jetting pump which exerts high force to clear the blockage. The collected sludge may not directly be useful for agricultural purpose. It is recommended to use the pyrolysis process to convert sludge into useful…

https://youtu.be/4Ek2cObIhhwFacebook has changed its name to ‘Meta’ foreseeing virtual reality. Since the name of Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Oculus haven’t been changed, the users of these platforms will not be affected by the name change. Facebook CEO Zuckerberg, who is a fan of classics, explained that the word ‘meta’ comes from the Greek word ‘beyond’. A new logo has been unveiled at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The new logo has a blue infinity shape with the word ‘Meta’ written along with it. Zuckerberg announced during Facebook Connect Augmented and Virtual Reality Conference that the parent company of Facebook will…

https://youtu.be/nIE0bJenVEA Tech giant Amazon is building a new app, codenamed “Project Mic”. This gives anyone the ability to make and distribute a live radio show complete with music. Project Mic’s goal is to democratise and reinvent the radio. Listeners can tune in through the app as well as through Audible, Amazon Music, Twitch and Alexa-equipped devices. Anyone will be able to pull from Amazon’s music catalogue to arrange their programme. With this, Amazon joins the likes of Apple, Spotify and even Sonos. These firms work with music curators to host shows and try to replicate…

https://youtu.be/dX2tC0LsQtM Between Nov 8 and 10, the Indian capital market will witness the biggest IPO by Paytm. According to Moneycontrol, Paytm had increased the issue size from Rs 16,600 crores to Rs 18,300 crores. The Red herring prospectus has been filed with the Registrar of companies. Prior to Paytm, the biggest IPO was launched by Coal India which raised Rs 15,745 crores. Based on the uptick in issue size, the primary component of the Paytm IPO will be worth Rs 8,300 crore. And, the additional amount will go to the offer for sale component which stands at Rs 10,000 crore.…