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Reliance Brands and Plastic Legno SPA have signed a joint venture Reliance Brands will acquire a 40% stake in Plastic Legno SPA’s business in India The acquisition will bring in vertical integration for Reliance’s toy business It will also diversify Reliance Brands’ supply chain Plastic Legno SPA is owned by the Sunino group It has more than 25 years of toy manufacturing expertise in Europe It started business in India in 2009In the toy industry, Reliance Brands is a reliable name It acquired British toy retailer Hamleys in 2019

Apple launches Pay-later service to the Wallet app It is part of the company’s expansion into the finance world This was unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference Apple Inc. also revealed an updated iPhone lock screen for its latest software iOS 16 Apple CarPlay gets an overhaulApple Watch also gets improvements One of them is atrial fibrillation detection to help with heart health

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the establishment of the ‘Jan Samarth Platform,’ A nationwide portal for credit-linked government initiatives Jan Samarth Portal is a digital one-stop shop that will connect 13 government credit initiatives on a single platform This website will connect beneficiaries with lenders directly Beneficiaries can digitally check the eligibility in a few steps, apply online under eligible schemes and receive digital approval

Kyra, a photorealistic virtual influencer is on her way to getting 100k followers on Instagram She has become quite a trend in Social media and has been termed as India’s First Virtual influencer Kyra is a Virtual and Meta Influencer created by TopSocial India An influencer for the Metaverse, commonly known as a “Meta Influencer”, Kyra is a 22-year old from Delhi, who loves travel and modeling Becoming a part of the global community of virtual influencers, in March, Kyra even participated in a Metaverse fashion week where big global fashion brands like Estée Lauder, Tommy Hilfiger and Dolce &…

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) creates a world recordThe Guinness World Records certified the recordSaid Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & HighwaysHe tweeted the certificate issued by the Guinness World RecordsThe record is for constructing 75 km continuous Bituminous Concrete in Single LaneDone on the section of NH-53 between Amravati to AkolaThe construction began on June 3 at 7:27 am and was completed on June 7 at 5 pmAbout 800 personnel and 700 workers participated in the construction

Dogs are more effective at detecting Covid-19 infections through human sweat samples than the existing rapid antigen tests The study, published in the PLOS ONE, showed that dogs were 97 percent effective at detecting Covid infection compared to PCR tests The nasal antigen tests detected 84 percent of positive Covid infections The findings suggest a potentially less invasive and quicker Covid testing alternative The researchers examined five dogs trained to sniff out Covid-19 by examining both positive and negative tests to see if they could tell They found canines were 100 percent accurate in detecting positive Covid cases in asymptomatic…

India-Qatar Startup Bridge gives hope to Indian startup ecosystem Vice President Venkaiah Naidu inaugurates India-Qatar Startup Bridge at Qatar Business Forum The joint venture aims to connect the startup ecosystems of the two countries and help each other economically The forum will lead to new networking opportunities for trade and investment between the two countries It will be a platform for the exchange of new ideas and the creation of new partnerships Invest India and the Investment Promotion Agency in Qatar have reached an agreement on cooperation to promote two-way investment Qatar has invested $ 2 billion in Indian companies…

Elon Musk has threatened to walk away from his $44bn takeover of Twitter He is accusing the firm of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts Twitter was in a “clear material breach” of its obligations and that Musk reserves all rights to terminate the merger agreement Lawyers for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the threat in a letter to Twitter that the social platform included in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission

Sourav Ganguly, former Indian men’s cricket team captain and BCCI president, has joined hands with Classplus Classplus is a Noida-based edtech startup promoting thousands of educators and content creators Ganguly took social media to announce about his new venture, on the day he completes his 30 years in the Indian cricket The SaaS platform enables private coaching institutes to streamline their video distribution, payments, communication and online assessments through a single platform It was founded in 2018 by Bhaswat Agarwal, Bikash Dash, Chukul Rustagi, Nikhil Goel and Vatsal Rustagi

Kerala Startup Mission’s HealthTech Summit on June 24 at Le Meridien, Kochi The Summit is organized in collaboration with Caritas Hospital, Kottayam, Kerala IT and e-health KERALA Minister Health and Family Welfare, Government Of Kerala, Veena George, Principal Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Rajan Khobragade and State Mission Director, State Digital Health Mission, Mohammad Y Safirullah will be present Startups will have the opportunity to showcase their products at the Summit, which will be attended by leading companies in the private healthcare sector Health tech Accelerator will be introduced for startups to build world-class products Panel discussions and hackathons will…