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The ultra luxury Sir M Visvesvaraya Railway Terminal in Karnataka’s capital city Bengaluru was made operational on Monday, 6 June It started with Ernakulam Tri-Weekly Express The air-conditioned SMV Railway Terminal is a ₹314 crore project It has solar rooftop panels and rainwater harvesting mechanism And is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and claims to have an airport-like aura The station will have an upper-class waiting hall, a VIP lounge with a digital real-time passenger information system, and a lavish food court

Online cosmetics retailer Purplle raised capital at a $1.1 billion valuation It raised $33 million in latest Series E funding along with existing investors Premji Invest, Blume Ventures, and Kedaara Backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Purplle is a prominent rival of Nykaa Purplle will use the new capital to step up investments in technology, develop its private labels and strengthen its product Purplle was set up in 2012 by Taneja, Rahul Dash and Suyash Katyayani, three engineers from the Indian Institute of Technology

India’s first display fab facility comes in Telangana The investment will be worth Rs 24,000 crore It will produce the most advanced AMOLED displays To be used for smartphones, tablet computers, and laptops Karnataka-based Elest will set up the display fab Telangana government signed an MoU with Elest

The Mopa airport is gearing up to be operational for the travellers from September 1 Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to inaugurate the Mopa airport on 15 August 2022, the 76th Independence Day The first phase of the airport would be commissioned between August 15 and 31 The Mopa airport is set to enhance the state’s connectivity by air, by aiding the flow of civilian traffic to the state The airport is built by GMR Goa International Airport Limited (GGIAL), a subsidiary of GMR Airports Limited (GAL)

Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni becomes the brand ambassador of drone startup Garuda Aerospace He will also be one of the shareholders of the company Chennai-based Garuda Aerospace supports agriculture It is developing plans to sell drones to village-level entrepreneurs or pesticide and fertilisers retailers Garuda’s agriculture drones help with agricultural production, crop growth monitoring, and agriculture operations optimisation Dhoni has also recently ventured into farming He owns a farmhouse of organic fruits and vegetables in Ranchi

Tata Starbucks to launch vegan menu in India There is a growing demand for vegan food in India Said Sushant Dash, CEO, Tata Starbucks People prefer sustainable and healthyoptions now Consumers have been requesting us vegan options for the last two years Hence, we introduce the vegan menu India’s meat substitutes market is expected to hit $47.57 mn by 2026

All of us must have tried to cultivate a habit at least once in our life. And, we know the pain that goes behind it. As per Charles Duhigg, author of the book “The Power of Habit”, it is a three-part psychological pattern. The first part is a trigger or cue that helps you choose a task. It is followed by ‘routine’ and ‘reward.’ The app Habitica, founded by Vicky Hsu, a University of California graduate, follows the same approach. It tries to gamify habit formation by issuing reminders and digital rewards to users. The app, which is available on…

What do you do in your leisure? You might read, watch television or do some gardening. For Lyonel Dougé from West Orange, New Jersey, this is a time to chase his dream. Today, we introduce you to Lyonel Dougé, a man of courage and perseverance. A digital product manager at Johnson & Johnson, the 37-year-old spends his leisure running his own social media company ‘TipSnaps’, which launched in 2017. A subscription platform, TipSnaps offers exclusive content from local social media creators. The platform registered more than 450,000 users within five years of launch. It paid out over $2.5 million in…

Social media platform Sharechat`s parent organization Mohalla Tech is in talks with Google, Temasek and different buyers to close a USD three hundred million investment . The deal is predicted to be done in June. Mohalla Tech had raised USD 266 million in December 2021 at a valuation of USD 3.7 billion. The business enterprise`s quick video platform Sharechat claims to have around one hundred eighty million monthly user-base. In February, the business enterprise merged Times Group quick video platform MX Takatak with its Moj platform claiming that Moj and MX TakaTak will create the biggest quick video platform for…

E-commerce giant Amazon will open its new consumer robotics software development centre in India. The centre will support Amazon’s international Robotics division. The division launched its first robot Astro last year. According to Ken Washington, Vice President, Consumer Robotics, Amazon, the new centre will support Amazon’s growing consumer robotics division and attract top talent to work on world-class technology products. Astro is designed using artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor technology, and voice and edge computing. It is designed to help customers with a range of tasks such as home monitoring. Astro has an in-built Alexa. It uses advanced navigation technology…