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Taliban leader Anas Haqqani praises Mahmud Ghaznavi who attacked Somnath temple.

Terrorism

Anas Haqqani(senior Afghan Taliban leader)

Taliban leader Anas Haqqani on Tuesday visited the tomb of Mahmud Ghaznavi, who attacked the Somnath temple in Gujarat multiple times in the 17th century. Haqqani, younger brother of Taliban’s new Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani of the infamous ‘Haqqani Network’, glorified Ghaznavi calling him “a renowned Muslim warrior”.

“Today, we visited the shrine of Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi, a renowned Muslim warrior & Mujahid of the 10th century. Ghaznavi (May the mercy of Allah be upon him) established a strong Muslim rule in the region from Ghazni & smashed the idol of Somnath,” Anas Haqqani wrote about the visit on Twitter. He also posted pictures of the tomb.

PM Modi and Jhunjhunwala meets and bullish on india

Politics

Prime Minister of India Dr.Narendra Modi’s tweet post

Telegram says gained over 7 crore new users during Facebook outage

Technology (application)

The massive outage of Facebook-owned platforms such as WhatApp, Instagram, Messenger, and the parent website benefited rival channels. Telegram, which provides an instant messaging service similar to WhatsApp, announced on Tuesday that it gained more than 70 million new users during Monday’s Facebook outage.

Paytm’s Coming of Age IPO in India: The Indian Smartphone Revolution

Digital economy

Paytm CEO – Vijay Shekhar Sharma in its launch

Paytm is also, like Zomato, a joint bet on an early entrant into the Indian mobile payment market, with the goal of maintaining market share in India’s growing digital payment market. However, the companies’ business models are vastly different, with Zomato taking 20% or more of every dollar spent on its platform, compared to Paytm taking less than 1% of every dollar spent on its platform.

Licious Raises $52 Million To Become India’s First Direct-To-Consumer Unicorn

Food Business

Licious-online fresh meat and seafood market along with cooking tips of non-veg

Licious, a fresh meat and seafood company, raised $52 million in a ‘Series G’ round sponsored by IIFL Asset Management’s Late Stage Tech Fund on Tuesday. The Bengaluru-based firm claims it has become India’s first Direct-To-Consumer (D2C) unicorn as a result of the new funding. The Avendus FLF (Future Leaders Fund) has also contributed to this round, according to the company.
A unicorn is a company valued at more than $1 billion in the startup world.
Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) were distributed to approximately 1,000 Licious employees earlier this year. This was followed by a Rs 30 crore buyback in August. The meat and seafood company raised $192 million in a ‘Series F’ investment round in July 2021.

Chalo raises $40 million to digitize bus commutes in India

Business

Mohit Dubey launched CarWale, a firm that allows consumers to sell and purchase used and new cars, more than a decade ago. However, after more than a decade with the company, Dubey realised that he was only helping 3% of India’s population. He desired to try something more substantial. Literally.
Chalo, his newest startup, allows bus operators to take digital payments and track commutes. In an interview with TechCrunch, he said that India’s bus market is a $20 billion opportunity, almost twice the size of cabs, but that there are very few buses in the country. “There are only three buses for every 10,000 people in India,” he said. It’s an area ripe for disruption, but it’s also one that’s mostly untapped.

Trio get Physics Nobel for discoveries in climate, complex physical systems

Nobelians of their new ‘law of nature'(physics) thoughts

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi (physicists)

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021 for “breakthrough advances to our knowledge of complicated physical systems.” One half of the prize was shared by Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for “physical modelling of Earth’s climate, characterising variability, and correctly projecting global warming.”
The other half went to Giorgio Parisi, who was recognised for “discovering the interplay of disorder and volatility in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”

Moody’s improves India’s outlook to ‘stable’

Economy

On Tuesday, Moody’s revised India’s outlook from ‘negative’ to’stable,’ claiming that an economic recovery is begun, with activity building up and spreading across sectors. India’s sovereign credit rating was also affirmed by Moody’s at Baa3, the lowest investment grade, just a notch above junk status.
The change in outlook to stable reflects Moody’s assessment that the downside risks from negative feedback between the real economy and financial system are diminishing.
The economic environment, according to Moody’s, will allow for a steady reduction of the general government fiscal deficit over the next few years, avoiding the sovereign credit profile from deteriorating further.

Amid WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram global outage, Twitterati have the last laugh!

Social media

This pic is a meme created by meme creaters that unveils the functional comparison among Twitter and Facebook and Facebook relatives(penguins pics are take from a cartoon show ‘Penguins and Madagascar’

The outage has once again jolted the globe into action, reminding us how reliant we are on technology. According to a Reuters article, the outage tracking website Downdetector.com recorded over 20,000 incidences of customers reporting problems with Facebook and Instagram. Over 14,000 people were unable to use WhatsApp, while approximately 3,000 people were unable to use Messenger.
Meanwhile, memers seized the opportunity to make others laugh while they awaited the delivery of their unsent messages.
We understand that it’s a difficult moment for everyone because we can’t jump from one social media site to the other, but these memes will keep you company!

Jammu and Kashmir Railway Projects are being closely monitored : Railway Ministry.

Railways

GZB/WAP-5/30018 engine (237 Trains Pulled by GZB/WAP-5)

The Ministry of Railways is keeping a careful eye on the rail projects in Jammu and Kashmir to ensure that they are completed on time. Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inspected the building sites to acquire a ground report, while Union Minister of State for Railways Darshan Vikram Jardosh examined the project’s development.

Ola acquires GeoSpoc to build next-gen location technology

Cab technology

Ola, the ride-hailing company, has acquired GeoSpoc, a Pune-based geospatial start-up, to develop technologies that make mobility more universally accessible, sustainable, personalised, and convenient across shared and personal vehicles.

Dhruva Rajan, the founder of GeoSpoc, and his geospatial scientists and engineers will join Ola as part of this acquisition. In a blog post, Founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal elaborated on the significance of a solution like GeoSpo, saying, “New vehicle form factors and modes of transportation will transform our day to day lives.” These fundamental changes will necessitate investments in next-generation technologies, such as location and geospatial technologies, as well as advancements in satellite imagery coherence. These fundamental changes will require investments in next-gen technologies, including location and geospatial technologies, and advancements in satellite imagery conversion into real-time maps as well as 3D, HD and vector maps.”