Spread the love Veteran Tamil film distributor and financier Tiruppur Subramaniam has said that Rajinikanth-starrer Jailer 2 would have grossed between Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,300 crore worldwide if the film had been given the advantage of flexible ticket pricing. He claimed that restrictive screening policies on opening day cost the film an estimated Rs 5-6 crore in gross collections....
‘Dia Mirza is against Hindutva’: Mumbai mayor on actors’ appeal against firecrackers
Spread the love BMC decided to pull Dia Mirza’s video from its pollution-free Diwali campaign MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has removed actor Dia Mirza’s video from its pollution-free Diwali campaign after Mumbai BJP chief Ameet Satam objected to her inclusion, triggering a political row, with Mayor Ritu Tawde calling the actor “anti-Hindu” and saying she had been blacklisted.Mirza,...
Shock and regret: scientists react to AI roiling life’s work
Spread the love For decades, three computer scientists built their careers around an idea about the limits of what computers can do. Artificial intelligence may now have shown it to be wrong: OpenAI and Anthropic each said last week that one of their AI models had disproved the exponential time hypothesis (ETH). The hypothesis holds that some problems are so...
SC permits green crackers in Delhi-NCR on Diwali; blanket ban kicks in from Nov 9
Spread the love NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the use of green firecrackers in Delhi-NCR on November 7 and 8, between 6 am and 7 am, and 8 pm and 10 pm.The top court said the complete ban on firecrackers would come into effect from November 9.The bench of MM Sundresh and Prasanna B Varale also reiterated...
At 1,000 this fiscal, IndiGo set to hire most pilots in a year by an Indian carrier
Spread the love IndiGo CEO Willie Walsh, a trained pilot will spearhead the budget airline’s international expansion NEW DELHI: In the largest ever cockpit crew hiring by an Indian airline, IndiGo has on boarded 600 pilots in the first six months of this fiscal and is on track to add at least 400 more by next March-end, say people in...
US on right AI track; robots take jobs, right tax system needed: Larry Ellison
Spread the love Larry Ellison believes AI can make everyone wealthier. The Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer says robots will take over some jobs, but argues that greater productivity and changes to taxation could help spread the resulting wealth. Speaking at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, he described a future in which automation reduces the cost of goods...
British artist Michael Pinsky’s pollution pods recreate Delhi’s toxic air: ‘It is uncomfortable. Unpleasant’
Spread the love New Delhi’s air quality deteriorated on Monday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) in both Delhi and Noida slipping into the ‘very poor’ category as a thick blanket of smog engulfed the region. According to the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) Sameer app, Delhi recorded an AQI of 310 on Monday morning, up from 277 a day earlier....
British artist Michael Pinsky’s pollution pods recreate Delhi’s toxic air: ‘It is uncomfortable. Unpleasant’
Spread the love New Delhi’s air quality deteriorated on Monday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) in both Delhi and Noida slipping into the ‘very poor’ category as a thick blanket of smog engulfed the region. According to the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) Sameer app, Delhi recorded an AQI of 310 on Monday morning, up from 277 a day earlier....
Sonia meets Lalu in Delhi; Tejashwi shares photos, reminisces UPA-era tie
Spread the love Sonia Gandhi had personally expressed a desire to meet Lalu Yadav after learning that he was in Delhi for a medical check-up. NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi met RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav at the residence of his daughter, Misa Bharti, in New Delhi on Monday and enquired about his health as he continues to...
Sonia meets Lalu in Delhi; Tejashwi shares photos, reminisces UPA-era tie
Spread the love Sonia Gandhi had personally expressed a desire to meet Lalu Yadav after learning that he was in Delhi for a medical check-up. NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi met RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav at the residence of his daughter, Misa Bharti, in New Delhi on Monday and enquired about his health as he continues to...
