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1.HUM AAPKE HAIN KOUN...! Hum Aapke Hain Koun! is a romantic Hindi film written and directed by Sooraj Barjatya and produced by Rajshri Productions. The film was released on 5 th  August 1994. In the movie Madhuri Dixit and Salman Khan played the lead roles. The film was adopted from Nadiya Ke Paar (1982) which mainly based on Keshav Prasad Mishra's Hindi novel Kohbar Ki Shart. After theatrical release, the film earned over 1.27 billion rupees worldwide and became the Highest Grossing Indian film. The film making budget was 42.5 million rupees. In Indian film industry, it was the first film which gross earning cross over 1 billion rupees. from 1990s to still now Hum Aapke Hain Koun! is one of the highest earning Bollywood film ever. Even, Box office India declared that it is "the biggest blockbuster of the moder...

  Businesses in the United States are trying to come up with ways to combat the spread of the Covid-19 Delta variant. Top retail chains and restaurants in the country require its employees to wear masks and take vaccines. However, their major headache is handling customers. Taking strict measures would create many complications but not taking any measures would cause another major health disaster.       Industry experts are not in support of strict enforcement of vaccination policy for various reasons, workers’ safety being one of them. Last year, there were numerous incidents of altercations between customers and store employees, which on several occasions turned violent, as they tried to enforce the mask wearing policy. Businesses fear that taking such measures would discourage people from coming to the stores thus hurting the business.   Second, half of the US population has been fully vaccinated according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...

Is it possible to maintain a shop without producing any plastic or chemical garbage!  If not today I am going to write about a couple who had come up with the idea of Zero waste shopping.  Where people shop while bring their own  containers to refill it.  The concept of Zero waste shop is to live a life without wasting anything. Sustainable living and making everything from up cyclings is there main motto. Most of the shops contains everything in single jars and gravity even some of the shops were build in a ship container.

During this Covid-19 situation, Indian Hindi cinema has faced huge losses as well as closed thousand plus cinema complexes permanently and postponed hundred plus hits movies released. Some film projects shout down, while many people lost their jobs not only related to film’s production but also film’s supply chain.  According to a 2020 report from accounting firm Ernst & Young, India had around 9,527 screens out of which there were around 6,327 single-screen theaters and 3,200 multiplexes. Last year, around 1,000 screens shut down permanently. This is the one industry which is already dealing with losses and no one knows when they can recover from the loss.          On March, 2020Hindustan Times reported that Bollywood looking at 1300 corer rupees’ losses due to Covid-19 lockdown. Even they revealed that Bollywood film’s exported to ‘eat each other’s business’ after situation will be normal and film will start to releases theatrically.   ...

New York city has taken the initiative that provide ‘key to NYC pass’ which is the proof of Covid-19 vaccination. With this pass, citizens will be running to their businesses as also participating regular activities. This vaccination policy will play very essential role to the recovery US economic. New York city have declared to show vaccination proof for attending indoor activities. So, anyone who requires more staffs and customers for their indoors businesses and who wants to restart works they must get vaccinated against Covid-19. New York city Mayor Bill de Blasio said, “The policy would "turn the tide" on Covid. The city is creating the "Key to NYC Pass" to provide proof of vaccination to workers and patrons at gyms, restaurants and entertainment venues”.     For this policy, people are more encouraged to getting Covid-19 vaccination as current Delta variant spreads in the entire US and increased covid infections. However, New York city has some areas ...

Young bankers are not happy with the working conditions at Goldman Sachs, the famous American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Earlier this year, 13 first year bankers submitted a presentation to the management highlighting this issue. These bankers worked 95 hours per week and slept only for five hours. The long working hour affected their health and personal relationships. The bankers said that they would quit their jobs within six months unless things improve. The sleep deprivation, the treatment by senior bankers, the mental and physical stress… I've been through foster care and this is arguably worse," said one. Another remarked: "This is beyond the level of 'hard-working', this is inhumane/abuse.   After the complaint Goldman Sachs increased their salaries. Junior bankers would receive a basic pay of $1,25,000 sans bonus in their second year.   The news vexed the veterans. Xavier Rolet, a former Goldman Sachs analyst said t...

Do you remember Orkut or Google Plus? Orkut was way more popular than Facebook in 2004-05. Google shut it down in 2014. Google focused on Google Plus but lost. So, Youtube is now the nearest thing that Google has of what we call social media. Anyway, Google is doing well despite the fact that it has no platform like Twitter or Facebook. Still, Google is doing very well when it comes to earning or revenue: Today after the bell amidst a deluge of major technology company earnings reports, Alphabet reported its own second-quarter performance. The search-and-services company posted revenues of $61.9 billion in the June 30, 2021 quarter, net income of $18.5 billion, and earnings per share of $27.26. Those figures work out to top-line growth of 62%, and net income expansion of 166%. Google invested at the right time on Chrome Browser, Android OS, Youtbe and in the recent years on Cloud technology. Still, should Google go for a social networking site like Facebook or Twitter? Well, they sh...