Filmmaker Subhash Ghai has talked about his inspiration behind composing and writing songs for the web film ’36 Farmhouse’.

He said: “Since I became writer-director, whenever I start writing a script, I have had a habit of thinking of music also along with storylines and its characters and I used to suggest my poetic catch lines from my writing to my lyrics writers and mood of the music to my composers.

“So, my songs became an integral part of the film itself. This process clicked in a big way. So, while writing the storyline of ’36 Farmhouse’, I wrote a few lyrics and started composing too as per the story and characters.”

Ghai said it allowed him to test himself independently to write and compose three songs in a flow.’

“Today technology helps you a lot in composing song and music. I hired a musician from Whistling Woods Music School, Abhishek Bonthu, who translated my vision and compositions into a song on the computer,” he said.
He added: “Then I requested two legendary singers Sonu Nigam and Hariharan to lend their voices to my songs, and they did oblige me happily and made a lot of difference to my creation as a composer.”

The filmmaker said it was also four decades of learning from association with veterans like Laxmikant Pyarelal and A.R. Rahman and Anand Bakshi as great lyricists.

“Thirdly, I had also developed a knack of writing poems and songs during these two years of pandemic time.”

The film ’36 Farmhouse’ is directed by Ram Ramesh Sharma, and it features Amol Parashar, Barkha Singh, Sanjay Mishra, Vijay Raaz, Flora Saini, and Ashwini Kalsekar, among others.

The movie releases on ZEE5 on January 21.

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Smriti Mandhana named ICC Women’s T20 Team of the Year

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India opener Smriti Mandhana on Wednesday has been named in ICC Women’s T20I team of the year for 2021. The team of the year statements by the International Cricket Council acknowledge the best players in women’s cricket who contemplated one and all with their performances in a calendar year.

With 255 runs at an average of 31.87, Smriti was India’s most elevated scorer in the format in 2021. She scored two fifties in the nine matches she played this year and got her team off to rapid openings regularly, as evident by her strike rate of 131.44.

It is also the third time Smriti has cut for the T20I team after 2018 (opener) and 2019 (number three). Interestingly, Smriti is the only Indian player in the eleven in which England’s Nat Sciver has been made the captain with no players from Australia — the reigning T20 World Cup champions — cutting the playing eleven.

Nat, the experienced England all-rounder, produced many impactful performances throughout the year. Batting in the middle-order, she scored a total of 153 runs, including one fifty, and backed it up by picking ten wickets at an excellent average of 20.20.

Various other England players consist of wicketkeeper-batter Amy Jones, left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone, openers Tammy Beaumont, and Danni Wyatt. The eleven announced by the ICC likewise has three South Africa players in batter Laura Wolvaardt and pacers Shabnim Ismail and Marizanne Kapp, aside from off-spin all-rounder Gabby Lewis of Ireland as well as off-spin bowler Loryn Phiri of Zimbabwe.

ICC Women’s T20I Group of the Year: Smriti Mandhana, Tammy Beaumont, Danni Wyatt, Gaby Lewis, Nat Sciver (captain), Amy Jones (wicketkeeper), Laura Wolvaardt, Marizanne Kapp, Sophie Ecclestone, Loryn Phiri, and Shabnim Ismail.

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Mohammad Azharuddin has said that Rohit should hand over the Test captaincy

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Former India skipper Mohammad Azharuddin feels that Rohit Sharma should be handed the Test captaincy as he is the best in all formats.

“If he is your no.1 player in all formats, then what is the problem? I feel seeing 5-6 years ahead is a long time. It would be best if you looked forward but need to see immediately as well. To look forward, you cannot give to an inexperienced player, which might cause a problem.

“I feel Rohit Sharma is a good player and can be an outstanding captain. I feel Rohit should give captaincy, whatever experience I have and whatever cricket I have played. He might play cricket for another two or three years, he might play more as well, but his fitness will be crucial because his hamstring becomes weak repeatedly,” Azharuddin was quoted as saying by India News.

Azharuddin reckoned that Rohit’s presence in the Test series could have made a massive difference in South Africa.

“His absence in this Test series also became an advantage for South Africa because he is an attacking player, plays in an attacking fashion as an opener as well,” he said.

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Vaping increases the frequency of Covid 19 symptoms: Study

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According to a new analysis from Mayo Clinic, people who use smokeless cigarettes and examine favourably for Covid-19 have a higher frequency of getting involved with Covid signs than people who don’t vape.

The study, released in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, located that signs and symptoms include muscle aches, headaches, body discomfort, upper body pain, diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting, and loss of taste and feeling of odour.

People who vaped and smoked tobacco, and checked favourable for Covid, experienced laboured breathing and had more frequent emergency department visits than those who did not vape.

“The study was designed to compare the frequency of common Covid-19 symptoms, such as loss of taste or smell, headache, muscle aches and chest tightness in Covid patients who vaped, compared with those who were not vapers,” said David McFadden, from Mayo Clinic.

The team interviewed more than 280 Covid-positive vapers and compared them with 1,445 Covid-positive people of the same age and gender and who don’t vape.

The investigators reported that these are common Covid symptoms more frequently among people who vape.

The use of e-cigarettes has grown significantly over the past decade, especially among high school students and young adults. However, the short- and long-term health effects of e-cigarettes are unknown.

“There are a lot of studies that have shown that e-cigarette use may be associated with inflammation in the lungs and also may cause severe lung injury in certain users, causing a condition called e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury,” said Robert Vassallo, a Mayo Clinic pulmonologist & critical care specialist.

“Our research was not designed to test whether e-cigarette use increases the risk of acquiring Covid infection, but it indicates that symptom burden in patients with Covid-19 who vape is greater than in those who do not vape,” he added.

The research study kept in mind that the raised inflammation of lung tissue affected by Covid-19 infection and the swelling induced by vaping could get worse the chance of systemic swelling, with an involved rise in symptoms such as fever, myalgias, exhaustion, and headache.

“During a pandemic with a highly transmissible respiratory pathogen like SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19), it is highly advisable to reduce or stop vaping and e-cigarette use and minimise the potential for increased symptoms and lung injury,” Vassallo said.

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84% of India Enterprises Favor Hybrid Multicloud Amidst Remote Job

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More than 8 in 10 Indian businesses are transferring to multi-cloud environments for safety, efficiency, expense, and business continuity, especially with the surge of remote jobs, a brand-new report revealed on Wednesday.

Almost 58 per cent of the Indian firms are expecting to carry out such settings within three years, according to US-based Cloud calculating firm Nutanix.

“India’s digital transformation has been primarily fueled by Hybrid multi-cloud adoption as it offers simplicity, agility, manageability and scalability that most organisations seek to compete in today’s digital world,” said Faiz Shakir, Managing Director Sales, India and SAARC, Nutanix.

India’s enterprises prioritise security more than their global counterparts, and 55 per cent of those cited security and compliance as the prevailing reason for shifting applications to a different infrastructure in the past year — 14 percentage points higher than the global average (41 per cent).

At the same time, enterprises are still maturing in their understanding of multi-cloud security management or security management across dissimilar clouds.

According to the report, these enterprises are learning to reach for hybrid multi-cloud tools that enable centralised management to alleviate such issues.

With extended remote work following the rise of Omicron, hybrid multi-cloud continues to be the most agile IT environment for supporting continued flexibility, resiliency and access to applications and data.

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How Facebook Ads promotions exploit explicit client by means of ‘nanotargeting’

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Facebook Ads promotions: As government intends to break the Big Tech and fix authority over web-based media stages with respect to information protection of billions of clients, huge exploration has uncovered that Facebook publicizing stage can be efficiently taken advantage of to convey advertisements only to a particular, single client.

Portrayed as “nano targeting”, the possibly hurtful practice may be an extremely incredible asset for aggressors willing to control a particular individual and coerce the person in question on Facebook, as indicated by the paper composed by a group of scholastics and PC researchers from Spain furthermore, Austria.

The paper, named “Interesting on Facebook: Formulation and Evidence of (Nano) focusing on Individual Users with non-PII Data” – portrays an “information-driven model” achieved through 21 Facebook advertisement crusades.

The analysts showed they had the option to utilize Facebook’s Ads Manager to target advertisements so that every promotion just arrived at a solitary, explicit Facebook client.

The protection of an individual is limited by the capacity of an outsider to uncover their character. Certain information things like an identification ID, email or a
the cell phone number might be utilized to extraordinarily distinguish an individual, alluded to as Personal Identifiable Information (PII) things.

The non-PII things are the interests that FB allocates to clients dependent on their on the web and disconnected action. Thusly, since a client can be extraordinarily
distinguished by a bunch of interests on Facebook, it could be feasible to design a Facebook promotion crusade that arrives at solely a solitary client.

The outcomes uncovered that the 4 most uncommon interests or 22 irregular interests from the interests set Facebook relegates to a client make them remarkable on Facebook with a 90 percent likelihood.

Clients’ inclinations address a vital resource for Facebook since its income model depends on conveying important advertisements to clients. Numerous
publicists utilize the Facebook promoting stage to make advertisement missions to arrive at clients dependent on their inclinations.

“Supposedly, this addresses the primary investigation of people’s uniqueness at the total populace scale. Moreover, clients’ inclinations are noteworthy non-PII things that can be utilized to characterize advertisement crusades and convey customized promotions to Facebook clients,” composed the scientists from Madrid’s University Carlos III, the Graz University of Technology in Austria and the Spanish IT organization, GTD System and Software Engineering.

It is significant that “our work has just uncovered a hint of something larger in regards to how non-PII information can be utilized for nano targeting purposes”.

“A sponsor can utilize other accessible socio-segment boundaries to design crowds in the FB Ads Manager like the home area (country, city, postal division, and so on), working environment, school, number of youngsters, cell phone utilized (iOS, Android), and so forth, to quickly limit the crowd size to nano target a client,” the analysts cautioned.

The examination brings up new issues about conceivably unsafe employments of Facebook’s promotion focusing on devices, particularly when the social media stage is confronting extraordinary examination across the world with respect to client information security and protection.

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IPL 2021: Chennai Super Kings won the fourth IPL title

Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 27 runs in the last of IPL 2021 at the Dubai International Stadium here on Friday. With this success, Chennai has now secured its fourth IPL title. It finishes a momentous rebound for Chennai, who were put seventh last prepare and have now won their fourth IPL prize in a mission that began with a misfortune yet finished with a success.

Pursuing 193, the way KKR openers Shubman Gill and Venkatesh Iyer began the pursuit, it seemed as though the objective would not be just troublesome. However, when they were out, Kolkata’s pursuit fell through as they lost wickets at standard stretches to wind up with 165/9 in their 20 overs.

Gill pulled the principal wad of the innings over mid-on off Deepak Chahar. Iyer, dropped on nothing, smacked Josh Hazlewood over in reverse square leg for an incredible six. The run-fest proceeded as Gill and Iyer crunched seven fours between themselves to give Kolkata a decided beginning with 55/0 in strategic maneuver.

Iyer attacked Ravindra Jadeja with two sixes prior to arriving at his 50 years in 31 balls. Gill, who endure a got excusal as the ball contacted the Spidercam wire, pounded Jadeja for consecutive limits. The 91-run opening association was finished by Shardul Thakur in the eleventh over as Iyer holed out too long-on.

Two balls later, Thakur constrained Nitish Rana to chip a cross-crease conveyance to mid-off. Sunil Narine’s advancement to four finished in pulling directly to profound mid-wicket off Hazlewood. Gill arrived at his 50 years by smacking Jadeja over cover.

In any case, in the following over, Chahar took him out with a plunging more slow full throw which hit him before the stumps while going for the slope shot. Dinesh Karthik opened his record by pulling Chahar over long leg. In the following over, Karthik attempted to rehash the shot against Jadeja however discovered profound in the reverse square leg. One brought two for Jadeja as Shakib Al Hasan was caught plumb before the wicket.

From 120/6 out of 15 overs, the outcome was an inevitable end product. Rahul Tripathi (2) and Eoin Morgan (4) were excused economically in progressive overs. Shivam Mavi and Lockie Ferguson struck all-around coordinated limits however toward the end, it was short of what was needed for Kolkata.

Brief scores: Chennai Super Kings 192/3 out of 20 overs (Faf du Plessis 86, Moeen Ali 37 not out, Sunil Narine 2/26, Shivam Mavi 1/32) against Kolkata Knight Riders 165/9 out of 20 overs (Shubman Gill 51, Venkatesh Iyer 50, Shardul Thakur 3/38, Josh Hazlewood 2/29) by 27 runs.

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