Japan’s virtual YouTubers make millions from fans

Tokyo, 7/5: Mayu Iizuka sheds her soft-spoken personality and starts cackling, screaming and waving wildly in a makeshift studio in Tokyo as her avatar appears on a livestream before hundreds of fans. Virtual YouTubers like Iizuka, who voices and animates a character called Yume Kotobuki, have transformed a niche Japanese subculture into a thriving industry…

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Zomato CEO to donate Rs 700 crore for education of delivery partners’ children

Mumbai, 6/5: Online food delivery platform Zomato’s Founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal will be donating around $90 million (nearly Rs 700 crore) from vested ESOPs to Zomato Future Foundation to help fund the education of children of its delivery partners.     In an internal memo shared with the employees of the company, Goyal said…

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India doubles down on coal as heatwave worsens power crisis

New Delhi, 6/5:India is planning to reopen more than 100 coal mines previously considered financially unsustainable, a government official said on Friday, as a power crisis forces the world’s third-biggest greenhouse gas emitter to double down on the dirty fuel.     The country’s electricity demand touched a record high in April as nearly three…

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BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga arrested over alleged threat to Delhi CM

Chandigarh, 6/5: BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was on Friday detained by Punjab Police from his West Delhi residence in connection with a case lodged against him.     While senior Delhi Police officials are tight-lipped about it, no official communication has been made by Punjab Police either.   According to information, a case…

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