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Competition Commission Chairperson Ashok Kumar Gupta on Tuesday said the regulator has been pragmatic in levying and quantifying penalties as the enforcement actions are not divorced from business and economic realities.Gupta, who will be demitting office on Tuesday after being at the helm of the watchdog for nearly four years, also said that the feasibility of an ex-ante framework should be considered for effectively regulating digital markets.The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been taking steps to ensure fair…

Ram Setu just got an official mobile game. In a partnership between nCore Games and Amazon Prime Video, the Akshay Kumar-led action-adventure movie has received an endless runner game. Ram Setu: The Run comes from Mumbai-based developer Dot9 Games, boasting local split-screen multiplayer, cinematic elements, and cinematic visuals inspired by the upcoming movie — releasing October 25, in theatres. Ram Setu: The Run is now available to download for free on Android and iOS devices.nCore's latest mobile game features…

How did the idea of Panchayat come up first? The idea came to me in 2017. Though I started writing it in 2018. I was working at TVF (the OTT streaming service) where I worked on many sketches. Then came a point when I thought it was time to graduate to a longer format. So when they needed a second writer on Humorously Yours, I contributed to that as well. Then I thought of developing a show of my own. At the time, I was exploring the idea of an educated city guy going to a village for a job. Initially, I had thought of…

We have seen many Bollywood celebrities getting cars as gifts. The latest one is T-Series owner Bhushan Kumar gifting a Ferrari F8 Tributo to Om Raut for the upcoming movie Adipurush. It is not a new car but the Ferrari was spotted with Bhushan Kumar for a few months and is registered to T-Series. Om Raut, the director of the movie Adipurush was spotted driving the new car on the streets of Mumbai. The Ferrari F8 Tributo is one of the most desirable Ferraris of the modern era. This sleek and low-slung supercar is in a…

While road tripping, getting rescued by strangers if your vehicle breaks down or its tyres get punctured is a heart-warming gesture. Imagine the same gesture being carried out by a renowned celebrity, whom you have praised in all the years of your life. Such an incident happened with a person named Manju Kashyap when his motorcycle got punctured during his road trip in Ladakh. But he got the surprise of his life when he got a helping hand from none other than the famous Tollywood actor Ajith. Manju was riding his…

Deep CNNs used for segmentation often suffer from vanishing gradients. Can we combat this by calculating loss at different output levels?Image segmentation entails partitioning image pixels into different classes. Some applications include identifying tumour regions in medical images, separating land and water areas in drone images, etc. Unlike classification, where CNNs output a class probability score vector, segmentation requires CNNs to output an image.Image segmentation of a tennis player (Source-Creative Commons…

The characters Sanjeev Kumar enacted on screen have lived on long after his death. These include the hapless husband in Dastak (1970), the deaf and mute father in Koshish (1972), the purposeful thakur in Sholay (1975), the obsessed nawab in Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977), and the ambitious realtor in Trishul (1978). Playing every role to perfection, he created a distinct niche for himself among the more conventionally handsome reigning screen stars of his time. Indeed, he was as much a thinking man’s actor as a director’s…

Essential guide to time series feature engineering and forecastingImage by Colin Behrens from PixabayTime series forecasting involves model building on historical time-stamped data values and external factors to make scientific predictions that drive future strategic decision-making. Training a robust time-series forecasting model for accurate and reliable predictions is one of the most challenging tasks, given its direct impact on related decisions. The robustness of the time series forecasting model solely depends on…

Essential guide to an open-source Python framework for automated feature engineeringImage by mohamed Hassan from PixabayFeature engineering is an important and time-consuming component of the data science model development pipeline. The feature engineering pipeline decides the robustness and performance of the model.There are various automated feature engineering packages that process and create features for a single dataset. But these packages fail for the use-cases that involve the usage of multiple relational datasets.…

An open-source package for time series preprocessing and forecasting with unified and user-friendly APIsImage by Colin Behrens from PixabayTime series forecasting involves model building on historical time-stamped data to make scientific predictions and drive future strategic decision-making. Time series forecasting has many uses in various domains including:Predict consumer demand for every productForecasting pandemic spread, diagnosis, medication, and planning in healthcareAnomaly detection, cyber security, and…