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Lord Jagannath's image on the wrapper of Nestle's Kit-Kat, created religious spark, gaining citicism from Netizens. One Twitterati said it is an honour to see Odisha culture on Kit-Kat wrapper, but think twice as people will throw wrappers in dustbins, roads and many will walk over. Over the criticism, the Nestle India apologised for hurting religious sentiments with this travel-break packs and withdrawal of these packs from Market.

Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman will address a press conference at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, January 18. She is more likely to brief about an ''important economic issue''. She might reaffirm the current conflict of Antrix Corporations and Devas Multimedia, along with implications posed by order of the Supreme Court, suggested reports. The Minister is all set to present the Union Budget 2022, on February 1.

Freddie Beckett, a 30-year-old resident of London, the UK, earns £160 (Rs 16,000 days) by standing in lines. The professional queuer shared his experience and said, "I worked eight hours for a job, queueing for the V&A's Christian Dior exhibition for some very well to do people, around their mid sixties". Required patience and calmness, Freddie works for rich families, senior citizens and rich youths with money.

Karnataka Government announced seed funding upto Rs 50 lakh for startups on January 16. Dr CN Ashwatha Narayan, the State Education Minister said, "The seed funding will be facilitated to additional 75 startups, to achieve the tally to 200 startups in the year". Addressing the National Startup Day, Narayan said, in 2021, Karnataka attracted Rs 1.60 lakh crore investment in 2021, 50% of India's entire investment from foreign companies. 

Bachpan Ka Pyar, song fame Sahdev Dirdo is the youngest entertainer, who entered NFT (non fungible token) space.  NFT space is unit of digital data (photos,videos,audios) stored on digital ledger of blockchain, NFTs certifies digital data as unique asset and non interchangeable. Ten-year-old Dirdo joined the digital asset space, on January 14. Actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth, Sunny Leone, Salman Khan and others launched… read-more