In the midst of escalating post-poll violence, three ballot boxes were found abandoned in a drain in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, a day after the state held three-tier panchayat elections. The recovery of these discarded ballot boxes further highlights the aftermath of the violence that marred the electoral process.

In a significant move, global OTT major Disney+ Hotstar has signed an exclusive content deal with award winning film director Vipin Agnihotri's newly formed digital content studio Big Shot. As part of the multi-year deal, Big Shot will supply all its content - fiction and non-fiction series as well as films – only to Disney + Hotstar.

In a perplexing limitation, users of Threads, the competitor app launched by Meta, are unable to delete their Threads account independently without also deleting their entire Instagram account. However, there is a glimmer of hope as Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has acknowledged the issue and is actively working towards decoupling Threads from Instagram accounts. This development was announced by Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, in a recent post on Thursday.