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The White Tiger Movie Review in Details

This movie is based on Aravind Adiga’s 2006 Man Booker Prize-winning outstanding novel. The film The White Tiger tells the story of a man named Balram. This man tries to put himself out of the poverty and the chains of caste to be a successful entrepreneur. The White Tiger depicts struggles of poverty in an unknown village near Dhanbad. The father of this man who is a rickshaw puller dying because of tuberculosis, also shows his life being a bright student to work in a tea stall.

He is not the type of man who accepts his card’s life, so when he got to know that a rich family in Dhanbad has needed a driver for their America-returned son, Ashok, he just adopt the driving skill., thus he gets the job and makes himself indispensable. As a good servant, he has performed his job very well but inevitably thrown under the bus at the first sign of trouble.

The White Tiger Movie Review in Details

The director of this film Ramin Bahrani, who has written the screenplay has tried to avoid the clinches of exotic India. As he has a proficient, light hand at the wheel, so he has to tolerate many hypocrisies that make modern India from the outright brutality of Ashok’s father and also his brother to the meaningful but inefficient kindnesses of Ashok and his wife, Pinky.

This movie revolves around heavy-duty themes of caste, corruption, globalization, and entrepreneurship. All the cast and scripting are brilliant. By playing the lead role of Balram, Adarsh Gaurav has revealed his first lead role, from the switching to a caring, hurt to anger and the despair to optimism in a moment.

The dialog of Balram from this movie that doesn’t for a second think there was a million-rupee game show one can win to get out, that remembered you of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, that can depict The White Tiger’s spiritual sibling with its 70’s Hindi films. This film is very charming, funny, and also heartbreaking kind. This movie will also give us the thrill of riding with this heroic driver.

ESFI introduces national rankings for esports

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Resilience, Checkmate & Adbhut Esports grabs top spot in Three video game categories

Rankings for other video games will also be unveiled soon

New Delhi, January 25, 2021: Esports Federation of India (ESFI) in a bid to streamline the sport as well as bring in legitimacy among the gamers involved, released the first-ever national ranking system based on the open ranking tournaments played in the last two months to determine the best performing players. Team Resilience, Checkmate, and Adbhut Esports have topped the individual categories in the national rankings.

ESFI released national rankings for games- Call of Duty Mobile (Battle Royale), FreeFire and Valorant, which are some of the most popular video games and played by many. The performances of 60, 65 and 26 open matches conducted for Call of Duty Mobile, FreeFire and Valorant respectively during the period of November to December in 2020 were considered while announcing these rankings.

“With esports being included as a medal event at the 2022 Asian Games among other major Championships, it is important that we follow all the necessary requirements like in any other medal sports to determine the best players of the country. In the month of November and December, we organised several scrims and there have been huge responses in these events. While the gamers (athletes) showcased great technique and competitive, each scrim was keenly contested before the champions were declared,” ESFI Director Lokesh Suji said.

Seven-member Team Resilience pitted themselves very strongly with 682 points and were declared the top team in the Call of Duty (Mobile) category followed by Team Revolution (629) and Zelotz 2EZ (627) taking the second and third position respectively. Checkmate (111) and Adbhut Esports (78) became the winners in the Freefire and Valorant categories respectively.

“Creating a pool of credible national gamers is a key responsibility that ESFI intends to shoulder in order to initiate and streamline a professional approach towards playing and organizing tournaments that are played in India. The athletes will help to maintain a certain standard of play, it will also regulate the esports ecosystem,” Suji further added.

While Esports witnessed exponential rise in the pandemic which catapulted the urge to create a community closer and build a much bigger plethora of professional athletes in order to determine the future of Esports in India. ESFI will continue with the process of announcing national rankings for various games in the future as well.

While, Free Fire Daily T1/T2/T3, Call of Duty Mobile Battle Royale scrims season 2 and multiplayer are already underway, Valorant will also begin from the last week of January with more games like PES, DOTA 2, FIFA , CR, COC and Brawl Stars to take place soon.

Details of teams at top:

Team Resilience (Call of Duty Mobile Battle Royale):

  • Sushain ‘Dexter’ Gupta
  • Mannat ‘Truman’ Khanna
  •  Naurav ‘Pollax’ Kumar
  •  Shaurya ‘Neta’
  • Yash ‘Wizard’ Gupta
  • Shivansh ‘Skullxyy’ Kalra and
  • Ronit ‘Edith’ Kataria

Team Checkmate (FreeFire)

  • Arun ‘Deadend’ Yadav
  • Ram ‘Scooper’ Devdas
  • Nirmal ‘Unique-007’ Kumar
  • Akshay ‘Syko’ Shiyani and
  • Arshpreet ‘Arsh’

Team Adbhut (Valorant)

  • Hridya ‘RektyRowdyy’ Dham
  • Kunal ‘IshocKK’ Khandelwal
  • Bhavay ‘Fishy Bubbly’ Batra
  • Prashant ‘FranK’ Das
  • Mayank ‘Deadsec’ Roy

About Esports Federation of India:

Electronic Sports Federation of India (ESFI) is a Non-Profit organization. ESFI is a full member of International Esports Federation (IESF), Global Esports Federation (GEF) and Asian Esports Federation (AESF)

To promote, encourage, organize, educate, train and control Electronic Sports (Esports) in India and to provide facilities for training in esports, to build and sustain the eco-system for esports in India not limiting to providing, conceptualizing, opening, managing, running, developing, facilitating, and promoting all areas of esports and to provide all other possible and related form of esports.

Prices of GeForce RTX 3060 put NVIDIA’s GA106 card at more than 150% of MSRP

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A month away from the launch of GeForce RTX 3060 and according to NVIDIA, this card will start at £299 and US$329. Whereas many custom GeForce RTX 3060s will have the price tag of £499.99 on the official website with varying prices between £457 and £513.

NVIDIA is only giving on their website, date of ‘coming late February’. The company has suggested that the GeForce RTX 3060 will start from £299 or US$329, which makes it US$50 and £50 cheaper than its Ti-branded cards.

In the last month, we have seen that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti’s official price is only for the Founders Edition cards. Most of the board partners have attached the price tag on GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 13% to 27% higher than NVIDIA’s MRP. Meanwhile, Palit has launched this card at less than £400 in the UK.

For the manufacturers or those who are aware of the graphics card market, nothing is new for them. No retailer still hasn’t revealed officially any price for the GeForce RTX 3060. But on the website of CCL Computers, you can see the prices of individual cards in the ‘recently viewed’ and ‘similar products’ panes. The prices vary between £457.12 to £513.86.

According to those prices, you have to pay more £158.12 than NVIDIA’s MSRP for GeForce RTX 3060, which is 53% as a percentage. It seems that NVIDIA is not going to release any Founders Edition version for the GeForce RTX 3060. Until the stock refills, it is assumed that the prices of GeForce RTX 3060 may not return to NVIDIA’s MSRP.

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SpaceX launches record 143 satellites in a cosmic rideshare program

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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX aerospace company launched a batch of 143 spacecraft to space from Florida on Sunday morning under the company’s new cost-cutting SmallSat Rideshare Program. According to SpaceX, this is a new record for the most spaceships deployed on a single mission.

Unveiled in 2019, SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare Program is a service that provides small satellite operators access to space, according to the company. Starting at $1 million for the first 485 pounds, the program offers relatively cheap access. Much like a rideshare Uber, a company can ditch the plan of buying an entire rocket at a much higher price, and instead, its small satellite can hitch a ride to space with other spacecraft.

Due to bad weather, an initial launch attempt was called off on Saturday. 24 hours later, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its Cape Canaveral Space Force Station launch pad at 10 AM ET, flying along the eastern coast of Florida on its way to space. Satellites ranging from shoebox-sized CubeSats to much heavier microsatellites were sent to a 326-mile-high polar orbit — an unusual trajectory for a Florida launch site. 

The Falcon 9 launch is SpaceX’s third so far this year, it has created a new record of the most satellites carried to space on a single rocket, previously held by an Indian satellite launch in 2017 carrying 104 satellites. According to the Verge, “the 143 spacecraft aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 include 48 Earth-imaging satellites dubbed SuperDoves from Planet, 17 tiny communications satellites for Toronto-based Kepler, and 30 small satellites for the US and Europe packaged by Berlin, Germany-based Exolaunch.”

Celestis, a spaceflight memorial company, has small capsules of human ashes aboard the flight. Also hitching a ride are ten Starlink satellites, this sees SpaceX inch toward the 1,000 mark for the number of active satellites in space supporting its broadband internet constellation.

DARPA, the Pentagon’s R&D agency, saw two of its 187-pound satellites damaged during launch processing in Cape Canaveral so it pulled out from the rideshare mission earlier this month.

The Transporter-1 mission comes just four days after 60 Starlink satellites were launched to space by SpaceX. A remarkably eventful year in orbit awaits the world as SpaceX, OneWeb, and other aerospace companies race to build vast constellations of internet-beaming satellites. 

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45 with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H spotted

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Acer is already preparing itself to bring new AMD Ryzen 5000H powered laptops to the market and one of its most popular Acer Nitro 5 series is also getting upgraded. Also, this time we can hope Acer will be bring high-end AMD powered laptops with beefier graphics like the new RTX 3070 and RTX 3080.

In the meantime, the upcoming budget Acer Nitro 5 has been leaked including the benchmarks as well as on Baidu. This could give a fair idea about the performance we could expect from the upcoming fan-favorite Ryzen 7 5800H processor.

In Cinebench R20, the Ryzen 7 5800H scores 555 points in single-core, whereas in multi-core, you get 4809 points. This is a fair improvement from last gen’s Ryzen 7 4800H, which scored 472 points and 3847 points in single-core and multi-core benchmarks respectively.

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45 with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H & GTX 1650 spotted

So, this is almost 17% improvement in terms of single-core performance and 25% improvement in multi-core. Obviously, this kind of performance on mobile will help gamers to get more gaming performance and shows how these AMD processors are poised to perform well with beefier GPU solutions, which until now was restricted to Intel CPUs only.

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45 with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H & GTX 1650 spotted
Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45 with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H & GTX 1650 spotted

We also see the laptop with 16GB RAM in some gaming benchmarks like Shadow of the Tomb Raider at high settings giving 48 FPS at 1080p. While its evident that to get the best of this gaming CPU, you need a good GPU as well but nevertheless we do get to know how great these new AMD Zen 3 CPUs will be.

The laptop has also been spotted by @955pro in Time Spy benchmark but with RTX 3060 paired and the score look quite well with an overall score of 8941 points.

A new Ad from Microsoft claims Surface Pro 7 is a better choice than a MacBook Pro

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Before entering the month of February, Microsoft wants to overtake Apple’s latest product, the MacBook Pro. This aggressive comparison came in the ad from Microsoft, where it has praised its Surface Pro 7. The software giant stated that the Surface Pro 7 is much better and affordable than the latest machine Apple.

In the 30-second video on YouTube, Microsoft points out the most lacking point of MacBook Pro – the touchscreen or stylus support. It has highlighted the detachable keyboard of Surface Pro 7, which allows effortless portability. Besides these, you can’t ignore the price difference. The MacBook Pro starts at $1,299, while the Microsoft 10 slate starts at $890. Microsoft disabled the comment section to avoid criticism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdrus8zmRLc&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=MicrosoftSurface

Apple MacBook Pro features the in-house 5nm M1 chip. This processor can provide 20-hour battery life, and it is far ahead when comparing the performance. The Surface Pro 7 isn’t good enough like Apple’s device in battery endurance. This chipset of Apple is a performance beast.

When it was tested with Windows 10 through virtualization, even it does reduce the performance of M1, the chipset still able to beat Microsoft Surface Pro X. Surface Pro 7 doesn’t feature any Thunderbolt 3 ports, but featuring this, MacBook Pro will be more portable.

This was not the very first time that Microsoft targets Apple in an ad form. Previously the company had compared Surface Laptop 2 with MacBook Air, claiming that its device is better in performance and battery life.

What do you think about Microsoft’s this approach? Let us know in the comment section.

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Top 10 most expensive signings of Manchester United of all-time

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Premier League club Manchester United are one of the biggest clubs in world football. They have a rich history, and any of the big players would certainly be tempted by the idea of playing at Old Trafford.

Manchester United also comes in the list of the most valuable and richest football clubs in the world. During Sir Alex Ferguson era, the Manchester United academy was given priority to get some of the best players but nowadays they often splash the cash to get the best players to play for the Red Devils.

So here we take a look at the top 10 most expensive signings of Manchester United:

10. Donny Van De Beek

Transfer Fee: £39m
Signed from: Ajax
Year of signing: 2020
Current club: Manchester United

9. Nemanja Matic

Transfer Fee: £40m
Signed from: Chelsea
Year of signing: 2017
Current club: Manchester United

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8. Anthony Martial

Transfer Fee: £44.5m
Signed from: Monaco
Year of signing: 2015
Current club: Manchester United

7. Bruno Fernandes

Transfer Fee: £47m
Signed from: Sporting CP
Year of signing: 2020
Current club: Manchester United

6. Fred

Transfer Fee: £47m
Signed from: Shaktar Donetsk
Year of signing: 2018
Current club: Manchester United

5. Aaron Wan-Bissaka

Transfer Fee: £50m
Signed from: Crystal Palace
Year of signing: 2019
Current club: Manchester United

4. Angel Di Maria

Transfer Fee: £59.7m
Signed from: Real Madrid
Year of signing: 2014
Current club: Paris Saint-Germain

3. Romelu Lukaku

Transfer Fee: £75m
Signed from: Everton
Year of signing: 2017
Current club: Inter

2. Harry Maguire

Transfer Fee: £80m
Signed from: Leicester City
Year of signing: 2019
Current club: Manchester United

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1. Paul Pogba

Transfer Fee: £89.3m
Signed from: Juventus
Year of signing: 2016
Current club: Manchester United

ADIDAS CALLS ON EVERYONE TO REDEFINE 2021 WITH THE “HI-ENERGY CHALLENGE”

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~ THE CHALLENGE INVITES PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE TO STAY UPBEAT & OPTIMISTIC WHILE TAKING ON 2021 WITH HIGH AND POSITIVE ENERGIES ~

~ FOR EVERY MINUTE OF ENERGY BURNT ON THE ADIDAS RUNNING APP, ADIDAS INDIA WILL DONATE 1 RUPEE TO THE YOUNG ATHLETES OF THE INDIAN TRACK FOUNDATION AND HELP THEM GET CLOSER TO THEIR OLYMPIC QUEST ~

New Delhi, 25th January 2021: The world is a different place as we know it. Athletes and consumers are now adapting and redefining the way they play sport. The year gone by has left many feeling uncertain, anxious and low on energy. adidas with the launch of their greatest running shoe ever – ULTRABOOST 21, has announced – the ‘Hi-Energy Challenge’ – a unique energy return challenge to inspire people to not just have the intent but turn them into actions.

The Hi-Energy Challenge will be supported by Adidas India athletes like Rohit Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Hima Das, Manpreet Singh, Mirabai Chanu among others who shall host sessions and live chats on the Adidas’ India Instagram handle sharing their plans and goals for 2021.

While the Hi-Energy Challenge is a global effort to get the world moving with optimism, in India, Adidas has gone a step further to motivate consumers by addressing a wider purpose, collaborating with the Indian Track Foundation. The brand has pledged to support the foundation through a unique proposition, where for every active minute clocked on the Adidas running app, Adidas shall enable product support of an equivalent amount to the young athletes of the Indian Track Foundation and help them in their endeavour to become the next wave of great Indian Olympians.

To participate in the challenge, individuals need to log into the Adidas running app. This challenge encourages participants to clock active minutes (comparable to the energy burned) over a period of two weeks from 1st Feb to 14th Feb. The active minutes can be achieved by running, virtual running, using the treadmill and walking. The ADIDAS RUNNERS COMMUNITY will be the catalyst throughout the challenge. They will spread awareness, knowledge, support and help to participants individually to complete the task.

Speaking about the challenge, Sharad Singla, Director, Brand Marketing, adidas India said, “It is our endeavour to provide tangible ways for consumers to keep active and engaged during these times. 2020 was a year full of challenges and we at adidas firmly believe that 2021 is the year where we unleash the pent up energy. To kickstart the new year on a positive note, we have initiated our latest challenge to keep our communities healthy, active and connected as the world begins to transition into what’s next.”

Registration for the challenge started from 22nd January 2021.

Register Here: https://www.runtastic.com/challenges/runtastic/energy?utm_source=adidas&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=energy2021&utm_content=PR

To Join the Hi-Energy Challenge:  

  • Download the Adidas Running app or log in with your existing account
  • Search for Hi-Energy Challenge and Sign up for it
  • Sign up starts from 22ndof January 2021
  • Log your minutes through the window of 1st February – 14th February
  • Compete and complete the challenge

Godzilla vs. Kong Movie All the Details, Release Date and the Expectations

An incredible Monster Verse movie is on the way to come create craziness among the people. With the incredible trailer that releases on January 24, 2021, and with the release of the poster, the filmmaker knows how to hold the craze in the audience. The trailer is released in three languages Hindi, Tamil, Telugu with the addition of English. It is set to have a summer release on March 26, 2021.

There will be a grand theatre release of this movie worldwide, and it will also be available on HBO Max for the US viewers. This movie is gone to be the most expensive film of 2021 with an estimated $160’200 million budget.

Expectations

In the movie world of Monster Verse, this film will be the fourth installment. The official trailer of Legendary and Warner Bros fantastic production Godzilla vs. Kong, where we can imagine a time when monsters walk on the Earth, depicts humanity’s fight for the survival of the future that set Godzilla and Kong on the collision.

In the trailer, we have seen that Kong is bonded by a chain in a ship and transported somewhere and at that time horrible devil monster Godzilla has arrived. Only Kong hold the power to defeat that terrific monster, the monster has already started to destroy the earth and spreading violence all over the world.

In this movie actually, Kong and Godzilla have seen two most powerful creatures of nature on the planet, who are engaged in a spectacular battle for the ages. Humans use Kong to defeat the bad creature Godzilla and also they started a conspiracy to wipe out both the good and the bad creatures from the earth. In this film we will see an incredible battle between Kong and Godzilla, obviously only one will stand last at the end, if you want to know the answer then you have to wait for a while.

Jose Mourinho warns Gareth Bale that he will have to earn his minutes

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Gareth Bale joined Real Madrid from Tottenham Hotspur in 2013 for €100 million. He was seen as the successor of Cristiano Ronaldo. In the initial years, he was pretty good for the Spanish side.

But as time went by, he fell down the pecking order mainly due to his injuries. He spent most of his time in the sidelines for the last few seasons. He had a fallout with Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane as well as he was completely frozen out of the Madrid squad.

Bale is one of the highest earners at Real Madrid so Madrid wanted him off their books but there were no suitors. Finally, Bale’s former club Tottenham hotspur wanted to bring home their former player on loan. Bale joined Spurs on loan at the start of this season.

Many would have thought that Zidane had a personal grudge on Bale as he was overlooked multiple times. But after his stint with Spurs, it’s clear that Bale isn’t fit enough and maybe not committed enough as well.

He has found game time hard to come by at Tottenham Hotspur as well. He has failed to break into the first team regularly. He is likely to feature in Spurs’ FA Cup tie as Mourinho described Bale’s training levels over the past week as being at a “good intensity”. Bale has been a consistent selection in cup matches, appearing eight times, but has only made four league appearances.

Tottenham Hotspur manager has now told Gareth Bale that he has to earn minutes, it won’t be given to him. Mourinho said: “I cannot give players minutes – minutes on the pitch is not something I can give. We all know the difficulties that he had for a couple of seasons. We all know that he arrived injured, we all know that even this season [he is] a little bit up and down with small things.”

“The most important thing for him is to be consistent in training, at high intensity without any problems, and when a player is consistent in training then the player is ready, not to be given minutes but to earn minutes. That’s a different thing.”

He further added: “It’s also about his own feelings. If he feels that the [past] week has had a positive impact on him and on his confidence, he will play.”