Video streaming is no doubt a huge business. In 2020, it has generated a revenue of approximately $26 billion, with an annual growth rate of 4.1%.

Netflix is a veteran in the industry, having been founded back in 1997. Over the years, as streaming became more popular, Netflix established itself as the industry leader and today has 167 million subscribers worldwide. Following the success of Netflix, big entertainment firms and film production companies began their own streaming services. These being YouTube, Hulu, Amazon Prime, with the most recent entry into the market, apple TV+, HBO MAX, Disney+ and NBC’s Peacock.

With all companies facing high competition, every streaming service had to do something big to attract customers, showing how their OTT platform is superior to the others. Netflix spends billions of dollars every year to create Netflix original movies and web series, allowing young aspiring filmmakers as well as legendary veterans in the film industry to use the platform without complications of getting their films financed or released in theaters. Disney acquired large money-making studios like Marvel Studios (company behind the blockbuster Marvel superhero films) and Lucasfilm (company behind the legendary Star Wars franchise). Amazon prime membership has multiple advantages, with free prime delivery, prime music (their own music streaming service), and best of all primevideo which hosts thousands of great movies and shows across all major languages. Amazon spends a lot of its budget to create regional language content. Recently Amazon acquired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the century old legendary production studio for $8.5 billion.

Sports also plays a huge role in getting customers to subscribe to a streaming service. Peacock announced that it will be streaming Tokyo Olympics live on its service. Disney+ partnered with Hotstar, India’s biggest streaming service, which streams major sporting events and leagues on its platform.

Every streaming service comes with subscription packages of different benefits and price range. Disney+ being new to the market, had a few tricks up their sleeve to attract customers from other streaming services to switch to their own. The basic subscription of Disney+ and Netflix are the same price, yet Disney+ includes 4K viewing, while Netflix customers have to pay extra to enjoy 4K. Even HD streaming on Netflix comes with an extra fee. Netflix only allows one viewer at a time for its basic subscription, while Disney+ offers up to four viewers on one subscription. These may seem like small details, but when going head-to-head with an already established brand, it helps to offer extra benefits and features.

The major reasons for the boom in popularity of OTT in India was the availability of low-cost mobile data and affordable smartphones. India has the cheapest mobile data in the world with 1GB costing just INR 18.5 as compared to the global average of about INR 600. It enabled the youth in India to access OTT video streaming services at affordable prices.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 and national lockdown in 2020, India witnessed a significant growth in the usage of OTT. Until then, the popularity of OTT platforms were limited to urban area and above middle class. Film theatres were also closed since national lockdown, people were restricted to their homes and didn’t have much options for entertainment. Big budget films starring huge stars are being directly released in OTT platforms and have been very successful for both filmmakers as well as streaming services.

This is the story of the rise of streaming services in India and around the world and what we are witnessing is just the very beginning of a new era of entertainment.

When astronomers first started using radio telescopes in the 1950s to study the Universe, they discovered a strange phenomenon. They found objects that shone brightly in the radio spectrum, but they couldn’t see any visible object associated with them. They called them quasi-stellar radio sources, or “quasars” for short. Within a decade of their discovery, astronomers learned that these quasars were moving away at tremendous velocities. This velocity, or red-shift of their light, indicated that they were billions of light-years away; beyond the capabilities of most optical telescopes. It wasn’t until the 1960s when a quasar was finally tied to an optical object, a distant galaxy.

Here’s where Astronomers got creative. Maybe quasars weren’t really that bright, and it was our understanding of the size and expansion of the Universe that was wrong. Or maybe we were seeing the results of a civilization, who had harnessed all stars in their galaxy into some kind of energy source. Then in the 1980s, astronomers started to agree on the active galaxy theory as the source of quasars. That, in fact, several different kinds of objects: quasars, blazars and radio galaxies were all the same thing, just seen from different angles. And that some mechanism was causing galaxies to blast out jets of radiation from their cores.

We now know that all galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers; some billions of times the mass of the Sun. When material gets too close, it forms an accretion disk around the black hole. It heats up to millions of degrees, blasting out an enormous amount of radiation. The magnetic environment around the black hole forms twin jets of material which flow out into space for millions of light-years. This is an AGN, an active galactic nucleus. Since our own Milky Way has a supermassive black hole, it’s likely that we have gone through many active stages, whenever material is falling into the black hole; our galaxy would be seen as a quasar. But other times, like now, the supermassive black hole is quiet.

Supermassive black holes aren’t always feeding. If a black hole runs out of food, the jets run out of power and shut down. Right up until something else gets too close, and the whole system starts up again. The Milky Way has a supermassive black hole at its center, and it’s all out of food. It doesn’t have an active galactic nucleus, and so, we don’t appear as a quasar to some distant galaxy. With new powerful telescopes, astronomers have observed that some quasars have long jets of material firing out from the center of the galaxy. These are channeled by the magnetic fields created by the supermassive black hole’s rotation in the accretion disk. The most luminous quasars can exceed the radiation output of an average quasar. We may have in the past, and may again in the future. In 10 billion years or so, when the Milky way collides with Andromeda, our supermassive black hole may roar to life as a quasar, consuming all this new material.

Development in the technology sector is increasing day by day , now people can hear what other people are saying and can track their location without the other person being aware of it. In my opinion though their are many disadvantages of this development the advantages overweigh them.

To embark on , sometimes people misuse the opportunities given to them. Nowadays the technology that was developed for the betterment of the society is being used for wrong purpose by many people. With the help of security camera many people record other people and misuse the videos. many people now hack into the cell phones of other people and steal their personal details. For an instance a person hacked into my uncle’s phone and stolen his credit card details and used them. Therefore the people with the help of improved facilities indulge into malpractices. Hence, making the development a disadvantage.

However, the benefits of these developments are so many that the disadvantages get overshadowed. The police has benefited a lot with the help of security cameras , it has become easier to find the criminals. Now people can track the location of their family members and can keep them safe. Now the cyber police can easily track a persons phone and find him. For example a person stole my friend’s phone while she was walking on the road with the help of a certain application the officials were able to find the robbers. Therefore development can be beneficial if used in a proper manner.

To encapsulate everything has its own benefits and repercussions it is on the people how they seize an opportunity and use it whether to do good or to do wrong things with the help provided to them.

“LONELINESS ADDS BEAUTY OF LIFE. IT PUTS A SPECIAL BURN ON SUNSETS & MAKES NIGHT AIR SMELL BETTER”

𝗔𝗜𝗥 is the constant pressure that we feel around us but can never see. The observable effects of air can be seen throughout nature, through the swaying of the plants and the trees. The air when flows with speed and pressure is called as a 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘇𝗲. Even though we cannot see air with our naked eyes, we can still feel it being around us at all times, we also known for certain that without air, life itself would not exist.

In earlier times, the 𝗮𝗶𝗿 was thought to be one single substance but now it is known that 𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝘅𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 . A mixture of 2 vital gases mainly “Nitrogen and Oxygen” in a certain percentage is what allows us to live in such a sustainable condition on planet earth.We all need 𝗢𝗫𝗬𝗚𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 The animals that live both on land and even the aquatic animals need oxygen to exist otherwise they would all perish. Air is the fundamental building block, apart from which life itself would not exist. Bubbles in water only occur due to the small concentration of air, that gets trapped in the small bubbles.

• 𝗔𝗜𝗥 s one of the primary necessities for supporting life on earth. Air, water and soil are the primary needs for sustaining life. Try holding your breath for a few seconds. You can do that for a maximum of twenty- twenty five seconds or maximum of thirty seconds.

Beyond that it is impossible for a human to hold his 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇. Then suddenly a pain of breathlessness grasps over the entire body. Our body chokes. It leaps out to grab air. We behave just like a fish out of water. This will be the condition if there is no air on earth. We can survive for a few second maximum. Not only breathing. Air helps us to hear sounds. Without air sound cannot travel. It needs a medium to travel. Without air the earth would be a soundless place. Air is made up of many components. It contains different gases, solid particles and also water vapour.The mixture of different gases comes to different use. Dirt and suspended particulate matter form the solid part and water vapour form the liquid part.

𝔸𝕀ℝ ℙ𝕆𝕃𝕃𝕌𝕋𝕀𝕆ℕ ℂ𝔸𝕌𝕊𝔼𝕊

𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 may be caused by various processes, either natural or anthropogenic (man-made). Some of them leave evident traces in the air; others can go unnoticed unless specific tests are conducted or until you become ill from their effect.

Air pollution is the presence of substances in the 𝗔𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 that are harmful to the 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 o 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 and other 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀, or cause damage to the 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 or to materials. There are many different types of air pollutants, such as gases (such a 𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮 ,𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗱𝗲, 𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗳𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗱𝗲 ,𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 ,𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀,𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗲 , 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗱𝗲 & 𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻, particulates (both organic and inorganic), and  𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀. ‘Air pollution’ may cause diseases, allergies and even death to humans; it may also cause harm to other living organisms such as animals and food crops, and may damage the 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 environment (for example,𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲, 𝗼𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 or𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻) or 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 (for ex: acid rain)Both human activity and natural processes can generate air pollution.