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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicReels

Topic: Reels

How reels, shorts & TikTok clips can reduce focus

Research links fast-paced short-form video use with weaker attention, poor sleep and higher anxiety in young users.

SC cracks down on ‘reel & influencer culture’ in premises—no photos, videos in high security zone

Photography, videography allowed only for official purposes. Use of phones, cameras, tripods, selfie sticks banned. Mediapersons restricted to lawn area in low security zone.

Karnataka Bar Council’s ultimatum to lawyers—remove ‘promotional reels’ by 31 Aug or face action

While some bar councils issued similar orders in past, it's first time a state bar body set a compliance deadline. It said violations will invite action under Advocates Act 1961.

Sharing Reels creates ‘I thought of you’ moments. Instagram’s Blend takes that away

I don’t share the same reels with all my friends. Some get the memes, others get the moods, and a few the occasional romantic quote. But with Blend, those lines blur.

To connect with youth, RSS affiliate holds ‘reels & memes’ contest themed on social harmony

Sanskar Bharati asks participants to send reels and memes on topics such as ‘Untouchability a curse’ and ‘Reservation’, in bid to 'encourage youth to do their bit for society'.

60-second heritage – Instagram is breathing life into India’s old cities, buildings, stories

Instagram pages dedicated to India’s old cities are creating online museums of history, heritage and people, one Reel at a time.

Amitabh to Salman — this 29-year-old Sri Lankan singer got Indian stars grooving in 2021

From Ranveer Singh to Tiger Shroff, almost every Bollywood celebrity danced to Sri Lankan singer Yohani De Silva's 'Manike Mage Hithe'.

Instagram is dead. Reels killed it

Reels has become a rabbit hole of bad, patchwork, unimaginative content on loop. It will never be what TikTok was.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.