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ditto TV to air ‘Descendants of the Sun’ from 8 Feb
MUMBAI: After successfully introducing Indian audiences to shows from Turkey and Ukraine, Zindagi, famous for bringing the best of finite drama series from across the globe to viewers in India, is all set to launch “Descendants of the Sun”, an award winning Korean show for the first time on Indian television. The blockbuster Korean drama will also be available live on Zindagi on dittoTV, February 8 onwards. The series has won numerous awards on Korean and international platforms, and will now add to the wide bouquet of shows that dittoTV offers its subscribers.
Zindagi with its diverse and differentiated content has built a strong core fan base who, with dittoTV, have the option of also tuning into these shows anytime on the go.
‘Zindagi with its diverse and differentiated content has built a strong core fan base, as it gives them the opportunity to explore content from beyond the US and UK. Keeping in mind the evolving preferences of viewers, dittoTV offers a wide variety of channels across genres that cater to the diverse content preferences of its subscribers. We are excited to bring to India Zindagi’s first Korean show, “Descendants of the Sun” on dittoTV, enabling viewers who are constantly on-the-go to watch their favourite programs live’, said Z5 Business head of digital, India Archana Anand.
The heartwarming story line of “Descendants of the Sun” is sure to resonate with the Indian youth, who form an important part of dittoTV’s subscriber base. The trend of finite TV series, a format that Zindagi is well known for introducing to the Indian audience, is gaining momentum amongst viewers. dittoTV will enable them to keep up with the engaging plot twists of the show on their handheld devices, even when they do not have access to a television set.
dittoTV subscribers can catch this new primetime show from February 8, Monday to Saturday at 8 PM on their Android and iOS phones or any other internet connected device. The subscription charges start from INR 20 per monImage result for Descendants of the Sun’.
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Meta plans 8,000 layoffs in new AI-led restructuring wave
First phase from May 20 may cut 10 per cent workforce amid AI pivot.
MUMBAI: At Meta, the future may be artificial but the cuts are very real. The social media giant is reportedly preparing a fresh round of layoffs, with an initial wave expected to impact around 8,000 employees as it doubles down on its artificial intelligence ambitions. According to a Reuters report, the first phase of job cuts is slated to begin on May 20, targeting roughly 10 per cent of Meta’s global workforce. With nearly 79,000 employees on its rolls as of December 31, the move marks one of the company’s most significant workforce reductions in recent years.
And this may only be the beginning. Sources indicate that additional layoffs are being planned for the second half of the year, although the scale and timing remain fluid, likely to be shaped by how Meta’s AI capabilities evolve in the coming months. Earlier reports had suggested that total cuts in 2026 could reach 20 per cent or more of its workforce.
The restructuring comes as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg continues to steer the company towards an AI-first operating model, committing hundreds of billions of dollars to the transition. Internally, this shift is already visible: teams within Reality Labs have been reorganised, engineers have been moved into a newly formed Applied AI unit, and a Meta Small Business division has been created to align with broader structural changes.
The trend is hardly isolated. Across the tech sector, companies are trimming headcount while investing aggressively in automation. Amazon, for instance, has reportedly cut around 30,000 corporate roles nearly 10 per cent of its white-collar workforce citing efficiency gains driven by AI. Data from Layoffs.fyi shows over 73,000 tech employees have already lost jobs this year, compared with 153,000 in all of 2024.
For Meta, the move echoes its earlier “year of efficiency” in 2022–23, when about 21,000 roles were eliminated amid slowing growth and market pressures. This time, however, the backdrop is different. The company is financially stronger, generating over $200 billion in revenue and $60 billion in profit last year, with shares up 3.68 per cent year-to-date though still below last summer’s peak.
That contrast underlines the shift underway. These layoffs are less about survival and more about reinvention. As Meta restructures itself around AI from autonomous coding agents to advanced machine learning systems, the question is no longer whether the company will change, but how many roles will be left unchanged when it does.
