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EPIC On brings season 2 of ‘IQ Panga’
MUMBAI: EPIC On – India’s Storytellers is ready to host a more exciting and challenging Season 2 of the daily digital quiz, IQ Panga, to engage audiences across age-groups on the platform. IN10 Media’s premium OTT platform, EPIC ON, gearing for a revamped avatar, bolstered with a wide variety of content and new formats, will run the daily quiz, from 3 April to 18 April, between 9 am and 9 pm on the EPIC On app.
With gamification increasingly becoming an innovative tool for fun and interactivity, the distinctive India-themed quiz will host questions across history, politics, science, geography, current affairs, travel, food, movies and many more disciplines for participants to test their knowledge. To participate in the digital quiz, people have to log into EPIC On app through their mobile phones and stand a chance to win exciting prizes. Participants have to answer a set of 10 questions as fast as they can and get the highest score, allowing them to flaunt their talent on the LIVE leaderboard every day. Winners will be announced on a daily, week basis and at the end of the quiz.
Brands like Club Mahindra, Cutis Skin Care, Wink & Nod, and GrabOn have come on board with exciting prizes on a daily and weekly basis and a BUMPER prize by Portronics will be given to two lucky winners at the end of the quiz.
Participants can download the EPIC On app and play IQ Panga for free.
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WhatsApp may soon let users to pick who sees their status updates
The messaging giant is borrowing a page from Instagram’s playbook as it pushes to give users finer control over their social circles.
CALIFORNIA: WhatsApp is quietly working on a feature that could make its Status function considerably smarter and considerably more private.
According to reports from beta tracking platforms, the app is testing a tool called Status lists, which would allow users to create named groups such as close friends, family and colleagues, and control precisely which group sees each update. It is a meaningful step up from the platform’s current blunt instruments, which offer only three options: share with all contacts, exclude specific people, or manually select individuals each time.
The new feature draws an obvious comparison with Instagram’s Close Friends function, and the resemblance is unlikely to be accidental. Both platforms sit within Meta’s family, and the company has been nudging them toward a common logic of audience segmentation for some time.
The move also fits neatly into WhatsApp’s broader privacy push. The platform has been rolling out enhanced chat protections and is exploring the introduction of usernames, which would allow users to connect without exchanging phone numbers. Status lists extend that philosophy from messaging into broadcasting.
Meanwhile, Status itself has been evolving well beyond its origins as a simple photo-and-text slideshow. The feature now supports music stickers, collages, longer videos and interactive elements, pushing it closer to the social-media-style story format pioneered by Snapchat and refined by Instagram. In that context, finer audience controls are not merely a privacy feature. They are a precondition for people sharing more.
The feature remains in development and has not been confirmed for release. WhatsApp routinely tests tools that are later modified or quietly shelved. But the direction of travel is clear: the app wants Status to be a destination, not an afterthought. Letting users decide exactly who is in the audience is how it gets there.
