News in Infographics: Top weekly OTT releases, rise in junk food among Indians, & more

India's merchandise exports touched a record $420 billion in FY22. It took a decade for India to incrementally add another $100 billion (the $300 billion mark was touched in FY12) as against reaching $200 billion from $100 billion in only 5 years (FY06 to FY11).  

From the list to binge this weekend, there are the new episodes of Julia Roberts and Sean Penn-starrer series Gaslit releasing on a weekly basis on Lionsgate Play from April 25, the Shriya Pilgaonkar and Varun Mitra-starrer series Guilty Minds coming out on Amazon Prime Video on April 22.    

India has recorded a significant rise in junk-food — especially packaged and processed food over the last two decades. This has led to an adverse effect on public health as most of these foods contain high amounts of sugar or salt and bad fat ingredients that results in increased obesity as well as conditions like diabetes and heart disease.

 Start-ups in India have raised $7.2 billion in Q1 CY22, a substantial increase from $4.5 billion in Q1 CY21, a joint report by industry body NASSCOM and PGA Labs stated. Even as the deal volume increased to 247 transactions in Q1 CY22 across the ecosystem as compared to 175 in a year ago period.  

 Cryptocurrency markets have witnessed a downtrend in the last 24 hours. The global market cap is down by 2.58 per cent in the last 24 hours and is at $1.88 trillion as of 8:00 AM IST, CoinMarketCap data showed.