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Instagram Parteners with Swiggy, Zomato to Let Resturant Add 'Food Order' Stickers in Stories By Techtonic group Instagram recently gave users the option to promote small (and local) businesses by placing a sticker in their Stories. Now, the company has partnered with two of India's renowned food delivery apps -  Swiggy and Zomato  - to bring a similar feature to the restaurant owners. It has debuted a new  'Food Order' sticker  that restaurants can include in their Stories to drive sales. The Coronavirus-led lockdown saw almost all restaurants and eateries shut shop for several days. And even when they opened, netizens have been wary to eat outside or order in due to hygiene concerns. Well, as restaurants open up in line with the WHO safety guidelines, they can now head to Instagram to find a new 'Food Orders' sticker in the Stories section. This new sticker is interactive and will  enable users to place food orders  simply by tapping on the sa...

Swiggy, Zomato, Dunzo get Permission to Test Drone Deliveries in India By Techtonic group The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has given the green signal to  Dunzo ,  Swiggy  and  Zomato , alongside a number of other consortia, to begin testing drone deliveries in India. The companies have reportedly received permission to test fly 'Beyond Visual Line of Sight' drones in select regions in India. The tests will see drones carry payloads or survey vast areas, and will begin in the first week of July. Throttle Aerospace received the approval in March along with Dunzo, and said that it plans around 120 hours of flight time in the outskirts of Bengaluru.  "We will start flying from the first week of July and plan to clock around 120 hours of flights in two and a half months" , said Nagendran Kandasamy, Founder, Throttle Aerospace. According to him, the company's original plans were to begin the trial sooner. However, the plans changed due to t...

Swiggy, Zomato Start Home Delivery of Alcohol in Ranchi By tectonic group Food delivery platforms Swiggy and Zomato are now delivering alcohol. The service is currently live in Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand. The news comes merely a few days after both companies  laid off thousands of employees  amid the coronavirus pandemic. The feature resides in the  'Wine Shops' section  present in Swiggy's home page. In case you're not seeing it, make sure the app is updated to the latest version available on Google Play Store or App Store. You will have to be above the legal drinking age to avail the service. To make sure that the feature doesn't get misused,  Swiggy has brought in a mandatory age verification system . Users willing to order alcohol will have to complete a one-time age verification by uploading a valid government ID. You can upload Aadhaar Card, Pan card, Voter ID, or Passport in the process. As part of the verification process, ...

Zomato May Start Delivering Alcohol Soon By Techtonic group Zomato recently started  grocery deliveries  in wake of the coronavirus pandemic and now,  the company is reportedly planning to deliver alcohol . As per an unpublished document submitted to the International Spirits and Wines Association of India (ISWAI) obtained by  Reuters , the move is to deter the unusual crowd in liquor shops. For the uninitiated, liquor shops were closed on the 25th of March along with other non-essential shops as India entered a nationwide lockdown. Alcohol stores in some states were re-opened this week which resulted in an unprecedented demand and people ended up forming queues outside stores to purchase and stock alcohol. As a step to control this, Mumbai revoked alcohol sales permissions a couple of days back, while the Delhi government started levying a whopping 70 percent "special corona fee" in addition to the retail prices. Deliveries of alcohol are not legally all...