Most popular app, movies, games and more on Google Play Store in 2017

Google has announced Google Play's most India popular apps, games, music, movies and books in 2017. The list also includes top five apps, games, movies, books, TV shows and music, globally.

Check out Google Play's top lists for the most popular content in 2017 below.

Google Play's India best of 2017 lists

Most popular apps of 2017

1. Photo Editor - Beauty Camera & Photo Filters

2. Messenger Lite: Free Calls & Messages

3. Selfie Camera - Beauty Camera & Photo Editor

4. ALTBalaji

5. Paytm Mall: Online Shopping

Most popular games of 2017

1. Baahubali: The Game

2. WWE Champions Free Puzzle RPG

3. Super Mario Run

4. Dr. Driving 2

5. Pokemon Duel

Top books of 2017

1. An Unsuitable Boy, by Karan Johar

2. India 2017, by New Media Wing

3. Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored, by Rishi Kapoor

4. I Do What I Do, by Raghuram G. Rajan

5. Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga, by Sadhguru

Top movies of 2017

1. Dear Zindagi

2. Moana

3. Wonder Woman

4. The Boss Baby

5. Doctor Strange

Most streamed songs of 2017

1. Saahore Baahubali, by M.M. Keeravaani

2. Ik Vaari Aa, by Arijit Singh

3. Mercy, by Badshah

4. Main Tera Boyfriend, by Arijit Singh

5. Cheez Badi, by Neha Kakkar

Google Play's Global best of 2017 list

Most popular new apps of 2017

· Photo Editor - Beauty Camera & Photo Filters

· What The Forecast?!!

· Boomerang

· TopBuzz Video: Viral Videos, Funny GIFs &TV shows

· Yarn - Chat Fiction

Most popular new games of 2017

· Super Mario Run

· Bubble Witch 3 Saga

· Magic Tiles 3

· CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars

· Ballz

Top 5 streamed songs of 2017

· HUMBLE. by Kendrick Lamar 

· Shape of You by Ed Sheeran 

· DNA. by Kendrick Lamar 

· Mask Off by Future 

· Body Like A Back Road by Sam Hunt

Top 5 movies of 2017

· Moana (2016)

· Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

· Wonder Woman (2017)

· Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

· Doctor Strange (2016)

Top 5 TV shows of 2017

· Game of Thrones

· Rick and Morty

· The Walking Dead

· The Big Bang Theory

· Doctor Who

Top 5 books of 2017

· The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

· It by Stephen King

· The Battlemage by Taran Matharu

· Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

· Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Microsoft picks 4 IITians for Rs 1.3 crore on Day 2

One of seven students on the IIT Bombay campus has been placed in the first three slots of this year's placement. A total of about 250 graduating IITians were picked by the time evening set in on Saturday, day two of the placement.

Meanwhile, these numbers would rise as the frenzy of the second day's placement ends a little after midnight. By Saturday night Samsung Bangalore picked 24 candidates, the largest recruiter so far. Domestic salary packages also went up by about 15%-20% as compared to last year.

Day one saw about 20 international offers from companies like Uber, Microsoft, Optiver, NEC Japan, Rubric. Atotal of 142 students were selected on day one. In addition, minus one placement day saw ISRO and BPCL select 13 students taking the total count to

155. Last year, 158 students were picked by the end of day one.

Four students were picked by Microsoft Redmond for USD 2.1 lakh (around Rs 1.3 crore). NEC Japan, which picked 7 students gave a package of 45.7 Japanese Yen. First time recruiter from the Powai campus Rubrik picked three students and Palantir Technologies picked one candidate.

Friday saw 34 companies participating. "For domestic roles, highest number of offers were made by Goldman Sachs, Qualcomm, IBM, Microsoft, Boston Consulting Group, Cairn, McKinsey Knowledge Centre and Tata Steel," stated the placement cell. Compensation-wise, the highest packages came from Blackstone (Rs 45 lakh), WorldQuant (Rs 39.6 lakh) and Microsoft (Rs 39 lakh).

Day two saw companies like Samsung Bangalore, Intel, Oracle, Visa, Murata, Adobe, Walmart, Quadeye, UBS, Flow Traders, MasterCard, Yahoo Japan, Ab Inbev, Flipkart, ICICI, American Express, Eaton Technologies, JP Morgan Chase, Mathworks, Mercedes Benz, Flock, Deloitte Consulting, Maxlinear, Citicorp.

At IIT-Guwahati, the day one offers went up to 178 as opposed to last year's 154. This is in addition to the 75 pre-placement offers that were given to students. Kaustubha Mohanty, professor-in-charge of training and placements at the institute, said, "This year we had 41 companies visiting the campus on day one, 11 more than last year. There is a mix of profiles for analyst, software, core engineering offered to students." Majority of the profiles are for software, followed by research and development, analyst, consultant and management profiles. Only two students from the institute got international offers.

Day one at IIT-Madras saw 195 offers from 33 companies - almost 35 more than 2016. Last year, 160 offers were made by 27 companies. Not only the number of companies visiting the institute increased, but the requirements at some of the firms were more this year, said Manu Santhanam, professor in-charge of placements at the institute. He said that companies like Samsung, Qualcomm, EXL Services, Goldman Sachs picked more than 10 students from the campus. Their requirement was more than last year, he added. The institute got 11international offers, of which at least nine were for US profiles, which were more in numbers.

Google Maps helps police trace family of girl lost in Delhi

Technology came in handy in reuniting a seven-year-old girl with her family. Police zeroed in on the girl's village with the help of satellite images provided by Google Maps.

The incident took place on Wednesday night, when seven-year-old Rashmi (name changed) had come to a family wedding in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar from Meerut.

The child, who was playing while her parents were busy in the wedding proceedings, somehow managed to come out of the venue and lost her way back. Panicked, she started crying and was spotted by constable Vikram, who took her to Malviya Nagar police station.

"She was unable to tell us about her village and just said that she had come to a wedding with her parents," said DCP (south) Romil Baaniya.

When asked about the duration of her journey, Rashmi told cops that it took them four hours to reach Delhi. A perimeter was chalked around the capital, with all major cities and towns within that distance being marked out. Information was then shared with respective police stations to ascertain if there was any corresponding lead from their end.

The child told cops about the places which she saw during her journey to Delhi. It was deciphered that the girl had probably come from Uttarakhand or western UP. Further information pointed out that Meerut could be the city from where the girl had boarded the bus.

After zeroing in on Meerut, cops used Google Maps and checked all villages which had a lake nearby, as told by the girl. A list of villages with the matching description was noted and the sarpanch of these villages were contacted by sleuths.

Rashmi was ultimately found to be from Kol village, 44 km from Meerut. The village's sarpanch confirmed that a child matching Rashmi's description had gone missing from Delhi. After verifying the claims, the girl was handed over to the family.