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14 Feb

Seagram’s Royal Stag sponsors West Indies cricket team

editor0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaSeagram’s Royal Stag, West Indies cricket

Cricket has always been central to Seagram’s Royal Stag’s brand communication. Over the years, the brand’s continuous association with the world’s top cricketers and teams has bolstered its engagement with cricket lovers across the country. Now, Seagram’s Royal Stag announced its collaboration as Official Sponsor of the West Indies cricket team for the ongoing tour to India.Team West Indies is synonymous with performance and this style fits in perfectly with the Royal Stag brand philosophy– “It’s your life. Live it large.” True to its iconic status and love for the ‘gentleman’s game’, Royal Stag is all set to root for…

14 Feb

NIESBUD Organises Digital Conclave to Recognise Women Entrepreneurs

editor0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaNIESBUD

The National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD) has organised a digital conclave on holistic empowerment of women through entrepreneurship. The digital conclave Women Empowerment through Entrepreneurship: The Changing Landscape recognised women entrepreneurs whose innovative approach and ideas have brought about a promising change in the business and entrepreneurship ecosystem in India.The event provided a platform to budding women entrepreneurs to share their success stories, learn from policymakers and discuss resources for ventures. The conclave was organised in association with the Indo-German Development Cooperation Project—Economic Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs and Startups by Women (Project Her&Now)—and jointly implemented by…

14 Feb

National Crime Records Bureau publish the PSI report 2020

editor0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaNational Crime Records Bureau

National Crime Records Bureau has published the Prison Statistics India (PSI) 2020, the latest official statistics on the state of India’s prisons and their inmates, published in December 2021. According to the reports Access of prisoners to courts fell by 65%, and to hospitals by 24%. PSI 2020 presents data from January 2020 to December 2020. The India Justice Report (IJR), which, since 2019, has been reporting on justice delivery in India, has analysed PSI 2020. The analysis shows prisoners’ visits to courts came down nearly a third, from about 44.5 lakhs in 2019 to 15.5 lakhs in 2020. Impacted…

14 Feb

Tata Trusts announces the 3rd edition of the Parag Honour List for the year 2022

editor0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaTata Trusts

Parag Initiative of Tata Trusts has announced the 3rd edition of the Parag Honour List for the year 2022. This robust list features a wide range of original writings across categories like picture books, chapter books, and young adult books. With a focus on curating a comprehensive collection of remarkable literature in English and in Hindi, the list aims to promote access to good quality children’s literature that librarians, teachers, parents and children can refer to and read. The work of Parag spans over sourcing, publishing, disseminating and promoting good quality children's literature in India. This year, Parag received books…

14 Feb

Amway India’s new range of supplements under its brand Nutrilite

editor0 CommentsBusiness, Health, IndiaAmway India

Amway India, has introduced a range of nutrition supplementsin trendy, tasty, convenient and simplified formats like flavorful gummies and mouth dissolving jelly strips under its flagship brand Nutrilite. Amway has formulated the on-the-go nutrition solutions to meet their everyday nutrition needs. Currently, the range comprises three products - Seize the Day, strawberry flavored gummies containing vitamins and minerals to support overall health and immunity, D-fence – mouth dissolving jelly strips containingVitamin D3 to support bone health and immunity, and I Candy gummies containing Lutein & Zeaxanthin to support eye health. Announcing the launch, Mr. Anshu Budhraja, CEO, Amway India said,…

14 Feb

NSDC’s new collaboration with CSC

editor0 CommentsBusiness, Education, HealthNSDC

National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Common Services Centers recently. This collaboration is for the delivery of services related to various skill development programmes to youth in rural and remote areas of the country. Under the partnership, CSCs at the village level will act as a Skill Desk, creating awareness about the various available skill development programmes. Registrations of the candidates will be carried out under the available programme for skill development training, along with Aadhaar seeding of candidates and certificate distribution. Since 2010, NSDC has trained over 3 crore people through…

14 Feb

Abbott provides holistic diabetes care to 8 million people

editor0 CommentsBusiness, HealthAbbott

Abbott, the global healthcare leader, has announced new collaborations with key health-tech partners BeatO, Sugar.fit, PharmEasy, GOQii, 1MG, Zyla Health, Healthifyme and Fitterfly to usher a new era of holistic diabetes management care. Through these collaborations, Abbott aims to offer glucose monitoring solutions to 8 million people living with diabetes, of which approximately 6.5mn users can access through PharmEasy and 1MG.Abbott has also partnered with BeatO, a digital health platform to launch a holistic, data-based continuous glucose monitoring program for better diabetes management. The program provides users access to targeted diet, help in controlling diabetes and lifestyle counselling from experts…

13 Feb

Amul pays tribute to industrialist Rahul Bajaj with a ‘hamara Bajaj’ doodle

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Amul India never fails to win hearts. As India lost its veteran industrialist Rahul Bajaj, the popular dairy brand paid a heartfelt tribute to him that will make you emotional. Amul shared a monochrome doodle on social media that is now going viral. It showed a monochrome doodle of the head of the Bajaj group. On top of the pic, the tagline reads, “Mera, uska, unka, inka, hamara Bajaj…" Amul captioned the post, “#Amul Topical: Tribute to one of India's most dynamic and respected industrialists." Industrialist and former chairman of Bajaj Group Rahul Bajaj passed away on February 12 at…

12 Feb

Industrialist Rahul Bajaj dies at 83 in Pune

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Rahul Bajaj, veteran industrialist, Padma Bhushan awardee and former chairman of Bajaj Auto passed away at the age of 83 in Pune on Saturday, 12 February. After taking over the Bajaj Group in 1965, he stepped down as the non-executive director and chairman of the company in April 2021. The company said that he had retired due to age. Besides heading Bajaj Auto, he also spearheaded the CSR activities of the Bajaj Group of companies and charitable trusts, including the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation. The industry veteran was not keeping well for some time and died at 14:30 hours this afternoon,…

12 Feb

KITKAT launches its unique LOVE BREAK packs

editor0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaKITKAT

In this season of love, KITKAT gives youth a million ways to share a break and make them feel special with the KITKAT LOVE BREAK packs to celebrate the love in each relationship. KITKAT has created over 12 million unique LOVE BREAK packs with quirky digital prints which consumers can choose from as their way of a special break. Commenting on the launch of the campaign, Rupali Rattan, Head - Confectionery Business, Nestlé India said, “The millions of unique packs will let youth express themselves in the way they want to and how they define their special relationships”. Elaborating on…