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  The Anglo-Indian Suburban Front under the Presidentship of Dr.Augustine Roy Rozario held its 18 th Annual Get-Together on Sat 26 th December 2020 at ICSA -Jivana Jyoti Hall, Egmore, Chennai with the participation of about 100 members. Michael Fernandez and Eddie Barnett entertained the gathering with good music. Petula Pinheiro, Andrea and Loretta sang Christmas carols. Santa Clause cheered the gathering be dancing away and distributing gifts and cakes to one and all. Nigel D'Rozario conducted a fun filled games of 'tombola and cash prizes were given to the winners. The highlights of the Meeting included an address by its Founder-President-Dr.Augustine Roy Rozario who highlighted the various problems faced by the micro-scopic Community especially the delay by the Central Government in restoring the Special Reservation for Nomination of Anglo-Indian Members to Parliament and State Assemblies which stands shelved time being under Article 334(b) since 26 th January'20...

       BUZZ Communications Adjudged as PR AGENCY OF THE YEAR 2020 – India Corporate Vision Magazine has announced the Winners of the 2020 Small Business Awards and BUZZ Communication Pvt. Ltd. has been adjudged as PR Agency of The Year 2020 – India. When you think of the business world, your mind might be drawn to the brick and mortar goliaths that dominate city skylines. Yet, in many ways, these leviathans do not represent the future of business. Not at all. Success in the modern world relies on agility and dynamism. It demands an entrepreneurial core, a spirit eager to learn, innovate and grow. Those qualities, surely, lie more commonly in small businesses. Small business is the very lifeblood of a functioning economy. While all eyes are drawn to the lumbering efforts of the largest businesses, small business is looking to reinvent the paradigm, and establish new best practices. If you’re after change, you need to look at those that are working every day to c...

Minister for Ayush, Shripad Y Naik, has said that during the COVID pandemic, Yoga, India’s gift to the world, has helped people manage not only their physical but also their mental health, and praised The Yoga Institute Mumbai for both, its COVID-led initiatives during the pandemic, and also for 102 years of dedication to serve people and society. Hon’ble Minister Naik was Chief Guest at a virtual meet organized to celebrate the completion of 102 years of The Yoga Institute, where he also introduced and soft-launched the TYI Meditation App, Nispanda, and lauded TYI’s several COVID-led initiatives. Hon’ble Minister Naik said, “I would like to congratulate the entire team at The Yoga Institute on completing 102 years of excellence and service to the humans of the world. Your dedication, honesty and integrity are helping to preserve the valuable Indian traditions of Yoga and changing the lives of millions of people around the world every single day. You … are the contributors to world pea...

GURUGRAM, December 24, 2020: SpiceJet, the country’s favourite airline, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GMR Hyderabad Air Cargo (GHAC), the cargo division of GMR Air Cargo & Aerospace Engineering Ltd. (GACAEL), for providing a seamless service to all vaccine manufacturers in the region. As part of this association, SpiceXpress – the cargo arm of SpiceJet – envisions to provide efficient, speedy and reliable solution for vaccine delivery, while also creating a sustainable cold chain network. SpiceXpress aims to provide the first mile pick up and last mile delivery to carry COVID–19 vaccines across the domestic and international markets in a temperature controlled environment. Under the MoU, GHAC shall provide available required space on priority for SpiceJet’s vaccine shipments besides training its personnel along with the airline for specific customer requirement. SpiceJet on its part will keep a dedicated fleet of freighters including wid...

With the vision to offer exceptional customer experience, India’s leading telecom operator Vi has inked a strategic partnership with Firework, the world’s largest story publishing platform based in Silicon Valley. This is the first time any Indian telecom operator has taken the lead to introduce the Stories format to its users. Globally, almost every platform is adopting the Stories format to enable higher engagement for its audiences. The partnership allows Vi to leverage Firework's massive content repository from global content studios and also get access to unique occupational generated content (OGC) creators who are expert storytellers across a wide genre of subjects. Avneesh Khosla, Chief Marketing Officer, Vi said, “We provide an array of content from multiple OTT players varying across genres like Live TV, Movies and Web Series in multiple languages on Vi Movies and TV app. Vi is excited to be the 1st Telco to partner with Firework for powering the most trending short vi...

    HFCL’s new Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) Cable manufacturing Facility at Hyderabad, Telangana has commenced commercial production of Optical Fiber Cables for Fiber to Home Applications, w.e.f. 16th December, 2020. With the start of this new Facility at Hyderabad, HFCL together with its subsidiary company, viz. HTL Limited, has become the largest manufacturer of FTTH cables in India with a capacity of 6 lakh kms per annum. The Company had earlier invested Rs.260 crores in Hyderabad Plant for the manufacturing of Optical Fiber that was commissioned in January, 2020. This new state-of-the-art, automated high-speed FTTH cable Facility has come up with a fresh outlay of Rs.40 crores to ensure high throughput, economies of scale and highest quality standards. Thus far, Rs.300 crores have been invested in Hyderabad Facility as part of the Company’s expansion roadmap. Speaking on this development, Mr. Mahendra Nahata, Managing Director, HFCL said, “Our latest Facility in Hyderabad ...

  Simply use your voice to play songs from Hungama Music on Google Assistant     Users can now easily enjoy the vast multilingual and multi-genre library of Hungama Music, one of the leading music streaming services in the country, on Google Assistant. Accessible through simple voice commands on Google Assistant on supported smartphones and on Google Nest smart speakers, the feature will enable consumers to ask their Google Assistant to play individual tracks, playlists, albums, songs of specific artists, from genres or for occasions and festivals. Using voice commands to play music gives users the freedom to continue with their work without having the need to manually select or change their music on their devices.   Users can explore Hungama Music’s library of over 15 million songs in 20+ Indian and international languages by linking their Hungama Music account from the Google Home app. They can also make Hungama Music their default music streaming service, elim...

The country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has won two Brandon Hall Technology Excellence Awards for its “e-RBC” and “e-Gyanshala” initiatives that benefit more than 2 lakh employees.   SBI has won these awards in two categories viz. Best Advance in Technology for Crisis Management for “e-RBC” Initiative and Best Advance in Social Learning Technology for “e-Gyanshala” Initiative.   Commenting on the occasion, Dinesh Khara, Chairman, SBI said, “This honour has been bestowed upon SBI in recognition of the technology initiatives introduced by the Bank towards upskilling and knowledge upgrade of its employees. In the present challenging circumstances where the COVID-19 pandemic has prevented conduct of regular classroom training at the Bank’s extensive training network, SBI took the challenge as an opportunity to create technology driven tools for giving a seamless learning experience to its employees from anywhere anytime.   As the Banking sector is experie...

Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance (ABSLI), the life insurance subsidiary of Aditya Birla Capital Limited (ABCL), today announced the launch of its new plan ABSLI Assured Income Plus. ABSLI Assured Income Plus offers guaranteed monthly income to fulfil monetary requirements of an individual and their family’s recurring needs for up to 30 years while building a financial safety net.   This non-linked, non-participating individual savings plan offers several options providing enough flexibility to customize the product as per one’s requirements. It comes with two-income benefit options and allows the flexibility of three premium paying term options of 6, 8, and 12 years. While, the Income Only Benefit option (first in the industry) enables customers to fulfil their income needs, the Income Benefit with Return of Premium option helps in creating a legacy for the loved ones, in addition to recurring income. One may opt to receive the benefits annually, semi-annually, quarterly, or month...

 C hennai, December 14, 2020: Vi, the newest telecom brand in India and Bajaj Finance Ltd, the lending and investment arm of Bajaj Finserv Group has entered into a strategic partnership to facilitate easy access to smartphones at affordable EMIs, along with 6 months and 1-year pre-paid plans from Vi. Enhancing affordability in device financing, the partnership unlocks ease of 4G access for Vi customers,   by enabling them to get a smartphone of their choice and an annual or half yearly Vi prepaid recharge plan at zero down payment and Easy EMIs. As part of the partnership the EMI will be calculated basis the total billed amount including the price of the smartphone and the recharge. Thereafter, the amount will be divided in to 6 to 12 monthly instalments to derive the EMI amount. If customers opt for the INR 1197 Vi Pre-paid recharge for 6 months tenure, the EMI amount required to be paid by the customer will be INR 200 instead of INR 249 open market recharges. In case,...

Chennai 14th December, 2020: Two Neurologist from Apollo Speciality Hospitals Vanagaram set off on a bike rally to create awareness on the extended time window (24 hours) for “Stroke” care. The vision of the rally is “To create awareness on the importance of TIME in Stroke”. Honorable Minister of Rural Industries including cottage and small scale Thiru Mr.P.Benjamin flagged off the rally.  Prior to this Actor Arya extended his support to the team by greeting the riders. The treatment for stroke is highly dependent on “time” of presentation to hospital. If a patient with Ischemic Stroke is brought to a comprehensive stroke care center within 4.5 hours the patient is eligible to receive a clot bursting medication (thrombolysis). If there is a demonstrable clot in the Angiogram, and the patient is brought to the centre within 6 hours, then patient is eligible for a procedure called thrombectomy where the clot is mechanically removed. The Stroke window period has now been extended fro...

SpiceJet, in its endeavour to provide seamless end-to-end cold chain solutions for Covid-19 vaccine delivery, has partnered with Om Logistics Limited, one of the largest logistics companies in India. The two Companies have joined hands with the intent to effectively carry out the herculean task of transporting temperature-sensitive COVID–19 vaccine. This strategic partnership aims to not only provide a speedy, seamless and reliable solution for COVID-19 vaccine movement and delivery but, to also create a sustainable cold chain network both, domestically and internationally. As a part of the association, Om Logistics Ltd. will provide SpiceJet with the refrigerated trucks to cover the first mile and the last mile across length and breadth of the country. SpiceJet will provide the necessary air support to carry COVID–19 vaccines pan India and internationally in a temperature controlled environment. With a network spanning 54 domestic and 45 international destinations and a fleet of...

In order to widen its product offerings, Equitas Small Finance Bank has launched a 3-in-1 account which allows its customers to invest in wide variety of financial product. A 3-in1 account (savings +trading+ demat) is a convenient option that helps the customers to keep all their banking and financial investments under one umbrella entity. The bank provides stock broking and demat services through referral arrangement with brokerage firms for trading and depository services. These arrangements enables Equitas Savings Bank customers to invest funds across the investment products using a single platform. Mr. Murali Vaidyanathan, President & Country Head- Branch Banking, Liabilities, Product & Wealth, Equitas Small Finance Bank Limited said “This product allows customers a secure seamless and convenient way to invest in their choice of investment instruments including equity, FDs, govt securities and mutual fund products. Customers can transfer money seamlessly between their b...

ICICI Bank announced that it has transformed its state-of-the-art mobile banking app, iMobile, into an app that offers payments and banking services to customers of any bank. Called ‘iMobile Pay’, the app offers a unique combination of facilities of a payment app-- such as enabling customers to pay to any UPI (Unified Payments Interface) ID or merchants, pay bills and do online recharges among others-- with instant banking services namely savings account, investments, loans, credit cards, gift cards, travel cards and much more. The users of ‘iMobile Pay’ can also transfer money to any bank account, payment apps and digital wallets. Another prominent feature of ‘iMobile Pay’ is ‘pay to contacts’ which enable users to automatically see the UPI IDs of their phone book contacts, registered on the ICICI Bank UPI ID network, of any payment app and digital wallet. This unique functionality provides users a significant convenience of inter-operability, as they no longer have to remember the ...

  On 18/ 11/ 2020, Shri O. Panneerselvam, Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in coordination with Ex-MP Mr Manoj Pandian on   honoured and appreciated   the following players for their commitment and contribution towards sports, namely- 1)   Adam Sinclair - Olympian n Asian Games. President, TNKMGA 2)   S Purushothaman - General Secretary, TNKMGA & Vice-president, KMGF New Delhi. Captain Indian Basketball Masters Men. Gold medalist at European Master Games, Turin, Italy. 3)   Mrs Anitha Pauldurai - 18 years International Basketball. 6 yrs Indian Women team captain. Nominated for Padmshree Award. 4)   Ms Christy Elena - International Masters Women Hockey Player. Won Bronze medal at EMG, Turin, Italy & Silver medal at AMG, Adelaide, Australia. Captain & Coach. TNKMGA Joint Secretary. 5)   Mr Rajesh - Sprinter. Asian Games medalist. TNKMGA Member. Shri O. Pannier Selvam, Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu als...

Indian Community Welfare Organization –I.C.W.O. observed World AIDS Day 2020 on 3 rd December 2020.   An E-Poster and Print Poster was released by Dr.P.Kuganantham, HOD, Social Medicine and Infectious Diseases -   SIMS Hospital, Former City Health Officer, Greater Chennai Corporation, COVID-19. Expert Committee of Tamil Nadu Government during the function. The theme for this year is “Global solidarity, shared responsibility” Speaking on the occasion Dr.P.Kuganantham said AIDS is not a killer disease; AIDS is a chronic aliment like diabetes and hypertension.   The E-poster will be widely shared with different social media platform which includes live streaming in Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram and more search social media. It is aim to reach 1,00,000 individuals in 3 days to create an impact among young people to take oath that they do not discriminate people living with HIV/AIDS in India.   Speaking on the occasion Mr.A.J.Hariharan, Secretary of ICWO said ...

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd.today announcedthat itsDigital Road Safety initiative – ‘Honda Road Safety E-Gurukul’has spread road safety awareness to over 2 lac people across India. Started in May 2020, Honda Road Safety E-Gurukul initiative is ensuring that India learns how to stay safe on the roads, that too, digitally from the safety of their homes in the New Normal. People across all age groups - be it a 5-year-old child, an 18-year learner license applicant, a homemaker in her 30s, a corporate employee or even an existing two-wheeler rider, are now digitally learning the important aspects of road safety with Honda. Noteworthy, that in just 6 months, Honda’s dedicated safety riding promotion team has reached out to more than185 towns & cities of India - from Una in North to Vijayawada in South and Muzaffarpur in East to Thane in West. Speaking on this milestone achievement, Mr. Prabhu Nagaraj, Senior Vice President - Brand & Communications, Honda Motorc...

 Vi Business, the enterprise arm of Vodafone Idea Ltd. (VIL), today announced the launch of Managed Security Service and has collaborated with Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, as the technology cornerstone for the offering. Vodafone Idea’s Managed Security Service (MSS) delivers Next Generation Firewalls with advanced security features offering the first line of defense for any cyber-attack, thus ensuring that enterprise network is protected. MSS will provide the power that today’s networks require, built on Fortinet’s innovative security processing units (SPUs) and FortiOS operating system.   The MSS includes both network-based firewalling with intrusion protection detection features and secure remote user access to enable remote workers to connect to their corporate network safely and securely through a VPN.   This security-driven networking approach powered by Fortinet enables organisations to scale their network...

SpiceJet, country’s favourite airline, today launched dedicated freighter services connecting Leh with the rest of the country. The airline operated its first freighter flight from Delhi to Leh carrying 13 tonnes of cargo supplies. SpiceJet’s first freighter flight SG 7370 departed from Delhi at 9:05 am and reached Leh at 10:40 am. The airline’s first scheduled cargo flight from Leh departed at 11:25 am and was flagged of by Hon’ble Member of Parliament from Ladakh, Shri. Jamyang Tsering Namgyal. The flag off ceremony was attended by senior AAI and SpiceJet officials to celebrate the arrival of the first SpiceJet freighter flight to Leh. SpiceXpress, the dedicated cargo arm of SpiceJet, will deploy its Boeing 737 freighter on this route. With the launch of the cargo services, SpiceJet is the first and only airline to have dedicated freighter flights connecting Leh. Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, SpiceJet said, “SpiceJet is proud to launch the country’s first dedicate...

   Apollo Speciality Hospitals – Vanagaram, a part of Apollo Hospitals Group one of Asia’s largest and most trusted multi-specialty chain of hospitals has performed three multi-disciplinary complicated procedures on a 35-year-old patient, who had an Ischemic stroke. Mr. Ramkumar, from Chennai was brought to Apollo Hospitals Vanagaram with a sudden inability to use his left arm and leg and with symptoms of facial paralysis. He was brought into the hospital in a drowsy condition and was only able to respond to doctor’s queries feebly. He had a vision loss in his left eye and also his eye was deviated to right side. The patient showed every possible symptom for stroke, Dr. P.R. Prabash, Consultant Neurologist, Apollo Specialty Hospital, Vanagaram diagnosed the patient with stroke (with NIHSS)   scale of 18.Urgent MRI (DWI)screening revealed a large infarct in the right middle cerebral artery territory. The blood supply to the large part of the right side brain had reduce...