CHENNAI PLUS

The Anglo-Indian Suburban Front held a significant press conference in Perambur on October 31, 2026. During this meeting, Dr. A. Roy Rozario, Founder and President of the Anglo-Indian Suburban Front, addressed several pressing issues faced by the Anglo-Indian community. One key concern highlighted was the urgent need for the restoration of a reserved seat for Anglo-Indian students in government engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu. This provision, which had existed until it was discontinued in 2002 due to a Supreme Court decision stemming from a writ petition, currently remains available to students in other southern states including Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka. Dr. Rozario also discussed the classification of the Anglo-Indian community under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category in Tamil Nadu, emphasizing that this was a step similar to what Kerala adopted in 1993. This classification is supported by the findings of the September 2013 Fact-Finding Report from ...

Nearly seven in ten Indian businesses plan to increase spending on AI over the next 12 months, while 30% report broad or strong returns from their AI initiatives, according to Dun & Bradstreet’s latest AI Momentum Survey. Only 3% of surveyed Indian businesses describe their enterprise data as fully ready to support AI at scale, compared with 8% globally, highlighting a five percentage-point readiness gap. A further 44% of Indian businesses describe their data as partially ready.   For Indian businesses seeking to scale AI and generate consistent returns, closing this data-readiness gap is essential as AI investment and implementations accelerate. Businesses in India with fully AI-ready data report broad or strong AI ROI at 6.3x the rate of businesses whose data is partially ready, underscoring the strong relationship between data readiness and AI returns. “India has reached an exciting inflection point in its AI journey. The ambition is clearly visible, and businesses are i...

Building on its continued association with Ayodhya Ram Mandir, ITC Mangaldeep’s Har Bhakt Shri Ram Tak brings together technology and collective faith to make devotion more inclusive and accessible for visually impaired devotees. The thought draws inspiration from Mangaldeep’s Sixth Sense initiative, which seeks to enable people with visual impairments to experience the world beyond sight. Extending this philosophy to the devotional space, Mangaldeep has conceptualised a Digital initiative inspired by the Ram Setu, which uses Contour Detection Technology, inviting devotees across India to write “Ram” in their respective vernacular languages. Each participation becomes a symbolic contribution towards a collective effort to create a tactile and Braille-enabled navigation pathway at Ayodhya Ram Mandir, helping visually impaired devotees experience darshan with greater ease and independence. The digital initiative will translate into tangible on-ground experiences at Ayodhya, with every ...

Hair Lab, a Godrej Co, announced the launch of Godrej Hair Lab Smart Black shampoo hair colour, a premium hair colour in a multi-use tube format that can be applied with bare hands. Smart Black shampoo hair colour simplifies the colouring process into a few steps. Users wet their hands with water, apply the product on their dry hair focussing on the greys, and wash their hands with soap within 3 minutes of contact. In just 15 minutes, users will get rich, natural-looking black colour with 100% grey coverage. The product makes hair colouring as easy as the application of a shampoo. Smart Black shampoo hair colour eliminates the need for gloves, brushes, or mixing bowls. This revolutionary product is powered by breakthrough, auto-oxidative hair colour technology. It features Godrej Hair Lab’s in-house, patented, no-peroxide and no ammonia formulation. Smart Black shampoo hair colour is enriched with the goodness of gallic acid and aloe vera. Commenting on the launch, Samir Suryawansh...

Ahead of Dhanteras, Instamart, India’s pioneering quick commerce platform through its sellers, has partnered with Kalyan Jewellers to make the jeweller’s gold coin collection available to customers. Customers who shop for gold coins from Kalyan Jewellers on Instamart may also get a little extra with their purchase. From November 1 to 6, the first 1000 customers across India each day who buy a Kalyan Jewellers gold coin* on Instamart will also get a free 1 gm silver coin, additionally every Kalyan Jewellers gold coin purchase will entitle them to receive a free digital discount voucher worth a 5 gm silver coin* T&C apply.   This offer is valid until December 31, 2026 and will be available across Kalyan Jewellers stores pan-India. The partnership aims to give customers a convenient way to shop for precious metals ahead of Dhanteras, the first day of Diwali celebrations, when buying gold and silver is considered auspicious and believed to bring prosperity and good fortune. A wid...

HCLTech, a leading global technology company, announced the launch of its AI-Powered Operations offering, designed to help enterprises modernize and optimize their mission-critical mainframe environments through AI-enabled automation, observability and operational intelligence. The offering brings together specialized mainframe skill agents and conversational AI assistants to support system administration, observability, optimization and workflows, under human oversight. These capabilities help improve efficiency, accelerate issue resolution and enable more proactive, insight-driven operations. HCLTech's dedicated Mainframe Center of Excellence underpins the offering with deep domain expertise, industry best practices and continued innovation. "Enterprises running mission-critical workloads on mainframes are under increasing pressure to modernize operations and drive greater efficiency, without compromising reliability or control. Our AI-Powered Operations offering directl...