AirAsia inaugurates flight from Bengaluru to Jaipur and Chandigarh
Jaipur, Sept 5 (IBNS): AirAsia India on Friday celebrated its entry into North India with a receiving ceremony for its inaugural flights from Bengaluru to Jaipur and Chandigarh. A total of 180 guests, signifying a 100% flight load, were on board on both the inaugural flights which took off from Bengaluru on Friday and the flights were given a grand welcome with a water salute. The first flight guests were welcomed by an entrancing folk dance performance at the airport.
GVK EMRI signs MoU with NTRI Australia
Hyderabad Sept 5 (IBNS): In a significant step to strengthen trauma care in India, GVK EMRI, an emergency services provider, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Trauma Research Institute, Australia.
J&K flood Army continues relief operations
Udhampur, Sept 5 (IBNS): In the last 72 hours, with no letup in the huge down pour and inclement weather in the far reaches of Jammu Division, the Army in coordination with Civil Authorities under Operation Megh Rahat has been able to rescue, as the reports last came in, about 1100 civilians, large no of live stock from the wrath of the huge deluge engulfing the entire area.
Army hosts technical symposium in Kashmir
Udhampur, Sept 5 (IBNS): A symposium-cum-exhibition titled "North Technical-2014" was organized at Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, under the aegis of Headquarters Northern Command. The event was aimed at providing Army units, maintenance agencies and industry an opportunity to exhibit their innovations and display technical products at a common platform.
GenNext Ventures, Microsoft partner to launch innovation hubs
Mumbai, Sept 5 (IBNS): GenNext Ventures, the venture investment management arm of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), on Friday signed a three-year partnership with Microsoft India, through Microsoft Ventures in India, to set up GenNext Innovation Hubs, a pan India initiative to catalyze the country's technology startup ecosystem. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by R. A. Mashelkar, Chairman, GenNext Ventures and Board Member, RIL, and Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India.
Pallavi graces launch of Meenabazaar Classics
Mrs.India International and Bollywood actress Richa Sharma and Tollywood actress Pallavi Chatterjee were present at the launch of LopamudraMandalSaha's Meenabazaar Classics in Kolkata on Friday (Sept 5, 2014). The Meenabazaar Classics art, fashion and lifestyle exhibition organized in aid of charities. The exhibition will showcase the Pre-Puja and Pre-Diwali collection for the upcoming festive season.
Kolkata hosts Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz 2014
Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz was held in Kolkata's Presidency University on Friday (Sept 5, 2014). The team of RCC Institute of Technology, Kolkata, comprising of Sayantan Bhattacharjee, Abir Bhattacharya and Srijak Bhattacharya won the Kolkata finals where 39 teams had participated.
COAS intracting with Maj Gen Vetsop Namgyel, Ambassador of Bhutan on Friday (Sept 5, 2014)
COAS intracting with Maj Gen Vetsop Namgyel, Ambassador of Bhutan on Friday (Sept 5, 2014)
Adfactors PR hosts Social Intelligence for Business Success conference
Mumbai, Sept 5 (IBNS): In a first for the Indian public relations industry, Adfactors PR organized a seminar on Social Intelligence on Friday. The seminar featuring experts such as Thomas Stoeckle of WCG, Sam Flemming of Kantar Media CIC, and Arvind Gupta of Bharatiya Janata Party. This conference – titled, ‘Social Intelligence for Business Success: A case of three cultures’ – brought together experts in the communication domain from three cultures – Europe, China and India – to discuss how businesses can leverage analytics and social media more effectively towards increased competitiveness. As the first keynote speaker, Arvind Gupta, National Technology Head of the Bharatiya Janata Party, shared his experience of successful utilisation of digital technology to communicate with the electorate during the 2014 general elections. He explained how technology was used to understand voter behaviour at the polling booth level. The second keynote speaker was London-based Stoeckle, the Group Director Analytics of W2O Group, which has operations in the US and Europe. According to him, there are five fundamentals of media efficiency. These include: Listening (insights driven publishing platforms); Influencers (top 50 people and the top four influencers for each influencer; Language (the top five words that optimize search); Content (the stories that matter via a content curation engine); and Distribution (the channels that matter for resource allocation). Shanghai-based Sam Flemming, the third keynote speaker and the CEO of Kantar Media CIC, described how the absence of regular entertainment in TV channels and the ban of platforms such as Facebook led to China’s Netizens developing their own Social Media. ]The youth in China have embraced the indigenous social media in such a big way. The “unique, fragmented and dynamic†social scene is dominated by channels such as Weibo, BBS and VChat, he added. All three keynote speakers presented emerging tools, technologies, best practices and case studies along with in-depth insights and unique perspectives from their markets. Madan Bahal, co-founder and Managing Director, Adfactors PR, in his address to the participants, said, “As a firm, we realise the strategic importance of social media and business analytics to remain relevant and maintain our position as a market leader in the public relations industry. We are committed to enhance our social offering in the near future, and analytics will be central to this proposition. We will use a combination of methods, including expanding capacity, acquiring leadership talent from international markets, acquisitions or even joint ventures with social companies. As a tangible metric of success, I would like at least 20% of our revenue coming from social in the next two years.†Apart from these speeches, there were panel discussions featuring prominent panelists such as Kiran Khalap of chlorophyll, Santosh Desai of Future Group, Sumit Virmani of Infosys Technologies, Sujit Ganguli of ICICI Bank, Anil Jairaj of Pidilite Industries, Tejas Narvekar of Germin8, and Anant Rangaswami of CNBC-Storyboard.
Priyanka Chopra teaches Nickeldeon's star toons
On the occasion of Teacher’s Day (Sept 5, 2014) Priyanka ‘Mary Kom’ Chopra teaches Nickelodeon’s star toons Motu-Patlu how to pack a knockout punch.
Army launches Operation Sahayata in Jammu and Kashmir
New Delhi, Sept 05 (IBNS) Due to incessant rains past 48 hours, Army has launched ‘Operation Sahayata’ to provide rescue and relief in areas of Kashmir Valley, Naoshera, Rajouri, Thanamandi and Poonch, in coordination with civil administration.
Brett Lee, Tanishaa Chatterjee to star in new Australian feature
Mumbai, Sept 5 (IBNS) UNINDIAN, the first feature of the recently established Australia India Film Fund (AIFF) will go into production in October in Sydney, it has been announced by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott MP in India on Thursday.
The Prime Minister of Australia
The Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott paying homage at Amar Jawan Jyoti, India Gate, in New Delhi on September 5, 2014.
"Shoppers Stop Pujor Bazar" launched in Kolkata mall
Tollywood (Bangali film industry) actor Gaurav Chakraborty and actress Riddhima Gosh were present at "Shoppers Stop Pujor Bazar" ceremony at Forum shopping mall in Kolkata on Thursday (Sept 4, 2014). Images by Soumyadeep Pal/IBNS
India, Pakistan hold flag meeting in Poonch sector
A flag meeting was held on Wednesday (Sept 3, 2014) at the Punch- Rawlakot Crossing point in the Poonch Sector on the Line of Control (LC) between India and Pakistani army after days of heavy firing along the border and Indian allegation of Pakistan violating ceasefire rules.