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Dear Mr Naresh Sagar,
Welcome to the September Edition of the UK Science and Innovation Network in India's Newsletter. In this month's newsletter we have highlighted UK Ministers' visit and the launch of the Chevening fellowship programmes.

SIN Spotlight

Professor Robin Grimes Visit to India

Professor Robin Grimes, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chief Scientific Adviser, Londonvisited India in August to showcase UK's research and innovation excellence through the Newton-Bhabha Fund and explored potential for the Innovation for Clean Energy (ICE) global R&D initiative. He co-chaired the first Newton-Bhabha Steering Group with Professor VS Ramamurthy, Emeritus Scientist from the National Institute of Advanced Studies and former Secretary to Department of Science & Technology.He also met with the Secretaries of Department of Science & Technology (Prof Ashutosh Sharma), Department of Biotechnology (Dr K VijayRagahavan) and Ministry of Human Resource Development (Mr Vinay Sheel Oberoi) to further strengthen Newton-Bhabha programme and also to develop joint multi-disciplinary research programmes in the social sciences and humanities with the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Read more

UK Ministers' Visit India to Boost Business, Trade Ties

British Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Rt Hon Sajid Javid and Britain's Minister of State for Trade and Investment Lord Francis Maude visited India in early September. Their visits included the India-UK Business Convention in Delhi, a gathering of major British and Indian CEOs including some of the top investors in India Read more.Minister Sajid Javid also launched the Chevening Rolls Royce Science and Innovation Leadership Fellowship (CRISP) for 2016. Read more

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#4: Tamil Nadu and Haryana girls’ teams remain undefeated

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Bhavnagar, Gujarat, 15th September 2015: On the morning of Day 2 at the 32nd Youth National Basketball Championship being held in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, defending champs Tamil Nadu girls remained undefeated with a 56-18 victory against Madhya Pradesh led by Avanthi’s 22 points. Last year’s runners up Kerala girls suffered their second loss of the tournament against last year’s third placed team Karnataka in a close game that ended at 42-37. Snigddha Nair top scored for her team with 17 points. Haryana girls impressed yet again with their second victory, this time against Delhi.

In the boys Level 1 games in the first half of the day, 2014 winners Tamil Nadu remained strong with a 58-47 victory against Chhattisgarh on the basis of a balanced team effort. Runners up of the 2014 tournament, the Kerala boys bounced back with a 55-20 victory against Rajasthan. Punjab continued their winning ways against Maharashtra with a resounding 55-26 victory. Kanwar Gurbaz Singh of Punjab remained consistent, scoring 16 points for his team in this game. The Delhi boys had their first game of the tournament today, in which they faced stiff competition from Madhya Pradesh. Despite a faulty middle period, Delhi outscored Madhya Pradesh in the first and fourth quarters to register a 60-54 victory.

In the second half of Day 2, home team Gujarat girls faced the West Bengal team in front of raucous home support. Former India camper at the U-16 level, Tavleen Kaur Bhandal led from the front for the Gujarat team and top scored with 14 points. But her effort was in vain as West Bengal ran away with the game, thanks to the play of Paramita Ghosh, who scored 28 points.

In the other games, Karnataka boys registered their second victory with a 54-29 victory against Puducherry. Goa girls won their opening game against Bihar, while Andhra Pradesh boys defeated neighbours Telangana.

Results from Day 2 up to 7:30 p.m.

Girls:

Level 1:

Group A:

Maharashtra (Rutuja Pawar 11, Siddhi Kothavade 8, Aditi K. 6) bt Andhra Pradesh 37-7(20-2, 2-0, 7-0, 8-5)

Tamil Nadu (Avanthi 22, Darshini 8, Ishwarya J. 7) bt Madhya Pradesh (Divyani 7, Rhea 5, Shivani 4) 56-18 (15-7, 19-2, 8-4, 16-5)

Group B:

Karnataka (Snigddha 17, Sandhya 12, Chandana 6) bt Kerala (Sreekala 8, Adhika N.P. 4) 42-37 (8-10, 13-10, 12-5, 9-12)

Haryana (Meena 12, Meenu 9, Bharti 7) bt Delhi (Shubham Ohlan 9, Bharti Gupta 9) 37-31 (5-13, 9-8, 11-5, 12-5)

Level 2:

Group C:

Uttar Pradesh (Mansi Prajapati 13, Stuti Pandey 6, Pratibha Singh 6) bt Jammu and Kashmir 43-6 (15-2, 12-4, 12-0, 4-0)

Group D:

West Bengal (Paramita Ghosh 28, Neha Singh 10) bt Gujarat (Tavleen Kaur Bhandal 14, Ria Dubey 9) 56-29 (10-10, 26-13, 10-2, 10-4)

Group E:

Telangana (Arya 7, Nidhi 5, Bhavana 5) bt Rajasthan (Himanshi Sharma 7, Usha Acharaj 4) 36-15 (9-3, 10-4, 14-8, 3-0)

Group F:

Goa (Amisha L. 12, Michelle 11, Rachel 7) bt Bihar (Puja Kumari 6, Shilpa R. 4) 38-10 (7-4, 7-0, 11-4, 8-2)

Boys:

Level 1:

Group A:

Tamil Nadu (K. Ajit 14, R. Pranesh 12, P. Baladhaneshwar 10) bt Chhattisgarh (Sarvesh 11, Gajendra 11) 58-47 (10-10, 16-10, 12-14, 20-13)

Delhi (Manik 18, Hansraj 13, Sorav 12) bt Madhya Pradesh (Harsh Wardhan 19, Manoj 14, Vicky 7) 60-54 (23-10, 6-15, 13-15, 18-14)

Group B:

Kerala (Shevas 12, Abhi 10) bt Rajasthan (Akash 8, Aman 6) 55-20 (19-8, 17-14, 8-4, 11-4)

Punjab (Kanwar Gurbaz Singh 16, Sahil 13, Abhi Kumar 12) bt Maharashtra (Sameer Qureshi 18) 55-26 (16-7, 7-9, 19-6, 13-4)

Level 2:

Group C:

Karnataka (Pavan 10, Pratyanshu 10) bt Puducherry (Gurumurthy 10, Saihiyavanan 8)54-29 (14-4, 20-6, 4-10, 16-9)

Group D:

Andhra Pradesh (Nagadurga Prasad 22, Veera Babu M.L. 6) bt Telangana (Akash Mallepulla 10) 43-14 (16-8, 9-4, 16-2, 2-0)

About 32nd Youth National Basketball Championship

The 32nd Youth National Basketball Championship is being conducted in Bhavnagar, Gujarat from 14th to 20th September 2015 by the Gujarat State Basketball Association in association with the Bhavnagar District Basketball Association and the Youngsters Basketball Club, Bhavnagar under the aegis of the Basketball Federation of India.

The tournament shall see the participation of 43 teams from different states, which includes and 22 teams in the boys’ category and 21 teams in the girls’ category, in the ‘16 and under’ age group. Last year’s Youth National Championship was held in Chandigarh. The winners of the 2014 version were Tamil Nadu, in both the boys’ and girls’ categories, while the first runners up position was secured by the boys’ and girls’ teams from Kerala. The third place winner in the boys’ category last year was the team from Haryana. In the girls’ category, the third place winner last year was Karnataka.

This year’s tournament is being held on two outdoor courts at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. KARP Impex Group, involved in the business of diamond polishing, crafting and sale and based out of Surat, Gujarat, is the title sponsor for the event. Other sponsors include Sports Authority of Gujarat, Sheetal Group, Acrysil Limited, Madhu Silica, HVK, Rudra TMX, Mono TMT Bar, Leela Worldwide, Maruti Metal Industries, Priya Blue Industries Private Limited, Navyug Pharma Chemical Private Limited, NBM – Iron and Steel Trading Private Limited and Kiran Diamonds.

About Basketball Federation of India

The Basketball Federation of India or BFI is the governing and controlling body of basketball in India, and is responsible for the development and promotion of the sport at all levels. BFI has been involved in conducting camps, clinics, events, and training sessions at its academies for the development of basketball. BFI came into being in 1935 and took complete control over Indian basketball in 1950. Prior to that time, the Indian Olympic Association handled the conduct of Indian basketball championships. Since 1950, the BFI has been conducting various such championships, from the grassroots to senior team participation in international tournaments. In addition, the BFI has been responsible for the establishment of strong sub-junior and junior level programs. The BFI has to its credit produced several international players of repute, among them 17 have been bestowed with the honour of Arjuna Awards. Earlier in June 2015, 19-year-old Satnam Singh Bhamara made history by becoming the first Indian national to be drafted by an NBA team, when he was selected by the Dallas Mavericks. More information at www.basketballfederationindia.org

For media queries please contact:

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GAIL’s Jagdishpur-Haldia Pipeline Project connects Barauni in Bihar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015| EDIT

15 September 2015, Barauni; Pipeline welding of 12 inch pipeline connecting HFCL Barauni to IOCL Barauni commenced today at Barauni, marking the first phase implementation of GAIL (India) Limited’s Jagdishpur- Haldia Pipeline, the green project of Government of India.
The phase –I of pipeline project consists of laying of trunk pipeline from Phulpur (Allahabad) to Dobhi (Gaya) for a length of 341km and spur pipeline connectivity to Barauni and Patna from Dobhi for a length of 228 km.

This gas network will supply fuel to major industries such as the Barauni Refinery and the Barauni fertilizer plant, which will be revived to its full glory, besides power and steel plants.

The pipeline will also help in setting up of City Gas Networks in major cities of Bihar including capital Patna. Thus, residents can enjoy the convenience of environment friendly piped natural gas (PNG) that directly reaches kitchens through pipelines and the economical compressed natural gas (CNG) for vehicles.

An investment of over Rs. 2300 crore is expected to be made in Bihar on this project

Global Newspulse

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015| EDIT

Global Consumption Trends Break New Records

Worldwatch Institute’s Vital Signs exposes latest global peaks of production and consumption, as well as associated impacts

Washington, D.C.—- From coal to cars to coffee, consumption levels are breaking records. According to the Worldwatch Institute’s latest report, Vital Signs, Volume 22: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, the acceleration of resource depletion, pollution, and climate change may come with underappreciated social and environmental costs (www.worldwatch.org).

Drawing on a wide range of sources, Vital Signs shows trends related to today’s often record-breaking levels of consumption by providing data and concise analyses of significant global trends in food and agriculture, population and society, and energy and climate.

“Consumers often do not know the full footprint of the products they are buying, such as the embedded water in a t-shirt or steak, the pesticide exposure of cotton farmers, or the local devastation caused by timber companies cutting down forests to produce paper,” says Michael Renner, Vital Signs Project Director.

The 24 trends tracked in Vital Signs illustrate these and other consequences of consumption on a scale never before experienced on Earth. With a global population of over 7 billion and growing, the need to preserve ecosystems is undeniable. Yet, for many products, the growth of consumption is reaching new levels:

Global meat production has more than quadrupled in the last half century to over 308 million tons in 2013, bringing with it considerable environmental and health costs due to its large-scale draw on water, feedgrains, antibiotics, and grazing land.
Coffee production has doubled since the early 1960s. However, an estimated 25 million coffee growers worldwide are at the mercy of extreme price volatility.
For more than 50 years, global plastic production has continued to rise, with 299 million tons of plastics produced in 2013 alone. Recycling rates remain low, however, and the majority of plastics end up in landfills and oceans-polluting ecosystems, entangling wildlife, and blighting communities.
The world’s fleet of automobiles now surpasses 1 billion, with each vehicle contributing greenhouse gases and reducing air quality.

Vital Signs, Volume 22 presents these and other global trends and analyses of our planet and civilization. The book uses straightforward language and easy-to-read graphs to present each indicator. Vital Signs is created as a guide to inform governments, businesses, teachers, and concerned citizens everywhere to make thechanges needed to build a sustainable world.

“Untrammeled consumerism lies at the heart of many of these challenges,” writes Renner. “As various articles in this edition of Vital Signs show, consumption choices matter greatly.”

PM Valls: France to decide alone on Syria airstrikes targets

Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said France will decide “alone” regarding its targets when conducting airstrikes in Syria to fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) group. In a parliamentary speech, Valls assured France would have“full autonomy of decision and action,” AP reported. The PM also ruled out any intervention on the ground by French soldiers. The country’s military began reconnaissance flights over Syria last week, and President Francois Hollande said airstrikes would follow soon.

Japan promises ships to Vietnam amid South China Sea tensions
Japan on Tuesday promised ships to Vietnam to strengthen its forces in the South China Sea, AFP reported. During the first visit to Japan by Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also pledged some $835 million in infrastructure loans. Both countries, which are locked in separate maritime territorial disputes with China, are strengthening cooperation.
Helicopters, bulldozers destroy shops in NW Pakistan
Helicopter gunships and bulldozers destroyed dozens of shops in a restive northwestern Pakistani tribal area on Tuesday, officials said. The destruction followed a bomb attack on a military convoy, which wounded five soldiers in Wana, the main town of the South Waziristan district, where the military is battling Taliban militants, AFP reported. After the attack, helicopters bombed the market at Wana bypass road and later bulldozers razed dozens of shops belonging to suspected militants, according to officials and residents.
French Alps avalanche leaves 7 people dead
Seven people died and two others were missing on Tuesday after an avalanche swept them away in the French Alps, AFP reported. Pierre Besnard, a local official, earlier put the number of deaths at five, with two people missing. The avalanche struck around midday at the Snow Dome in the Alps’ Massif des Ecrins, an easy-to-access 4,015-meter mountain that is hugely popular with climbers.
Almost 700 quarantined in Sierra Leone after new Ebola death
Almost 700 people have been quarantined in Sierra Leone after a new outbreak of Ebola which killed a 16-year-old girl, health authorities said on Tuesday. The teenager died Sunday in a rural suburb of the city of Makeni in a northern province that had not recorded a single case of the deadly virus in nearly six months, AFP reported. “Over 680 people in the village of Robureh are now under a 21-day quarantine,”said Amadu Thullah, a spokesman for the local Ebola response center. Those locked down included the girl’s parents, close relatives and classmates.
Top Turkey media group Dogan probed for ‘terror propaganda’
Turkish prosecutors are investigating a leading media group for “terrorist propaganda” over its coverage of the fighting between government forces and Kurdish militants, state-run Anatolia news agency said on Tuesday. The investigation into the Dogan Media Group was triggered by its contrasting treatment of images of Turkish soldiers and members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), AFP said. The images of Turkish soldiers killed in August were “uncensored,” while those of PKK militants killed in another battle were blurred, according to an Anatolia report. Dogan owns the independent Hurriyet daily and CNN Turk channel among other outlets.

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Eubiq (India) in service of Healthcare

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Eubiq (India) in service of Healthcare

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We thank you for the support and the opportunities that you have provided us during the last several years and we do hope our paths cross again and again in future.

For Healthcare Industry, we manufacture “BedHead Panels” which is now manufactured & assembled in India (Under Make In India Vision ) now our Bed Head Panels are very much cost effective.

In Last 15 Months we have successfully executed more than 20 projects across india and installed over 3000 bed head panels. Below are some of the hospitals projects we have successfully completed :

1. Believers Church Medical College Hospital ,Thiruvalla, Kerala.

2. Shalby Hospital , Indore

3. Asian Bariatrics & Cosmetics , Ahemdabad

4. Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, Bengaluru

5. Manipal Hospital , Bangalore

6. Apollo Hospitals, Gandhi Nagar , Gujarat

7. Apollo Hospitals, city centre , Ahmedabad

8. CHARUSAT Hospital , Changa , Gujarat

9. SAL hospital , Ahmedabad

10. Sunshine Hospitals , Secunderabad, Telangana

11. Yashoda Hospitals , Hyderabad

12. Shanti Mukand Hospital , New Delhi

13. Holy Family Hospital, Mumbai

14. Gleneagles Khubchandani , Mumbai

15. Command Hospital , Udhampur

16. CIMS Hospital , Ahmedabad

17. The Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) , New Delhi

18. VARDHMAN MAHAVIR MEDICAL COLLEGE & SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL , New Delhi

We request you to give us an opportunity to meet you in person for product presentation and to discuss our aggressive price plan for upcoming project in India.

We would appreciate if we setup a meeting which will be at a convenient time for you.

Looking forward to hear you at your convenience.

With Regards,

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Chile’s coastline remains under tsunami alert.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015| EDIT

Chile’s coastal city of Coquimbo has been hit by waves measuring up to 4.5 meters above normal sea level.
Tsunami waves triggered by a massive 8.3 earthquake have reached Chilean shores, flooding the streets and forcing people to seek shelter on higher ground. Authorities have kept a high alert level in place for most of the coastline.Chile’s national emergency office has suspended tsunami warnings in the Aysen, Los Rios, Los Lagos and Magallanes regions, as well as Isla San Felix and Juan Fernandez islands. However, the rest of the coastline remains under tsunami alert.

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UN Women India

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Today at 4:42 PM

From the UN Women’s Office for India, Bhutan, Maldives & Sri Lanka

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Media Invitation

UN Womenwith

Manas Foundation and Delhi Transport Corporation

cordially invite you

to the project launch of

Gender Sensitisation training with DTC’s Marshals

Date: Thursday, 17th September 2015Time: 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm, followed by High Tea

Venue: India Habitat Centre, Magnolia Hall

RSVP:

Sonal Jaitly – sonal.jaitly@unwomen.org

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#5: Punjab and Haryana boys stay strong; Maharashtra girls impress against Punjab

Bhavnagar, Gujarat, 16th September 2015: The last few games held after 7:30 p.m. on Day 2 of the 32nd Youth National Basketball Championship in Bhavnagar, Gujarat provided some quality basketball action. The Uttarakhand boys faced Himachal Pradesh in their Level 2 game. The evenly matched contest went down to the wire and Uttarakhand pulled off a thrilling victory by 1 point 67-66. Vaibhav Choudhary led the Uttarakhand team in scoring with 28 points. Punjab girls played their first match of the tournament and comfortably defeated Madhya Pradesh 69-45, thanks to the inside play of Rajandeep Kaur and the impressive 3-point shooting of Lovepreet Kaur.

On Day 3, the games in the morning session were packed with strong teams. The Tamil Nadu boys continued their surge with another victory, this time against Delhi. TN captain P. Baladhaneshwar again showed his MVP-calibre with 25 points, leading all scorers. The ease of the victory enabled Tamil Nadu to showcase their bench strength in the game. The other Level 1 boys’ games were also one-sided affairs, as Punjab handily beat last year’s runners up Kerala. Sahil and Kanwar Gurbaz Singh from Punjab had good games for their team with 22 and 18 points respectively. The Haryana boys picked up their second victory of the tournament defeating a comparatively undersized Maharashtra team. Chhattisgarh boys fell to the Uttar Pradesh team that registered a 59-39 victory. The play of the UP boys has been one of the surprises of the tournament so far.

In the Level 1 girls’ games on Day 3 morning, the Maharashtra girls registered their second victory of the tournament against the Punjab team by an impressive 32-point margin. Shruti Vasant Sherigar and Neha Shanu were joint top scorers for Maharashtra with 18 points each. In the other game, Chhattisgarh stuck to their fast paced style of play and picked up a 53-44 victory against last year’s runners up Kerala girls. Chhattisgarh was led by Gulabsha Ali’s 21 points.

Results from Day 2 after 7:30 p.m.

Girls:

Level 1:

Group A:

Punjab (Rajandeep Kaur 27, Lovepreet Kaur 24) bt Madhya Pradesh (Divyani Gangwal 26) 69-45 (14-12, 19-12, 24-17, 12-4)

Boys:

Level 2:

Group E:

Uttarakhand (Vaibhav Choudhary 28, Prakhar Sharma 17, Dheeraj Negi 15) btHimachal Pradesh (Ankush 18, Jatin Sood 14, Saksham Verma 14) 67-66 (21-16, 18-16, 12-16, 16-18)

Group F:

Chandigarh (Amit 20, Sandeep 14, Sachin 10) bt Bihar (Raunk Kumar 8) 55-21(15-10, 24-6, 10-2, 6-3)

Results from morning session of Day 3

Girls:

Level 1:

Group A:

Maharashtra (Shruti Vasant Sherigar 18, Neha Shanu 18) bt Punjab (Rajandeep Kaur 10, Lovepreet Kaur 9) 67-35 (26-7, 6-12, 20-12, 15-4)

Group B:

Chhattisgarh (Gulabsha Ali 21, Jyoti Kumari 17) bt Kerala (Adhikanop 17, Sylvia Grace Shiboo 11, Reyna K. 8) 53-44 (10-13, 11-10, 9-6, 23-15)

Boys:

Level 1:

Group A:

Tamil Nadu (P. Baladhaneshwar 25, C. Joshua Rozario 16, K. Ajith Kumar 12) btDelhi(Hansraj 20, Sorav 11, Manik 9) 76-60 (24-10, 9-8, 22-10, 21-32)

Uttar Pradesh (Pankaj 18, Dheeraj Maurya 10) bt Chhattisgarh (Virendra 10, Salim Ali 10) 59-39 (21-11, 10-7, 10-12, 18-9)

Group B:

Haryana (Ankit Toshi 19, Rinku 16) bt Maharashtra (Sameer Qureshi 23) 71-48(18-11, 11-16, 24-14, 18-7)

Punjab (Sahil 22, Kanwar Gurbaz Singh 18, Parmod Pal 17) bt Kerala (Joshua George 12, Jithin Paul 9) 74-43 (19-16, 24-14, 18-6, 13-7)

Level 2:

Group C:

Jammu and Kashmir (Abhinav 11, Shivam 11) bt Puducherry (Gurumurthy 29)51-46(13-13, 2-10, 15-8, 21-15)

Group E:

Uttarakhand (Vaibhav Choudhary 28, Prakhar Sharma 18, Dheeraj Negi 12) btGoa(Shaun 22, Manjesh 14, Roy 12) 63-60 (14-15, 13-13, 11-11, 25-21)

About 32nd Youth National Basketball Championship

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VentureNursery Graduating Start-ups::

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 | EDIT

Mr Sagar

Here is an update on angel-backed start-up accelerator VentureNursery, its co-founders Ravi Kiran and Shravan Shroff, and some of its graduating start-ups for your background reading for possible use in your writings on start-ups.

Shall be happy to help connect you with any of the founders for a possible interaction for one of your forthcoming stories.

Cordially

Sanjiv Kataria
Strategic Communications and PR Counsel
Sanjiv.kataria@gmail.com
+91 9810048095

VentureNursery
VentureNursery (VN), India’s first angel-backed start-up accelerator, aims to prepare start-ups and founders for #PolePosition.

VentureNursery was established in March 2012 by two like-minded Angel Investors —Shravan Shroff, Founder and former MD, Fame Cinemas and Ravi Kiran, former CEO-South East & South Asia, Starcom MediaVest Group, Co-Founder, Friends of Ambition and Co-Founder, DazzleToday.

Shravan Shroff and Ravi Kiran in their individual capacity have made over sixty angel investments in sectors ranging from Hospitality, Enterprise Technology, E-Commerce, E-Services, EduTech, Cloud Telephony, Crowdfunding, TravelTech, toMobile Solutions, Gaming,Social Commerce, Location Technology,Computational Science and Analytics and more. They are also limited partners in several Venture Funds and Private Equity funds.

Until September 2015, VentureNursery has accelerated 21 start-ups, of which 15 have graduated and 13 are active and growing well.

Based on its belief that the venture ecosystem needs to focus primarily on maximising the success potential of founders and start-ups, VentureNursery undertakes an intensive and immersive coaching and mentoring role in the chosen start-ups and helps each with end-to-end infrastructural and learning support.

With an obsessive focus on quality, VentureNursery currently conducts four boot camps a year in Mumbai and accommodates two start-ups in each. Following a customised curriculum, delivered by industry leading mentors, the three most important things each start-up learns during the program are identification of right problems, achieving product-market fit and decision making. At the end of each program, start-ups graduating successfully, are evaluated for investment by VentureNursery’s members, a strong group of committed and seasoned angel investors.

Beginning with 10 members (including Shravan and Ravi Kiran) in 2012,VentureNursery currently has 30 members in addition to over 80 mentors-in-residence.

VentureNursery Alumni include branded budget hotel chain OYO Rooms, video interview platform Talview, fashion and lifestyle social commerce platform Klip,crowd-funding platformCatapooolt, travel start-up SeekSherpa, artificial general intelligence companyInvenZone, last minute hotel booking company Hotels Around You and curated activity and hobby classes company FindUrClass, an on-demand home beauty and wellness services platform The Home Salon, andFixy an on-demand service platform for Handyman, Repair and Home Maintenance Services.

OYO Rooms
Gurgaon
Founder: Ritesh Agarwal
VentureNursery graduate from its first Boot Camp Ritesh Agarwal founded OYO Rooms is India’s largest branded network of hotels. Ritesh was also India’s first winner of the Thiel Fellowship, a program started by Paypal founder, Peter Thiel.

It currently operates in more than 100 Indian cities including major metros, regional hubs and top leisure destinations. OYO Rooms promise comfortable and delightful stays in AC rooms with free breakfast, Wi-Fi and 24×7 customer service support.

OYO Rooms, a winner of several accolades is backed by leading investors including the Softbank Group, Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed India.
www dot oyorooms dot com

Klip
Mumbai
Founders:Harsh Gadia and Maneesh Madambath
Klip is a Social Commerce App for Fashion Discovery. It curates and gives personalized product recommendations to users from all online stores at one place. Klip caters to Young Indian Shoppers in Fashion and Lifestyle category, one of the fastest growing segments in Indian e-Commerce space.
www dot klip dot in

Talview
Bangalore
Founders: Sanjoe Tom Jose, Tom Jose, Jobin Jose. Subramanian K
Talview is a video interview platform which helps employers build a high performing workforce by reaching out to and screening more candidates using lesser time and resources than traditional hiring processes.

Talview has served clients across 102 countries and counts ABB, Avery Dennison, Cognizant, GlaxoSmithKline, NTT Group, Tata Group, Unicef, VF Coporation and Wipro among its customers.
www dot talview dot com

Catapooolt
Mumbai
Founder: Satish Kataria
Catapooolt, India’s leading Crowdfunding and community engagement platform, endeavours to bridge ideas, innovations and upcoming ventures with potential funders, supporters and lovers!

Till date, the platform has helped over 30 projects raise over Rs 100 Lakh from amongst over 2000 contributors. Always at forefront of promoting crowdfunding in India, Catapooolt is backed by some interesting partnerships – including that of PayBack and Economic Times.
www dot Catapooolt dot com

SeekSherpa
Gurgaon
Founders: Dhruv Raj Gupta, Sukhmani Singh
SeekSherpa is a hyperlocal platform connecting travellers and locals over unique local experiences. SeekSherpa works with cool and eclectic city locals (Sherpas) in setting up interesting micro tours. These tours are then offered to travellers and city residents looking for things to do or sightseeing solutions in their city.
www dot seeksherpa dot com

FindUrClass
Mumbai
Founders: Rina Nathani, Aakash Jethwani

FindUrclass.com is a search and discovery platform that enables parents to find the RIGHT activity or hobby class for their kids. Educators are curated and listed online across various interests including – art and craft, sports and adventure, fitness and health, cooking, dance, music and singing, beauty and fashion, photography, languages, film and acting etc.
www dot FindUrClass dot com

HotelsAroundYou
Mumbai
Founder: Harsha Nallur, Mohsin Dingankar, Animesh Chaudhary
HotelsAroundYou is a mobile only, on demand, last minute hotel booking platform for travellers to book quality hotels at significantly discounted prices; while simultaneously allowing hotels to sell their distress inventory. It currently caters to major Indian metros, with India wide expansion on the anvil.
App available at www dot hotelsaroundyou dot com

The Home Salon
Mumbai
Founders: Rishika Chandan, Nihar Thanawala
The Home Salon is an on-demand home beauty and wellness services platform is co-founded by husband-wife duo Ms Rishika Chandan and Mr Nihar Thanawala, both graduates of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. The entrepreneurs graduated from VentureNursery’s Season 6 acceleration Program in June 2015.

The Home Salon (THS) connects stylists, therapists and beauticians to customers who are looking to indulge in convenient and prompt home services and treatments, a click of a button away. THS operates as a controlled market place that curates and controls the supply, product and customer with their app-based model.

Their unique business model provides scalability, while differentiating the model through stringent ownership over the entire value chain.

THS aims to disrupt the market with highly trained beauty experts catering to customized requirements through the click of a button.
www dot thehomesalon dot in

Fixy
Mumbai
Founders: Tufayl Merchant, Nabeel Merchant]
Fixy is an on-demand service platform for Handyman, Repair and Home Maintenance Services in urban India. Currently operating in Mumbai, Fixy operates in an unorganized sector which has an addressable market size of over two million urban homes with a potential of INR 10,000 crore.

By seamlessly connecting Handymen and other professionals to Home Owners through the Web and Mobile Platform, Fixy intends to make Home Care & Maintenance a breeze, opening up more possibilities for Home Owners and more Business for local handymen and home maintenance companies.
www dot fixy dot com

‘Arya’
Mumbai
Founders: Vinay Kumar, Deekshith
‘Arya’ is artificial general intelligence based application that powers machines to be interactive and intuitive with human-machine conversations in natural language in both text and visual formats.

‘Arya’ uses proprietary deep learning architectures to learn faster and adapt to multiple domains. It assists humans in making effective decisions at a faster pace and automating execution of tasks cost effectively.

It started off while working on InvenZone, the platform for STM researchers and scientists to simplify the intellectual knowledge sharing conversations between peers. Since then, ‘Arya’ is being evaluated in various business verticals and for various use cases like automating the customer relationship management, in conversational commerce and as advisory in purchase decisions.

Founded by IIT, Mumbai postgraduate and Nanotechnology researcher Vinay Kumar and JNTU, Hyderabad graduate and Natural Language Processing researcher Deekshith, ‘Arya’ targets businesses dependent on information gathering and information retrieval both in B2C and B2B space as also research focused institutions.

Newspulse across Globe

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Alleged Al-Qaeda financier arrested in Karachi, Pakistan
Police have arrested an alleged Al-Qaeda financier in the southern port city of Karachi, AP reported, citing a Pakistani counter-terrorism official. Naveed Khawaja did not say when the man, identified as Mohammad Shabih, had been detained. The businessman reportedly had two chemical companies in Karachi and neighboring Iran. He made large donations to the Afghan Taliban and another extremist group and later focused on Al-Qaeda’s South Asian affiliate, according to the official.
Nigeria in talks with Boko Haram militants over kidnapped girls – spokesman
The Nigerian government is talking to the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram to try to secure the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, presidential spokesman Femi Adesina said in a tweet quoting President Muhammadu Buhari. Military from Nigeria and Chad freed hundreds of hostages from Boko Haram captivity earlier this year. However, none of those rescued were from the 219 girls abducted in April 2014 from a school in the northern town of Chibok, AP said. In July, Buhari predicted that Boko Haram would be defeated in 18 months or less, but conceded that Nigerian authorities lack intelligence about the missing girls after the mass kidnapping from Chibok.
Abbas says Palestinians to ‘protect Jerusalem’ after clashes at holy site
A contentious Jerusalem holy site was calm Wednesday after three days of clashes between Muslims and Israeli forces at the hilltop compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, AP reported. Israeli armed forces were deployed at the entrance to the compound and adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday condemned the clashes, saying that none of Jerusalem’s holy sites belonged to Israel. “We will protect Jerusalem and will protect our Christian and Muslim holy sites,” he said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed tougher measures to curb the violence and visited the site where the 64-year-old Israeli died in his car after being attacked by rock-throwing Palestinians.
Russia urges consolidation of efforts against ISIS, global terrorist threat
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called for consolidation of international and regional partners’ efforts in fight against global terrorist threat. They should be based on international law with the United Nations playing key part, the ministry stressed in a commentary. It described the results of the US-led coalition’s fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) as “very modest.” The coalition, which was created a year ago “bypassing the UN Security Council” has not stopped expansion of terrorists in Syria and Iraq, according to the statement.
Thousands protest in Japan as bills near passage for defense policy change
Thousands of people protested across Japan against bills for a defense policy change that could allow troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War II. About 10,000 people protesting amending Article 9 of the constitution gathered near the parliament in Tokyo, TASS reported. The government is insisting the changes to the law are vital to meet new challenges, such as that presented by rising neighbor China, Reuters said. The legislation could be voted into law by the upper house this week after committee approval. The legal revisions, which have already been approved by the lower house, include an end to a decades-old ban on defending a friendly nation under attack, or collective self-defense, when Japan faces a “threat to its survival.”

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Kerala Blasters boots up for ISL 2015

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Muthoot Pappachan Group extends sponsorship for this season

Thiruvananthapuram, 16 September 2015: Kerala Blasters FC has made significant changes to the team for the second edition of the Hero Indian Super League (ISL) as they prepare to stake their claim to the ISL trophy. The team had finished as runners-up in the inaugural edition of 2014. Muthoot Pappachan Group continues its association with Kerala Blasters as the main sponsor of the team. The team will continue training at the Greenfield Stadium, where they will play further practice matches, before heading to Kochi. KeralaBlasters will host North East United at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi in their first match on October 6, 2015.

Speaking on the occasion, Sachin Tendulkar co-owner of Kerala Blasters said that, “I would like to thank Muthoot Pappachan Group for continuing their support to Kerala Blasters. We have enjoyed our association with Mr. Thomas George Muthoot and his entire team and look forward to making this second season even bigger for the scores of fans of Kerala Blasters. Indian Super League has made tremendous impact and provided a great platform for young Indian players to hone their skills and play with some of the best players from across the globe. Kerala Blasters had a memorable debut season. We keenly look forward to the team playing their special brand of football under the able leadership of Head Coach Peter Taylor, coach Trevor Morgan and Marquee player Carlos Marchena.’’

Mr. Thomas George Muthoot, Director, Muthoot Pappachan Group said that ‘’We are delighted to continue our association with Mr. Sachin Tendulkar and Kerala Blasters as Main sponsor. The team epitomizes our core values of creativity, teamwork and commitment. We had an exciting journey last year and are confident that Kerala Blasters will be the front-runner to win the second edition of Indian Super League. We appeal to all our fans for their whole hearted support to the team.

ANNEXURE BELOW:

The players that have been retained include Sandesh Jhingan, the talented right back who was voted ISL’s emerging Player of the Year in 2014. Partnering him in defense will be the familiar face of Gurwinder Singh, Ramandeep Singh & Saumik Dey, whereas Mehtab Hossain & Ishfaq Ahmed will anchor the midfield and the dependable Sandip Nandy will hold fort at the goal.

Head Coach – Peter Taylor

Coach – Trevor Morgan

Asst. Coauch – Ishfaq Ahmed

Forwards – Mohammed Rafi, CK Vineeth, Chris Dagnall, Antonio Timothy German, Sanchez Watt, Manandeep Singh

Midfielders – Mehtab Hossain, Victor Herreco Forcada, Joao Coimbra, Cavin Lobo, Peter Carvalho, Shankar Sampingiraj, Josue Currais Prieto

Defenders – Carlos Marchena, Peter Ramage, Marcus Williams, Bruno Perone, Gurwinder Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Sandesh Jhingan, Saumik Dey,

Goalkeeper – Sandip Nandy, Stephen Bywater, Shilton Paul

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Hungarian police Use Water cannon on fencebroker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 | EDIT

Naresh Kumar Sagar

Hungarian police useded tear gas and water cannon against asylum seekers, who broke through a razor wire fence at the border crossing with Serbia. In the embattled at least 20 police officers and two children have been injured in clashes, local TV reported citing the Hungarian PM’s security adviser.
“So far 20 policemen have been injured and ambulance services have just taken two children (to hospital) who were injured after being thrown over the security fence,” Gyorgy Bakondi told public TV. “We will definitely restore the fence and strengthen the fence, and protect Hungary’s security with all legal means.”Police have been reportedly trying to control the crowd, who were throwing plastic bottles, stones and concrete at them.

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Gujarat boys secure second victory & Chhattisgarh girls win

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#6: Home team Gujarat boys secure second victory; Chhattisgarh girls win back-to-back on Day 3

Bhavnagar, Gujarat, 16th September 2015: On Day 3 of the 32nd Youth National Basketball Championship being held at Bhavnagar, Gujarat, the games in the morning session were packed with strong teams. The Tamil Nadu boys continued their surge with another victory, this time against Delhi. TN captain P. Baladhaneshwar again showed his MVP-calibre with 25 points, leading all scorers. The ease of the victory enabled Tamil Nadu to showcase their bench strength in the game. The other Level 1 boys’ games were also one-sided affairs, as Punjab handily beat last year’s runners up Kerala. Sahil and Kanwar Gurbaz Singh from Punjab had good games for their team with 22 and 18 points respectively. The Haryana boys picked up their second victory of the tournament defeating a comparatively undersized Maharashtra team. Chhattisgarh boys fell to the Uttar Pradesh team that registered a 59-39 victory. The play of the UP boys has been one of the surprises of the tournament so far.

In the second half of the day, the Chhattisgarh girls played another game against Karnataka. Gulabsha Ali top scored for her team yet again with 27 points and Chhattisgarh ended up with a comfortable 47-24 victory. The Chandigarh girls also handily defeated their opponent Rajasthan 36 to 15.

In the boys’ games, Kerala faced Maharashtra in a cracker of a contest. Both teams went back-and-forth and the game saw multiple lead changes. In the end, Kerala held on for a 1-point victory 59 to 58. The Chhattisgarh boys faced neighbours Madhya Pradesh and displayed strong defense in the paint coupled with strong drives to the basket. Led by guard Vinod Rajak, Chhattisgarh bounced back from the morning loss to register a 51-32 victory.

Results from Day 3 up to 7:30 p.m.

Girls:

Level 1:

Group A:

Maharashtra (Shruti Vasant Sherigar 18, Neha Shanu 18) bt Punjab (Rajandeep Kaur 10, Lovepreet Kaur 9) 67-35 (26-7, 6-12, 20-12, 15-4)

Group B:

Chhattisgarh (Gulabsha Ali 21, Jyoti Kumari 17) bt Kerala (Adhikanop 17, Sylvia Grace Shiboo 11, Reyna K. 8) 53-44 (10-13, 11-10, 9-6, 23-15)

Chhattisgarh (Gulabsha Ali 27, Jyoti Kumari 8) bt Karnataka (Aastha 8) 47-24(12-4, 19-6, 5-3, 11-11)

Level 2:

Group C:

Himachal Pradesh (Muskan 11, Pallavi N. 8) bt Jammu and Kashmir (Ishita 9)45-21(11-0, 11-9, 11-3, 12-9)

Group D:

West Bengal (Paramita Ghosh 24, Mala Arong 14) bt Puducherry (Sandhya 14, Aiswarya 7) 54-33 (15-14, 16-5, 9-9, 14-5)

Group E:

Chandigarh (Amrit 16, Palak 10) bt Rajasthan (Usha Acharaj 7, Himanshi 6) 36-15 (10-7, 8-2, 8-2, 10-4)

Boys:

Level 1:

Group A:

Tamil Nadu (P. Baladhaneshwar 25, C. Joshua Rozario 16, K. Ajith Kumar 12) btDelhi(Hansraj 20, Sorav 11, Manik 9) 76-60 (24-10, 9-8, 22-10, 21-32)

Uttar Pradesh (Pankaj 18, Dheeraj Maurya 10) bt Chhattisgarh (Virendra 10, Salim Ali 10) 59-39 (21-11, 10-7, 10-12, 18-9)

Chhattisgarh (Vinod Rajak 17, Gajendra 10) bt Madhya Pradesh (Harshvardhan 9, Manoj Singh 7, Vicki Batham 7) 51-32 (10-12, 6-13, 18-4, 17-3)

Group B:

Haryana (Ankit Toshi 19, Rinku 16) bt Maharashtra (Sameer Qureshi 23) 71-48(18-11, 11-16, 24-14, 18-7)

Punjab (Sahil 22, Kanwar Gurbaz Singh 18, Parmod Pal 17) bt Kerala (Joshua George 12, Jithin Paul 9) 74-43 (19-16, 24-14, 18-6, 13-7)

Kerala (Muhammed S. 24, Joshua J. George 14) bt Maharashtra (Faisan Khan 22, Gurprem Singh 12) 59-58 (12-15, 15-9, 14-16, 18-18)

Level 2:

Group C:

Jammu and Kashmir (Abhinav 11, Shivam 11) bt Puducherry (Gurumurthy 29)51-46(13-13, 2-10, 15-8, 21-15)

Group D:

Gujarat (Karan Pithadiya 14, Satyajeetsinh 8) bt Telangana (Priyank 9) 53-21 (13-8, 10-3, 12-6, 18-4)

West Bengal (S. Hussain 13, P. Mondal 11) bt Bihar (Raunak Kumar 7, Rahul Kumar 6)55-24 (13-8, 11-7, 22-8, 9-1)

Group E:

Uttarakhand (Vaibhav Choudhary 28, Prakhar Sharma 18, Dheeraj Negi 12) btGoa(Shaun 22, Manjesh 14, Roy 12) 63-60 (14-15, 13-13, 11-11, 25-21)

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Historians & Researchers delight on declassifies 64 files related to Netaji

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West Bengal government declassifies 64 files related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.NetajiFiles to be available for public viewing on Monday.

NetajiFiles are thrown open to the public, many more secrets are expected to emerge on Netaji, whose death has been an enduring mystery for decades. Netaji purportedly died in an air crash in at Taihoku in Taiwan on 18 August, 1945.

“The files related to Netaji have been placed in the archives of the Kolkata police museum. There are about 64 file that contain 12,744 pages. The files have been digitised and the original files have been kept in the police museum,” Kolkata Police Commissioner Surajit Kar Purkayastha told the media.

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culmination ceremony this Friday.

DATE: Friday, 18th September, 2015

VENUE: The Grand, New Delhi, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj- Phase II

TIME: 3.00 PM onwards

In sync with its ideology Mountain Dew to encourage people to rise above fear, break out of the ordinary and emerge victorious, Mountain launched this campaign earlier this year to identify real-life India and bring them together at one platform.

Mountain Dew salutes:

Padma Shri Arunima Sinha: WorldⳠfirst female amputee to climb Mount Everest

Padma Shri Shital Mahajan: First woman to do free fall jump over North and South poles

Ghost Ryderz : Internationally acclaimed and one of the most popular stunt bilking group in India

Col. Stayendra Verma: Credited for being one of the first few to do BASE jump in India

Watch their stories here

On Friday, Mountain Dew honours these risk takers and invites you to witness the felicitation. To make your visit worthwhile, we will be happy to arrange interactions with our heroes and with Mr. Nitin Bhandari, VP Marketing, Mountain Dew, PepsiCo India. The interactions will be scheduled between 12 – 2 p.m.

Apart from the four heroes, Mountain Dew will also felicitate and share more untold stories of risk-takers who have the potential to be the next Arunima Sinha and Shital Mahajan.

A formal invite is attached for your reference. Look forward to your participation

Aastha Khurana

Associat

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015| EDIT

News Editor/ Chief of Bureau

Sub: Request for coverage – on record interaction with Competition Commission of India, chairperson, Mr Ashok Chawla, September 18, 2.45 pm, 5, Windsor Place, Indian Women’;s Press Corps

Dear Sir/Ma’am,

Warm greetings.

The IWPC is organising an on-record interaction with Mr Ashok Chawla, chairperson of the youngest regulator body – the Competition Commission of India, at its premises, 5, Windsor Place tomorrow, September 18, 2/45 pm. This is to kindly request you to depute your correspondent/camera-person to cover the event/interaction.

Thanking you in anticipation,

Ravinder Bawa

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present

The China Symposia
(A series to develop a broader and deeper multi-dimensional understanding of China)

Session on
What Does China’s Global Economic Strategy Mean for Asia, India and the World?– With a Focus on China’s “One Belt One Road” Initiative

EVENT DETAILS

DATE

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

TIME

5:45 PM – 7:15 PM (Registration: 5:15 pm)

LOCATION

Seminar Rooms II & III, Kamla Devi Complex, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Muller Marg, New Delhi – 110003

SPEAKERS

Ambassador Shyam Saran, Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) and Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research (CPR)Mr. Ravi Bhoothalingam, Founder and Chairman, Manas Advisory and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS)Ms. Suhasini Haider, Diplomatic Editor, the Hindu

CHAIR

Ambassador Kishan S. Rana, Former Indian Ambassador to Germany and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS)

ABOUT THE EVENT

The 21st century is marked by the unprecedented growth of China, which has made significant progress over the last decade in sustaining and broadening its economic development. According to the World Bank, China is the second largest economy and is increasingly playing an important and influential role in the global economy. In fact, China’s leaders have embarked on a conscious strategy to reshape the economy of Asia and the world to their advantage.

Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, the “One Belt, One Road” is the most far-reaching initiative that China has ever put forward. Through this project, China is planning to alter the region’s economic architecture, patterns of regional trade, investment and infrastructure development. The ambitious project plans to connect China with Europe and Africa by road, rail and sea by a network of transport and industrial corridors. This session, first in the series under “The China Symposia”, will feature experts from diverse fields who will evaluate the opportunities and challenges for India of China’s ‘Silk Road’ economic strategy.

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SPEAKERS
	AMBASSADOR SHYAM SARAN, Chairman, Research & Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) and Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research (CPR) Shyam Saran, 67, is a former Foreign Secretary and has served as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change and Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board. He is currently Chairman of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries. He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. Saran was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest national award, in January 2011 for his contributions to Civil Service.
He writes and speaks regularly on foreign policy, climate change, energy security and national and international security related issues.

	MR RAVI BHOOTHALINGAM, Founder and Chairman, Manas Advisory and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) Ravi Bhoothalingam is Founder and Chairman of Manas Advisory, a consultancy practice focusing on Leadership Coaching as well as on business and cultural relations with China, Mongolia and Myanmar. He is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. He is a B.ScHons in Physics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and holds a Masters degree [M.A. Cantab] in Experimental Psychology from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, guided by the renowned Sinologist and scientist Joseph Needham.
He also holds an AMP from Harvard. Ravi Bhoothalingam serves on the Boards of Directors of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd, Hyderabad, India and Sona Koyo Steering Systems Ltd, New Delhi, India. Earlier, he held senior positions in industry including as President of Oberoi Hotels and Head of Personnel Worldwide of BAT Industries plc. Ravi has travelled extensively in China and its neighbourhood. He is a member of the 4-country Joint Study Group examining the feasibility of a Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor. Ravi is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Core Group on China and sits on the Editorial Boards of China Report and World Affairs. His interests also cover Confucianism, Sino-Indian business and economic ties, and adventure travel in the remote regions of China. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, and a member of the Court of Governors of the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India.

	MS SUHASINI HAIDER, Diplomatic Editor, the Hindu Suhasini Haidar is the Diplomatic Editor of The Hindu, one of India’s oldest and most respected national dailies (www.thehindu.com). Prior to this, Suhasini was Foreign Affairs editor and prime time anchor for India’s leading 24-hr English news channel CNN-IBN (2005-2014), where she presented the signature show “WorldView with Suhasini Haidar”, and Correspondent for CNN International’s New Delhi bureau before that. In 2015, she was the recipient of the most prestigious Indian print journalism ‘Prem Bhatia’ award, and has won a series of awards for her work in Television as well.
Over the course of her 20-year reporting career, Suhasini has covered the most challenging stories & conflicts from the most diverse regions including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Libya, Lebanon and Syria. In India, she has covered the foreign affairs beat for over a decade and her domestic assignments include political profiles and in-depth reportage from conflict zones including Kashmir, where she was injured in a bomb blast in 2000. Suhasini Haidar worked with CNN International from 1995-2005, regularly reporting from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. She was part of the CNN team that won the Columbia-Dupont Broadcast Journalism Award in 2005 for coverage of the tsunami in India, and worked for CNN.com in New York for a month during its 9/11 coverage. Suhasini began her career in journalism as an intern at CNN’s United Nation’s bureau in New York in 1994, after which she joined CNN New Delhi bureau as a producer in April 1995. Suhasini earned a Bachelor’s degree at Lady Shriram College in Delhi, and then completed her Masters in Broadcast Journalism at Boston University’s College of Communication, USA. She lives in Delhi with her husband Nadim and her two daughters Ava Mumtaz and Maya Mehr.

CHAIR
	AMBASSADOR KISHAN S RANA, Former Indian Ambassador to Germany and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) Ambassador Kishan S. Rana is a career diplomat who joined Indian Foreign Service in 1960. He served as Ambassador/High Commissioner to Algeria, Czechoslovakia, Kenya, Mauritius, and Germany; also consul general in San Francisco and worked in China (1963-65, 1970-72). He also served on staff of PM Indira Gandhi (1981-82). In addition, Ambassador Rana is a Professor Emeritus, DiploFoundation, Malta and Geneva; Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi; Archives By-Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge; Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC; guest faculty, Diplomatic Academy, Vienna; Commonwealth Adviser, Namibia Foreign Ministry, 2000-01.
Ambassador Rana authored number of books on diplomacy and international affairs such as Inside Diplomacy (2000); Managing Corporate Culture (co-author, 2000); Bilateral Diplomacy (2002); The 21st Century Ambassador (2004); Asian Diplomacy (2007); Diplomacy of the 21st Century (2011); India’s North-East States, the BCIM Forum and Regional Integration, (co-author, 2012); The Contemporary Embassy (2013). Ambassador Rana is fluent in Chinese and French. He holds a BA (Hons) and a MA in economics from St Stephens College, Delhi.

Cosy club : Director NMML – EC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015| EDIT

Naresh Kumar Sagar
Cosy club Director NMML – EC
NMML – EC included two persons, Nitin Desai and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, who had been appointed by the previous government, and two BJP/RSS nominees – Surya Prakash and MJ Akbar – besides Rangarajan, Lokesh Chandra, and two bureaucrats as ex-officio members.Rangarajan was appointed Director of NMML in 2011 for a three-year term that was due to end in August 2014. UPA government decided to extend the appointment till his retirement age but was warned by the EC to wait till the elections were over. Rangarajan issued a statement that the plans the EC had approved did not envisage any dilution of Nehru in the museum or library: Rangarajan, confidence shaken by the minister’s repeated attacks on his appointment, insisted on putting in his resignation again.Media agencies

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SDGs have to prioritise children’s issues, the “My World, My Voice” Report recommends

NEW DELHI, Sept 17: The children of the NINEISMINE campaign launched today the report titled “My World, My voice”, which reflects recommendations of over 1,000 children from across India emphasising the need for prioritising children’s issues in the emerging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report is an outcome of the UNICEF-supported campaign “Seen and Heard” – a platform for children to express their opinions on their rights and to directly advocate to the policy and decision makers in the country.

Data from the consultations reveals that children are particularly concerned about issues related to water and sanitation (Goal 6), quality education (Goal 4), health and wellbeing (Goal 3) and ending poverty (Goal 1). When discussing quality education, for example, one of the most common suggestions was the need to improve the quality of teaching, especially in government schools and non-formal education. Children with disabilities and those belonging to minorities raised their voices against discrimination and urged on the need of inclusive schools where all children can learn together.

At the event, UNICEF Representative, Louis-Georges Arsenault, acknowledged the process led by the children of NINEISMINE and highlighted the importance of the equity approach in the SDGs. “There is much to celebrate for children in the new goals. Some major steps forward include explicit targets on reducing inequality, ending violence against children and combating child poverty. And there is a clear mandate of ‘leaving no one behind,” Mr. Arsenault said.

For the coordinator of NINEISMINE, Brother Steve Rocha, one of the highlights of the report and the “Seen and Heard” campaign is that children are not just rights holders, but also active citizens that have a say in building their future. “The campaign provided a platform for children to both understand the new goals and influence them. As part of the campaign, children including those displaced by violence and conflict and those belonging to vulnerable communities along with their privileged peers, discerned their future on the basis of their past and present experiences,” Mr. Rocha explained.

Throughout the presentation, the delegation, which includes Malavath Poorna, a 13-year-old tribal girl in Telangana who is also the youngest to have scaled the Mt. Everest, and Swarnalaxmi Ravi, a 16-year-old girl who has a speech and hearing impairment, among others, reminded policy makers that the decision-making processes should be more participatory, keeping in mind the people that they actually impact. The delegation also presented a song to End Poverty, which summarised the 17 goals.

“There cannot be better advocates than children to hold decision makers accountable towards commitments. Children themselves need to be aware of their entitlements to take up responsibility of asking questions, monitoring and reviewing, if they don’t find promises being met. With children’s voices included in decisions related to them, India can deliver the best success stories for the world to witness,” pointed out Caroline den Dulk, Chief Advocacy and Communication, UNICEF.

As part of the campaign, these young advocates have presented these recommendations to the Ministry of External Affairs, Commissioners of Embassies (such as Canada, Afghanistan and the Republic of Ireland), and to a number of activists and experts. As a next step, this delegation will visit New York in the coming week, and seek opportunities to present their recommendations to world leaders attending the 70thUnited Nations General Assembly.

About UNICEF

UNICEF works in more than 190 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. For more information about UNICEF and its work visit: www.unicef.organdwww.unicef.org/india

About NINEISMINE

NINEISMINE is a child led advocacy initiative ‘For and By the children’, working towards the fulfilment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UNMDGs), which are soon to evolve as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The campaign provides children with platforms to engage with leaders and policy makers by claiming their stake, to affect their present and the future. It is a network of over 500 NGOs and schools from across India and also has global presence. For more information aboutNINEISMINE visit: http://www.nineismine.in/home

For more information, please contact:

Caroline den Dulk, Chief Advocacy and Communication, UNICEF India

Tel: +91-9818106093, Email: cdendulk@unicef.org

Geetanjali Master, Communication Specialist, UNICEF India

Tel: 91-981 810 5861, E-mail: gmaster@unicef.org

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International Day of Peace
21 September 2015

Message of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

This year’s International Day of Peace comes at a time of deadly violence and destabilizing conflicts around the world. Rather than succumbing to despair, we have a collective responsibility to demand an end to the brutality and impunity that prevail.
I call on all warring parties to lay down their weapons and observe a global ceasefire. To them I say: stop the killings and the destruction, and create space for lasting peace.
Although it may seem hopelessly distant, the dream of peace pulses in the lives of people everywhere.
There is no group more poised to help realize this dream than today’s young people. They are part of the largest generation of youth in history, more aware and connected than any before. I urge all Governments to make greater investments in realizing the potentially massive contributions of the world’s young peacebuilders.
At the same time, we need to mobilize all partners who share the goal of peace. Non-governmental organizations, faith-based groups and corporations all have a role to play in fostering social progress, protecting the environment and creating a more just, stable and peaceful world. The value of this collaboration is our theme for the Day: “Partnerships for Peace — Dignity for All”.
We live at a moment of peril — but this is also an era of great promise. In a matter of days, leaders from across the globe will gather at the United Nations to adopt the 2030 agenda, our 15-year plan to achieve sustainable development. This is fundamental to ushering in a life of dignity for all, where poverty is history and peace is paramount.
On the International Day, as we mark the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, let us seize the opportunity to achieve the Organization’s founding purpose: to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.
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SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REMARKS AT PRESS CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH THE 2015 MDG GAP TASK FORCE REPORT
New York, 18 September 2015
I am very pleased to be with UNDP Administrator Helen Clark, and DESA USG Wu Hongbo.
In 2007, I established an inter-agency Task Force to monitor progress in achieving Millennium Development Goal number 8, the Global Partnership for Development.
Since then, the Task Force has provided the international community with an annual review.
Today, I am pleased to launch the final such document – the 2015 MDG Gap Task Force Report, “Taking Stock of the Global Partnership for Development.”
This report [assesses] achievements and shortcomings across five areas: first, official development assistance; second, market access and trade; third, debt sustainability; fourth, access to essential medicines; and fifth, access to new technologies.
This year’s report has special significance as Member States move towards adoption and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Despite gains towards a number of targets, major gaps remain in reducing vulnerabilities for developing countries, including least developed countries, land-locked developing countries and small-island developing States.
The MDG Gap Task Force has also shared insights on improving the global partnership for development in the years ahead – in particular through enhanced global monitoring and better coordination of the increasingly diverse and growing number of partnerships.
The transition from the MDGs to the SDGs presents an opportunity to unlock resources for investments in education, health, equitable growth and sustainable production and consumption.
The Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa has put in place a framework that will turn our aspirations into practical steps and strategies. We will also need to establish a strong mechanism to follow up on the commitments reached in Addis Ababa.
I urge partners across the world to embrace the ambition embodied in the new set of goals. I look forward to working together to deliver on the unfinished MDG commitments, tackle inequality and meet the new challenges that have emerged across the three dimensions of sustainable development — economic, social and environmental.
The insights and analysis of the Task Force provide vital support in that effort, and I commend this report to a wide global audience.
Thank you very much.
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/mdg_gap/mdg_gap2015/2015GAP_FULLREPORT_EN.pdf

September 19, 2015

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TWTC KOLKATA – 2015 Newsletter Volume 10

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UPCOMING EVENT IN INDIA:-

TAIWAN DELEGATION AT THE OBEROI GRAND – SINGLE BUSINESS DAY MEET – KOLKATA: 8TH OF OCTOBER, 2015:

TWTC Kolkata invites and encourages all Indian companies to participate in our ‘2015 Single Day One-to-One Business Meet’ at ‘The Oberoi Grand’ with Top Taiwan Delegates Companies who will be open to all business Opportunities. In 2014 we had a grand success with about 200 Indian companies from all over India. We hope to see you all and more companies this year! Immediately Apply to get the best time slots for your meeting.

Attached: 2015 Taiwan Delegation Group List.

Registration: Please revert to this mail with filled up trade inquiry form and which company you like to meet with.

Deadline: 25^th September 2015!

UPCOMING TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL TRADE EXHIBITION SHOWS – SEPTEMBER 2015– MARCH 2016:-

2015 International Trade Shows
(TITAS) Taipei Innovative Textile Application Show	Sept 29 – Oct 01
Aqua Taiwan	Sept 30 – Oct 02
TAITRONICS (Taipei Int’l Electronics Show)	06 – 09 Oct
Taiwan Hardware Show	12 – 14 Oct
PV Taiwan (Taiwan Int’l Photovoltaic Exhibition)	14 – 16 Oct
TIGIS(Taiwan Int’l Green Industry Show)	21 – 23 Oct
TPCA Show	21 – 23 Oct
Kaohsiung Food Show	05 – 08 Nov
TIS (Taipei IN Style)	12 – 15 Nov
Taiwan Int’l Tea, Coffee & Wine Expo	13 – 16 Nov
Taiwan Int’l Fisheries & Seafood Show	19 – 21 Nov
27^th Taipei Building Show	10 – 13 Dec
2016 International Trade Shows
Taipei Int’l Cycle Show	02 – 05 March
Taipei Int’l Sporting Goods Show	02 – 05 March
Taiwan Int’l Orchid Show	04 – 14 March
Taiwan Boat Show	10 – 13 March

· Details of Trade Show in attached file: Upcoming International Trade Shows.

· For Registration: please fill the ‘Trade Inquiry From’ attached, and revert to us by email/Fax.

· Incentives Applicable – Limited Resources – Conditions Apply.

· For any assistance please feel free to call/write us and share your feedback.

iMeeting (Video Conference):-
iMeeting with Taiwanese companies is one of our fastest and most successful form of Indian-Taiwan trade matchmaking. Tell us your needs and we will find you suppliers from Taiwan with the best they have to offer you! Taiwan wants more business with India and being a pioneer in technology we are doing our best to reach out to Indian Business! If it’s inconvenient to fly to Taiwan we invite you to have an iMeeting at your own office or at our Kolkata office at a mutually agreed time and date!

For registration: please email us for the iMeeting Inquiry form.

“TITAS” – 2015 Taipei International Invention Show & Technomart,Sept 29 – Oct 01 :-
Enjoying the Fruits of Ten Years of Invention since 2005, Taiwan presents its ever successful International event with over 1000 Booths, exhibiting 800 patents to its present scale of 2,000 patented inventions, thanks to the continued innovation and growth of inventors in Taiwan. The “Technomart Area” co-organized by five government ministries will be divided into 13 theme pavilions including the Ministry of Science and Technology Pavilion, Ministry of Education Pavilion and Agricultural Pavilion. The latest exhibits in each pavilion highlight advanced R&D technologies from Taiwan industry, we Invite all Indian companies to attend and work with Taiwan Companies!

Attached: Details in Upcoming International Trade Exhibition shows.
Registration: Fill up trade inquiry form and revert to this mail.

Taiwan International Water Show 2015 (AQUA TAIWAN) Sept 30 – Oct 02:-
Water Treatment, Membrane, Transport & Storage, Water & Sanitary Ware, Water Products, Process Control Technology & Process Automation, Hydraulic Engineering, Public Sector & Related Services – If these are the business Sir is looking at we invite you to attend our 2^nd year of International presence in providing the best ‘Aqua Technologies’ for the Indian market!
Highlights:

• New Product Launches
••workshops and seminars for products, services and technology
••• pre-arranged 1-on-1 business meetings between exhibitors and buyers
••••Government Procurement Sourcing Meetings.

Registration: Please fill Trade Inquiry form and revert to this mail.

TAITRONICS (Taipei Int’l Electronics Show)06 – 09 Oct:-
One of TWTC’s most popular International tradeshows TAITRONICS returns for its “41st show” at Taipei NANGANG EXHIBITION CENTER, HALL 1 this year from October 6th to 9th. This year’s show will also be jointly held for the first time with the largest annual international electronics event, the World Electronics Forum and Asian Electronics Forum.

Attached: Details in Upcoming International Trade Exhibition shows.
Registration: Fill up trade inquiry form and revert to this mail.

INDUSTRIAL & ECONOMIC NEWS:-

a. India-Taiwan bilateral trade at $2.1 billion in January-May 2015:
Bilateral trade between India and Taiwan stood at 2.1 billion USD in the first five months of 2015 and Taiwan’s machine tool export to India has increased by 11.6% be end of six month. Taiwanese export to India contributed USD 1.28 billion while imports from India touched USD 828 million. Link

b. Taiwan’s Foxconn company could make India as its manufacturing base:

Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, has signed a $5 billion deal to set up R&D and hi-tech manufacturing facilities in western India within the next five years. The $5 billion pledge is the largest foreign investment into India’s tech manufacturing sector and a boost for the government’s “Make in India” program designed to spur domestic manufacturing. Link

c. Tripura Conclave: By taking lessons from Taiwan, north-east can boost economy:

Tripura Governor Shri Tathagata Roy said, If a small nation like Taiwan can take up the challenge of developing itself, why not Tripura and other states of India and also added small island Taiwan has global presence in almost all the sector, but especially in ICT Industry. Link

d. Taiwan’s technology Industry marks global success:

Taiwan’s information and communications technology (ICT) companies play a key role in the global supply chain for electronics products. Taiwanese companies account for about three-quarters of the world’s production of PCs and half of the world’s liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). In addition, Taiwan makes about a quarter of the world’s semiconductors and about a fifth of the world’s mobile phones. Overall, Taiwan has carved out a huge niche in the global ICT industry. Link

Best Regards,

Anup Narayanan.

Contact Us
Taipei World Trade Center, Kolkata Office.
Apeejay House, Block ” C”, Ground Floor,
15, Park Street Kolkata-16.
Tel: +91-33-4004-2796/97.
Fax: +91-33-4004-2798.
Email: kolkata@taitra.org.tw

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Alliance Française de Delhi & AntiSocial
with the support of Institut Francais
present
CHILL-BUMP
Saturday, 19th September 2015, 9 pm onwards
AntiSocial, 9A & 12, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi
Chill bump is an English-speaking, French-made, rap duo from Tours.
Since the group was founded in 2010, Chill Bump has proven to be a collaborative endeavor of an entirely new kind. The alliance between Miscellaneous (MC) and Bankal (Beatmaker) was both unique and powerful from the get-go; enriched by the fusion of their respective English and French speaking heritage. The duo first met in high school shortly after Miscellaneous moved to France from the UK, his native country, and by the time they reunited and started creating tracks together they had each grown solid artistic roots; Bankal made a name for himself as a DJ and beatmaker namely at the IDA and DMC championships, and Miscellaneous had already been a touring musician and songwriter for several years, and had trained extensively in performing arts. Their reunion was bound to be explosive.
Chill Bump has created its own universe; a world of lofty, uncluttered and sometimes abrasive beats over which Miscellaneous verbalizes in his native English. As we track the group’s journey from EP to EP we hear and feel a pattern begin to emerge, the assemblage of countless passions and influences. It was their unique spirit that piqued Wax Tailor and C2C’s attention, allowing the duo to open venues for both artists respectively.
Come one Come all to this extravagant musical affair!
For more information, please write to culture@afdelhi.org / communication@afdelhi.org.

September 19, 2015

Media Inteaction -CCI, Chairman Mr. Ashok Chawla

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#12: Tamil Nadu and Delhi to meet in boy’s final

Bhavnagar, Gujarat, 20^th September 2015:After defending champs Tamil Nadu girls booked a date in the final to face Chhattisgarh, it was the boys’ turn to repeat last year’s performance and make the final again. Standing in their way was the Haryana boys’ side, who came off a thrilling extra time victory against Uttar Pradesh yesterday in their quarterfinal match.

Tamil Nadu started the game well with a strong first quarter, outscoring Haryana 23 to 13. Captain and last year’s MVP P. Baladhaneshwar continued his form into this game, leading from the front for his team. He was ably assisted by teammate G.K. Manikandan on offense. The first half belonged to Tamil Nadu, ending 41-24 in their favour. In the second half, Haryana tried to push for a comeback. Led by Rinku, they managed to cut down the lead to below 15. But in the end, it was too little too late, as Tamil Nadu held on to a 10-point lead to clinch the 72-62 victory and make it to their second final in two years at the Youth National Basketball Championship.

In the other boys’ semi-final, Delhi faced Punjab in a clash of north Indian basketball powerhouses. Delhi came off a close 1-point victory against Kerala in their quarterfinal, while Punjab dominated against Chhattisgarh in their quarterfinal. However, in this game, Delhi was the dominant team. Delhi built a 20-point lead in the first quarter that ended 24 to 4. For the next 3 quarters, it was all about whether Punjab could make a comeback. But they dug themselves too big a hole at the start of the game. Delhi was led by Manik’s 21 points and Hansraj’s 19 points. Punjab’s Abhi Kumar fought valiantly with 22 points, but his effort went in vain. Delhi now will face defending champs Tamil Nadu in the final.

The girls’ third place match was between Maharashtra and Punjab. The Maharashtra girls relied on their India campers Rutuja Pawar, Neha Shahu and Shruti Sherigar to steer them to the victory. Balanced scoring effort from their top players and a strong second half helped Maharashtra clinch the bronze medal at the 32^nd Youth National Basketball Championship. For Punjab, Sakshi Sharma was the top scorer with 14 points.

Results from Day 6 up to 5:00 p.m.

Boys’ semi-finals:

Tamil Nadu (P. Baladhaneshwar 23, G.K. Manikandan 20, C. Joshua 15) bt Haryana (Rinku 22, Akshay 13, Ankit Joshi 10) 72-62(23-13, 18-11, 11-10, 20-28)

Delhi (Manik 21, Hansraj 19, Sourav 17) bt Punjab (Abhi Kumar 22, Swapnil Sharma 8) 67-47 (24-4, 10-17, 18-10, 15-16)

Girls third place:

Maharashtra (Rutuja Pawar 17, Neha Vinod Shahu 14, Shruti Sherigar 13) bt Punjab (Sakshi Sharma 14, Lovepreet Kaur 10) 51-42(11-9, 6-11, 15-10, 19-12)

About 32^nd Youth National Basketball Championship

The 32^nd Youth National Basketball Championship is being conducted in Bhavnagar, Gujarat from 14^th to 20^th September 2015 by the Gujarat State Basketball Association in association with the Bhavnagar District Basketball Association and the Youngsters Basketball Club, Bhavnagar under the aegis of the Basketball Federation of India.

This year’s tournament is being held on two outdoor courts at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. KARP Impex Group, involved in the business of diamond polishing, crafting and sale and based out of Surat, Gujarat, is the title sponsor for the event. Other sponsors include Sports Authority of Gujarat, Sheetal Group, Acrysil Limited, Madhu Silica, HVK, Rudra TMX, Mono TMT Bar, Leela Worldwide, Maruti Metal Industries, Priya Blue Industries Private Limited, NavyugPharma Chemical Private Limited, NBM – Iron and Steel Trading Private Limited and Kiran Diamonds.

About Basketball Federation of India

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Australian PM unveils new cabinet

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Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull on Sunday announced the line-up of his new cabinet almost a week after he toppled former Prime Minister Tony Abbott in a party spill.

“Today I’m announcing a 21st century government and a ministry for the future,” Turnbull told reporters at a press conference in Canberra on Sunday afternoon.

“As you will have gathered, there are some very big changes in the cabinet — there are now five women in the cabinet,” he said.

An increased number, up to five from two, of women being promoted to the inner cabinet has been a shining spot of the new cabinet, showing the new prime minister’s effort to address the criticism of lack of females in the Abbott government.

Apart from Julie Bishop and Sussan Ley keeping their portfolios as foreign minister and minister for health, a number of women holding lower positions in the Abbott government have been promoted, including Marisa Payne, who stands out in the new cabinet to be the first female defense minister in Australian history.

Meanwhile, former Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Michaelia Cash is promoted as Employment Minister and Minister for Women, and former Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Kelly O’Dwyer is promoted as Small Business Minister and Assistant Treasurer.

Without any surprise, former Social Services Minister Scott Morrison becomes Treasurer, taking the second most important portfolio and will be responsible for managing the country’s economy.

Outgoing Treasurer Joe Hockey is expected to quit parliament. Former Western Australian Treasurer Christian Porter is named Social Services Minister.

Turnbull said the reshuffle is about “renewal” and bringing young blood into the cabinet.

“The introduction of new talent means that…others have to leave. One of the great challenges for any leader is to ensure that there is renewal,” he said.

“That…we are able to bring up new talent, new faces, into leadership positions over time, and that often means, that invariably means in fact, that very capable people have to move on stand aside so that others can come through. And that’s tough, for everybody concerned.”

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Global news sneakin

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Voting starts in Greek general elections

Greek snap parliamentary elections are in full swing. It’s a neck-and-neck race between the leading political forces – the leftist Syriza and conservative New Democracy parties. Neither promises an end to austerity.
The elections were called by the former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, after the country secured a new bailout from international lenders.

He has already cast his ballot in his working class Kypseli neighborhood of Athens.Greek voters started casting their ballots Sunday in the second general elections this year to elect a new government that will implement the latest three year bailout agreed in the summer with international creditors.Polling stations are open early in the morning. About 9.8 million citizens of 18 years and above registered to vote in the 19,457 polling stations nationwide. The number of eligible new voters stands at 108,464.The two frontrunners are former prime minister and leader of the radical-left SYRIZA party Alexis Tsipras, and Evangelos Meimarakis of the conservative New Democracy (ND) party.”Greek citizens with their participation will not allow others to make decisions for them. They will take their future in their hands and seal the transition to a new era,” Tsipras said in a statement to the press after casting his ballot.”They will give a mandate for continuity, stability and progress,” he added, pledging that a new SYRIZA-led administration would continue the battles within Greece and in Europe for people’s rights.”I believe we will have a better future for all Greeks regardless of which party they vote for,” said Meimarakis after casting his ballot.”I hope the result will vindicate Greek people’s sacrifices,” GreekPresident Prokopis Pavlopoulos said after casting his ballot.Leaders of smaller parties such as the anti-bailout Communist Party KKE’s General Secretary Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the leader of the newly formed leftist Popular Union party Panagiotis Lafazanis, and Panos Kammenos, leader of the right-wing Independent Greeks (ANEL) party, also made pleas for a big turnout.The head of the centrist small Potami party Stavros Theodorakis, and Fofi Gennimata, leader of the small PASOK socialist party, which runs with the small Democratic Left party, stressed the need for consensus after the elections.Though both of the front runners and leaders of smaller parties are committed to the implementation of the bailout this time, enthusiasm and passion are lacking.SYRIZA and the ND were almost tied in all opinion surveys conducted over the past months with the leftists gaining a slight lead within the marginal error in the final stretch, according to pollsters.A few hours before the ballots open for the fifth national polls in six years, about 10 percent of voters were still undecided and pollsters expected a high abstention rate of more than 45 percent due to voter fatigue and disappointment.In the past elections in recent years, Greeks headed to the polls to choose between the pro-bailout and pro-euro forces and anti-austerity and anti-bailout parties, with SYRIZA leading the latter.In the Jan. 25 elections, SYRIZA won and formed the first left-led government in Greece’s modern history.After marathon negotiations with lenders and the closure of banks to avoid collapse of the banking system when the second bailout expired in late June, Tsipras made a U-turn and signed the third bailout to avert disorderly default and exit.Following a party rift over the bailout, the 41-year-old premier quit, triggering the snap polls. He asked voters for a second opportunity to rule with a new stable government.SYRIZA tried to woo voters this time by pledging to make the utmost effort to ease the pain of the new round of austerity policies.The ND, on the other hand, offered “stability over inconsistency and risky experiments.”In the past, the dilemmas put forward were more dramatic as SYRIZA was threatening to tear up bailouts and the country’s fate was hanging in balance, political analysts in Athens noted. This time the question is which party will better implement the same plan.Regardless of which party comes first, surveys showed that none of the two frontrunners are close to gaining an absolute majority in the next 300 member strong parliament. Therefore coalition partnerships are required.The preliminary exit polls are expected shortly after the voting ends. The official estimates will be released by the Interior Ministry late Sunday.Nepal approves new constitution amid ongoing protestsA new version of the Nepalese constitution adopted on Sunday continues the transformation from a Hindu monarchy to a secular federal democracy, AFP reports. The act has been accompanied by violent protests in the south of the country. “I announce the presented constitution of Nepal, passed by the Constituent Assembly and authenticated by the chairman of the Constituent Assembly, effective from today, 20 September 2015, before the people of Nepal,” said President Ram Baran Yadav at a ceremony in parliament in the capital Kathmandu.

2 injured as small plane hits car in Switzerland
A small plane crashed near the Swiss town of Holziken on Sunday morning, smashing into a car. The pilot and the driver of the car were injured and taken to hospital, police said.
9 Indian athletes killed, 5 injured in road accident
At least nine sportsmen were killed and five injured when the driver of the bus they were traveling in lost control. The vehicle plunged from a bridge in eastern India late on Saturday, local police reported, according to TASS. The five survivors were rushed to hospital and are said to be in critical condition. The team was traveling home to Sendhpur village after they had won a match in a local tournament of Kabbadi, a national Indian contact game.
5 hunters believed killed by militants in N. Caucasus, Russia
Rescue workers have found the bodies of five hunters in a forest in the Russian republic of Dagestan, TASS reported on Sunday. “On September 18, we got a message about the disappearance of five hunters,” a source at a local law enforcement agency told TASS. He added the bodies of the men, variously shot in the head and chest, were found on Friday evening a hundred meters from a militants’ summer camp. The men could have been killed as revenge for cooperation with police.
75 US-trained Syrian rebels entered Syria from Turkey
Seventy-five Syrian rebels, trained by the US and its allies to fight the Islamic State terrorist group, have entered northern Syria since Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. According to the monitoring group’s director, Rami Abdulrahman, the rebels crossed into Syria from Turkey with 12 vehicles equipped with machine guns. In May, the US military began training for up to 5,400 fighters a year. The head of the US military’s Central Command, General Lloyd Austin, told Congress earlier this week that only a handful of Syrian rebels, trained under the program, were still fighting in Syria.“It’s a small number. The ones that are in the fight … we’re talking four or five,” he said, according to Reuters. Austin reportedly told the Senate Armed Services Committee that at the current pace, initial training targets were unrealistic.
China launches first new light booster
The Chinese space agency has successful launched a brand new ChángZhēng-6 (CZ-6) space vehicle, reports Xinhua. The launch was performed from Tàiyuán cosmodrome in Shānxī province. The CZ-6 is a two- stage, light class booster of the Long March series of China’s launch vehicles developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT). The CZ-6 is the first Chinese booster to use non-toxic fuel, kerosene and oxygen. The booster is capable of delivering a payload of up to one ton payload into orbit. On its first launch the booster delivered 20 microsatellites.
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Eubiq (India) in service of Healthcare

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5. Manipal Hospital , Bangalore

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8. CHARUSAT Hospital , Changa , Gujarat

9. SAL hospital , Ahmedabad

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Right from the day, of its inception and even before since the Jana Sangh days, the BJP very firmly supports the constitutional reservation for the SC, ST, OBC, Backwards and Extremely Backwards classes. The BJP firmly believes that reservation is important for the social, education and economic development of these groups. The BJP is not in favour of any reconsideration of these constitutional provisions.

However the BJP is further of the view that if further measures are suggested for those who are economically and socially backwards, then the same is welcome.

However, the Party very clearly does not support any reconsideration of the existing constitutional provision of reservation for the SC, ST, OBC and Extremely Backward classes.

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Chanchal survived an acid attack and wants to live a normal life. Her attackers won’t let her. Ask the Inspector General to cancel their bail.

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Trigger Warning: Graphic ContentDear Naresh,

“We just used acid, next time will be worse”

They poured acid on Chanchal’s face while she slept, scarring her for life. And now her attackers are out on bail and threatening Chanchal again. I need your help in stopping this.

I am Chanchal’s friend and now they have threatened me too. They want her to stop fighting for justice. Sign my petition asking the authorities to cancel the bail given to her attackers and send them back to jail.

Throwing acid is a non-bailable offence and yet her attackers roam freely in Chanchal’s neighbourhood in Bihar. They taunt her family and even harass them by throwing stones at their house.

Chanchal hasn’t let her scars cripple her and wants to live a full life. She goes alone to college because she wants to complete her education and support her family. But Chanchal is not safe.

Naresh, you can help stop these threats and violent behaviour. Sign my petition to get the Inspector General (IG) to put them back in jail.

Chanchal and I will be delivering the petition to the IG next week and we want to show him there is huge public support for Chanchal from across the country.

Chanchal wants to fight and to live a normal life. Together we can stop this bullying and make Chanchal feel supported and safe. Sign my petition.

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Sept

CPR is pleased to invite you to a talk on
Debt Bondage and the Tricks of Capital

Isabelle Guérin

Monday, 28 September 2015, 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research

Construction labour in Tamil Nadu, Wikipedia Commons, Image Source

Migrant labourers, free from rural bondage, are now bonded to other sources of debt, contracted from the agro-industry or construction sectors. The flows of migration in the brick-making and sugar cane sectors in Tamil Nadu, where bondage coexists with many public welfare schemes, illustrate the persistence and renewal of this phenomenon. The welfare schemes play the role of a safety net, but also contribute to low wages, and impunity on the part of employers. Alliances between capital and the state, through the politicisation of employers, are instrumental in the continuation of all forms of labour exploitation. When workers resist, employers tighten working conditions and start recruiting migrants from North India. And even if these forms of labour management obey a capitalist logic, they are inseparable from the caste hierarchy.Isabelle Guérin is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Research and Development (IRD) and French Institute of Pondicherry. Isabelle has been researching aspects of indebtedness and microcredit among rural communities in Tamil Nadu. She has recently co-edited a book on gender and development studies titled ‘Under Development: Gender’ and is also co-editing a forthcoming volume titled ‘The Crisis of Microcredit’.

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M6.5 – OFFSHORE COQUIMBO, CHILE

Preliminary Earthquake Report
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Depth	24 km
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ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA DI NEW DELHI – INCONTRI IN BIBLIOTECA

Contemporary Italian/ Contemporaneo Italiano

Tutti i mercoledì / Every Wednesday @ 19.00

Mercoledi/ Wednesday, 30 Settembre/ 30th September @19.00

L’INTREPIDO: A LONELY HERO

Drama/ Comedy/ 2013/104 mins.

Director: Gianni Amelio
Cast: Antonio Albanese, Livia Rossi, Gabriele Rendina, Alfonso Santagata, Sandra Ceccarelli

In Italian, with subtitles in English

Set in modern day Milan, INTREPIDO: A LONELY HERO is a Chaplinesque odyssey through the world of work – every type of work, but primarily unskilled manual labour – as seen through the eyes of a kind, middle-aged man who takes on every conceivable temporary job. Beautifully wrought by master Italian director Gianni Amelio, the film is a portrait of the highs and lows of modern life. At its heart is a sympathetic man who, despite loneliness and personal family problems, especially around his gifted but troubled musician son, remains defiantly optimistic even when terrible things happen to him and the people he meets. With echoes of films such as Being There and Zelig, INTREPIDO is gently satirical and acutely observed while retaining the atmosphere of a classic fable. Immaginiamo che esista un nuovo mestiere e che si chiami “rimpiazzo”. Immaginiamo che un uomo senza lavoro lo pratichi ogni giorno, questo mestiere. E dunque che lavori davvero oltre misura e che sia un uomo a suo modo felice. Lui non fa altro che prendere, anche solo per qualche ora, il posto di chi si assenta, per ragioni più o meno serie, dalla propria occupazione ufficiale. Si accontenta di poco, il nostro eroe, ma i soldi non sono tutto nella vita: c’è il bisogno di tenersi in forma, di non lasciarsi andare in un momento, come si dice, di crisi buia. Immaginiamo poi che esista un ragazzo di vent’anni, suo figlio, che suona il sax come un dio e dunque è fortunato perché fa l’artista. E immaginiamo Lucia, inquieta e guardinga, che nasconde un segreto dietro la sua voglia di farsi avanti nella vita. Ce la faranno ad arrivare sani e salvi alla prossima puntata.

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Sept

Book Launch:
Why India is not a Great Power (Yet)
Bharat Karnad

Thursday, 24 September 2015, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Gulmohar Hall, Habitat World, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road

Pictured:From the book cover of ‘‘Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet)’

Since the economic liberalisation of the early 1990s, India has been, on several occasions and at different forums, feted as a great power. This subject has been discussed in numerous books, but mostly in terms of rapid economic growth and immense potential in the emerging market. There is also a vast collection of literature on India’s ‘soft power’—culture, tourism, frugal engineering, and knowledge economy. However, there has been no serious exploration of the alternative path India can take to achieving great power status—a combination of hard power, geostrategics, and realpolitik.Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet) published by Oxford University Press, delves exclusively into these hard power aspects of India’s rise and the problems associated with them. Bharat Karnad offers an incisive analysis of the deficits in the country’s military capabilities and in the ‘software’ related to hard power—absence of political vision and will, insensitivity to strategic geography, and unimaginative foreign and military policies—and arrives at powerful arguments on why these shortfalls have prevented the country from achieving the great power status.

The book will be released by General VK Singh (Retd), Minister of State for External Affairs. It will be followed by a panel discussion, which will include:

General VK Singh (Retd),
Shivshankar Menon, former National Security Advisor (NSA),
Rear Admiral Raja Menon (Retd), former head of the Net Assessment & Simulation Centre at the National Security Council and ex-Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Ops), and,
Lt Gen SL Narsimhan, Commandant, Army War College, Mhow

We request all to be present by 6:30 p.m. for tea and registrations.RSVP: Anuradha Mukherjee – anuradha.mukherjee@oup.com, 011-43600144

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Time : 2:30 p.m
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You are requested to send correspondents/photographers/camera crew for the new collection launch.

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Exclusive Preview of the ‘New Pampers Premium Care Pants’ – Softest Diaper Pants ever, Soft as a Mother’s Touch #softestforbabyskin

New Pampers Premium Care Pants are so soft & dry, that your baby won’t even notice

Delhi, 23rd September 2015:

Moms know from experience that their babies love the feeling of being free. Remember the giggling excitement of your baby running around the house? That feeling of freedom gives babies the chance to experience the world their own way, which is a very important part of their development. That’s why some moms allow their babies a little time each day, out of their clothes to roam free. What if you could give this feeling to your baby all day long?

Pampers is launching new Pampers Premium Care Pants that are so soft & dry, your baby will hardly notice them. New Pampers Premium Care Pants have an all-around soft waistband and great dryness that absorbs wetness and locks it away, meaning Pampers Premium Care Pants will keep baby’s skin dry and comfortable. And, the new pants form means you can change your baby so easily, he can barely feel being changed!

Now your little one can be free to explore and develop in a world of discoveries with Pampers New Premium Care pants. But just don’t take our word for it. Try them yourself amzn.to/1V2wvwo.

In an exclusive preview organised for bloggers and Mommy bloggers, Pampers the #1 diaper brand in the world for babies happy healthy development, showcased a never seen before innovation via powerful demonstrations highlighting the softness and dryness of the new Pampers Premium Care Pants.

Pampers today previewed India’s softest diaper ever – so soft that a baby won’t even notice! Actress & Celebrity mother-Tara Sharma, Child sleep consultant-Ajita Gopal Seethepalli, Pampers R&D Expert – Dr. WeiSing Long and Actress & Television presenter-Mandira Bedi brought to life importance of skin health in infant baby & how a soft & dry diaper can help babies have the best skin comfort and happy development. A child’s interest in his environment, beginning from the crib is limitless and most importantly, natural. There are hundreds of unusual sights, feelings and thoughts that each baby experiences as they discover and learn, making this the most significant time to encourage exploration. A baby’s skin is smooth, soft and highly delicate and needs that extra care and attention.

How can soft, dry pants support your baby’s development?

Every day brings new experiences that help your baby develop – and when babies feel free, they can explore a world of discoveries. Babies need to feel dry and soft in their pants/diapers – so they will hardly notice they are wearing them. The less baby notices his pants, the more he can feel free to focus on exploring the world, which helps them learn and develop every day.

Leading Baby Sleep Consultant Ajita Seethepalli said “The importance of a good diaper (in terms of softness, dryness and fit) should not be underestimated. Babies have to be physically interacting with their environment in order to learn and understand it. Diapering baby insoft and dry pants like Pampers Premium Care can be a great way to help enable undistracted exploration, giving him the giggling feeling of freedom you both love.”

The Pampers Panel of experts engaged in a never seen before product demonstration clearly showcasing Pampers Premium Care Pants as the softest diaper amongst all, through touch and feel of softness. Tara and Mandira shared personal motherhood experiences, expressing the need for a premium soft and dry diaper for the overall development of the babies. Ajita Seethepalli showcased her expertise, drawing an interesting connection between softness in a diaper and a baby’s sleeping pattern. She also educated all about the importance of continuous sleep and uninterrupted playtime, which has a direct correlation with the cognitive, mental & physical, development of babies. Scientist & R&D expert Dr. WeiSing Long highlighted the unique features of Premium Care Pants. Premium Care Pants come with a 5 Star skin protection promise that provides the baby with all-around softness, upto 12 hours dryness, breathable materials, all-around fit, baby lotion and a wetness indicator that directs mothers to change the diaper timely.

About NEW Pampers Premium Care Pants:

New Pampers Premium Care Pants are so soft and dry that your baby won’t even notice them, thanks to Pampers 5 star skin protection:

· Soft materials/fabrics: specially chosen with delicate little bottoms in mind

· All-around waistband and soft cuffs: for a comfortable, snug fit minimizing leakage

· Up to 12 hours of dryness: Pampers core quickly absorbs helping keep wetness away from the skin to help skin protection

· Baby lotion: A drop of lotion to help protect you baby’s precious skin

· Wetness Indicator turns from yellow to blue when in contact with fluid to help parents know when it might be time to change.

For over 50 years parents have trusted Pampers to care for their babies and this is a responsibility we take to heart.

Pampers is the #1 selling diaper brand worldwide. For more than half a century, Pampers has been caring for the happy, healthy development of the world’s babies and in turn, has grown to become P&G’s biggest brand. Every day Pampers serves over 25 million babies in more than 100 countries around the world. Pampers was inspired by babies. In 1956 Vic Mills, a P&G researcher was inspired by his desire to create a better diaper for his newborn grandson, and his work led to the creation of the brand. Pampers takes great care in developing products that benefit both baby and mom, and are committed to making a difference in babies’ lives. Thanks to our research, innovation, and dedication to supporting baby development, parents can count on Pampers’ products to help their babies get the most out of Love, Sleep & Play.

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VANI elects new chairman- Mr. Mathew Cherian, CEO, Helpage India

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

VANI elects new chairman- Mr. Mathew Cherian, CEO, Helpage India

Dear Members, Friends and Associates

We are pleased to inform that Mr. Mathew Cherian, CEO HelpAge India has been elected as our new chairman succeeding Dr. Jayant Kumar, Head of programmes, CASA.

Mathew Cherian is Chief Executive of HelpAge India, a leading advocacy and caregiver non-profit for the elderly. He is based out of New Delhi and has been associated with many non-profits across India. He is an engineering graduate from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is among India’s first rural managers from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand. He has been Director, Oxfam, in India and Executive Director, Charities Aid Foundation. His most recent big initiative was the Credibility Alliance, which works to establish accountability and transparency in Civil Society.

He is currently on the Board of HelpAge International, Guidestar International, Care International and Sightsavers, all well-known non-profits. He is Member of the National Council of Senior Citizens and the National Foundation for Communal Harmony. He is the current Independent Commissioner for Geriatric Health with India’s Ministry of Health.

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India is on the threshold of very rapid growth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

India is on the threshold of very rapid growth for several decades to come, says Amitabh Kant

An exclusive interview between Richard Fenning, the global CEO of Control Risks, and Amitabh Kant, the head of IndiaⳠDepartment of Industrial Policy and Promotion.

New Delhi, 22 September 2015

Recently, Mr. Richard Fenning, CEO of Control Risks, interviewed Mr. Amitabh Kant, Secretary of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) and the principal architect of ፡ke in India⬠one of the governmentⳠflagship initiatives.

Mr. Kant spoke about the ease of doing business, corruption, legislative gridlock, competitive federalism and the governmentⳠreform agenda. He highlighted the optimism and sense of hope with which the BJP government came to power, and his confidence that the government will bring about the necessary changes to make India more investor friendly.

㉠think a lot of very unique initiatives have been taken on making India a very simple place to do business. We had made ourselves a very complex, very complicated, and very difficult place to do business in. So, I think, the government has put a lot of stress on making India easy and simple.䠳aid Mr. Kant.

On the issue of corruption and black money, Mr. Kant contrasted the anti-corruption approach of the current government to previous Indian administrations. Mr. Kant said, ㄵring the last year I have not come across any incident of corruption top-down as far as the central government is concerned. This government has pushed for transparency by putting everything through a process of open transparent competitive bidding.伯p>

James Owen, Senior Managing Director of Control Risks India and South Asia, welcomed Mr. KantⳠcommitment to improving the ease of doing business in India, noting that, while there are many challenges for investors in India, there are also many signals that should give confidence to those seeking to do business in the country.

㌩ving up to the huge up-swell in hope that swept Modi to power in 2014 has inevitably proven difficult, but the outlook remains positive, with the government committed to a number of key reforms that will make the investment environment easier to navigate for both foreign and domestic companies. The best way for companies to take advantage of the opportunities is to ensure their strategies are accompanied by a robust approach to risk management, enabling them to maximise their profits in one of the worldⳠfastest growing economies䬠said Mr. Owen.

The video of the interview, which was filmed opposite Rashtrapati Bhavan and Parliament House, is due to be released on Friday, September 25, 2015 to coincide with the first anniversary of the ፡ke in India⠣ampaign.

For a more detailed transcript, please see attached.

For further information, please contact:

Control Risks Aparajita Verma, Marketing Executive

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JSPL Foundation launches Rashtriya Swayamsiddh Samman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

JSPL Foundation launches Rashtriya Swayamsiddh Samman to recognise
talent at the grassroots level; showcase untold stories of courage and
determination on the National level

In the 10 categories identified, 10 Awards will be given to Individuals and 10 to Organisations. Prize money would be Rs 1 lakh each.
United Nations Global Compact Network India as Knowledge Partner will earmark the parameters and finalise the awardees with the help of 4 Regional Juries and ONE National Jury.
Call for Entries to start from September 22and end on October 25, 2015.
Final Award ceremony on January 14, 2016 in New Delhi.
Application form can be downloaded or filled online atjsplfoundation.co.in/swayamsiddh

New Delhi, September 23, 2015: Dashrath Manjhi, also known as “Mountain Man”, was a poor labourer in a village near Gaya in Bihar, who carved a path through ahillock using only a hammer and chisel after 22 years of work. Today, Dashrath is not amongst us, but his story lives on. This is just one famous example of sheer courage and determination. However, there are scores of Dashrath Manjhi’s in India who have made a mark for themselves in their villages and mofussil towns. And their stories are yet untold.

It is people like these that JSPL Foundation — which spearheads the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives of Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) – wants to highlight and recognize through a unique national initiative titledRashtriya Swayamsiddh Samman that it has instituted from this year onwards.

The Rashtriya Swayamsiddh Samman will felicitate people from the grassroots level for their exemplary Courage, Commitment and Confidence that has enabled them to overcome adversities and create a unique identity of their own, making them a source of inspiration for many in India. They would become Ambassadors of Change who will pan out in other parts of the country to work for the upliftment of the underprivileged and through their experience and hardships guide others to achieve their dreams.

Says Ms Shallu Jindal, President, JSPL Foundation, “The objective of holding theRashtriya Swayamsiddh Samman is to recognize and nurture talent at the grassroots level. Our effort is to bring out stories that have yet been untold. Stories of Courage, Determination and a Will to bring about a change in the society! Rashtriya Swayamsiddh Samman is an effort to salute such people and provide them with a national platform, so that others too can take inspiration from them. By taking the Swayamsiddh Sammannational, JSPL Foundation thus strives to form a human chain.”

The awards will be conferred in 10 categories viz. Women Empowerment, Entrepreneurship (start-ups), Education, Agriculture / Rural Development, Public Service / Social Service, Art and Crafts (Ancient Heritage/Village Crafts), Livelihood / Vocational Skills, Health, Innovation / Technology (related to Science) and Environment.

TEN awards would be conferred upon Individuals and 10 would be given to Organisations. The awardees will be given a certificate and Rs 1 lakh as prize money.

United Nations Global Compact Network India (UNGCN), the Indian arm of United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), will be the Knowledge Partner for the awards and will be responsible for earmarking the parameters and finalising the awardees with the help of four regional juries and one national jury. The call for entries will begin from today and close by October 25, 2015.

The four regional juries will meet in the first week of November this year in Kolkata, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi to shortlist 2-3 names in each category from their respective regions. The shortlisted entries will then be placed before an eminent National Jury at the end of November wherein the awardees will be finalised. The National Jury will comprise noted personalities from different walks of life who have attained great heights in their own right.

The awards ceremony will take place on January 14, 2016 at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi. Application form can be downloaded or filled online atjsplfoundation.co.in/swayamsiddh

Enumerating about the process, Mr. Pooran Chandra Pandey, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact Network India (UNGCN), says, “The process undertaken to recognise and honour grassroots leaders in identified areas will be a 360 degree, robust, multi-layered and impartial one that will potentially eliminate any form of favour towards anyone through a well-structured evaluation mechanism by 4 regional and one national jury. The Rashtriya Swayamsiddh Sammanharmoniously blends with the mandate of the United Nations Global Compact to recognise leaders and their innovative initiatives on the Ten Universal Principles and broad UN goals including Sustainable Development Goals that would be rolled out this month”.

JSPL Foundation has held such similar Swayamsiddh Samman awards previously in the states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand in March, May and July, 2015 respectively, states where JSPL has a significant presence. The awardees were shortlisted basis their contribution to particular Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives of the JSPL Foundation that they have been a part of, how they have taken it forward and how it has changed their life. Leadership qualities and the ability to work in a team coupled with their strategies for the future were other parameters on which they were identified.

About JSPL Foundation

Jindal Steel & Power Ltd has always strived to be a globally admired organization that enhances the quality of life of people in and around the areas of its operations through sustainable industrial development. The cornerstone of its business strategy is to achieve sustainable and profitable growth, creating in its wake prospering eco-systems around all its businesses. CSR initiatives of JSPL are carried out by the organization in order to give an impetus and align the existing programme with those of government and other development agencies. JSPL Foundation is an expression of the company’s vision towards sustainable growth in India.

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Yukti Sehgal

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220 pilgrims dead in hajj stampede

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015| EDIT

NARESH KUMAR SAGAR

220 pilgrims dead in hajj stampede
Saudi Arabia says 220 pilgrims dead in hajj stampede & 400 wounded in a Hajj related stampede in Saudi Arabia. So tragic. The stampede occurred on the first day of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice.

Eid is being celebrated in Saudi Arabia today.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015| EDIT

Highlights from the local media of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

September 24th, 2015 | Volume: 1 – 18/9

BANGLADESH

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina leads biggest entourage to UN
The Daily Star | 23rd September
The delegation includes nine ministers and PM’s advisers, 17 “eminent personalities”, 15 officials from the Prime Minister’s Office, 12 foreign ministry officials, three officials from Bangladesh missions in the US, 11 from different ministries, 28 security personnel, a 10-member media team, four media personalities and 119 business representatives.

The Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (TICFA) with US will be meaningless if Generalised System of Preference (GSP) not revived for Bangladesh, Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed says
bdnews24 | 24th September
The Awami League government in 2013 signed the Ticfa agreement with the US. Soon afterwards, the Obama administration suspended GSP facility over dangerous work conditions in the garment industry. The US gave Bangladesh a 16-point action plan at the time to get back the preferential trade privilege. Although Bangladesh claims to have fulfilled most of the clauses, Washington did not include Bangladesh in its updated list of eligible countries for GSP facility last August.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) projects 6.7pc growth for Bangladesh
UNB / Prothom Alo | 22nd September
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has projected that Bangladesh may achieve 6.7 per cent GDP growth in the current fiscal (2015-16) year. “For the 2016 fiscal year, the GDP growth is projected to further accelerate to 6.7 per cent,” ADB country director Kazuhiko Higuchi said at a press briefing at its Dhaka office.

Inclusive growth and Bangladesh Bank – Opinion
The Financial Express | 24th September
Bangladesh Bank has recently unveiled a new five-year strategy aiming to achieve inclusive growth that combines price stability (the traditional function of central bank), gear up supervision (another traditional role) and push for sustainable development (a new emphasis). It is the last objective that embodies the essence of inclusive growth,according to an Opinion published in The Financial Express.

BHUTAN

Engineers leaving not a worrying issue: PM Tshering Tobgay
KUENSEL | 22nd September
Although it was a concern, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay clarified that engineers leaving the civil service to join the private sector is an indication of private sector development and not a worrying issue.

Bridge construction over Gongri river begins
KUENSEL | 22nd September
The construction of a bailey suspension bridge over Gongri river at Shingphurtuma, Trashigang began with the installation of a sachu bumter during the groundbreaking ceremony on September 20. The 360feet long bridge would connect Udzorong gewog of Trashigang to the Trashigang-Mongar highway at about three kilometers beyond Dremitse (Mongar) zero point.

MALDIVES

Health Protection Agency urges caution amid rise in dengue spread
Haveeru Online | 23rd September
In a statement, Health Protection Agency (HPA) noted that statistics have shown an increase in dengue cases due to continued bad weather in the Maldives for the past few weeks. HPA urged public to take preventive measures to curb the spread.

PAKISTAN

Kashmir issue to be raised at every forum, says Pakistani PM
The Express Tribune| 23th September
Describing Kashmir as a ‘core issue’ between Pakistan and India, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday urged the need for early resolution of the longstanding dispute between the hyphenated but hostile neighbours.

Pakistan can ‘strike’ Terrorists on Afghan Soil: Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
Pakistan Observer| 23th September
Dropping a hint that a surgical strike inside Afghanistan was not a problem for Pakistan, Federal Minister for Interior, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Tuesday, warned Kabul against jumping to ‘accusatory’ conclusions whenever terror visits the war-torn country.

Sons of ex-Lal Masjid cleric arrested with weapons, military uniforms
Geo.tv| 23th September
In a joint action on Wednesday, Rangers and police in Islamabad recovered weapons and military uniforms from Haroon and Haris Rasheed—the two sons of former Lal Masjid cleric Ghazi Abdul who was killed in a military operation in 2007.

The new political (dis)order – Opinion

Dawn| 23th September
HOW does one describe the present political power structure? Diarchy? Not really. Some call it a hybrid or more precisely a civil-military partnership, according to Pakistani author and journalist, Zahid Hussain.

SRI LANKA

Jayalalithaa writes to Modi again on Sri Lanka
Colombo Gazette | 23rd September
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take steps to secure the release of 15 Indian fishermen and 28 fishing boats from Sri Lankan custody, the Indo-Asian news service reported.

Northern fishermen protest in Jaffna against Indians
Colombo Gazette | 23rd September
Northern fishermen staged a protest in Jaffna today against Indian fishermen poaching in Sri Lankan waters.

China puts its weight behind Lanka on draft
Colombo Gazette | 23rd September
China is putting its weight behind Sri Lanka and pushing for amendments to the first text of the draft resolution to be tabled at the UN Human Rights Council this week, demanding that it reflect the positive changes in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka, India defense chiefs discuss enhancing Defense and Security ties
Colombo Page | 23rd September
India and Sri Lanka discussed enhancing ties and cooperation in Defense and Security relations between the two countries during the 3rd India-Sri Lanka Defense Dialogue.

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Press conference to introduce ‘Scott Jurek’

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015/LEAVE A COMMENT/EDIT

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Date: Sunday, September 27th, 2015

Hugely Anticipated Keemala Opens Its Doors to Guests on October 1 2015

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015/LEAVE A COMMENT/EDIT

India, September 24th 2015.

Nestled well away from the crowds and overlooking Kamala Village and the Andaman Sea, Keemala’s 38 sumptuous pool cottages, tree houses and villas will welcome guests for the first time on October 1st 2015.

Located within the lush woodlands of Kamala in Phuket, Keemala embraces a Thai cultural philosophy and blends the fictional history of four indigenous clans with the decadence of an upscale resort. Designed by Thailand based talent Architect Space, with Pisit Aongskultong from Pisud Design Company managing the resort’s creative vision and interior designs, the 38 villas have been inspired by stories, cultures, traditions, and lifestyles of these Phuket settlers and is a stark contrast to most hotel accommodation.

Keemala offers four avant-garde villa choices all complete with private pools and offer a range of both sea and mountain views. The sixteen ‘Clay Pool Cottages’ reflect the earthiness of the ‘Pa-Ta-Pea’ (earth) clan who believed in a strong connection to the earth and harnessed agriculture as their trade. With a selection of one and two-bedrooms, the cottages range in size from 126m2to 180m2 and with rates starting from THB 19,050+++ and THB 26,640+++, respectively.

The tent-like structure and wildlife inspired prints and textures of the seven ‘Tent Pool Villas’ reflect the nomadic way of life of the ‘Khon-Jorn’ (wanderer) clan who consisted of foragers, performers and traders. With a master bedroom and separate living space, the villa size is 140m2 and with rates starting from THB 21,200+++.

The seven imaginative ‘Tree Pool Houses’ use building techniques to give the impression that the structures are suspended from trees to represent the ‘We-Ha’ (sky) clan who worshipped the universe. This quirky two-floor villa design is 169m2 and can accommodate up to four guests. Rates start from THB 23,350+++.

The ‘Rung-Nok’ (nest) community inspired the design of the eight ‘Bird’s Nest Pool Villas’. This group enjoyed an opulent way of life, thus the exclusive interwoven design of their homes. This villa offers the most exclusive experience of all the villa types, with a total space of 185m2 and with rates starting from THB 25,500+++.

Keemala offers a range of carefully curated spa treatments, wellness activities and Holistic Living Retreats for those seeking to unwind from the stresses of modern day life. Mala Spa has eight treatment rooms alongside a Thai massage pavilion, steam and sauna rooms, fitness centre, and yoga and meditation spaces. Natural, paraben and cruelty free spa products by VOYA, Siam Botanicals, and Spa Ritual are used for all treatments.

Those wishing to truly immerse themselves in Keemala’s wellness offerings can select from one of our four Holistic Living Retreats packages. Keemala’s Purify, Energise, Unwind, and Rejuvenate packages are available as a three-day and six-day retreat and are personalized to guests’ individual needs. Retreats typically include massages, wellness consultation and guidance, body enhancing exercises, and daily spa cuisine.

Renowned guest practitioners from around the world will take up residency throughout the year and offer truly specialised retreats in sound healing, shiatsu, somato-experiencing and trauma release, traditional Chinese medicine, Mayan traditional massage, aromatherapy, vibrational attunement, Nia martial arts dance, Watsu and Maori traditional healing, to name a few.

As an extension of the wholesome spirit of Keemala, ingredients used in the cuisine are locally sourced and organically grown where possible. The menu incorporates healthy, nutritious and above all delicious meals. Keemala has four outlets for dining, the main restaurant, a pool bar, a comfy lounge and a smaller wine cellar ideal for small parties and meetings, and destination dining will be offered to those guests who would like to enjoy the ambience of somewhere distinct, perhaps beside the waterfall, in a separate pavilion in the grounds or in the comfort of a villa or cottage.

Keemala is the perfect place for honeymooners, couples and guests wishing to get away from it all and welcomes young adults of 14 years upwards.

‘Renault KWID’ launched at Rs. 2,56,968

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015/LEAVE A COMMENT/EDIT

Naresh Kumar Sagar

‘Renault KWID’ launched at Rs. 2,56,968
The Attractive, Innovative and Affordable ‘Renault KWID’ launched at Rs. 2,56,968
· Revolutionizing and redefining the conventional notions of the mini car segment in India

· India’s most fuel efficient petrol car delivering mileage of 25.17 kmpl*

· Manufactured with 98% localization at the time of launch enabling a low cost of ownership

· First-in-segment features: SUV inspired design, 7 inch touch-screen, Media-Nav system, digital Instrument cluster, one-touch lane change indicator

· Best-in-class features: Ground clearance of 180 mm, boot capacity of 300 litres, rear knee room – multiple storage spaces,

Dayanand Saraswati, died on Wednesday

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015/LEAVE A COMMENT/EDIT

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Swami Dayananda Saraswati ji’s demise is a personal loss. I pray that his soul attains eternal peace.My thoughts are with the countless people inspired by Dayananda Saraswati ji. He was a powerhouse of knowledge, spirituality & service.

Modi’s spiritual guru Dayanand Saraswati, who died on Wednesday after a prolonged illness, will be buried at his Rishikesh-based ashram on Friday, an official said on Thursday.The ashram official said his followers can pay their last respect to the guru on Thursday.Saraswati was admitted to the Swami Ram Medical College in Dehradun on September 13 after complaints of breathlessness and fluctuation in the blood pressure two days after the Prime Minister met the ailing guru.

PM Modi, knew him for two decades, had spent around 40 minutes with the guru on September 11.PM condoled the death of the spiritual leader calling it a “personal loss”.“Swami Dayananda Saraswati ji’s demise is a personal loss. I pray that his soul attains eternal peace,” the Prime Minister said in a tweet.“My thoughts are with the countless people inspired by Dayananda Saraswati ji. He was a powerhouse of knowledge, spirituality and service,” he added.

Octagenarian seer was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday morning and shifted to his ashram. The guru’s disciple Sadhvi Brahma Prakashananda said as his health deteriorated further doctors suggested that he be discharged.

Prakashananda said he died around 10.20pm on Wednesday. However, the announcement of guru’s demise was made around midnight.

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