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29 Aug

EEMA’s initiative to bring event-industry united

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In India, the events industry sector accounts for the employment of 10 million people who have been directly affected due to the ongoing crisis. The entire spectrum of M.I.C.E (meetings-incentives-convention-exhibition) is a Rs 500,000-Crore market including organized and unorganized sector put together and COVID – 19 is responsible for impacting jobs. EEMA organized an open Webinar inviting all the industry partners and stakeholders to come together and released the EEMA’s reopening guidelines aiming to show Indian authorities the live sector can reopen safely after months at a standstill. The webinar was attended by over 1000+ industry stakeholders and the SOP…

27 Aug

Bookings open for all-new Toyota Urban Cruiser

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To aid customers to plan their festive season car purchase, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) announced ‘bookings open’ for its much-awaited compact SUV, the all-new Toyota Urban Cruiser, beginning 22 August. The Urban Cruiser which is the youngest urban SUV from Toyota in India is built for today’s young achievers who aspire to own a Toyota SUV at a young age. The latest offering from Toyota is equipped with a new & powerful, yet fuel efficient ‘K-Series 1.5-litre four-cylinder Petrol Engine’, to deliver superior driving experience. The Urban Cruiser will be available in both Manual & Automatic Transmissions (AT). The exteriors…

27 Aug

Flipkart and Assam Govt enter into a strategic partnership

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Flipkart signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Assam to promote the state’s local Arts, Crafts, and Handloom sectors by bringing them into the e-commerce fold. The partnership with the Assam Industries & Commerce Department under the Flipkart Samarth program will enable national market access for Assam’s artisans, weavers, and craftsmen, allowing them to showcase their hallmark products on Flipkart’s marketplace. Government of Assam and Flipkart, both will focus on creating avenues to increase business and trade inclusion opportunities for these under-served segments of the society, thereby adding further thrust to the Government’s initiative to build a…

24 Aug

Vedanta Foundation to train 35,000 unemployed youth

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Vedanta Foundation is a philanthropic initiative of Vedanta Resources Ltd. Since 1992 it has trained more than 1.4 million youth, through its Vocational Training Centres across the nation. The Vocational Training Program has now been revamped into Employment Linked Skill Training Program. Vedanta Foundation launched ‘Vedanta Rojgar Yojana. The program will likewise train and provide job-placements to unemployed youth. For this Vedanta Foundation has roped in with Quess Corp. Ltd. as their training and placement partner. 2000 candidates are enrolled and undergoing training in 50 centres presently as a pilot under Vedanta Rojgar Yojana. By October, 2020, a total of…

24 Aug

Bandhan Bank is now 5

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India’s youngest universal bank, Bandhan Bank will complete its five successful years of operations on August 23, 2020. In June 2015, the Bandhan Group was given approval by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a universal bank. For around two decades, Bandhan has tirelessly worked for the upliftment of India’s economically weak through access to timely microcredit, freeing the poor from the clutches of usurious moneylenders. After becoming a bank, Bandhan Bank has spread its reach to diverse corners of India across 34 states and UTs via its 4,559 banking outlets and 485 ATMs. Apart from its…

24 Aug

Nuvoco introduces ready-to-use concrete

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Nuvoco Vistas Corp. Ltd., a leading building materials company, launched InstaMix Xpress. With this, Nuvoco has made premium quality concrete available anytime anywhere which is easy to use. InstaMix Express is a pre-mixed, ready-to-use, bagged, dry concrete. In the current scenario, the majority of small concrete work is done by mixing cement, aggregates and water at site. The challenge lies in getting quality aggregates, cement and sand in small quantities. Nuvoco’s InstaMix Xpress is an answer to all these challenges. InstaMix Xpress is ideal for a wide range of concrete applications. InstaMix Xpress is a pre-blended mixture of Cement, Sand…

21 Aug

PropTiger launches live online Property Expo

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India’s largest live online property expo, ‘Right to Home’ was launched by Elara Technologies-owned Proptiger.com. The two day (August 20 & 21) expo was unique in that it enabled buyers to attend online presentations made by leading property experts and to hold one-on-one digital interactive sessions with property advisors from developers and Proptiger.com. Prospective home buyers took advantage of exciting spot offers during the event and bought their dream homes digitally. During the virtual event, as many as 30 leading developers participated to showcase more than 80 projects located across India’s top 9 cities namely, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata, MMR,…

21 Aug

Assam State govt striving to benefit 68,000 MSMEs under Aatma Nirbhar Bharat: Sonowal

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Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today reviewed the implementation status of the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme for MSMEs of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts under Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan at a meeting held at the Deputy Commissioner’s office, Dibrugarh. He also held a discussion with the MSME owners of the two districts and urged them to take advantage of the Atma Nirmal Bharat initiative. Saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had started the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan with financial outlay of Rs 20 lakh crore to revive and revitalise the country’s economy affected by COVID-19 lockdown, Sonowal stated that the state…

19 Aug

Ministry of Food Processing Industries sanctions 16 new food processing projects in Assam in last one year

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Ministry of Food Processing Industries has sanctioned 16 new food processing /preservation and infrastructure projects with a total cost of Rs.230 crore with subsidy commitment of Rs.85 crore for Assam in the last one year. It include 3 agro-processing clusters or Mini Food Parks with the objective to create common modern food processing/preservation infrastructure facilities for the processing/preservation units, 12 food processing/preservation units and 1 backward and forward linkage infrastructure. The Ministry has so far sanctioned 53 food processing/preservation projects in the different states of North East region in various supply chain component in the food processing sector with a…

19 Aug

Google says, how to get useful information on flood

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This monsoon season has seen some of the most devastating floods in many parts of India, with many people in states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Assam continuing to grapple with the effects of the flooding. Over the past several months, along with the Central Water Commission (CWC), Google India has deployed its flood forecasting initiative and sent numerous public alerts to people in impacted regions across India. These alerts provide timely, updated, and critical information that can help users make informed decisions on their safety. Any user in the affected region with an Android smartphone with location services enabled…