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  • India’s First Comprehensive Pet Care Subscription Plan

    New Delhi, 03 June 2024: Zigly, India’s premier tech-enabled omni-channel pet care model from Cosmo First Limited, introduces Zigly+, the nation’s first complete pet care subscription. This initiative presents pet mother and father freedom, comfort, and unique pricing throughout all Zigly providers and merchandise. 

    Through this initiative, Zigly goals to revolutionise the pet care expertise by providing the next within the Zigly+ service plans:

    • Convenience & Savings: Offer full piece of thoughts with unbelievable financial savings
    • Top-Quality Services: Access to best-in-class veterinary care, spa & grooming, and unique non-food pet product reductions
    • Complete Vet Care: Services vary from vaccinations and diagnostics to essential care surgical procedures
    • Pet Spa & Grooming: Offers from fundamental grooming to Asian fusion kinds
    • Wide Range of Pet Products: Includes unique reductions on non-food gadgets 

    Further, Zigly has launched three versatile subscription plans for purchasers:

    • 3-month Essential Plan
    • 6-month Power Up Plan
    • 12-month Premium Plan 

    Mr. Sushen Roy, Business Head, Zigly, said, “Zigly+ goals to revolutionize pet care by providing unmatched comfort and top-quality providers. Our program prioritizes the wants of pet mother and father and their pets.” 

    With Zigly+, prospects get ease of service choices starting from precedence reserving for all providers, or guaranteeing their beloved pets obtain well timed care, instilling a way of pet luxurious. Zigly+ is obtainable throughout all Zigly shops nationwide. By leveraging its in depth community of state-of-the-art pet care amenities and skilled professionals, Zigly goals to offer pet mother and father with a seamless and hassle-free expertise.


    Mansi Praharaj

  • Adani One, ICICI Bank launch India’s 1st credit cards with airport-linked benefits

    Adani One, ICICI Bank launches credit cards with airport-linked benefits

    IANS

    Marking its maiden enterprise within the monetary sector, Adani One on Monday launched India’s first co-branded credit cards with ICICI Bank, alongside with airport-linked benefits in collaboration with Visa.

    The cards provide an array of benefits, together with welcome benefits like free air tickets and airport privileges like premium lounge entry, ‘Pranaam Meet & Greet Service’, porter, valet and premium automobile parking.

    The Adani One ICICI Bank Signature Credit Card carries an annual payment of Rs 5,000 with becoming a member of benefits value Rs 9,000, whereas the Adani One ICICI Bank Platinum Credit Card has an annual payment of Rs 750 with becoming a member of benefits value Rs 5,000.

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    IANS

    “This distinctive partnership with ICICI Bank and Visa will set a brand new benchmark in buyer expertise and showcase our dedication to innovation and excellence,” mentioned Jeet Adani, Director of Adani Group.

    The Adani One ICICI Bank Credit Cards are a window to a seamless digital ecosystem. “By leveraging the Adani One platform, which integrates bodily B2C companies into the digital world, customers will expertise unparalleled comfort and accessibility,” Jeet Adani added.

    The cards provide as much as 7 per cent Adani Reward Points on spends throughout the Adani Group client ecosystem like Adani One app, the place one can e-book flights, resorts, trains, buses, and cabs; Adani-managed airports; Adani CNG pumps; Adani Electricity payments, and Trainman, a web based prepare reserving platform. Notably, the rewards are uncapped.

    “The launch of the co-branded credit cards, in affiliation with Adani One and Visa, is in line with this philosophy,” mentioned Rakesh Jha, Executive Director, ICICI Bank.

    (With inputs from IANS)

  • Registration Deadline Extended to 15th June for India’s premier engineering award -The IET India Awards 2024

    The scholarship award will provide a prize cash of Rs 10 Lakhs to winners

    Bengaluru, thirty first May 2024 – The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has prolonged the deadline to apply for the eighth version of its prestigious IET India Scholarship Awards, which has a mixed prize cash of Rs 10 Lakhs. The IET has presently obtained greater than 45000 functions from college students throughout the nation for the identical. Students of AICTE, UGC-approved and National institutes, who’re but to apply for the award, could ship their functions by 15th June.

    The IET India Scholarship programme goals to reward and rejoice particular person excellence and innovation amongst undergraduate engineering college students in India. The software spherical is step one in a rigorous 4-stage course of which assessments college students on educational and technical parameters, in addition to creativity, innovation and presentation abilities.

    Speaking on the awards, Shekhar Sanyal, Director and Country Head, IET India mentioned, “We are very excited to see the keenness across the IET India Scholarship Award this 12 months. In reality, due to an enormous surge in functions, our servers lately crashed! This excessive demand is the rationale why we’re extending the appliance deadline by one other two weeks. I want the entire candidates the perfect of luck!”

    The IET India Scholarship Award 2024 is guided by an esteemed Advisory Board consisting of distinguished academicians and nationally recognised company leaders.  The committee is chaired by Prof Abhijit Chakrabarti, Former Vice Chancellor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

    “At The IET, we consider it crucial for younger engineers and innovators to delve deep into the challenges confronted by our nation and harness the ability of rising applied sciences to craft progressive options. The extra the variety of candidates, the higher the variety of progressive options devised. The IET India Scholarship Award goals to function a catalyst for change. The subsequent decade is pivotal for our nation, and the IET India Scholarship Award serves as a catalyst for change,” mentioned  Prof Abhijit Chakrabarti, Chair, IET India Scholarship Award Advisory Committee.

    The Award evaluates individuals throughout parameters that embrace educational efficiency, extracurricular actions, vary of outreach actions and their potential to provide you with artistic engineering options to resolve societal challenges. In the primary spherical, college students are shortlisted primarily based on their educational efficiency in addition to extracurricular actions. They then progress to a web-based check on STEM topics and technical experience. Students who clear the cut-off rating are then invited to current their technological answer to a pertinent societal problem within the regional rounds. Regional winners will lastly compete within the nationwide finals to win the title.

    This would be the eighth version for this nationwide degree scholarship, began in 2013. Last 12 months, it obtained over 43,000 functions. Previous 12 months winners joined in business leaders comparable to Google, Apple, Boeing, Deloitte, and MIT, and a few have even change into entrepreneurs themselves.

    Applications are actually open for the 2024 version. For extra info, please go to – https://scholarships.theietevents.com/#!

  • NSE unveils New Age Automotive Index, includes India’s 1st Electric Vehicle Index

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    IANS

    NSE Indices, NSE’s index providers subsidiary, on Thursday launched a brand new Nifty EV and New Age Automotive Index, because the adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) surges amid a rise in charging infrastructure.

    The EV Index goals to trace the efficiency of firms which type part of the EV ecosystem or are concerned within the improvement of latest age automotive autos or associated expertise, NSE Indices stated in a press release.

    The base date for the index is April 2, 2018, and the bottom worth is 1,000. “The Nifty EV & New Age Automotive India’s first-ever Electric Vehicle Index aligns with NSE’s imaginative and prescient to offer progressive indices in keeping with market tendencies,” stated Mukesh Agarwal, CEO, NSE Indices.

    The Nifty EV Index will facilitate creation of merchandise which is able to create alternatives for asset managers to spend money on the EV and “new-age automotive market, thereby offering an funding car to traders,” he added. The index can be reconstituted semi-annually and rebalanced on a quarterly foundation.

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    According to NSE Indices, the brand new index is anticipated to behave as a benchmark for asset managers and be a reference index tracked by passive funds within the type of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), index funds and structured merchandise. The authorities has been on the forefront of framing insurance policies associated to EV adoption within the nation.

    The purpose is to advertise India as a producing vacation spot in order that EVs with the most recent expertise could be manufactured within the nation and appeal to investments within the e-vehicle house.

    (With inputs from IANS)

  • Redefining Excellence in India’s Electrical Solutions Landscape

    Mumbai, May twenty ninth, 2024: L&T Switchgear (L&T Electrical and Automation), one in every of India’s main electrical and automation manufacturers and a pioneer in vitality administration, in the present day unveiled its new model identification, ‘Lauritz Knudsen Electrical and Automation’. 

    Taking the 70+ years legacy of the L&T Switchgear model ahead with a good stronger buyer focus, Lauritz Knudsen is poised to fortify its core LV and MV Business whereas persevering with to construct capabilities in areas like the brand new vitality panorama encompassing renewables energy technology and e-mobility options, serving diversified segments together with Infrastructure, Industries, buildings, properties, and agriculture. 

    In 2020, L&T Switchgear turned part of the Schneider Electric Group following L&T’s Strategic Divestment of its Electrical and Automation (L&T E&A) enterprise. L&T Switchgear will now be often called Lauritz Knudsen. The firm will strategically uphold its core values and unwavering dedication to ‘Viksit Bharat’ and proceed to conceptualize, design, and make in India, for India and for the globe. This will speed up the model’s mission to drive innovation and excellence in the electrical area, addressing the wants of India and world markets.

    Speaking on the launch, Mr. Peter Herweck, Chief Executive Officer at Schneider Electric, underscored Lauritz Knudsen’s pivotal function in driving innovation whereas enhancing world competitiveness. “Lauritz Knudsen’s imaginative and prescient prioritizes innovation and excellence, aligning intently with India’s development story. Lauritz Knudsen goals to strategically make investments roughly INR 850 crores over the following three years, additional establishing its function as a major participant in India’s fast development trajectory in {the electrical} sector.”

    On this momentous event, Mr. Deepak Sharma, Zone President – Greater India, MD & CEO of Schneider Electric India, mentioned, “As we embrace the ‘Two Brands Two Sales’ technique in India with Schneider Electric & Lauritz Knudsen manufacturers, our purpose shall be to make a good stronger contribution in the transformative journey of India by providing unparalleled selections for our clients. We will proceed to Listen, Partner, and Innovate for a Viksit Bharat.”

    Lauritz Knudsen (previously often called L&T Switchgear) boasts a strong manufacturing footprint spanning 2.1 million sq. toes of state-of-the-art factories, coupled with a nationwide presence encompassing 33+ places of work throughout 500+ cities. As one in every of India’s largest electrical gamers, it stays dedicated to nurturing expertise and fostering talent improvement. It has educated over 400,000 professionals via its six strategically positioned coaching facilities in Pune, Delhi, Vadodara, Lucknow, Coonoor, and Kolkata. Lauritz Knudsen’s options energy main marquee initiatives & infrastructure of the nation together with Power Plants, Refineries, Water and waste water administration, Airports, Metro, Offices, Stadiums, Universities, Hospitals & extra.


    Mansi Praharaj

  • India’s National Deep Tech Start-up Policy to Nur

    Hyderabad, May 23, 2024: FTCCI organised a session on Catalyzing Deep-tech Innovations in direction of Global Presence within the metropolis at its premises on Thursday.

    Delivering Key Note tackle Mr NM Rao, a scientist in protein engineering and CEO of the Atal Incubation Center at CCMB stated deep tech refers to cutting-edge applied sciences that construct on superior science and engineering improvements to carry disruptive new merchandise to the market.

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    The traits of deep-tech startups are robust R &D targeted, excessive entry barrier, mental property, complexity, longer time to market, longer gestation, complexity, want for affected person capital and many others he stated.

    The key developments shaping deep-tech funding are sustainability taking centre stage, cross-border collaboration, well being care, biotech surge, authorities initiatives, AI and Quantum Computing Boom he stated

    India is world quantity 5 in information technology however take a look at the innovation, we’re far behind. Innovation is the way you carry information helpful to society.

    Hyderabad has extra central establishments. The total Habshiguda has many such establishments. So, the locality may even be named Science Corridor.

    We should make use of these establishments. Take as an illustration Veganism. We have the best vegetarian inhabitants on the planet with over 30% vegetarians. At the identical time, 40% of Indians are protein poor. Where do get protein in case you are a vegetarian? That is a big alternative for deep tech analysis and innovation.

    He mentioned about cultured meat and what’s at stake and many others. He added that the primary downside with deep tech in India is that it’s exhausting to discover buyers who’re prepared to await these tasks to succeed.

    National Deep Tech Start-up coverage goals to assist and nurture the distinctive necessities of Deep Tech Startups in India. Now this coverage in draft mode and he urged folks to contribute to the identical to make it a extra helpful coverage.

    His speak was adopted by a panel dialogue on constructing a worldwide deep-tech ecosystem, which was moderated by Pankaj Dewan, Founder Idea Labs. He noticed that Deep-tech has to be pushed by youth and startups for a higher future.

    The Panelists of the panel have been Bala Peddigari, Manish Gupta and Meghna Girish drawn from IT and life science backgrounds.

    Meela Jayadev, President of FTCCI stated the nation is prepared to dominate deep tech analysis. We have almost 21000 deep tech startups that emerged in India.

    Ok Mohan Raidu, Chairman of the ICT Committee off FTCCI stated deep tech performs a pivotal function in shaping our future.


    Sujata

  • Greenpeace India’s dramatic Ice Sculpture activity symbolises heatwave disasters unfolding across India

    Melting Futures: Greenpeace India's dramatic Ice Sculpture activity symbolises heatwave disasters unfolding across India

    New Delhi – On May 19, Greenpeace India unveiled a shocking ice sculpture on the Select City Mall, Saket, that melted underneath the recent Delhi solar, sending out a robust message on the affect of heatwaves across the nation. The 8ft tall ice sculpture, depicting a lady with a toddler and a canine, was consultant of a few of the most marginalised communities susceptible to heatwaves and different excessive climate phenomena. Onlookers witnessed the melting of the ice sculpture that got here with a message – Act Before We Melt Away. Through this activity, Greenpeace India is demanding that the National Disaster Management Authority declare heatwaves as a notified nationwide catastrophe, permitting it ample funding and insurance policies that may assist construct resilience of the communities within the face of the disaster.

    ‘This sculpture has been designed preserving in thoughts the affect that heatwaves have on particularly susceptible teams like girls and youngsters. Some of us may be extra shielded from the warmth as a result of we now have entry to cooling options. However with the state of affairs solely worsening, even these comparatively extra privileged and guarded are going to really feel the impacts of heatwaves. The ice figures are manually sculpted and designed to soften in a fashion that represents the diploma of vulnerability. The smaller figures of kid and the pet canine melted sooner, whereas the determine of the lady melted final. We hope that by way of this ice sculpture we’re capable of make a case for heatwaves to be recognised as a nationwide catastrophe’ stated Siddhesh Gaikwad, Greenpeace India

    Data reveals that within the interval between 1992 and 2015, 24,223 residents in India misplaced their lives resulting from heatwaves. And a number of research, together with a 2023 report by the IPCC has projected that these local weather traits will solely escalate, exacerbating the frequency and period of heatwaves. Climate change-induced warmth waves not solely pose vital well being dangers but in addition disrupt societal constructions, jeopardise security, hamper productiveness, and impede financial development.

    ‘The ice sculpture of this household melting into water in Delhi’s scorching warmth is a warning bell of the escalating local weather disaster, pushed by the fossil gas trade. Heatwaves within the nation have greater than doubled up to now three many years, with 2022 alone recording over 20 occasions. While we’re demanding efficient mitigation and adaptation measures, we additionally want an overhaul of our power methods which can be exacerbating local weather change and excessive climate occasions. Fossil gas corporations, notably worldwide oil companies, are main contributors to this, with the highest 20 corporations answerable for 35% of worldwide carbon emissions since 1965’ stated Amruta S.N., Climate and Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace India

    49% of India’s workforce includes out of doors staff, and these staff face drastically heightened dangers throughout heatwaves, as highlighted by the National Disaster Management Authority’s report. There can also be an rising physique of proof that challenges the frequent assumption that males bear the brunt of warmth waves resulting from their out of doors labour. Women not solely interact in out of doors work similar to road merchandising, waste selecting, or brick-kiln labour however are additionally virtually completely inclined as home-based staff. The HomeNet report reveals that the warmth results in a rise of over two hours per day in caregiving and family chores for ladies, additional encroaching on their work time.

    The Ice Sculpture activity is a part of Greenpeace India’s Climate Justice marketing campaign, People for Climate. Over the following few weeks, the organisation with its companions will likely be internet hosting a Museum of Memories, with actual objects that inform tales of devastation, resilience and hope within the face of the heatwave disaster. Through these actions Greenpeace India hopes to make clear the urgency of the heatwave disaster, and the necessity to declare it as a nationwide catastrophe, making means for stringer insurance policies and higher funding for local weather mitigation and adaptation measures.


    Neel Achary

  • India’s Digital Competition Bill marks paradigm shift to tackle Big Tech monopoly: ADIF

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    The Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF), a think tank representing homegrown digital startups, on Wednesday welcomed the government’s move to introduce an ex-ante regulatory framework through the Draft Digital Competition Bill, 2024 to curb the Big Tech monopoly. This legislation, said the ADIF, marks a paradigm shift in the country’s approach to tackling the “unbridled dominance of Big Tech gatekeepers” while fostering an equitable digital economy where startups and innovation can thrive.

    “Big Tech gatekeepers have repeatedly demonstrated an uncanny ability to undermine conventional antitrust enforcement through a barrage of litigations and tweaking policies to circumvent the spirit of the law,” said Prateek Jain, Associate Director, ADIF. This has severely undermined competition in digital markets globally, adversely impacting consumer interests and stifling innovation. Existing competition laws have proved woefully inadequate to deal with the winnertake-all dynamics where network effects and data asymmetries enable these gatekeepers to cement monopolistic practices.

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    Disturbing video shows abduction of female Israeli soldiers Recognising Palestinian state is a ‘reward for terrorism’, says Netanyahu Washington criticises ‘announced’ recognition of Palestine ADIF has proposed a roadmap with recommendations like learning from the European Union’s experience with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

    “To ensure effective regulation keeping pace with the rapidly evolving digital landscape, ADIF recommends constituting a dedicated unit with multi-disciplinary technical expertise within the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to oversee implementation and compliance of the new framework,” the ADIF, which represents over 500 homegrown digital startups united by the vision of establishing India as the world’s preeminent startup hub, said.

    Meanwhile, the ADIF and IIT Guwahati Technology Incubation Centre on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote entrepreneurship and provide support to technology startups.

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  • DPIIT Secy on India’s new EV policy

    While all eyes are on Elon Musk-run Tesla to make its entry into India, the government is expecting a good response from several automobile majors on the electric-vehicle (EV) policy, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), said on Saturday.

    Last month, the tech billionaire said he would not visit India amid crucial Tesla quarterly results, as he delayed his visit to the later part of the year to announce his investment plans.

    Everybody talks about one company (Tesla), but we are expecting responses from many companies to that policy,” Singh said at the CII’s annual business summit in the national capital.

    The new EV policy was announced in March, where the government reduced the Customs duty to 15 per cent with certain conditions. It entailed a minimum investment of Rs 4,150 crore to set up EV manufacturing facilities, production to start within three years and reach 25 per cent DVA (domestic value addition) by three years and 50 per cent DVA within five years at the maximum.

    The new EV policy paved the way for Musk and other automakers to enter the Indian EV market. According to experts, the EV market in the country can achieve over 40 per cent penetration with $100 billion revenue by 2030. The country is also making rapid progress in setting up EV charging infrastructure to phase out diesel vehicles within a stipulated time frame.

  • BOULT Emerges as India’s No. 1 Rated Audio Brand

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    New Delhi 16 May, 2024: BOULT, India’s fastest-growing wearable tech model has lately been acknowledged as India’s #1 rated audio model by way of client preferences in good hearables, in response to a research carried out by Cyber Media Research. BOULT led with a cushty 96% choice within the TWS/Neckband phase, whereas its prime rivals BoAt and Noise, trailed at an in depth 90% and 84% respectively.

    India’s audio panorama is booming, and on the coronary heart of this revolution is BOULT, hovering as the nation’s favorite audio model. In Aspirational India, neckbands are the go-to selection, whereas TWS holds sway in Tier 1 cities. On common, shoppers in India spend INR 1510 on TWS/neckbands, in comparison with INR 1880 in Tier 1 cities. Notably, BOULT stands out as the top-rated model for TWS/neckbands, in response to the research. India, a number one drive in direct-to-consumer (D2C) developments, good hearables are bought nearly evenly by way of offline and on-line channels, with a slight edge in the direction of on-line purchases with BOULT main the lot with a 55% of the purchases coming from on-line.

    Furthermore, with the TWS/Neckband phase BOULT has the best usability quotient with 30% of the respondents choosing TWS and and 31% getting into favour of the neckbands. Lastly, aside from the audio high quality, BOULT is most well-liked for its daring and dynamic aesthetics, as effectively as its popularity as a powerful and modern model.

    Varun Gupta, Co-founder of BOULT, commented, “Our strategy emphasises the model’s dedication to marrying cutting-edge design with superior audio high quality. Our vary of merchandise, from True Wireless Stereo (TWS) to neckbands, echoes the wishes of the trendy client, mixing trend with performance seamlessly. BOULT’s success isn’t nearly fashion; it’s about delivering worth. With a powerful 96% person satisfaction fee, BOULT is praised by prospects for its dedication to excellence and top-notch high quality at inexpensive costs. We are comfortable to see that buyers are believing in BOULT as their most well-liked model and we intend to maintain this religion intact.”

    Commenting on the survey findings, Prabhu Ram, Head- Industry Intelligence Group (IIG), CyberMedia Research (CMR) remarked, “The Indian good hearables market is rising, pushed by a confluence of 3As: Affordability, Advanced options, and a rising emphasis on Aesthetics. This is mirrored within the rising demand for earbuds, particularly in Aspirational India, amongst the youth searching for each sporty and traditional aesthetics, and a rising choice for premium options at aggressive value factors. Audio manufacturers, such as BOULT, that may efficiently cater to this convergence of favor, worth, and performance will likely be well-positioned to probably seize a big share of this dynamic and discerning younger demographic.”

    Key findings from the research underscore the shift in the direction of fashion-driven adoption in rising markets like Tier II cities, the place private fashion reigns supreme. Affordability stays a driving drive, with a overwhelming majority searching for premium options at pocket-friendly costs.

    Young Indian shoppers prioritise fashion of their good hearables, leaning in the direction of sporty designs (45%) and traditional colors (28%) for an ideal mix of aesthetics and luxury. While sound high quality stays a prime precedence (53%), value (51%) and battery life (51%) maintain equal significance for value-conscious younger shoppers. When it involves TWS/neckbands, affordability takes centre stage.

    BOULT emerged as a favoured model amongst Indian youth, celebrated for its distinctive audio high quality (59%), daring and dynamic design (56%), and inclusive model imagery (49%).

    Disclaimer: This press launch is offered by a 3rd get together and has not been independently verified. We don’t assure its accuracy. Readers are suggested to conduct their very own analysis earlier than counting on the data herein.


    Sujata