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  • Dr. Rudresh Vyas of Surat appointed in National Focus Group on New Education Policy by NCERT Delhi

    December 30: Dr. Rudresh Vyas, Head, Department of Psychology, MTB Arts College, Surat, has been included as a member in the National Focus Group on New Education Policy by NCERT Delhi. He will be working in National guidance and counseling for schools group.

    The National Focus Group on New Education Policy has been formulated by the National Council of Educational Research and Training New Delhi (NCERT) by notification dated 5th December 2021. These include curricula and methods, cross-cutting groups and other important areas of the new Education Policy 2020. Through which discussions, studies and draft papers will be prepared on how to make school education more effective in all these areas.

    The group will study and make recommendations for the area and planning of counseling and mentoring activities for students in schools across the country through the national focus group on guidance and counseling, which will be implemented in the New Education Policy.

  • Trupti Shroff from Surat awarded 1,000 Women of Asia Awards-2021 by Womennovator

    Trupti Shroff with the Womennovator Women of Asia Awards-2021

    Surat (Gujarat) [India], December 30: Trupti Shroff, a successful anchor, emcee, voice and accent trainer, and voiceover artist from Surat, has been named the winner of Womennovator’s 1,000 Women of Asia Awards 2021.

    Trupti Shroff was awarded the top 1,000 successful women of Asia at the global summit of Womennovator Women Faces Awards-2021 attended by Union Minister of Commerce and Textiles, Piyush Goyal.

    Womennovator, founded by Tripti Shinghal is one of the world’s largest platforms connecting aspiring women entrepreneurs to the policy decision-makers like government enterprises, ministries, and banks by creating a robust network among experts, mentors, guides and provides an opportunity to avail any support in terms of mentoring, training, investment, and marketing requirements.

    “I am feeling honoured and proud to receive the Womennovator award for the powerful women of Asia. I have been working as an anchor for the last 18 years and have hosted over 1,800 shows, out of which 1,200 shows were of Sangeet at the wedding and corporate functions, which is my forte. I have hosted family functions to concerts of 10,000 crowd and am also a cricket jock,” says Trupti Shroff, who is operating her business from Surat and Mumbai.

    Recently, Trupti Shroff became the first anchor from Gujarat to host an extravagant big fat Indian wedding of Mauni Shah, daughter of a leading diamond merchant in Belgium, Manish Shah, and USA-based Indian business tycoon of Niti Group, Manoj Shroff’s son Aniket Shroff at the serene surroundings of Lake Como at Villa Balbiano & Villa Flori in Italy.

    Shroff said, “It was a mesmerising experience for me to host six back-to-back events at the wedding ceremony of Mauni Shah, daughter of Belgium’s leading diamond merchant, Manish Shah, with Aniket Shroff. I was invited by Manish Shah for his daughter’s extravagant wedding at Lake Como in Italy. I am the first anchor from Gujarat to host the big fat Indian wedding internationally.”

    Shroff has been awarded Nari Ratna” by Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) in 2017, Mrs. Bharat Icon Great Confident & Attitude Title in 2017, the most inspirational woman in the city in 2018,  women influencer award in 2019, and ‘Naari Gaurav’ award in 2020 respectively.

  • Gain & Grow – A New Era of Stock Market Trading

    December 30: The Jodhpur based Entrepreneur recently got nominated for the award  ‘The Young Entrepreneur of The Region 2021.’

    Raghav only had Rs 23000 as his capital when he first started trading from his uncle’s account and ended up making a profit of Rs 37,00 in his first trade.

    It can be truly said that this new passion among the youth for stock market trading has changed after the COVID pandemic. When it comes to multiplying your money, “Gain & Grow,” the stock market analysis firm, is the correct choice for many young traders.

    The storey of its founder, Raghav, is such that you will be forced to believe in miracles as he comes from business background (steel utensils). He was always passionate about making money from his ways and wasn’t interested in doing the family business. As he completed his MBA from the University of Greenwich London, When he came back, he asked his uncle to let him handle his trading account completely. Starting from a small capital of 23k, he bought 6,000 shares of a company at Rs 3.75 and sold them at nearly Rs 9.60. This made him choose the stock market as his career.

    When he first started performing regular trading, he began talking to his uncle and friends about the daily market. He started learning about various company structures and techniques from the internet. Soon, he was inventing his methods using the hit-or-miss strategy, and things started going pretty well.

    Then he began posting his stock market analyses on social media, and others began to take notice. Raghav soon began to receive messages from strangers asking for his trading guidance. And he was more than willing to assist.

    Following that, he began to handle accounts in exchange for a cut of the profits. For him, this was a life-changing experience. However, to solidify his developing skills, he began selling Trader Membership options, which proved to be a fantastic concept!

    Gain & Grow is providing trade signals to its members with almost 80% accuracy!

    Today, his company, Gain & Grow, has over 200+ active members, and Raghav is handling the accounts of many well-known businessmen from Bengaluru and Gujarat.

    In his opinion, “trading is the most profitable thing if you take it as a business, not as a gamble.”

    Along with this, he is the sole founder of two more startup-based companies, “Complete Kitchen Online” and “Bathing-Bars.” He sets his next target for a stock market community app for half a million members under this by 2023.

    Links :-  Instagram Username :- Gain_Grow_together

    Telegram :- https://t.me/+RWAGtvvkNBPtuEHn

  • Meet Seerat Arora, who founded her own clothing brand ‘Vintage Siesta’ at a very young age

    December 30: It’s one of the most typical complaints of late bloomers who achieve success later in life is they didn’t dare to market their ideas sooner. Ironically, one of the most popular reasons among young people is that they are too young to start a business. It is never too early or too late in life to achieve success. Meet Seerat Arora, who established her clothing brand ‘Vintage Siesta’ when she was 18-years-old in 2019. In an interview, Seerat talks about her clothing brand and her journey so far.

    Q- What inspired you to start your clothing brand?

    A- The brand vintage siesta was established one-and-a-half-year ago in September-2019. I was 18-years-old when I decided to venture into the clothing business after being challenged by my father to create similar designs that I loved to purchase from my favourite international stores. This is how I came up with the name ‘Vintage Siesta’ for my apparel line.

    Q- How did this come to your mind to start the brand at an early age.

    A-        ‘Age is simply a number,’ is something I believe in. Young entrepreneurs understand that age does not imply success; they do not require a driver’s licence or a college diploma to turn their ideas and dreams into a successful firm. I took over a modest boutique as a youthful 18-year-old and began to explore my interest for fashion, resulting in the launch of the Vintage Siesta brand. Each set can be tailored to the person’s personality. Vintage siesta, in my opinion, makes for extremely quiet, grounded loungewear that any woman would enjoy wearing.

    Q-   Who motivated you to launch the brand?

    A-I was inspired by my mother. She has been the constant support system in my life, and my best friend, Naira Sood who helped me start this venture and gave a perfect idea and name to my brand. The vintage siesta is a Spanish name. Vintage means high-quality and premium, and Siesta means slumber, nap or a doze. The name is perfect for our clothing label and resonates with our target audience as well.

    Q-  What are your plans in terms of brand establishment?

    A-        Starting a business brings out many different emotions in entrepreneurs, including passion, excitement and impatience. It’s often difficult to stop speeding ahead and take the process step-by-step, especially when some of the steps are tedious. However, it’s very important to take the time to identify your motivation before starting a business.  To figure out what motivates you when starting a business, you need to find clarity in why you are doing, what you are doing, what you hope to accomplish, what the risks are, and what you expect the payoffs to be. This will help me to keep focused and centred on achieving success in my life as well as my business.

    Q-  Your comments on the news depicting Bollywood actress Gauher Khan posting a photo on her Instagram wearing your brand?

    A-We sent our new collection of loungewear to Gauhar Khan as a PR gift, and her favourite Blue colour as she told us! We didn’t expect her to wear it, we were lucky enough to send her a PR gift, but we got luckier when we saw her wearing it on social media and tagging us, that was generous of her. As we keep the taste and preference in mind and create, personalise every set for our clients and celebs which suits their personalities the best. We have also sent PR gifts to Karishma Kapoor, Kriti Sanon, Niki Tamboli and many more celebs.

    Q- Tell us more about Seerat Arora and her plans to make the brand popular.

    A-        Seerat Arora started her business at the young age of 18 years. I opened a small boutique with 2 tailors to create beautiful personalise pieces aka loungewear. It was an idea that came to my mind by looking at the pandemic in the world; everyone staying at home should look comfortable as well as gorgeous. Thus, I tried to experiment with fabric, played with the colours to make new designs day and night, which turned out to be great. Each vintage siesta piece reaches the customers in bespoke packaging that establishes the love from their end. As the founder and entrepreneur, I believe that the vintage siesta scores big for girl power because it believes that it’s for every lady, diva, woman and goddess out there.

  • Author Tuhin Sinha demands Bharat Ratna for Birsa Munda in Jharkhand

    December 30: Well-known author Tuhin A. Sinha has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting for the Bharat Ratna to be conferred upon tribal revolutionary icon Birsa Munda, besides the creation of India’s biggest war memorial at Dombari Hills in Jharkhand, where Birsa’s resolute warriors had put up an incredible fight against the British soldiers in January 1900. The war eventually led to mass casualties but also acquainted the British with the sheer might and conviction of Birsa Munda.

    Tuhin, who is all set to release his book The Legend of Birsa Munda, co-authored with Ankita Verma, has researched extensively on Birsa Munda’s life. In his letter to the PM, Tuhin roots for the need to weave in a strong cultural narrative around Birsa Munda in Jharkhand’s development plans, “As we get ready to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Birsa Munda in 2024, there is a growing sentiment among the people of Jharkhand that a lot more needs to be done to ensure justice to the magnificent yet largely unexplored legacy of Birsa Munda. The state of Jharkhand, which came into existence on 15 November 2000, is yet to realize its true potential. The state with its rich reservoir of mineral resources, vast forest cover and concentrated industrialist belts deserves more. Weaving a strong cultural narrative into the state’s developments plans could help in ushering this transformation.”

    In the letter, Tuhin has also appealed for the creation of a Birsa tourism corridor that would generate immense local employment opportunities, besides an extension of the term ‘Scheduled Tribes’ to mean Vanvasi, instead of Adivasi in Hindi.

    “The thing about subaltern historical heroes is that during their lifetime, there was hardly any documentation of their life or their movements. We took cognizance of their greatness only in hindsight, long after they were gone. But when I look at the extraordinary life of Birsa Munda and his efforts in raising a private army to take on the Britishers, it is quite likely that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose too may have drawn inspiration from him. Netaji raised a private army on a much grander, international scale in the early 1940s… something that Birsa too did, but on a much smaller scale four decades before Netaji,” says the author.

    But what drew Tuhin to Birsa Munda’s character in particular when there are multiple other subaltern icons in India’s freedom struggle? In his letter, Tuhin writes, “Like Kashi is the confluence of Hindu culture, let Birsa Munda form the confluence of all tribal cultures and tribal freedom movements across the country. Our subaltern freedom movements date back to the 1770s—Tilka Majhi, a Santhal from the Bhagalpur region being one of the oldest and well-known names. From the nineteenth century, these subaltern movements were active right from the North East of India to the South and formed important precursors to the 1857 war for Independence. While it may not be possible to give each of these subaltern tribal warriors their due, honouring Birsa Munda with the nation’s highest civilian award will be an honour to the entire community.”

    Tuhin’s book The Legend of Birsa Munda has been published by Amaryllis: An Imprint of Manjul Publishing House and will soon be available in multiple Indian languages. Among other initiatives, the author, in collaboration will Indic Academy, plans to travel to Birsa Munda’s village Ulihatu, near Ranchi, and distribute 50 free copies to the descendants of Birsa Munda and the clan.

    “It is tragic that the descendants of Birsa Munda are living a life of abject penury and have very little idea of the greatness of their ancestry. I want the demand for the Bharat Ratna for Birsa Munda to emanate from his village and ricochet across the country,” says the author.

  • GVCW announces the re-opening of more Greece Visa Application Centres across India

    Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], December 30: Global Visa Center World (GVCW) has announced that Indian citizens and residents of India can now enter Greece following the Covid-19 testing protocol as a precautionary measure against the pandemic.

    Expressing their joy on the re-opening of Greece to tourists from India after approximately 21 months, Du Digital Global and GVCW, which jointly operate the Visa Application Centres in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka state, “You can now apply for a short stay visa (C- Visa category) at GVCW application centres in Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata along with the two which were already open in New Delhi and Mumbai on Mondays and Wednesdays.” The addresses for these are as following:

    • Bengaluru Visa Application Centre: Manipal centre south block S 207 and 2nd floor, 47 Dickenson Road, Bengaluru 560042
    • Kolkata Visa Application Centre: Acropolis, Unit 6/1, 6th Floor, 1858 Rajdanga Main Road, Kolkata 700107
    • Chennai Visa Application Centre: Fagun Towers, Third Floor, No 74, EthirajSalai, Egmore, Chennai 600008
    • New Delhi Visa Application Centre: Shivaji Stadium Metro Station, Concourse Level, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110001
    • Mumbai Visa Application Centre: 4th Floor, Urmi Axis Building, Behind Famous Studio, Opp. E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi (West), Mumbai

    Additionally, Indian citizens and residents can also submit their visa applications as per the standard procedures outlined on the website: https://in-gr.gvcworld.eu/en

    Please visit the following link for the complete protocol of arrivals to & departure from Greece: https://travel.gov.gr/#/

  • Vendor Infra, A unique B2B Collaboration platform for the Infrastructure and Construction Industry, raises $265k in Angel Round

    New Delhi (India), December 30: B2B (Business-to-Business) digital collaboration platform for Infrastructure & Construction Industry, Vendor Infra announced that it had raised $265k in an Angel round led by Top Managements of Infrastructure and IT Industry.

    Founded in October 2019 by Rahul Jain, Vendor Infra is a unique B2B Digital Collaboration Platform. Primarily for Infrastructure & Construction Companies, Vendors, Manufacturers, Suppliers, Consultants who want a cost-effective medium to collaborate and construct large-scale projects in diverse sectors.

    Rahul Jain, Founder & CEO, first got this idea after spending more than 23 years in the Infrastructure & Construction Industry and observing key issues like project delays, majorly due to vendors’ unavailability and timely availability of equipment at sites, etc. Though first envisioned in 2018 while employed, Rahul started looking at the industry objectively from a problem statement mindset to develop a viable solution. Rahul’s brainchild ‘Vendor Infra’ raised funds from Mr. SK Tripathi, MD & CEO, JMC Projects (India) Limited, Mr. Sanjeev Gupta, MD & CEO, Lahari (A GOI Initiative), Ex Accenture, Microsoft, IBM, and Ex ISS, GOI, Mr. Amit Agarwal, CFO, JK Fenner (India) Limited, Mr. Narayan Ramaswamy, Founder & CEO of B2B Digital Ecosystem for SME, Mr. Dinesh Arora, Partner and Deals Leader in top 4 Management Consulting, Mr. Puneet Chandra, Co-Founder of Skootr Global, AngelBay, Corset Deals Limited, FAAD network and many more Founders, MD, CEO, CFO & Sr. Management of Infrastructure, IT & Leading Industries.

    Vendor Infra Global enables all stakeholders like Infrastructure Companies, Vendors, Contractors, Suppliers, and Consultants to showcase their work on its platform, as well as find new opportunities for faster business growth and leverage a cutting-edge B2B digital platform to Meet, Collaborate and Construct. Further, the platform provides extensive coverage across 20+ Sectors, Rated and Verified Vendors, diversification through Sector Intelligence Section, reduce the idling of plants and equipment through the buy, hire or sell option. In addition, vendor Infra helps companies arrange for Finance & Insurance for their projects. Through its Enterprise Services, Vendor Infra helps companies find suitable sub-contractors for their projects, helps organizations set up the next growth journey, and supports global players setting up their business in India.

    Its Project Management services are designed to enable businesses to grab the best life opportunities and manage the data of the most trusted and recommended vendors for large-scale infrastructure projects to quickly identify and evaluate the most relevant vendors for their project.

    Vendor Infra will utilize this fund for Team Expansion, Marketing & Branding, and International Expansion funds. Apart from this, funds will get used for technology upgrades and platform advancement.

    Industry associations strengthen one’s hold and cement one’s success. Therefore, the primary focus would be setting up collaborations with other complementary sectors and businesses. Vendor infra is currently working with many companies & vendors and plans to establish meaningful partnerships. As the first ones in this sector, Vendor Infra aims to make project execution seamless and hassle-free for their clients and save costs.

    Though the angel round is over, Vendor Infra is optimistic that they would be ready for another round of funding in the coming six months to venture into the next growth phase.

  • Lallooji & Sons and Prayagraj mela authority settle their disputes

    December 29: M/s Lallooji & Sons and Prayagraj mela authority have decided to settle their financial disputes through an out of court settlement in respect of their disputes relating to works for kumbh mela. M/s Lallooji & Sons have taken back their Arbitration claims, and the Prayagraj authority has decided to drop all charges against the firm. The authority has consequently made the firm eligible for all works of the authority. Both parties have decided to drop all grievances and legal proceedings against each other as a result of this settlement.

    Prayagraj: Event management company Lallooji & Sons and the Kumbh Mela Authority have reached an out of court settlement to the financial dispute with regards to some bills raised by the former for services provided during the 2019 Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj.

    The Kumbh Mela Authority allegedly made substantial deductions in the bills and arrived at a figure which was much lower than claimed by Lallooji & Sons, which in turn initiated arbitration proceedings against the Authority seeking the payment along with annual interest.

    However, during the pendency of the disputes, both sides decided to amicably settle the dispute out of court.

    As per the settlement, Lallooji & Sons agreed to withdraw its bills to the extent of the disputed amount and to withdraw the consequential arbitration proceedings, while the Authority agreed to withdraw the office order against the firm.

    In view of the amicable settlement, the Arbitration Tribunal passed an award recording the settlement between the two parties on December 21.

  • FABBEU Launches First Skincare Brand For Gen-Z in India

    The brand aims at providing skincare products to the younger generation based on their skin types

    December 29: FABBEU, India’s first Gen-Z skincare brand, provides its products to customers based on their skin types. Launched on December 24, 2021, in Mumbai, the brand uses AI technology to analyze the correct skin type of customers. FABBEU makes sure that the customers get their skin types assessed within a few minutes to obtain skin care products that best suit them. The company allows visitors to get free skin test reports on its official website – www.fabbeu.com.

    FABBEU, an acronym for “Fabulous You”, is founded by Ankiit Khemka, a current MBA student at NMIMS and Bhavana Khemka, a B.Pharma student at NMIMS- two young siblings from Mumbai. The foundation of their venture was laid when they were not able to find skincare products that matched their skin types. On realizing that the majority of the country’s youth is facing similar issues, the young duo decided to make Gen-Z skincare easier and more efficient by launching FABBEU and providing dermatologist-tested skin care products to the customers.

    Based on their specific skin types, FABBEU provides its customers with a range of skincare products, including Bluelight Protection Cream, Day Cream, and Facewash. It allows the customers to get their skin analyzed and place orders on the brand’s official website.

    Ankiit Khemka, the co-founder and COO of FABBEU, believes that technology plays a major role in fulfilling the needs of the Gen-Z audience in the age of digitization. He says, “Technology is at the heart of this generation and is required to bring about changes that matter. After spending several months researching and trying different ingredients on our own skins, we have been successful in developing skincare products that suit different skin types. We believe that the use of an AI-based skin analyzer would cater to the specific skincare needs of the Gen-Z audience.”

    “We have prioritized the safety of our customers while providing them with skincare products. All our products are developed using the best possible formulations that are effective yet safe on the skin of the users,” adds Bhavana Khemka, FABBEU’s co-founder.

    Accredited by Startup India, FABBEU plans to make its products available on Amazon, Flipkart, and Nykaa soon. To know more about the brand and its products, visit its official Instagram page (@fabbeu_india).

  • Snapbizz Retail Digital Solutions partners with Boost Indonesia to provide digital financial solutions

    Bengaluru (India), December 29: Snapbizz, a leading retail digital solution provider in India, has partnered with Boost, the fintech arm of Axiata Digital (the digital services arm of Axiata Group Berhad, one of the largest Telecom companies in Indonesia), to cater to the digital financial needs of numerous mom-and-pop stores (warungs) in Southeast Asia’s largest country, Indonesia.

    Snapbizz helps convert traditional stores into smart stores and to operate them more efficiently. It also helps in integration with the online world to both retain current customers and acquire new ones, and integration with all key stakeholders of the ecosystem for the supply of goods, money and promotions. Because of its holistic features, easy adoption and value propositions to the merchant and its ecosystem partners, Snapbizz has become more relevant during the pandemic by not only helping merchants survive but also helping them grow their business.

    Snapbizz has provided its solutions to thousands of stores in India and now is extending its solutions to the Indonesian retail sector. The solutions comprise POS systems, procurement portal and invoice financing that have been customised according to the specific needs of retail merchants in the Indonesian market. This will enable them to run their business more efficiently and generate higher revenue. By next year, Snapbizz plans to roll out its suite of digital financial solutions to other countries in Southeast Asia as well.

    Mr. Prem Kumar, Founder and CEO of SnapBizz, says: “Small retail stores are the backbone of Indonesia’s growing retail economy and will benefit hugely from easy access to our customised suite of digital solutions. The partnership is testimony to our DNA of developing handcrafted technology for small merchants to achieve a suitable product-market fit. This is an endorsement of our modular technology design and secure architecture that lends itself to be adapted to multiple use cases in a very agile and robust manner. We are also excited to be chosen by Boost as its business partner to create an embedded finance platform to drive inclusive growth & change through digitisation.”

    Mr. Sheyantha Abeykoon, CEO of Boost, says, “The partnership with Snapbizz is an important step in our long-term endeavour to promote financial inclusion across various levels of entrepreneurs in Indonesia and the region, and to ensure that merchants have easy access to digital tools so that they can leverage the deep benefits of digitalisation in their day-to-day operations.”

    About Snapbizz

    Headquartered in Bengaluru, SnapBizz provides new-age solutions to convert the neighbourhood Kirana stores into smart stores. It comes with a host of features to enable the store owner to leverage his current strengths to gain a competitive edge and increase store profitability. SnapBizz currently has a network of 50,000+ stores growing rapidly across India that collectively do a business (GMV) of approx. $1 Billion/year.  We are privileged to have the support and trust of not only the merchants but also ecosystem partners like national banks, brands and philanthropic organisations in delivering an inclusive transformation of a well-oiled ecosystem & become the digital highway for goods & money in an inclusive manner. This initiative will help Kiranas not only survive but also thrive.

    Snapbizz’s vision is to be at the forefront of the digital transformation of the retail ecosystem across countries with fragmented retail markets.

    For more information, website at www.snapbizz.com

    Facebook (www.facebook.com/snapbizzcloudtech/ ).

    About Boost

    Boost is the fintech arm of Axiata Digital that unifies financial services spanning payments, artificial intelligence (AI)-based alternative lending, digital insurance, cross border content services and merchant solutions. Its businesses are streamlined into four core brands to serve a regional consumer and enterprise customer base with the aim of establishing a Malaysia-headquartered regional financial services powerhouse:

    Boost Life: The Boost eWallet business that launched in 2017, focuses on consumer lifestyle offerings such as online and offline retail payments, bill settlement, insurance and transportation & transit use cases with new features constantly introduced.

    Boost Biz: The merchant business that offers a payment platform for enterprises of all sizes, business tools and digitalisation solutions.

    Boost Credit: Formerly Aspirasi, it houses the micro-financing & micro-insurance business and is a pioneering Digital Alternative financier in Malaysia and Indonesia.

    Boost Connect: Formerly Apigate, a predominantly payment facilitation business that aggregates and distributes content via a seamless API platform.

    Boost makes transactions and financing easier, faster, secure and overall, a more rewarding experience by combining deep fintech, in-house data and AI to meet growing and evolving market demand. Since its inception in 2017 as a digital payments provider with Malaysia’s first major eWallet, Boost is rapidly evolving into a broader digital financial services provider today, with micro-merchants and SMEs (MSMEs) being a key focus segment.

    Users can download Boost from the Google Play Store, App Store or the HUAWEI AppGallery.

    For more information,

    website at www.myboost.com

    Facebook (facebook.com/myboostapp)

    Instagram (instagram.com/myboostapp).