Punjab Mail

Annapurna Pariwar recently celebrated Children’s day with slum children in Pune. A children’s day is celebrated in December every year to showcase the talents of these young children and to spread awareness about child rights to improve their welfare. Annapurna looks after over 600 children under their  ‘ Vatsalyapurna’  project.  It runs a unique chain of low cost Day Care Centers for children of poor working women.  Annapurna Pariwar has been working for the empowerment of slum women since last three decades. An early childhood development intervention for slum children has thus become the focus of Annapurna. A variety entertainment programme was organised for the kids from every centre to display their skills and enjoy by singing and dancing to the tune of local songs. In last 14 years Annapurna has set up 16 Day Care Centers in 14 slums in Pune and 4 Day Care Centers in Mumbai and has given an opportunity to 40 women to have self-employment. These Centers t...

Special offer: FREE Gold Coins with every jewellery purchase* Tanishq, India’s most trusted jewellery brand, today celebrated another landmark in jewellery retailing by opening their showroom at Viman Nagar Road, Pune. This is the 239 th showroom in TANISHQ’s network. It will provide jewellery lovers a world class shopping experience and easy access to high quality traditional and contemporary jewellery from Tanishq. This new showroom owned by Mr.Satyen Gathani and Mrs. Urvi Gathani is spread across 2,500 sq.ft. carpet area. It offers a wide range of Tanishq jewellery from grand and opulent wedding jewellery in gold, kundan polki and diamonds to contemporary jewellery, the showroom offers it’s every customer, the divine craftsmanship in over 5000 exquisite designs, that the people of Pune look for. The new showroom was inaugurated today by Mr. Sandeep Kulhalli, Senior Vice President, Retail and Marketing, Jewellery Division and Mr. A...

Florida and Pune, 21st December 2017: SRKay Consulting Group, a London-headquartered private equity  venture of the multi-billion dollar SRK Group, announces the joining of Stuart Kippelman on its advisory  board. Stuart is a highly acclaimed business and technology leader in the U.S., and is the former Senior  Vice President and Global CIO at Platform Specialty Products, based in Florida. Stuart has an illustrious track record receiving multiple industry awards including Top 100 CIOs in STEM  2015, Computer world’s 2014 Premier 100 IT Leader Award, and the CIO Top 100 Award in 2012, 2013  and 2014 in areas such as business and ERP transformation, cloud migrations and business intelligence.  Stuart has been a WSJ guest columnist, and a featured blogger on Computerworld.com. He is an author,  and holds multiple patents in data mining, and business intelligence. As an accomplished speaker, he has  frequently presented at many major ind...

deAsra, an organization aimed at empowering budding entrepreneurs, recently organized a workshop to help entrepreneurs understand digital media and bring their business online. deAsra is trying to address the growing need of businesses that are suffering from a loss of customer’s who now prefer to buy goods and services online. Statistics show that 65% of people in India did all their festive shopping online. This was a big hit for traditional businesses. Conducted by Miss. Neha Sarwal, Marketing Head at deAsra Foundation, the workshop was a big success. entrepreneurs were shown how to Go Digital by using social media, online marketplaces such as Amazon and websites to build their businesses. “Digital marketing is about connecting to your audiences in real time and making them the hero of your activity.” said Miss. Sarwal. She also added that, “Before entrepreneurs ‘go digital’, they should be prepared with the message they want to send and strategys on how to engage with the...

The trend of setting up own business in India is picking up these days. However, not everyone is well equipped to manage the processes involved in doing so. In a bid to help such entrepreneurs and make them aware of the process involved, deAsra Foundation had arranged a workshop “Start Your Own Small Business”  on Friday  at Alpa Bachat Bhavan, Aga Khan Road, Agarkar Nagar Pune. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that for the success of the “Start-up India, Stand up India” campaign, the youth of India must “turn from job-seekers to job-creators”. Taking a step towards this deAsra Foundation helps entrepreneurs to start their own business, helps them to manage their business, as well as grow their business. For, those who want to start small enterprises; business growth can make use of social media and guidance by Mentors from deAsra who have more than 35 years of rich experience in banking and financial sector. Speaker at the event and deAsra’s Mr. Prakash Agashe sa...

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December 2017, Pune:  Four   Points   by   Sheraton , Pune  continues to enthral its visitors,  this  time  by   giving   a  new meaning to  Christmas  celebration. The business hotel has created one-of-its-kind  Christmas  tree using notebooks.  This  uniquely designed  Christmas  tree is created using  2000 notebooks  and is the centre piece of the lavish lobby. Patrons of the hotel are invited to join in  this  noble cause to give the gift of education to the underprivileged with  a  contribution of INR 200 or 500 only. The notebooks shall be gifted to the children from  Teach from India  Pune chapter. Talking about  this  unique initiative  Sapna Jairam , Director of Sales & Marketing added, ‘ Christmas  is  a  season of gifting and what better than  a  gift of education that will only empower the kids ...

Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS), a constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University) Pune inaugurated its 8th Annual International Research Conference (SIMSARC) on 14th December 2017. The theme for SIMSARC 2017 is “Government Initiatives for Transforming India: Implications on Business and Society”. Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Hon'ble Vice Chairman, NITI Ayog, the Chief Guest for the inaugural function wished SIMS on its 8th Successful SIMSARC Conference and added that he wishes the young research minds to contribute in transforming India through Govt. Initiatives by means of any suggestions or Ideas. He said Niti Ayog serves as an open action funnel with its mouth opened towards Society that takes Suggestions and ideas from the society and includes all relevant ideas into the system. He said that any research that can be practically implied in the making of country is a powerful research. Dr. S. B. Mujumdar Hon’ble Chancellor, Symbiosis International Deeme...

Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS), a constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University) Pune is organizing its 8th Annual International Research Conference SIMSARC) from 14th -16th December 2017. The theme for SIMSARC 2017 is “Government Initiatives for Transforming India: Implications on Business and Society”. Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Hon'ble Vice Chairman, NITI Ayog is the Chief Guest for the inaugural function on 15th December. Dr. S. B. Mujumdar Hon’ble Chancellor, SI(DU) will preside and Dr. Vidya Yeravdekar Pro Chancellor, SI(DU) and Dr Rajani Gupte Vice Chancellor, SI (DU) will grace the occasion. Brig. (Dr.) Rajiv Divekar, Director, SIMS is the conference Chairperson and Dr. Arti Chandani, is the Conference Convener. The government has launched an array of initiatives which are aimed at making India a better country to live in. These initiatives are in different fields and the focus of these initiatives is to bring the lower strata of society into the main s...

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Accusations against the road building company  IRB  Infrastructure piled up pretty fast. The controversy revolving around the road developing giant  IRB  is ‘illegal  land  acquisition’.The company has been dragged into this dispute by the CBI. However; the instance does  not  have  a  valid point to stand in the court  of  law. On December 6, the anti-corruption branch  of  CBI filed  a  charge sheet against Virendra Mhaiskar, the chairman and  MD   of   IRB  Infrastructure Developers Limited for alleged association to  a  10-year old  land   scam  in  Maharashtra . Besides, 17 other people who were linked to the company, have been named in the charge sheet. Under the sections 120(b), 420, 511  of  the Indian Penal Code and sections  of  Prevention  of  Corruption Act, a  charge sheet has been filed in  a  c...

Boo The Taboo! International Jewelry Designer Mona Shroff  to  Open  IIFW   Season   2 .0 Post a sensational debut this year,  India   Intimate   Fashion   Week  ( IIFW )  has geared up for  Season   2 .0  to   be  held early summer next year in 2018 in Mumbai, Maharashtra.   IIFW , the first ever  Fashion   week  of its kind in  India , dedicated  to  lingerie  and   intimate  wear has already created a buzz during its first  season . Finest  intimate  wear designers  and  brands showcased their best of the collections during the first  season . Lingerie, loungewear, sleepwear, legwear, lingerie accessories, sportswear, swimwear, beachwear, shape wear  and  more for both men  and  women were showcased on the ramp.  IIFW   Season   2 .0 promises  to   be  even  bigg...

~The original Roadie, RannvijaySingha along with gang leaders- Neha Dhupia, Prince Narula, Nikhil Chinapakick start the Roadies audition frenzy ~ Pune, December 7 th , 2017: MTV, the iconic youth brand, is back with the country’s longest running reality show’s fifteenth and most XTREME season ever, Roadies Xtreme. Bringing in a tinge of adventure and surprise for the audience and gang leaders, the original Roadie, RannvijaySinghawill be ushering in the ‘unexpected’ this time around. Joining in the Roadies madness along with the adventure squad – Girl Boss, Neha Dhupia, Indian Television’s heartthrob, Prince Narulaand seasoned Roadies judge, Nikhil Chinapa. All the gang leaders along with RannvijaySingha were present at the auditions held in Pune city enabling aspiring Roadies to embark on the most exciting and adventurous road trip of their lives. Pune city has time and again given the country some of the most competitive contestants on Roadies and this time around too the ga...

‘ Shadja ‘, a short film festival  to  showcase 6 films related  to  different musical instruments  &  maestros in music tête-à-tête  with renowned artists in ‘ Antaranga ‘ 13 th  edition of ‘Vatsalabai Joshi Puraskaar’  to  be given  to  veteran Tabla Player Pt. Nana Mule ‘Glory Of Strings’– A unique photo exhibition is the attraction for music lovers   Pune,  December  5 th  : ‘ Shadja ’  &  ‘ Antaranga ’, two special programs that have been a part of ‘Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav’ since past 10 years, shall be organized this year  between  Wednesday,13 th   December   to   Friday , 15 th  December  2017. Both the events – ‘ Shadja ’  &  ‘ Antaranga ’ will  take   place  at ‘Sawai Gandharva Smarak’ on Ganeshkhind road near Rahul Theatre at Shivaji Nagar  between   10.00am and 12.00pm.  Entry  t...