Mumbai, 8th February, 2012: PwC US has announced the launch of a joint business relationship with MetricStream, a market leader in enterprise-wide governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions. The relationship with MetricStream enhances PwC’s risk assurance capabilities in providing integrated solutions to improve companies’ collective Enterprise and IT risk management and risk-based decisions.

PwC’s Risk Assurance Services practice numbers more than 2,100 professionals who provide companies with significant technical expertise, as well as deep industry knowledge across all industries. Skilled team members assist companies in developing risk and compliance programs, performing audits and creating internal controls processes around business performance issues, IT systems as well as strategy and contingency planning.

“With growing demand for greater transparency and efficiency, it is critical for companies to employ integrated GRC initiatives to ensure productivity and alignment with overall business processes,” said Joe DeVita partner with PwC’s Risk Assurance Services practice. “By teaming with MetricStream, a company that is highly-regarded by analysts and customers, we are adding the capabilities of a best-in-breed, off-the-shelf GRC solution provider with robust functionality to complement our risk assurance capabilities, providing added value for clients.”

With its enterprise scalability and ability to support complex, global organizations, MetricStream’s highly-configurable, platform-based GRC solutions help provide Risk Intelligence by integrating Internal Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Quality Management, Security, IT GRC initiatives all the way through Operational and Enterprise Risk Management. As part of this process, the system also aggregates risk and compliance information across the enterprise, spanning business processes, IT applications and security infrastructure, providing top-down visibility and insights to drive business decisions. The integrated system for GRC will also deliver appropriate content such as risks, controls, regulations, standards and policies, among many other libraries. Several global customers have large scale enterprise-wide deployments of MetricStream GRC solutions with tens of thousands of users.

“PwC delivers world class services to clients in streamlining operational processes and management reporting of risk to help companies improve business performance, and MetricStream provides the technology platform to ensure end-to-end, adaptable, and sustainable GRC solutions,” said Keri Dawson, Vice President of Compliance Online Advisory Services at MetricStream. “This joint business relationship creates compelling value for clients by combining the industry knowledge and leading practices of PwC with MetricStream’s market-leading GRC software solutions.”

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About MetricStream

MetricStream is a market leader in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management Solutions for global corporations. MetricStream solutions are used by leading corporations such as Pfizer, Philips, NASDAQ, UBS, SanDisk, Subway, Fairchild Semiconductor, Constellation Energy and Cummins in diverse industries such as Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Automotive, Food, High Tech Manufacturing, Energy and Financial Services to manage their quality processes, regulatory and industry-mandated compliance and corporate governance initiatives, as well as by over a million compliance professionals worldwide via the www.ComplianceOnline.com portal.

MetricStream can be reached at www.metricstream.com

The vessels ordered by SCI are of 80 tonne bollard pull capacity each with superior specifications. These vessels will be able to offer the essential support and services for growth of the Indian Offshore industry.
In the offshore sector, SCI presently has a fleet of 12 vessels of which 9 vessels were acquired during the mid eighties. These vessels have been serving the oil exploration and production sector in India and the older vessels were upgraded by SCI with dynamic positioning systems, enabling the vessels to offer superior service to the oil industry. The present order of 6 vessels would serve as part replacement of these ageing assets after their phase out from the service. In addition to these 12 owned vessels SCI has on order 2 AHTS vessels of 80T capacity each, 3 AHTS of 120T capacity each and 2 PSVs. SCI has also been operating offshore vessels owned by ONGC, some of which are specialized vessels requiring high technical expertise for management. SCI has built up such required expertise through rigorous training of dedicated teams over the years. The present order for 6 nos. 80T capacity vessels mark SCI’s further interest in the offshore segment, which is growing at a rapid pace in the international as well as Indian context.

With the present order SCI’s order book position improves to 29 vessels, which include VLCCs, cellular containers vessels, bulk carriers and offshore vessels.

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Email: pr@pressmanindia.com

Brace yourself for a heavenly experience as Kaati Zone introduces a ‘Choco Burst Cake’ with warm molten chocolate wrapped inside a cake.
At Kaati Zone, the Choco Burst Cake can be teamed up with a Combo of Kaati Roll and Masala Fries or experienced by itself.
Visit your nearest Kaati Zone Outlet and treat yourself to sumptuous feast.

About Kaati Zone:
Kaati Zone is the first chain of restaurants in India that specialises in Indian quick service foods. The idea of Kaati Zone was conceived by the founders as a brand of Indian quick service restaurants for customers both within India as well as overseas. Kaati Zone offers healthy and hygienic food at moderate prices and addresses the needs of busy customers in different daily environments. Presently, there are 26 Kaati Zone outlets at strategic locations in Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Mumbai and Pune.
For customers who want the convenience of eating a meal at home or at office, Kaati Zone provides free delivery service with a dedicated call centre. Customers can call 411-22-100 to get Kaati rolls delivered at their doorstep. One can also log onto www.kaatizone.com for online ordering.

Kaati Zones in Bangalore
Church Street – S&B Towers, opposite Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank – ADCB
Marathahalli – Orange Hotel, Near Innovative Multiplex
Indiranagar – CMH Road, Near HDFC Bank
Bangalore International Airport, Devanahalli – Near arrival gates

Malleswaram – 8th Main near 19th Cross, adjacent to BPCL petrol station
Electronic City Phase I – SJR Equinox
Embassy Golf Links Business Park – Intermediate Ring Road
RMZ Infinity Tech Park – Old Madras Road
RMZ Ecospace Tech Park – Outer Ring Road
Dell Campus – Intermediate Ring Road
Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC), Tumkur Road
Forum Mall, Koramangala
Royal Meenakshi Mall, Bannerghatta Toad
Bangalore Central -3 Mall, Outer Ring Road, Belandur

For further information, Please contact:-
Bangalore – Zachariah Zerin – 09886065257
Delhi – Puja Kumari – 09711316275
Mumbai – Divya Dulani – 09820181558

Taipei, Taiwan – 6th February, 2012 – ADATA™ Technology, a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash application products, today introduced new industry-leading, single piece 8GB DDR3-1600 high-density memory modules. Known for industry-high standards of quality control and meticulous device engineering, the new modules will meet and exceed expectations of customers who seek performance and quality in DRAM products.

With this launch ADATA is continuing its tradition as an industry leader in DRAM product line-up. These 8GB Premier Series DDR3-1600 single piece memory modules allow users to boost system performance over the limitations of memory slot availability.

The Premier Series 1600Mbps DDR3 240-Pin (Unbuffered DIMM) are standard pin design modules operating at 1.5 volts, with bandwidth up to 12.8 Gb/second (PC3 12800). The memory modules are made of cutting edge high density 4Gb DRAM, so they operate faster, consume less power, and hence operate at cooler temperatures. All the modules are in accordance with JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council, JEDEC Solid State Technology Association) and RoHS design and production standards, simultaneously ensuring compatibility with all computer systems adopting the same standard, and are ecologically sound products. ADATA Series memory modules come with lifetime warranty and service1, providing consumers the best protection.

For further details, refer to ADATA’s official website: http://www.adata.com.tw/index.php?action=ss_main&page=ss_prowar&lan=tw

Product Features

(i) 8GB

(ii) 240-Pin Unbuffered DIMM / 204-Pin SO-DIMM

(iii) JEDEC DDR3-1600 compliance and also compatible with DDR3-1333 and lower frequency operations

(iv) RoHS compliant

This will be followed by an Analyst Call on Friday, February 17, 2012 at 11.30 am IST. It will be hosted by Mr. Sanjay Viswanathan, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Mr. Srikar Reddy, Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Managing Director, Mr. N. Venkatraman, Chief Financial Officer, along with other members of the senior management. During the call, Mr. Viswanathan will also respond to queries related to the company’s performance.

Those who want to participate in the Analyst Call can dial the phone numbers mentioned below :

The numbers listed above are universally accessible from all networks and all countries.

Please dial in at least 5-10 minutes prior to the conference schedule to ensure that you are connected to your call on time. 

About Sonata Software Limited

Sonata Software (www.sonata-software.com), headquartered in Bangalore, India, is a leading Indian Technology Solutions Company. Sonata’s customers are located across the US, Europe, Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. Its key service lines include Microsoft Services, Emerging Technologies (Mobility and Cloud), Business Intelligence and Analytics, IP/Domain led services, Testing, Enterprise Solutions Open Source/ Java and Remote Infrastructure Management. As per the industry rankings released by NASSCOM for FY 2009-10, Sonata Software figured among the Top 20 IT Software Services Exporters in India for the third consecutive year. Sonata has been recognized for its excellence in providing Software/ISV R&D and Cloud Computing Services to global customers by Zinnov Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd.  Sonata features both under the Software/ISV as well as Cloud Computing verticals in Zinnov’s “Execution Zone”.

Sonata’s subsidiaries and affiliates include (1) TUI InfoTec – Sonata’s Joint Venture with TUI, Europe’s largest tourism group, (2)  Sonata North America Inc (formerly Offshore Digital Services Inc) – Sonata’s arm in the US, which provides development and consulting services to clients, using an Onsite-Offshore Delivery Model, (3) Sonata Software FZ LLC – Sonata’s fully-owned subsidiary that provides value-based IT solutions to customers in the Middle East, (4) Sonata Software (Qatar) WLL – Sonata’s Joint Venture with Mohammad Nasser Abdullah Al MISNAD and (5) Sonata Information Technology Limited, which is a premier software services and product distribution company with India-focused business operations.

For further information, please contact :

Swati Sengupta

Sonata Software Limited

A.P.S. Trust Building,

Bull Temple Road, N.R. Colony

Basavanagudi,

Bangalore 560019, India

Tel : +91 80 30971999

swati.sengupta@sonata-software.com

Dr.Sumesh Raizada, Dean (Retail & Marketing), JIMS, while talking to this reporter stated that “Indian retail market has experienced high growth over the last decade with a gradual shift towards modern retailing formats. Today’s retailers face a number of challenges in delivering customer delight and maintaining customer loyalty. Lack of well-trained employees is one among those challenges. Having an intelligent employee practicing the right systems and processes is indeed the cutting edge for any retailers. Today we had a fruitful session pertaining to these issues at the seminar.”
Sajjad Shaikh, National Head – Retail (CS), Aircel Limited and Pooja Makhija, MD, Fashion Futures Ltd. will be the key speakers for tomorrow sessions which deal with different aspects of store management. A film on customer service will be also shown tomorrow.

About JIMS
Jagan Institute of Management Studies was set up in 1993. As an institute of excellence in the field of management studies and technical education, JIMS has always strived to rework the curriculum in consonance with the changing needs of the corporate world. Regular interaction with leaders in business and academics has helped the Institute in achieving the goal of moving ahead of time.
The standards it has set for the quality of its courses and programmes and the delivery system adopted, have enabled the Institute to attract students from across the country. Its PGDM Programme, recognized by AICTE has gained immense popularity with the graduates seeking higher educational opportunities and new challenges. It is evidenced by the ever increasing number of applicants for this Programme over the years. JIMS PGDM Programme is recognized as being equivalent to MBA by the Association of Indian Universities. For more information please visit: http://www.jimsindia.org/

For further details, please contact:
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New Delhi February 6, 2012: Country’s only digital film festival, UFO 0110 International Digital Film Festival, is all set to give a unique opportunity to amateur filmmakers to cast a spell on audiences with their out-of the box ideas and treatment in their simple-yet heart wrenching stories.

The UFO 0110 International Digital Film Festival will take place from 23rd February 2012 to 1st March 2012 at Siri Fort Auditorium New Delhi.

‘Film in 6 Days’ contest, one-of-its-kind competition will present a challenge to young film makers to direct a short five minute film in a brief span of six days. To facilitate this process and help the participants bring their imagination into life, the organizers will provide all the logistical support to them.

“Film in six days’ competition will select six to ten teams (consist of Director, Dop and Editor) on the basis of their past experience and interviews. The selected candidates will be given a topic by the festival organizers to make a film within six days. These films then will be reviewed by a jury comprising senior people from film fraternity who will select winner will be rewarded with prize money/editing software/equipment.

According to Madhureeta Anand, Festival Director, UFO 0110 IDFF and Film Director & Founder of Ekaa Films, “We are receiving registration from all across the globe in huge number. The six day competition is an integral and important part of the UFO 0110 International digital Film Festival. It is a section that has been specially designed for amateurs. Today, people are well-versed with filmmaking knowledge and come prepared when they enter the industry. This section is specially going to give a big boost to career of the budding talent. We have extended the registration deadline till February 15.”

“It’s our way of seeing that budding filmmakers get a chance to make films that on the one hand can be a showcase of their work and on the other hand can be learning experience. This is why the chosen teams will have access to well known and regarded people from the film industry who can advise and guide them. It’s a unique opportunity. We hope that these filmmakers will, in the future, send in films to the festival and add to the viewing experience and quality of the festival,” she added.

Mr. Sudhir Mishra, Jury member of the last IDFF, a renowned and critically acclaimed Bollywood director, says, “Digital medium is a wonderful medium for independent voices to make a mark and raise awareness about certain subjects. More and more people are open and have the right knowledge about digital film making.”

The participants will be provided the complete support from the festival such as required equipments for the shoot which will include the camera, sound equipments and post production facilities of an editing machine and studio; moreover they will be facilitated with the basic budget for travel and food for the two days. There will also be script consultants and consulting editors to help out the filmmakers during the competition.

About The 0110 International Digital Film Festival

The 0110 International Digital Film Festival is an annual event showcasing cutting edge digital films from around the world. The mission is to take the digital art and film movement forward and provide fresh and innovative content to the viewers and create a space for new styles of form and content that can become the resource pool for filmmakers in South Asia and the rest of the world. It is also the congregating point for all film and video aficionados and lovers. It is the only Film Festival in India that travels to eleven cities in India. For further information please log on to www.0110idff.com.

About Madhureeta Anand

Madhureeta Anand is an independent and award winning filmmaker since 1995. She shifted her field of work from mainstream television production to documentary filmmaking. She has directed and produced many documentary films and series. Most of her work explored the areas of culture, religion and anthropology. Her other films looked at the issues of education in India and child abuse. Many of her films have been telecast on international channels like BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and National Geographic. Her first commercial feature film Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye released in February 2009.

About EKAA FILMS Pvt. Ltd

Ekaa Films was set up by filmmaker Madhureeta Anand. She set up the company so that she could independently produce and direct her films. Under the Ekaa films banner, Madhureeta has made films on subjects ranging from religion, travel, art and culture and a film on child abuse. The genres range from documentary, music videos, fiction short films and art installations. And most recently feature films.

About UFO Moviez India Ltd

UFO Moviez, the world’s largest satellite delivered digital cinema network, has revolutionized the way films are distributed and exhibited throughout India through its pioneering technology and infrastructure. Presently, UFO has a base of more than 2,722 digital screens, spread across more than 1300 cities in 26 states of India. UFO has so far released more than 3,870 films in 29 languages and has conducted more than 8.4 million shows till date.
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The importance of being connected is becoming more and more central to the everyday lives of a growing percent of the world’s population and in particular ICT superpowers such as Europe and India. “Networks of the future need to address issues of very high capacity flexibility, heterogeneity, resilience and energy efficiency, while at the same time providing seamleass end to end infrastructure security and dependability,” says Pierre Yves Danet of ASF Lab, France Telecom/Orange labs. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, “believes Euro-Indian collaboration will help in the development of “new wireless technologies which would reduce power required and transmitted per bit drastically, both to reduce energy usage and potential adverse impact that higher and higher electromagnectic transmission may have”.
Shared investments in key areas such as Networked Media and Future Internet could boost innovation in areas such as system architectures and technologies, ultra-high capacity satellite communications systems, ubiquitous fast broadband access, novel radio network typologies and resilient and flexible networks. Euro-India collaboration could therefore leverage knowledge and experience across a number of application domains such as eGovernment, eEducation and eInclusion.

Empowering citizens

Mounib Mekhilef, Professor in ICT at University of Orléans; Director France, Ability Europe, believes that “EU-Indian collaboration can see the joint development of increasingly personalized tools and solutions that make eInclusion a game-changer in Europe and India”. Areas for Euro-India collaboration could include social, affective and persuasive computing; smart, customised and personalised information; personalisable assistive solutions. ICT plays a crucial role in ensuring that Public Services are delivered more efficiently, faster and at reduced costs to citizens and organisations. Joint initiatives with Europe could identify social trends, undertake policy modelling and validate next-generation infrastructures, services and tools to optimise public service delivery and language portability. “There is a huge opportunity for Europe and India to jointly develop affordable biometric identification and authentication equipment and solutions, including application software, for easy access to and delivery of eGovernance services anytime, anywhere, and to anyone including seniors and those that are differently abled.” says Vinay Deshpande of Encore Technologies, India.

Into the Cloud

The emergence of cloud computing promises to enhance current public services in both Europe and India and transform the way business and research are conducted. Fabrizio Gagliardi, from Microsoft Research Connections is of the view that “cloud computing fits well with the highly distributed nature of India enabling increased access to computer resources and empowering a broad set of users in science and enterprise. Improvements in network infrastructure, solutions for wireless and satellite technologies will enable access to cloud computing resources in India allowing remote access from less developed parts of the Indian sub-continent”. It is important that EU-Indian Collaborative research focuses on intelligent and automatic management of cloud resources, scalable data management strategies, infrastructure virtualisation support for mobile and context-aware applications as well as energy efficiency and sustainability of software and services. Developing a collaborative test bed to pilot the adoption of standards-based, interoperable cloud services would pave the ground for a level playing field of mutual benefit.

Jim Clarke, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, believes there is considerable potential to build collaborative partnerships between Europe in India for sharing research results and building common approaches in areas such as malware protection, privacy protecting identity management systems, a strong societal approach to security and usable, effective security in the mobile world. With such a broad range of common themes research cooperation between India and the European Union needs institutional mechanisms and horizontal measures to be put in place and mobilised. The creation of Indian Technology Platforms is required which could be based on the successful European Technology Platforms such as NESSO and EPoSS.

As the Euro-India SPIRIT project draws to a close, its success bringing European and Indian ICT stakeholders together is evident, with a growing online community of users able to access a variety of multi-media features including interviews, reports and training on Euro-India ICT collaboration.
Find out more – www.euroindia-ict.org / info@euroindia-ict.org

Download The New Paradigm – Harnessing EU-India ICT Research Cooperation – http://www.euroindia-ict.org/Pages/SelectedDocument.aspx?id_documento=8db63f3c-a86b-4c9a-8f37-e7c2775ca385
Nicholas Ferguson, Trust-IT Services – n.ferguson@trust-itservices.com

New Delhi February 3, 2012: Country’s only digital film festival, UFO 0110 International Digital Film Festival, is all set to give a unique opportunity to amateur filmmakers to cast a spell on audiences with their out-of the box ideas and treatment in their simple-yet heart wrenching stories.

The UFO 0110 International Digital Film Festival will take place from 23rd February 2012 to 1st March 2012 at Siri Fort Auditorium New Delhi.

‘Film in 6 Days’ contest, one-of-its-kind competition will present a challenge to young film makers to direct a short five minute film in a brief span of six days. To facilitate this process and help the participants bring their imagination into life, the organizers will provide all the logistical support to them.

“Film in six days’ competition will select six to ten teams (consist of Director, Dop and Editor) on the basis of their past experience and interviews. The selected candidates will be given a topic by the festival organizers to make a film within six days. These films then will be reviewed by a jury comprising senior people from film fraternity who will select winner will be rewarded with prize money/editing software/equipment.

According to Madhureeta Anand, Festival Director, UFO 0110 IDFF and Film Director & Founder of Ekaa Films, “We are receiving registration from all across the globe in huge number. The six day competition is an integral and important part of the UFO 0110 International digital Film Festival. It is a section that has been specially designed for amateurs. Today, people are well-versed with filmmaking knowledge and come prepared when they enter the industry. This section is specially going to give a big boost to career of the budding talent. We have extended the registration deadline till February 15.”

“It’s our way of seeing that budding filmmakers get a chance to make films that on the one hand can be a showcase of their work and on the other hand can be learning experience. This is why the chosen teams will have access to well known and regarded people from the film industry who can advise and guide them. It’s a unique opportunity. We hope that these filmmakers will, in the future, send in films to the festival and add to the viewing experience and quality of the festival,” she added.

Mr. Sudhir Mishra, Jury member of the last IDFF, a renowned and critically acclaimed Bollywood director, says, “Digital medium is a wonderful medium for independent voices to make a mark and raise awareness about certain subjects. More and more people are open and have the right knowledge about digital film making.”

The participants will be provided the complete support from the festival such as required equipments for the shoot which will include the camera, sound equipments and post production facilities of an editing machine and studio; moreover they will be facilitated with the basic budget for travel and food for the two days. There will also be script consultants and consulting editors to help out the filmmakers during the competition.

About The 0110 International Digital Film Festival

The 0110 International Digital Film Festival is an annual event showcasing cutting edge digital films from around the world. The mission is to take the digital art and film movement forward and provide fresh and innovative content to the viewers and create a space for new styles of form and content that can become the resource pool for filmmakers in South Asia and the rest of the world. It is also the congregating point for all film and video aficionados and lovers. It is the only Film Festival in India that travels to eleven cities in India. For further information please log on to www.0110idff.com.

About Madhureeta Anand

Madhureeta Anand is an independent and award winning filmmaker since 1995. She shifted her field of work from mainstream television production to documentary filmmaking. She has directed and produced many documentary films and series. Most of her work explored the areas of culture, religion and anthropology. Her other films looked at the issues of education in India and child abuse. Many of her films have been telecast on international channels like BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and National Geographic. Her first commercial feature film Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye released in February 2009.

About EKAA FILMS Pvt. Ltd

Ekaa Films was set up by filmmaker Madhureeta Anand. She set up the company so that she could independently produce and direct her films. Under the Ekaa films banner, Madhureeta has made films on subjects ranging from religion, travel, art and culture and a film on child abuse. The genres range from documentary, music videos, fiction short films and art installations. And most recently feature films.

About UFO Moviez India Ltd

UFO Moviez, the world’s largest satellite delivered digital cinema network, has revolutionized the way films are distributed and exhibited throughout India through its pioneering technology and infrastructure. Presently, UFO has a base of more than 2,722 digital screens, spread across more than 1300 cities in 26 states of India. UFO has so far released more than 3,870 films in 29 languages and has conducted more than 8.4 million shows till date.
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Twitter- http://twitter.com/#!/0110UFO 0110 IDFF

Profile of Madhureeta Anand

An independent filmmaker since 1995; she shifted her field of work from mainstream television production to documentary filmmaking to directing feature films. Extremely prolific, she has directed many documentary films and series, spanning an array of genres.

Most of her work has explored the areas of culture, religion and anthropology. Some of her other films have looked at issues of education and child abuse in India. Many of her films have been telecast on international channels such as BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and National Geographic.

Madhureeta founded and is the festival director of the only Digital Film Festival in the country; the 0110 Digital Film Festival. The festival, started as collaboration with the British Council, Fame Cinemas and PVR Pictures, has well known filmmakers and actors on its jury. Profile

Madhureeta has written, directed and executive produced with PVR Pictures, her first full-length commercial feature film ‘Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye’, starring Randeep Hooda, Arbaaz Khan and Raima Sen, which released on February 6, 2009.

In 2007, she directed, produced and wrote ‘Laying Janaki to Rest’, a documentary film on Sita the Goddess; ‘The Magic Tent’, which she co-wrote and produced and Talvin Singh’s 2007 album’s music video (Unreleased), which she has directed and produced. She has also directed, produced and written numerous short films for National Geographic and for the Expo in Aichi Japan. In 2006, she was awarded the Silver Conch at the Mumbai International Film Festival, for her film ‘Walking on a Moonbeam’.

Her documentary ‘Education – A reality or a myth’ was nominated at the Zanzibar International Film Festival in 2002. Her film titled ‘Sin’  was nominated in the Short Film section at The Damah Film Festival at Seattle (USA) in October 2002.

Furthermore, she was the only woman camera director on a crew of directors on Channel 4(UK)’s award winning series ‘The Greatest Show on Earth –  The Kumbh Mela’ (2001). She has also won the Royal Television Society Craft Award for it.

In 2001, Madhureeta produced and directed a thirty-minute documentary feature on the Kumbh Mela- ‘In Search of Salvation’ for the German Telecast Footprint (Austria/Switzerland/Germany). The Damah Film Festival at Seattle (USA) invited this film on October 11, 2001, where it fetched her an award for Excellence in Film Making. It was also nominated at the Commonwealth Film Festival (Manchester, U.K. June 30, 2002)

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1^st February 2012, Mumbai, Ambuja Cement despatch figures have been released:

AMBUJA CEMENTS LIMITED

      Cement Production & Despatches for the month of January 2012

1 FEBRUARY 2012 – Kivar Environ, an environmental services organisation contracted by the Puducherry state government in India to implement an Integrated Solid Waste Management Project at Puducherry city, has chosen specialist document imaging software from Advanced Business & Healthcare Solutions India (Advanced). The software has already cut the time taken to process attendance from two days to just a few hours.

The document imaging software, which went live in October 2011, is being used to accurately record and report on the working hours of the community workers handling waste collection for Kivar.
Kivar had previously been using a mobile-based, manually-intensive application to record the attendance of over a thousand community workers. At the start of each shift, the community workers who were working the shift, would have their attendance recorded, in pencil, on a tick sheet. The data on this tick sheet would then be entered into the attendance tracking system. This proved very time-consuming.

Mr Lakshmi Prasad, the Head-IT of Kivar says, “We recognised the need for an attendance system that could automate the collection of data from the attendance sheets, improving both efficiency and accuracy. We were introduced to Advanced and its electronic document imaging solution which uses the latest optical mark recognition technology.”

Mr Prasad continues, “Thanks to the Advanced system, we have reduced the time taken to capture attendance information from a couple of days to just a few hours. The capture of attendance data is now almost 100% accurate, and provides a better interface to monitor and track community worker attendance across various zones in Puducherry.”

Advanced’s document imaging solution, which uses UK-based Version One’s technology, automatically captures attendance information from the tick sheets. Special attendance sheets with barcodes containing the details pertaining to the shift, sub-zone, the sub-zone supervisor and community workers’ names and IDs are printed daily. At the end of each shift, these sheets are scanned back at the office where the optical mark recognition (OMR) technology captures the ticks and converts these ticks into attendance data.

The barcode data is automatically read and uploaded to the central server and at the same time, the tick sheets are electronically archived. Daily attendance reports and data for management dashboards are now available in the central repository from where they can be quickly, easily and securely retrieved over the web.

Advanced re-seller, WoodApple UnikSolutionz, which is based out of Bangalore, worked closely with Advanced to deliver the solution. WoodApple is currently undertaking portal development that will enable Kivar’s vendors to securely access attendance information over the internet.

Kivar is currently looking at rolling-out the document imaging solution to other cities.

-ENDS-

Notes to editor

About Kivar http://kivarenviron.com
Kivar Environ is part of the diversified Kivar Group. Kivar Environ is promoted by Kivar Holdings (www.kivarholdings.com). Kivar Holdings is also the promoter company of Subex Limited, a leading global player in the telecom software products space.

Kivar Group has diversified portfolio plans in the Infrastructure sector. Kivar Environ is the environmental business arm of the group. It operates in two critical areas namely, Solid Waste Management and Water & Wastewater Management.

Kivar Environ specializes in end-to-end solutions through a variety of models like Public Private Partnership (PPP), Build, Own, Operate & Transfer/Maintenance (BOOT/M) and Turnkey contracts.

Kivar Environ is committed to making our world a better place to live in by proactive conservation of water, a precious resource and through effective management of waste. Kivar’s focus is to reduce, reuse and recycle. Kivar Environ actively pursues initiatives and practices that improve our environment.

About Advanced Business & Healthcare Solutions India http://india.advancedcomputersoftware.com/
Advanced Business & Healthcare Solutions India provides a range of procurement, collaborative and analytic products designed to enable organisations to extend the value and effectiveness of the finance, human resources and payroll departments across the organisation and enable managers in the business to monitor, analyse and continually improve corporate performance.
Alongside this, Advanced offers a range of front and back office health specific applications. Advanced Business & Healthcare Solutions India is part of the Advanced Computer Software Group plc.
About WoodApple UnikSolutionz www.woodappleunik.com
WoodApple aligns clients’ business strategies and requirements with cost effective solutions to help them achieve higher business growth. A combination of in-depth product knowledge and team skills ensures high quality, responsive and cost effective solutions delivered to businesses across different verticals. The company works with enterprises in the manufacturing, services and technology domains offering domain specific solutions and services.

WoodApple offers services and solutions to clients across three different levels. These levels form the entire methodology and give clients the flexibility to employ WoodApple’s expertise aligned to their business requirements.
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Highlights – For nine months ended December 31, 2011, on consolidated basis –

~Charter Earnings stood at INR 161.18 Crores, up by 9%

~EBIDT was INR 67.47 Crores, up by 9%

Mumbai, February 1, 2012: Global Offshore Services Limited (Formerly known as Garware Offshore Services Limited) one of the offshore vessel service providers announced their results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2011 with Charter Earnings of INR 4,409.76 lakhs and a Net Profit of INR 1,007.34 lakhs on a standalone basis. This was a substantial “jump” in earnings and Profit as compared to the previous quarter i.e. Q2 FY 12. Compared to the previous quarter, the income rose by 37% and the Net Profit surged by 40%.

On a consolidated basis, compared to Q2 FY 12, Income from Operations increased by 17% and Net Profit also surged by 92%.

For a 9 month period, on a standalone basis, the charter earnings stood at INR 110.21 crores with a Profit After Tax of INR 22.84 crores while EBIDT margins stood at INR 61.92 crores.

Commenting on this development, Mr. Aditya Garware, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Global Offshore Services Limited said, “Global Offshore’s performance has been satisfactory this quarter and this has been a testimony of our efforts. We hope to achieve maximizing utilization of assets in the forthcoming months. As compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year, the Charter Hire Income has increased by about 4% to INR 4,409.76 lakhs. This is despite the fact that the company has sold two of its older vessels in the last 12 months.

“On a consolidated basis, for the quarter ended 31st December 2011, the charter hire earnings stood at INR 62.09 crores, an increase of 23%. This increase is due to the fact that all the vessels are on term contracts.”

About Global Offshore Services:

Global Offshore Services Limited is engaged in the business of providing offshore logistics support services to the exploration & production / construction industry. The company presently operates a fleet of eleven vessels. The company’s vessels are working in various markets including India, Europe, West Africa and the Far East.

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On the occasion, Mr. Shashi Tharoor, said, “Customer satisfaction is the primary goal for any organization or professional. The unique initiative from Brands Academy to recognize businesses and professionals for achieving excellence in their respective fields is sure to boost their commitment and help them evolve as true challengers to global brands coming to India. Needless to say, your dedication towards customer satisfaction makes you truly deserving for the Business & Service Excellence Awards. I sincerely wish the very best of success to all the winners and hope to see you all achieve even higher standards in the years to come!”

The Business & Service Excellence Awards are given away by Brands Academy to diverse organizations and professionals from various states annually on the basis of their product and service quality, pricing and marketing strategies and initiatives, leadership position in the industry or market segment, dedication to customer satisfaction, entrepreneurial initiatives, exemplary business practices, feedback from the end customers and the industry and business growth. Big Brands Research continually collects inputs from end consumers in different segments regarding their satisfaction levels from products and services being offered by the different brands and professionals in different geographical locations across different states in the country.

The company conducted the research study and opinion surveys in many key cities in North India over a period of 5 months with more than 50 field executives collecting the data from across different states. The primary objectives of this comprehensive study were to identify and recognize product and service excellence, associated innovations and best practices that lead to exemplary performance and to highlight the importance of pursuing customer satisfaction in today’s competitive and ever-evolving business environment.

According to Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Vice President – Marketing, Big Brands Research Pvt. Ltd., “The winners have demonstrated absolute dedication to customer satisfaction while ensuring profitability and viability for their businesses or professions. This, in today’s uncertain economic scenario worldwide, is a tremendous achievement for any organization or professional! The winners have risen above their peers in their respective industries, market segments and geographical regions. We hope that their competitors will try to emulate their success stories and give them tough competition next year.”

Research Methodology
Identification of the key brands and professionals in a particular category and geographical zone and inviting them for participation in the market research. Over 1700 business entities and professionals spread across the different cities in Karnataka were invited to participate in the market research study in different categories and zones depending upon their location and focus of their business. Over 450 of the participants made to the next stage after the initial screenings of the nominations.
Collection of data from the participating brands and professionals about their services, infrastructure, Annual Growth of business, etc.
Gauging the popularity and perception of the participants amongst the end consumers through opinion surveys. Over 8100 completely filled up forms were received with feedback on different participants. This stage was focused on gathering insights into the brand equity, customer feedback, media visibility and feedback from the industry.
Physical survey of the premises of all the participants for collection and verification of data gathered wherever required
Grading the participants on different criteria based on data/feedback/opinion scores

“The growing popularity of the Business & Service Excellence Awards is a testimony to the fact that they have emerged as the most authentic indicators of the ability of the participants to consistently deliver customer satisfaction and delight, which are crucial for success of their business operations,” concluded Mr. Kumar.

About Brands Academy Pvt. Ltd.
Brands Academy is one of the top brand management consultancies in India that offers a plethora of branding services including design and development of brand strategy and brand architecture, brand name development, market research and implementation of brand positioning and brand repositioning campaigns to corporate, start-ups and NGOs. Brands Academy’s extensive experience in corporate branding extends into several industries spanning both consumer and business to business (B2B) domains. Brands Academy has a client list of over 70 companies and a portfolio of over 120 brands. As one of the leading branding companies in India, Brands Academy team has the requisite hands-on experience in development and management of brands that are successful and leaders in their own segments. For more information, please log on to www.brandsacademy.org
About BIG Brands Research Pvt. Ltd.
BIG Brands Research Pvt. Ltd. is one of the leading market research companies in India providing cutting edge marketing research and brand promotion services to business organizations of all sizes. Its mission is to provide its customers with valid, reliable, and actionable information so that they can make informed business decisions. The company has clients both from public as well as private sector. Apart from in-house research projects on various industry segments, BIG Research specializes in undertaking customized research projects specially commissioned to unveil crucial business insights as per the specific requirements of its clients. For more information, please log on to www.bigresearch.in

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Prof. (Dr.) Manish Verma Director , JICM, said the “Live Project is a part of their curriculum and offers the opportunity to acquire work experience and to meet the professional development requirements of their degree”.

He asserts that “Live project is basically a specializations project to give students practical exposure of their learning in their one and half years. A live project gives the students experience of working within the constraints, requirements and deadlines of the industry, before their final placements. It allows the student to assist industry professionals and see in reality how the entire company/agency functions”.

Aarti Kadam, student PGDM-C said: Being a brand management student I got a life time opportunity to work with a big name like Future group. I got retail exposure which was always my area of interest and in this one month’s time the experience that I have gained from here would remain with me always. I am now looking forward for my final placements in retail sector.

Gousiya Khan, student PGDM-C said: Internship at Ogilvy PR worldwide gave me a life changing experience. Initially I thought PR is only about maintaining the image of a Brand or Person, but here in Ogilvy I realized that it is also about ‘Creating’ that image.

I was over whelmed to see brand name like British Petroleum, Dove and CFA in my live projects’. This experience helped me to understand how class room theories can be applied in an agency and also certain things that can be learned only inside that environment.

Rahul Singh, student PGDM-C said: I had a great learning experience working with Madison Rural division and a brand like Reebok. I realised the untapped market while I was doing the training and development of villagers, preparing a real communication strategy and setting up selling and distribution channels.

Shraddha Sonavane, student PGDM-C said: The live project at Percept Talent Management has not only given me a very different experience but has also been great learning of practical knowledge of agencies. Live project strikes the right balance in providing exposure with the interested area of work.

The students joined companies on 2nd Jan across India.

About JICM:

Jagran Institute of Communication and Management (JICM) is approved by AICTE and one of the best media schools in India with emphasis on practice of Communication Management. The institute has excellent infrastructure, faculty and industry tie ups. The specializations available in the course are Brand Management, Media Management and Account Planning and Management. JICM, Bhopal aspires to not just teach, but also to mould and create communication and management aspirants. JICM wishes to see every aspirant as a thinker, a motivator for change. This aspiration meets the demand of our times, that is, to carve out unusual solutions for communication problems.

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Vidya Balan plays the character of Silk in the film who is an actress known for her bold scenes in her movies. Her performance in the film got her rave reviews. Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Tushar Kapoor and Emraan Hashmi well complimented Silk with their power pact performance in the film. The Dirty Picture received thunderous response in theatres and was soon announced as one of the highest grossing movie of the year.

Hiren Gada, Director, Shemaroo Entertainment shares his thoughts, “After Vidya Balan’s Ishqiya, we bring to our audience The Dirty Picture – another super hit movie from the brilliant actress. The Dirty Picture has wowed the masses as well as the critics. The movie is a complete entertainment package and with making of the film as a bonus feature offered on DVDs and Blu Ray makes it a must have for your movie collection.”

“For an unconventional set-up and subject, the huge box office and critical acclaim for ‘The Dirty Picture’ makes it a real game-changer. With the launch of the DVD, we look forward to Silk making her way into homes!” says Ekta Kapoor, Joint MD – Balaji Telefilms Ltd.

About Shemaroo

Founded in 1962, Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd is among the eminent Filmed Entertainment “Content House” in the country with activities ranging across Content Ownership, Aggregation and Distribution. The Shemaroo brand is today synonymous with quality entertainment in the Indian entertainment eco system.
Shemaroo is engaged in the distribution of content for satellite channels, physical formats and emerging technologies like the Mobile, Internet, Broadband, IPTV and DTH among others. With its partnership with the major telecom operators in India, Shemaroo is one of the forefront players of the digital age. The company has also tied up with many content providers across the country.

Disclaimer

“Shemaroo Entertainment Limited, (“Company”), is proposing, subject to market conditions and other considerations, a public issue of its securities and has filed a draft red herring prospectus, (“DRHP”), with the Securities and Exchange Board of India, (“SEBI”). The DRHP is available on the website of SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in and the respective websites of the Book Running Lead Managers to the Issue at www.yesbank.in and www.icicisecurities.com. Investors should note that investment in equity shares involves a high degree of risk and for details relating to the same, see the section entitled “Risk Factors” of the DRHP.”
Ekta Kumari – PR & Corp. Comm. (Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd.)

Tel: (91 – 22) 4031 9911 Email: ekta@shemaroo.com
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“China currently employs 40,000+ people to block content on the Internet.
Hope India is not going to go the China way”: Ankit Fadia

Hyderabad, January 31, 2012: Worried about the Indian government’s threat to block your favorite websites? Tired of your college, office & government blocking everything cool & fun on the Internet? Deprived of accessing Stock Websites, Facebook and You Tube Videos at work? Slow download speeds, download limits, no access to cricket scores & no chatting with friends, making Jack a dull boy? Cheer up as ANKIT FADIA’s latest book “How to Unblock Everything on the Internet” will show how to unblock just about everything on the Internet.

Published by Vikas Publishing House, the book is launched in Hyderabad today. After the launch Mr. Ankit Fadia gave a live demonstration on how to unblock websites, blogs, applications and content on the Internet. The stylishly packaged book shows people how to unblock everything on the Internet. It is priced at INR 150/- is now available at all bookstores across India and even before its official release has already sold more than 2000 copies online!

Freedom of speech and expression is the mortar that cements the bricks of democracy. Completely blocking websites on the Internet by the government is a step away from democracy. However, freedom of speech does not extend to the extreme scenario where it is okay for a miscreant to go into a crowded theater and shout ‘FIRE’! Such an act can harm or hurt the peace and wellbeing of others in the society. Hence it is important for the government and online platforms to join hands to efficiently work together to block the publishing of inflammatory content on the Internet.

However, pre-screening of Internet content or putting the complete liability, responsibility and blame on platforms is not very reasonable. After all, could you sue a mobile phone operator or the neighborhood post office if somebody were to send an obscene or offensive message using their communication medium? You can prosecute the individual who sent the message and not the communication medium that was used.

Speaking on the launch of his new book Ankit Fadia said “Banning or blocking websites on the Internet completely is not the answer and is a step away from democracy and could silence free speech all together. We need to find a middle ground which allows a more efficient mechanism to remove offensive content from the Internet without blocking access to websites completely. China currently employs 40,000+ people to block content on the Internet. Hope India is not going to go the China way”.

Written in an easy-to-understand do-it-yourself manner that just about everybody (both non-technical people and technical people) can understand, this book will teach you simple things you can do to unblock access to blocked stuff on the Internet including social networks (Facebook, Twitter), video streaming websites (YouTube, MetaCafe), Sports/Cricket websites, chat, career sites and just about everything else. If you are studying in a college, working for a company or travelling to a country that has blocked access to everything cool & fun on the Internet (like Facebook, YouTube, Chat and others), making your life miserably boring, this book is sure to come to your rescue. It contains over 50 different chapters and provides step by step processes that absolutely anybody can follow and is ably supported by screen shots as well.

The book “How to unblock everything on the net” will find a widespread audience not only in India but also amongst residents and visitors to countries like China and the Middle East (Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya and others) where censorship is rampant and repressive.

Recipient of the prestigious National Telecom Awards 2011, for “Global Ambassador for Cyber Security” from Sachin Pilot (Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology) a, Ankit Fadia is a globally respected voice on cyber terrorism. Ankit Fadia was also recently selected by the World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper for his achievements at such a young age.

He further added “It is about time that governments start looking at platforms like social media and search as assets and not as enemies. After the Devastating Earthquake in Japan in 2011, Google immediately launched a People Finder website which allowed people to upload pictures & post information about missing people & share it with others and actually managed to help people locate their missing loved ones. The Haiti Earthquake generated more than 17 million tweets alone creating much needed global awareness, aid and help from all corners of the globe in a matter of a few hours. Would you really want to block such lifesaving mediums?”.

Commenting on the launch of the book, Mr. Piyush Chawla, Director, Vikas Publishing Pvt. Ltd. The publisher of the book said “Kudos to Ankit for showing the way to having unrestricted access to legal content on the Internet. A TRUE-VALUE book!”

About Ankit Fadia: At 26 years of age, Ankit Fadia is widely recognized as a Computer Security Expert and Cyber Terrorism guru. He has written 14 bestselling books, delivered more than 1000 talks in 25 countries, received 45 awards, has trained more than 20,000 people in India & China, offers certification courses on Ethical Hacking, hosts his own MTV show called What the Hack!, runs his own consulting company and also went to Stanford University. His work has touched & influenced the cyber lives of millions of individuals and organizations worldwide. He was recently chosen as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum.

In November 2001, Fadia was consulted by a classified intelligence agency for breaking an encrypted message sent by one of Osama Bin Laden’s men. Since then Fadia has been involved in numerous classified projects pertaining to cyber terrorism and crime. In August 2008, Fadia was consulted by the Navi Mumbai Police Department to trace the terror email sent just a few minutes before the Gujarat serial blasts. Fadia was also consulted by the Mumbai Police for decoding VOIP messages in relation to the Mumbai terror attacks.

About Vikas Publishing House: Vikas Publishing House, founded in 1969, is a pioneer and leading publisher of India. With its Head Office in Delhi and branches in Mumbai. Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata, Vikas publishes books on Higher Education, School textbooks (Madhubun) and general books. It also specializes in customized courseware. Along with its sister concern, UBS Publishers’ Distributors Ltd., the group is one of the largest and well-respected entities in the Indian book trade.

Vikas Publishing House is proud to have been associated with Ankit Fadia for the past decade and published a dozen books for him, including the best-selling Email Hacking, Windows Hacking and Software Hacking.

How to Unblock Everything on the Internet is the latest offering, and has the added benefit of being published simultaneously in English and in Hindi.

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Bangalore, January 31, 2012: GlobalCom PR Network, a global network of over 45 specialized public relations and communications firms across the globe, today announced that it will be for the first time holding its annual network meeting in India at Bangalore on the 9th & 10th of February 2012. The annual network meeting sees the heads of partner agencies in the network meet to discuss global industry trends, strategy of the network for the year ahead and also take policy decisions regarding the network’s operations. The network meetings till this edition have been only held in Europe in Milan, Brussels, Lappland, Barcelona and Munich. The two day meet features an interactive panel discussion attended by the global head of corporate communication of one of India’s leading biotechnology companies, global heads of marketing of two Tier II IT services players and the Head of marketing of one of India’s largest digital marketing firms. The first day would see attending delegates exposed to a slice of Indian culture when renowned Bangalore-based dancers Sandhya & Kiran with their troupe perform “YATRA” – a showcase of Indian classical and folk dance forms for the audience set to an Indian ambience.

Explaining the reason behind choosing India, Ralf Hartman, Managing Director, Globalcom PR-Network NV, said,” As one of the world’s leading independent communication agency networks, we often look to where the future lies and unmistakably for any business including the business of PR, Asia and its two giants India and China are key. Also, the rise of these two economies and others in the region has also led to a shift in the way one looked at business development with a growing number of companies from India and other countries in the region investing heavily in expanding overseas. This emergence of Indian multinationals is a key driver of the business and we needed to start somewhere in understanding and further engaging these key markets of future. Being here, meeting some of the potential prospects and getting a feel of the city and the country is a good start and we are happy to be in India. That we have a key and capable partner in PRHUB here whose head has played a role in the network since its early days made the decision even easier.”
In his comments, Xavier Prabhu, Founder & CEO, PRHUB, among India’s leading PR firms and the only affiliate of Globalcom PR-Network in India, said,” Except for the ICCO conference held in Delhi few years back India despite being one of the key, growing markets for PR globally, has not had a congregation of this nature where one witnesses heads of so many international PR firms. For us this is a great opportunity to showcase the evolution of Indian PR firms and how they are as good as the best in any other market worldwide. Further, our teams here get an opportunity to listen to, interact with professionals from other markets and learn. We look forward to hosting the meet and ensuring it is a all around success with the delegates getting a true flavor of one of the world’s greatest cultures and fastest growing large economies.”

About GlobalCom: Founded in 2005, Germany-based GlobalCom PR-Network is among the world’s leading independent networks of full service PR and Marketing Communications agencies. The fast growing network currently has 45 partner agencies who between them cover 60 countries worldwide. The network partners are spread across all member states of the European Union besides Asia, Africa, Middle East, North and South America providing a truly global reach. The network company and its directors identify and then carefully choose independent agencies with a proven track record in their respective markets to ensure the clients get similar service levels across multiple markets they work with through the network. The network currently has both large global organizations and mid-size companies as its clients across automotive, consumer electronics, financial services, pharmaceuticals & healthcare, IT, lifestyle, renewable energy and travel and tourism verticals among others. The network partner agencies between themselves have over 1300 experienced PR consultants who ensure delivery of high quality services to clients. More details can be had from www.gcpr.net

About PRHUB : Ranked among India’s top 30 PR firms and among the top 11 in Technology PR, Bangalore-based PRHUB is a consulting-led, independent full services PR firm with branch offices in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi. The fast growing PR firm is the flagship brand of businesshubs – a fledgling consulting and communication group with two other brands in its fold: MindSpark – a fast growing creative and marcom boutique and DialogueS – a specialist start-up devoted to social media consulting, coaching and campaigning. The group is looking at more specialized brands being launched over the years to ensure it covers the entire branding and marketing canvas. Formally transformed as a PR firm in late 2002, PRHUB is a privately held company which across its practice areas employs 50 full time and part-time employees. Please visit www.prhub.com for more information.
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Xpert Media’s MensXP.com, is India’s biggest lifestyle website with over a million plus and strongly growing unique monthly readers. MensXP.com has established a loyal readership through its vast and rapidly growing repository of lifestyle content. Equipped with more than 50,000 self-help and how-tos, MensXP.com is the largest source of information related to lifestyle for Indian men. And it is taking things to a new level.

“The company is excited about its partnership with Jivox. Our teams will be working closely for certain game-changing integrations across multiple screens and various connected devices”, said Angad Bhatia, Managing Director, Xpert Media.

“We welcome Xpert Media’s adoption of the Jivox platform. MensXP.com is poised to be the most preferred destination for lifestyle audience and brands who want to target them.” said Rahul Tambewagh, Director, Platform Sales, Jivox. “We have trained and certified their Ad Operations team for campaign optimization, ad creation, tag generation, mobile and in-banner integration.”
About Xpert Media

Xpert Media Technology (XPM) is India’s leading integrated vertical media company designed to provide urban Indian readers with the largest library of lifestyle content. XPM’s MensXP.com, is currently India’s biggest Men’s Lifestyle website with over a million plus and growing unique readers. MensXP.com has established a loyal readership through its vast and rapidly growing repository of lifestyle content.

About Jivox

Jivox is the leading multi-screen interactive video advertising technology company. The Jivox platform enables networks, brand advertisers, digital agencies and publishers to deliver highly engaging video ads powered by interactive and social sharing features. Using Jivox creative tools, interactive video ads can be easily authored and delivered instream, in-banner, on mobile devices and tablets. Jivox technology eliminates typical challenges associated with delivering video ads across multiple screens and connected devices, such as HTML5/Flash, operating systems, browsers, video encoding, form factor and other issues. Jivox also provides sophisticated campaign performance tracking, brand awareness and purchase intent analytics for advertisers via BrandGage — its proprietary real-time analytics platform. The Jivox platform is used by several hundred media companies and agencies including AdBrite, Bloomberg, Komlli, Weather Underground, Sun Times Media, InteractiveOne, Starcom, OMD, FUOR Digital, GroupM and Lee Enterprises. For examples of Jivox ads see: http://www.jivox.com/demoads.

Jivox is a privately held company headquartered in San Mateo, California with a development office in Bangalore and India sales offices in Bangalore and Mumbai. For more information about Jivox, please visit http://www.jivox.co.in.

A number of events and competitions catering to a variety of disciplines such as music, literature, dance, poetry, theatre and fine arts were a part of this zone-2 fest. This year the topics for the events were very topical and related to the recent happenings which have left an impact on the nation. The topic for debate was “Thanks to Social Networking Sites- there is no face to face interaction”, “62 years of Republic India” for painting competition and “Politics, Corruption & Lokpal Bill” for collage competition.

The ‘fashion parade’ and ‘Mr. and Ms. Anugoonj’ marked the conclusion of the colorful gala event at JIMS’s Rohini Sector-5 campus.
“The underlying aim of ‘Anugoonj’, the youth cultural festival is to promote the hidden talent of the students. Such events play a significant role to foster friendship and brotherhood among participating students. Students learn to focus their energy and the importance of team work,” said, Dr. J K Goyal, Director, JIMS.

Anugoonj is an annual youth festival, where students from all the affiliated institutes and University School of Studies of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University showcase their talent. The winners of the zonal prelims are the participants of the event. This year Anugoonj will be held from February 2 – February 4, 2012 at the University campus at Dwarka, New Delhi.

About JIMS

Jagan Institute of Management Studies was set up in 1993. As an institute of excellence in the field of management studies and technical education, JIMS has always strived to rework the curriculum in consonance with the changing needs of the corporate world. Regular interaction with leaders in business and academics has helped the Institute in achieving the goal of moving ahead of time.

The standards it has set for the quality of its courses and programmes and the delivery system adopted, have enabled the Institute to attract students from across the country. Its PGDM Programme, recognized by AICTE has gained immense popularity with the graduates seeking higher educational opportunities and new challenges. It is evidenced by the ever increasing number of applicants for this Programme over the years. JIMS PGDM Programme is recognized as being equivalent to MBA by the Association of Indian Universities.

For more information please visit: http://www.jimsindia.org/

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Airconditioning and commercial refrigeration major, Blue Star Limited, has announced the launch of a new range of contemporary and stylish room airconditioners for the residential segment which will be available in a large number of retail channels across the country. These airconditioners, apart from modern features, offer higher energy efficiency resulting in significant power savings.

Blue Star is India’s largest central airconditioning company with an experience of over six decades in providing expert cooling solutions. Blue Star has been selling room airconditioners vide its sales and service dealers mainly catering to the corporate and commercial segment such as offices, restaurants, showrooms, boutiques and ATMs. Over the last few years, the Company has witnessed significant demand from the residential segment. Despite the fact that Blue Star room airconditioners were not available in retail channels, a considerable amount of Blue Star’s sales came from the residential segment, mainly from consumers who believe that a specialist is better than a generalist and a conviction that if Blue Star is a leader in cooling large spaces, its room airconditioners must be good.
Considering this trend, the Company forayed into the residential segment last year, and made significant changes to its marketing mix including a product line-up to appeal to the residential segment, distribution through home appliance retail outlets and enhanced advertising budgets. This foray met with resounding success and Blue Star’s room airconditioners sales grew considerably despite a decline in sales in the overall room airconditioners industry last year.

Encouraged by its success in 2011, the Company plans to continue to aggressively target the residential segment in 2012.

New line-up of energy-efficient products

On the product front, Blue Star has launched an impressive new range of room airconditioners which adhere to the new energy standards prescribed by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). With effect from January 2012, BEE has upgraded the energy standards of split airconditioners to a higher level in line with the Energy Conservation programme. All the star-rated split units this year will have a higher Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER) as compared to the same star units last year, translating to savings in power bills. Further, within the range of EER specified for each star-rating, Blue Star has opted for a higher EER within each band, in order to maximize energy efficiency.

Apart from being energy efficient, the new range of split airconditioners have a new contemporary and stylish look with multi-colour options like pearl white, two-tone silver, champagne gold and wine red to appeal to home consumers. They boast of several features including i-feel for comfort where one sits, six filters for ultra-pure air, turbo operation, long distance piping, auto mode, dry mode, sleep mode, blow/self clean function, elegant remote control, rust-resistant construction, self diagnosis, scroll compressor, acoustic insulation on compressor and R410A eco-friendly refrigerant, amongst others. The range of window airconditioners has also been enhanced with a 4-star range, in addition to the existing 1-star, 2-star and 3-star models. The Company plans to invest about Rs 250 million on new product development and research and design initiatives.
Multi-Inverter Split AC

In the inverter range, Blue Star has launched a new break-through product called the Multi-Inverter wherein an inverter-technology based outdoor unit can be coupled to three indoor units to aircondition upto three rooms simultaneously. This product range will appeal to consumers who want to aircondition their entire house and at the same time would like to dramatically save on power bills. This futuristic range helps in reducing the number of outdoor units from three to just one unit, thereby maintaining the look of the façade of the building. The indoor units also have a state-of-the art sleek design with a diamond sparkle to appeal to interior designers and architects. This product re-emphasizes the Company’s commitment to offer high-technology products to residential customers.

Distribution
A regards to distribution, Blue Star room airconditioners were available in home-appliance retail channels in 7 locations last year and the Company has increased its presence in 67 locations this year. In addition, its strong force of about 1000 exclusive and multi-brand sales and service airconditioning dealers will aggressively promote the range. The Company has also built up a strong installation and service franchise network to support the retailers.

Advertising and Brand Communication

In terms of advertising and brand communication, the Company has plans to invest about Rs 150 million in the forthcoming summer season with a new set of TV commercials supported by print ads, mainline dailies, cinema, radio, hoardings and internet. The differentiated value proposition to the residential audience has been identified as ‘Get office-like cooling at home’ which leverages Blue Star’s expertise in cooling offices and communicates that one can get the very same expertise at home.

Speaking to the Press at a conference held in Mumbai, B Thiagarajan, President, Airconditioning & Refrigeration Products Group, Blue Star Limited said “Despite the fact that the room airconditioners market in India declined by about 15% due to a soft summer during 2011, Blue Star’s room airconditioners business has been on a fast growth track and grew about 29% in 2011, with the main growth coming from the residential segment. Several home consumers have instilled their faith in us and believe that we offer contemporary and modern products due to our airconditioning pedigree. Considering our impressive new energy-efficient product range, our aggressive distribution strategy and our commitment to continue to make investments in enhancing brand equity, I am confident that we will continue to perform well in the residential segment.”

Place : Mumbai

Date : January 27, 2012
For additional information, please contact: B Thiagarajan, President, Airconditioning & Refrigeration Products Group, Blue Star Limited, Bandbox House, 254D, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai – 400 030 email: bthiagarajan@bluestarindia.com Telephone: 9821078098.