Month: February 2017

Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC) has organized a ‘Blood Donation Camp’ in collaboration with Lions Blood Bank on 17th September, 2016 at its premises in New Delhi. Several enthusiastic donors including PFC employees, their families and general public participated in this noble cause. Every donor had to pass through a series of preliminary medical tests like BP, Hb, Weight, etc. before donating blood. All the donors were offered a Lions Blood Bank Donor Card for future use. The camp concluded with the donors being served with tea, coffee and snacks.

National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) & CSIR- Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata & CSIR- National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur have entered into Memorandum of Agreement for marketing the inventions/innovations, patents, formulations, know-how/processes developed by these institutes and also collection of Premia and Royalties arising from these activities. Dr. H. Purushotham, CMD, NRDC and Dr. Swapankumar Ghosh, Head, Project Management Division, CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata & Dr. Amitava Mitra, Head, Project Management Division, CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur has signed the MOA in the presence of Dr. K. Muraleedharan, Director CSIR-CGRI &NML, Dr. A.B. Mandal…

NTPC Limited Chairman and Managing Director, Gurdeep Singh accompanied by Director (Project) Subhash Chandra Pandey, visited Tanda Thermal Power Station recently. Group General Manager Manoj Saxena, General Manager (O&M) S Mukherjee, General Manager (Project) Sanjay Madan and Addl GMs of the Station, received Gurdeep Singh and Subhash Chandra Pandey. Gurdeep Singh also inaugurated the 400 kv Switchyard of second stage (2×660 mw) of Tanda Thermal Power station. They visited the nodal locations of the station as well as various areas of second stage. Gurdeep Singh also chaired a review meeting…

At the Samajik Adikarita Shivir organized by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi distributed Aids and Assistive Devices to more than 11000 Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjans) in Navsari District, Gujarat. LG was one of the many companies to have participated at the camp and it distributed its K7 phones to the Divyangjans. LG has in total distributed 2,500 smartphones. An LTE dual-sim smartphone, LG K7 is built with customized features for disabled people such as Screen reading S/W…

Dell’s acquisition of EMC was officially completed on September 07, 2016, thereby creating the world’s largest privately-controlled technology company “There is a great amount of value coming from DELL Technologies, both for the customers and partners and we are confident about merging with EMC; let’s see how our competition reacts to it,” says Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO at Dell Technologies. With $74 billion in revenue, Dell Technologies will be the world’s largest privately controlled tech company. Dell Technologies is now an end-to-end technology company and a one-stop shop for…

Canon is one of the many global brands affected by the illegal counterfeiting of its products. The imaging company works closely to fight against counterfeiting on a worldwide basis, to protect the valuable Canon brand and to safeguard the customer value that comes with using genuine Canon products. Counterfeit products are often manufactured in poor manufacturing conditions. Canon has been fighting against counterfeit in India for more than 10 years to safeguard the interests of their customers and always encourages reporting any possible counterfeit activity. To protect customer’s right and…

India carried out a cross-LoC surgical military strike on the night of 28 September destroying seven terrorist launch pads in Kel, Shardi, Bhimber and Lipa sectors- a few kilometres inside Pakistan occupied Kashmir killing dozens of militants. Commandos of the Indian Army with shoulder-fired flamethrowers and plastic explosives crossed the Line of Control in the early hours and caused extensive damage to these terrorist launch pads. The surgical strikes were carried out in reprisal for the September 18 killings of Indian soldiers in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir. After the…

BSNL and Vodafone have signed 2G intra-circle roaming agreement to use each other’s assets and network strength across the country.This strategic partnering will lead to improved connectivity and enhance overall customer experience for both Vodafone and BSNL. The agreement will help Vodafone expand its 2G network further, especially in rural areas and strengthens BSNL’s network reach in urban areas. Vodafone India has over 137,000 towers across the country whereas BSNL has over 114,000 towers. Anupam Shrivastava, chairman & MD BSNL, said, “We continue to expand our network across the country…

Minister of Railways, Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inaugurated IP based video surveillance system for 17 stations and central control room at Madgaon. The Railway stations include Kolad (KOL), Mangaon (MNI), Khed (KHED), Chiplun (CHI), Ratnagiri (RN), Kankawali (KKW), Kudal (KUDL), Sindhudurg (SNDD) and Sawantwadi (SWV) in Ratnagiri region. Pernem (PERN), Karmali (KRMI), Cancona (CNO), Karwar (KAWR), Gokarna (GOK), Bhatkal (BTJL), Udupi (UD) and Surathkal (SL). Each station is fitted with 12 to 16 nos of Fixed Dome type and Fixed Box type cameras with Network Video Recorder having a recording facility…

its member-companies on Government e-Marketplace (GeM) at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The portal GeM.Gov.in has been created for completing transactions online. In this context, it is for the first time that the Government of India is training industry on usage of the online GeM e-procurement platform. With the launch of GeM, a new era of public procurement has been ushered into the country.