Month: September 2021

Toronto, Ontario and Canada are Making a Come Back – Stronger Than Ever

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 Toronto Global and the International Economic Forum of the Americas announced that on September 9, 2021, they will co-host a global business summit to celebrate the re-opening of the Canadian and global economies. Representing the fastest growing urban metropolitan region and tech hub in North America, Toronto Global and its partners are committed to continuing that pace of growth and investment – not only to get back to where the Toronto Region was before the pandemic but to go beyond what has been achieved already. The primary goal is to…

HONEYWELL AND ICT ACADEMY COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP 50 CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE FOR SKILLING IN INDIA

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  Honeywell Hometown Solutions India Foundation (HHSIF), the philanthropic arm of Honeywell, a Fortune 100 company, has entered into a three-year partnership with ICT Academy to create centres of excellence for skill development in 50 colleges across the country. As part of the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts, Honeywell has committed INR 10 crore (INR 100M) in the first year to develop these centres, which will offer certifications in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Big Data Analytics, and Nano technology. This upskilling program will empower 15,000 students – half…

VMware India’s VMinclusion Taara signs MoU with Rotary District 3131, Pune

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 :Today, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced its partnership with Rotary District 3131, Pune, to help women in the city upskill in digital technologies to restart their careers. With this partnership, VMware and Rotary District 3131, Pune, hopes to inspire women to upskill in the latest digital technologies most relevant in the next phase of digitization in Pune, Maharashtra, through VMware’s VMinclusion Taara – one of India’s largest upskilling programs. Rotary District 3131 – Community and Economic Development team currently offers opportunities for women to upskill themselves and find meaningful job…

CAIT to launch campaign against ‘malpractices’ of e-commerce companies

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Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) is planning to hold a nationwide campaign beginning September 15 against “the malpractices of foreign-funded e-commerce companies” such as Amazon, Flipkart, others in India.   “Greatly peeved by the ongoing malpractices of foreign-funded e-commerce companies in India, the traders across the country have joined hands together to fight out major global e-commerce through an aggressive nationwide agitational campaign,” CAIT said in a statement.   The Supreme Court of India had last month rejected the demands of Amazon and Flipkart to quash the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) probe against…

Koo ropes in Phaneesh Gururaj as President – Technology

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The micro blogging platform, Koo has appointed Phaneesh Gururaj as the company’s President – Technology. He will spearhead the engineering and innovation team at the company. In order to give shape and direction to creating a robust technology platform from India, for India, Koo has put together a best-in-class engineering team who will work closely with Phaneesh.   joining Koo, Phaneesh was associated with redBus where he was responsible to head Engineering and Product teams.   Phaneesh will be accompanied by Badri Narayan – VP Engineering from Google, Pavan Kunchapu – VP & Head Mobile…

It is wrong to call Infosys anti-national, has always stood up for India: TV Mohandas Pai

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The former CFO and board member of Infosys TV Mohandas Pai blasted at a scathing article against the software major that got published in ‘Panchjanya’. He stated that ascribing conspiracy theories to Infosys is the writing of ‘crazy minds’ and that the company has always stood for India.   Panchjanya is a magazine linked to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the article published in it accused Infosys of negligence over glitches in the Centre’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) portal and the new Income Tax (I-T) portal, while questioning and criticizing its motives.   “Infosys deserves to be…

Actress Rakul Preet Singh summoned by the ED in connection with drugs case

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Actress Rakul Preet Singh has appeared at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Hyderabad zonal office on Friday in connection with a drugs case. Earlier on Tuesday, film director Puri Jagannadh was at the office in Hyderabad to appear before the agency officials in connection with the drugs case. The ED has summoned several other film personalities of Tollywood in connection with the drug racket case that was busted in 2017.   12 big names from the Tollywood industry including Rana Daggubati, Ravi Teja, Puri Jagannadh, Navdeep and others have been summoned by the agency for…

Shilpa Shetty, Raveena Tandon perform to Chura Ke Dil Mera on Super Dancer 4

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Shilpa Shetty and Raveena Tandon recently let their hair down and danced to the ‘Chura Ke Dil Mera’ song from the film Main Khiladi Tu Anari. Raveena was the the special guest on Super Dancer 4, when she performed the dance moves of Akshay Kumar as she danced with Shilpa.   In a video shared by Sony Television on Instagram, Shilpa and Raveena replicated the hook steps, including the famous hip thrusts. At one point, Raveena also dove to the floor, leaving Shilpa stunned. The performance left the contestants and Shilpa’s fellow judge Geeta…

Madhuri Dixit, Urmila Matondkar to be seen grooving to this 90’s song on Dance Deewane 3

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The upcoming episode of the dance reality show Dance Deewane 3 will promise a full dose of entertainment as it will be graced by none other than Bollywood actress Urmila Matondkar. She will be the special judge on the show’s episode and will enjoy the spectacular performances by the contestants of the show.   A BTS video shared by Madhuri Dixit shows her grooving to the 90’s hit song ‘Mujhe Pyaar Hua’ from Judaai with Urmila.   The video shared by the actress and judge of the show Madhuri Dixit is catching everyone’s attention on…

Deepika Padukone extends helping hand to save acid attack survivor’s life

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Acid attack survivor Bala, who is struggling for life, has found a new hope in star actor Deepika Padukone. The top-rated actress has extended a helping hand to save her life.   The acid attack survivor is suffering from a life-threatening kidney ailment and is in urgent need of a kidney transplant to survive. After the word reached Deepika, she donated a generous amount of Rs 10,00,000 to the ‘Save Bala’ campaign.   A real-life star, Bala has also featured in the Deepika Padukone-starrer movie ‘Chhapaak’, directed by Meghna Gulzar, besides…