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Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company has partnered with the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) to launch the Future Skills platform for 10,000 students from over 20 engineering colleges in India. This is a part of Wipro’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme, TalentNext which aims to enhance the quality of engineering education by preparing faculty and academic leaders to train students. The programme has now been extended to students directly through Future Skills, which is a new age platform built to bridge the industry-academia skill gap and help students keep pace with the emerging technologies — Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity and Internet of Things (IoT) – to make them future-ready. Commenting on the partnership, Debjani Ghosh, President, NASSCOM said, “Future Skills is a truly collaborative platfo...

The 2 nd chapter of the #BerokZindagi campaign launches multi-media awareness campaign “Asthmakeliye inhalers hainsahi -#InhalersHainSahi” today. The new campaign #InhalersHainSahi focuses on generating awareness and education about asthma besides its appropriate line of treatment with inhalers and continues to inspire patients to live a barrier-free life. The campaign aims to eliminate the stigma around inhalation therapy and make it more socially acceptable by addressing key issues & myths around therapy. This will also help to foster further dialogue between parents and their physicians and highlight that inhalers are suitable for children and for all levels of severity inhalers are not addictive and show better results than oral solutions. Asthma is a chronic (long term) disease usually characterized by airway inflammation and narrowing of the airways, which can vary over time. It is estimated that in Bhopallocal doctors daily see an average of around ...

Audi, the German luxury car manufacturer, held the ninth edition of the Audi Twin Cup with participation from 37 Audi Service Touchpoints across India. A total of 162 teams comprising of 486 Audi dealer technicians and service advisors competed for the coveted championship titles. The top 6 teams made it to the finals held at the Training Academy in Pune, where teams from Audi Rajkot/ Audi Vadodara bagged the top spot in the Twin category. Audi Mangalore bagged the top spot in the Technology category and Audi Coimbatore topped the Service category.  The team from India will compete alongside 65 teams from 34 countries at the World Finals that will be held in July 2020. Mr Balbir Singh Dhillon, Head of Audi India handed over the Audi Twin Cup trophy to the winners of the Twin category. Mr Alexis Joseph, Head of Aftersales, Audi India and Mr Detlef Viete from Audi AG handed over the Audi Twin Cup trophy to the winners of the Technology and Service category respectively, in a gl...

A grand Tech Park wide Fitness event was launched by Columbia Asia Hospital Sarjapur Road at Embassy Tech Village recently.  ‘The ETV Fitness Challenge’  is a month-long fitness challenge to encourage employees from MNC’s and various corporates in the tech park to focus on their fitness regime, burn extra kilos and lose weight. The event witnessed a participation of over 200 employees from over 20 different corporates, who pre-registered themselves for the fitness challenge and many more who went for an on-spot registration during the kickoff. The event was inaugurated by Ms Manisha Kumar, General Manager, Columbia Asia Hospital Sarjapur Road and Dr Nataraj HM, Consultant Senior Orthopaedic, Columbia Asia Hospital Sarjapur Road who spoke on issues like the importance of preventive healthcare. He stated ways to gear up and get on the ‘one-month challenge’ and the do’s and don’ts that are to be practised. With the launch of the event, the registered teams had to input their cur...

The Laryngectomee Society of Apollo Hospitals, celebrated its 20 th  anniversary with Para-Badminton World Champion, Ms Manasi Joshi, as the Chief Guest, on Saturday at the Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills. Radio Mirchi RJ Shezzi, conducted the show and Dr Umanath Nayak, Consultant Head & Neck Cancer Surgeon, Apollo Cancer Hospital & Founder President, Laryngectomee Society of Apollo Hospitals, was also present on the occasion. The Laryngectomee Society of Apollo Hospitals is a voluntary self-help rehabilitation group of cancer survivors who have undergone surgery for the removal of their larynx (voice box) as a treatment for advanced cancer of the throat. On the occasion, RJ Shezzi conducted a live chat-show with the laryngectomees. They shared the ordeal they undergo, the challenges they face in their daily lives and how they overcome them. In unison, they sent a strong message that despite all odds, it’s possible to lead a normal life a...

The three day, 6 t h  ida Telangana State Dental Conference 2019, was formally inaugurated by the Chief Guest Etela Rajender Garu, Medical & Health and Family Welfare, Telangana State; at Cyber Conventions. Also on the occasion Guests of Honour, Shri Palla Rajeshwar Reddy Garu, MLC, Chairman & Director, Telangana Rashtriya Rythu Samanvaya Samithi, Cabinet Rank; inaugurated the Trade Exhibition and Dr B Karunakar Reddy Garu, Vice Chancellor, Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences, inaugurated the Scientific Session. The Organizing Committee members of the Conference Dr. S. Jagadeeswara Rao, President, IDA Telangana State; Dr. P. Karunakar, Organising Chairman; Dr. K. V. Thrinath Reddy, Conference Chairman; Dr. Y. S. Reddy, Co Organising Chairman; Dr. M. Praveen Kumar, Hon. General Secretary; Dr. A. Srikanth, Organising Secretary; Dr. T. Jayasimha Reddy, Conference Secretary and Dr. K Aditya Sandeep...

Amristar based electric bike company, eBikeGo creates the pathway to a new future with ebikes for rental. The company is known to have started a business in multiple cities already and plans to expand all over India. Started in 2017, the company has been one of the largest ebike rentals brands in the country with more than 400 bikes on the road in more than 8 cities. They plan to get more than 1500 bikes on the road by the end of this financial year. The brand is directly connected with delivery services like Zomato, Delhivery, Big Basket and many more companies to provide the delivery boys with an environment-friendly solution to speed up deliveries in the area. Apart from being environment-friendly, ebikes also reduce costs for the delivery boys, giving them an opportunity to save more money. The Government has run numerous campaigns on clean energy and eBikeGo has been at the forefront of the fight against environmental pollution. Recently, the company received a funding of $300,00...