Just like India, Japan has a rich and traditional culture that dates back many centuries. Puneites, gear up for some extravagant festivities as India Japan Business Council is hosting a two-day cultural festival at Phoenix Marketcity, Pune with 100s of Japanese and Indian artists participating. It’s one of a kind event that will bring together enthusiastic and like-minded people from India and Japan. Konnichiwa Pune can be the perfect event for anyone looking to celebrate culture, food, and music. It’s India and Japan festival! This event you don’t want to miss!

Get ready to be mesmerized as singer, songwriter, and Kathak dancer Hiroko Sarah joins rapper Ibex. They’ll be performing Indo-Japanese music and a dance show that will leave you breathless. You’ll not only get to watch amazing and breathtaking performances but also sample delicious Japanese delicacies, shop for beautiful souvenirs, and meet interesting new people.

Save the date and come to Phoenix Marketcity Pune. You’ll get to experience Japanese cuisine, culture, and more.

Event Details:

• Date: 19th and 20th November 2022
• Venue: Liberty Square, Phoenix Marketcity
• Time: 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm
• Entry: Free

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• Sheetha Chacko | +91 9765393969 | chack@denstu.com
• Shambhavi Joshi | +91 8452962336| joshi@denstu.com
• Phoenix Marketcity– 020 66890085 /Log on to https://www.phoenixmarketcity.com/pune

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India, 15 February 2022: Jaro Education, a leading Edtech firm imparting high-quality executive education programs to working professionals from top reputed institutes across the world, has announced its marketing budget spend of over INR 100 crores for the fiscal year 2022-23. The budget will be allocated to the acquisition of learners across the globe, enhancing corporate offerings, expanding program portfolios, and brand awareness activities.

From March 2021 to February 2022, Jaro’s CMO and marketing leaders polled 20-25% of the company’s funds in PR initiatives, building brand equity for its digital marketing through Facebook, YouTube, and other channels; tracking and participating in crucial marketing activities through investment in people, programs, and platforms. The marketing budget for the coming fiscal year will be allocated in the following manner wherein, 30% will be for marketing on the acquisition of learners across countries like USA, UK, Gulf, 20% PR initiatives, 30% for online and offline advertisements, and remaining for other activities such as influencer marketing, other endorsements.

Speaking on this marketing budget allocation, Ms. Ranjita Raman, CEO at Jaro Education said, “We at Jaro are very prompt at acing our marketing game. The Indian Edtech industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 39.77%, being one of the oldest and self-funded executive education companies, we aim to grow multi-folds and increase our market share by 3x. We also look forward to strengthening and expanding our marketing team through this budget allocation. Now that Jaro Education will eventually expand globally we are focused on building a strong marketing strategy.”

While marketing still accounts for more than 40% percent of the entire spend, it will remain a top priority. Marketing data and analytics will continue to be a priority for CMOs. Given recent and impending budgetary regulations as well as differences in data gathering, we anticipate this investment sector to remain a key capability. According to The annual Gartner CMO Spend Survey, 2021 revealed that no one, regardless of company size or industry, has escaped swingeing cuts in marketing budgets.

 About Jaro Education

Jaro Education is India’s most trusted online higher education company. The Edtech firm, a pioneer in the executive education industry, was founded in 2009 by Dr. Sanjay Salunkhe and has been profit-making since its inception, and it is self-funded.

The company aims to nurture entrepreneurs & working professionals from entry-level to C-Suite level in every field and industry by offering executive education programs that cater to their requirements. Having been recognized for changing the landscape of online education in India, Jaro Education offers more than 28+ management and technology programs in collaboration with reputed institutes.

They facilitate the development of management and technology-based online programs for many leading Indian and global institutes like IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Kozhikode, Tiruchirappalli, IMT Ghaziabad, Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto), and Imperial College Business School in London, and others.

It also boasts having over 800 corporate partners like Accenture, American Express, Axis Bank, Tech Mahindra. With its strong domain expertise and insight into online programs, Jaro Education has transformed the careers of over 3 lakh professionals in the last 12 years across India through its 30+ learning centers across India.

For more information, please visit: https://www.jaroeducation.com

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PUNE: The India Skill Summit, jointly hosted by Pune based FUEL, FUEL Future Skills Institute and India CSR, will be held virtually on February 6, 2022. The day-long forum will witness visionary politicians, renowned corporate leaders and CSR leaders as guests and speakers. This program assumes national importance as India has to make the skill sector more active and relevant this year.

Speakers and Guests

 The summit will be inaugurated by Shri Basavaraj Bommai, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Govt. of Karnataka; and Shri Prakash Javadekar, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Pune, Former Union HRD Minister. Shri Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India will be the guest of honour, who will deliver the keynote address.

Future skills Paramount 

The national forum will bring together skill sector leaders, experts and key stakeholders from industry and government to discuss the pertinent issues impacting the skills development sector and allied domains. The summit is curated as a platform for future skills dialogue pertaining to India.

Building Future-Ready Workforce, the theme

The central theme of this prestigious forum is ‘Building Future-Ready Workforce’. The summit is a forum for multiple industries to discuss future skills trends and understand the opportunities in the area of a future-ready workforce. The summit encourages young people to Upskill and Re-skill themselves. Upcoming trends and the future of India’s skill development will be discussed in a detailed manner by the various stalwarts attending the summit.

Skills for All

“Skills Development is an important imperative for achieving India’s ambitious growth targets. We are committed to working with the stakeholders, especially the industry, government and academia to create sustainable and scalable future-ready skills propositions which will benefit the youth of the country from all sections of society.”, said Ketan Deshpande, Founder, FUEL and FUEL Future Skills Institute (FFSI).

Industry leaders at the summit will be provided with the opportunity to propose collaborative and innovative resolutions to meet the skills needed across the Indian workforce, and ensure India remains globally competitive.

India, a Skill Capital of World

“India has emerged as the fastest-growing major economy and is expected to be the Skill Capital of the world over the next 2 to 5 years, backed by its young workforce. The average age in India is 29 years with 65% of the population in the working-age group (15-59 years of age). India’s burgeoning young workforce can be an asset not just for India but for the rest of the world as well.”, said Rusen Kumar, Founder and CEO, India CSR.

The participants will be able to hear thought leaders discuss and deliberate on topics extremely relevant to the skill development ecosystem for the coming years.

Launch of FUEL Future Skills Institute (FFSI)

“Launch of FUEL Future Skills Institute (FFSI) also to be launched during the summit. FFSI is a state-of-the-art centre of excellence to equip needy youth with futuristic and management skills addressing National Education Policy NEP and Industry 4.0 needs.”, added Ketan Deshpande.

Connect and Collaborate

“The Skill Summit is for skill leaders of Govt., CSR, Industry, Academicians, Researchers, Policy Makers and other stakeholders. The objective of the summit is to address the challenges that India’s skill sector is facing today and likely to face in future and to discuss innovations and strategic solutions to lay a foundation for building future-ready organisations and workforce.”, said Rusen Kumar.

Key Luminaries at the forum 

• Chief Guests

1. Shri Basavaraj Bommai, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Govt. of Karnataka;
2. Shri Prakash Javadekar, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Pune, Former Union HRD Minister 

• Guest of Honour

1. Shri Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India 

• Speakers 

1. Ketan Deshpande, Founder Chairman & CEO, FUEL;
2. Santosh Huralikoppi, Chief Mentor, FUEL;
3. Rusen Kumar, Founder and Managing Editor, India CSR;
4. C.P. Gurnani, MD & CEO, Tech Mahindra Limited,
5. Shailender Kumar, Senior VP and Regional Managing Director, Oracle India
6. Prof. Jaideep Prabhu, Author, Nehru Professor of Business and Enterprise, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK;
7. Clare Woodcraft, Centre for Strategic Philanthropy, Cambridge Judge Business School, UK;
8. Shonali Banerjee, Centre for Strategic Philanthropy, Cambridge Judge Business School, UK
9. Kapil Kaul, National President, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce
10. David J. Ranz, U.S Consul General, Mumbai
11. Martina Merz, Chief Executive Officer, ThyssenKrupp
12. Prof Shaz Ansari, Professor of Strategy, Judge Business School

Testimonials from leaders

Corporate Leaders convey best wishes for the success of the programme Political visionary and various corporate tycoons conveyed their best wishes for the success of the programme.

Prakash Javadekar, Hon’ble Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Pune and Former Union HRD Minister; Office of Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft; Sanjiv Mehta, Chairman and MD, Hindustan Unilever Limited; Madhav Singhania, Deputy Managing Director & CEO, J.K. Cement Limited; Mohit Malhotra, Chief Executive Officer, Dabur India Limited; Ajay S. Shriram, Chairman & Sr. Managing Director, DCM SHRIRAM; Venkatram Mamillapalle, Country CEO & Managing Director, Renault India Operations; Harsh Goenka, Chairman, RPG group of Companies; Hari S Bhartia, Founder and Co-Chairman, Jubilant Bhartia Group; Dheeraj G Hinduja, Executive Chairman Ashok Leyland, Hinduja Group who are leading leaders who have called this meeting important by sending their best wishes.

The Friends Union for Energising Lives (FUEL)

FUEL – Friends Union for Energising Lives, is a credible non-profit organization registered as a trust established in 2007 working in the fields of Skill Development, Career Counseling, and scholarships for disadvantaged youth of the nation under CSR initiative of various leading corporate. FUEL has trained over 45000 needy youth in futuristic skills & has guided 11 lakh students across India. FUEL, founded and led by Ketan Deshpande and Santosh Huralikoppi has received appreciation from the Hon’ble Prime Minister as “Champions of Change” and Hon’ble President of India for its commendable work over the years.

India CSR

India CSR indiacsr.in is the largest tech-led platform for information on CSR and sustainability in India offering diverse content across multisectoral issues. It covers Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainability, and related issues in India. Founded in 2009, the organisation aspires to become a globally admired media that offers valuable information to its readers through responsible reporting. To enjoy the premium content, we invite you to subscribe to it.

Those who want to join the forum requested to register with this Zoom Link: Meeting Registration – Zoom

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Pune: Make A Wish Foundation and AstraZeneca India Private Limited, a leading science-led biopharmaceutical company organized a fun-filled event in Pune for children suffering from critical illnesses such as Cancer. The event at an auditorium provided by Hotel Utsav saw a participation of about 25 children along with their parents.

Taking its promise of care forward, AstraZeneca India has joined hands with the ‘Make-A-Wish’ Foundation India to fulfill the wishes of about 500 children suffering from critical ailments across the country. The event organized in the city today marked the beginning of a series of 11 events planned across Goa, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jaipur, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad, and Baroda in an effort to reach out as many children between the age of 3 to 18 years as possible and leave them with joyous memories. Commenting on this initiative, Dr. Anil Kukreja – V.P Medical Affairs & Regulatory, AstraZeneca India said, “We are delighted to bring back this initiative after a break due to the pandemic. It is nothing less than an honor to partner with Make-A-Wish and brings smiles to the faces of children dealing with life-threatening diseases. This initiative is a small gesture to deliver a burst of laughter for a moment to children.” Highlighting the organization’s focus on patient-centricity Dr. Kukreja added, “Our partnership with Make-A-Wish is an extension of two of our marquee campaigns Ganga Godavari initiative and New Normal Same Cancer (NNSC) where we are working with multiple influencers to organize camps across the country to encourage preventive healthcare check-ups to aid early diagnosis of cancer. Our parallel focus through the two campaigns is to enable adherence and continuity of cancer treatment”.

One of the happy parents at the event said, “Our heartfelt gratitude to Make-A-Wish India and AstraZeneca for showering their love and support to our child. Every child here is entitled to joy and it is overwhelming to see them happy as their wishes are being fulfilled. Even during the difficult period, we cherish such days when we see them smile”.

Make-A-Wish creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Together with the help of donors, supporters, staff, and volunteers, the foundation delivers hope and joy to children and their families when they need it the most. “Happy experiences help in improving both emotional and physical health to great extent. For over 25 years, Make-A-Wish is bringing hope and joy back into the lives of children with severe illnesses. A continuous association with AstraZeneca suggests that they concur with this thought process of spreading happiness in whatever way one can”, said Mr. Deepak Bhatia, CEO Make A Wish Foundation India “We are grateful to continue our work through such strategic partnerships to bring the power of wishing to children and their families when they need it most.” he added.

Doctors in Pune said, “It is overwhelming to witness the joy that children experience through such fun-filled engaging events especially when they are struggling to keep up with their health. Big congratulations to Make A Wish to continue the spree to support children with the help of like-minded organizations such as AstraZeneca that are aware of the importance of the continuity of such patient-centric initiatives”.

About AstraZeneca India Private Limited

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines, primarily for the treatment of diseases in three therapy areas – Oncology, Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism, and Respiratory. AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries, and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide.

AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. (AZIPL) is the Global Capability Centre for AstraZeneca with offices in Chennai and Bangalore. Established in 2014, AZIPL today has 3100+ employees catering to services including IT services, Global Business Services (GBS), and R&D Oncology among others. The center plays a key role in technology innovation and transformation projects enabling and empowering AstraZeneca’s core business processes – right from Discovery, Development, Production, Launches to Supply all the way through the value chain. For more details: www.astrazeneca.com/india

About Make A Wish India

Make-A-Wish Foundation® of India is a non-profit organization that has fulfilled 70,348 wishes in 25 years. The Foundation is dedicated to granting the most cherished wish of children between ages 3 and 18, diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition, mostly cancer. It is a registered trust under the Bombay Public Trust Act. Make-A-Wish Foundation® of India is about to celebrate a very special occasion, its Silver Jubilee, in the year 2020 and aims to accomplish the goal to grant the wish of the 75,000th child.

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India, 24th August 2021: Croma, India’s first omnichannel electronics retailer from the Tata Group, today announced the exclusive launch of the internationally-renowned Fitness recovery brand, Hyperice, becoming the first retail chain to launch the brand in India. Created in collaboration with the best athletes and physiotherapists around the globe, Hyperice’s roster of pioneering products includes ultra-premium percussion device, Hypervolt, which will be introduced to Indian consumers on croma.com and at 200 Croma stores across India.

With the launch of Hyperice in India, Croma is all set to provide a wide range of products in the fitness sector, allowing consumers to touch – feel – try the product, while curating the best deals and offering expert advice to help make an informed decision. Bringing the best-of-the-best under one roof, consumers will get access to Hyperice’s array of products that have been developed using powerful technology tools including Percussion Technology, Dynamic Air Compression, Vibration Technology, and Ice Compression Technology.

Commenting on this, Rajeev Singh, Group Business Manager, Buying – Croma, Infiniti Retail Limited said, “The fitness ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the last year, with health becoming a top priority. In line with this, we are happy to add Hyperice to our growing portfolio of healthcare gadgets. We believe the uniqueness of Hyperice’s product proposition with Croma’s omnichannel strategy will help bridge the gap in the ever-evolving fitness industry in India.”

 Mayuri Pitale, Director of Business Development and Marketing – Hyperice India added, “We believe the quality of life is intimately connected to movement. Whether you’re an elite athlete, a fitness enthusiast, or seeking a healthier lifestyle, the way you move determines the way you feel. Hyperice devices allow you to move better, so you can feel your absolute best. Our products are recognized and used by the most influential athletes, professionals, and corporations worldwide, making Hyperice the leader in recovery and movement enhancement technology. With our mission – to help everyone on earth Move Better; we are proud to partner with India’s largest C.E. retailer, Croma to launch our tech in India. Croma will be the first retail chain in India to introduce Hyperice’s leading self-care technology to help you with warmup, recovery, and maintenance at home, at the office, or at your gym”

Customers can now purchase the best-of-its-kind products from Hyperice starting from Rs 8,999 in select Croma outlets and on croma.com from August 14th, 2021 onwards.

About Infiniti Retail Limited:

Launched in 2006, Croma was the first one-of-its-kind large format specialist retail store that catered to all multi-brand digital gadgets and home electronic needs in India. Over a decade since its inception, Croma has almost become synonymous with all electronics needs, with its tech-savvy staff, product range, online presence, and the will to help customers.

Bringing alive the promise of a ‘Brighter Every Day’ for its customers, Croma offers its customers a world-class ambiance to shop both in-store and online at www.croma.com and also allows for a seamless ‘Omni-channel’ shopping experience that lets a customer enjoy the best of both the online & the offline worlds. With over 9000 products across 300 brands with 200+ stores across 60+ major cities of India, Croma ensures that for each customer, a Brighter Tomorrow begins Today! From the newlywed couple setting up their house to the son reducing his mother’s burden with a washing machine; from the daughter gifting her parents a new LED TV to the newly promoted manager buying an inverter air-conditioner to make the summer bearable, Croma ensures that customers always get ‘More for their money!

With this intent to delight customers all along, Croma launched its own label products in 2008. Brand Croma stands for – Life, More Beautiful; the promise is based not just on the beauty in the way they look but also on the value they offer to a customer’s life. The range is a perfect fit, for those who desire a completely feature-packed and quality product.

Croma is a brand of Infiniti Retail Ltd., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group

About Hyperice 

Hyperice is on a mission to help the world move better. As the global recovery technology leader, specializing in vibration, percussion, and thermal technology, Hyperice is used by most elite athletes, professional sports leagues, and teams to optimize player performance. Hyperice has applied its technology and know-how to industries such as fitness, esports, healthcare, massage, and workplace wellness on a global scale. In March 2020, Hyperice acquired Normatec, innovators of cutting-edge dynamic compression systems, in December 2020 acquired RecoverX, pioneers of intelligent thermal technologies, to deliver next-generation performance and wellness solutions and in July 2021 acquired Core, both an app and a handheld meditation device designed to track heart rate and stress levels. For more information, visit hyperice.com.

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India, Tuesday, August 10, 2021 —  Whatfix, a leader in Digital Adoption Solutions (“DAS”), today announced the acquisition of Nittio Learn, a learning management system, amid a groundbreaking quarter.

The acquisition will advance the company’s application training capability by making learning more personalized, adaptive, and rich. Nitto Learn’s toolset including additional content options, assessment capabilities, and training course allocation is a natural fit with Whatfix, making it a comprehensive digital adoption platform for organizations. New learners will now experience a drastically reduced ramp-up time for learning, which is the core value Whatfix provides.

“The business shift to remote work over the last year has solidified the importance of employee adoption of the enterprise technology stack, as larger and more permanent segments of workers connect to the workplace through software exclusively,” said Khadim Batti, CEO and co-founder of Whatfix. “We’re delighted to get Nittio Learn onboard on our journey to provide our customers with all the necessary tools to execute such a massive digital transformation effort. We are continuously reimagining Digital Adoption alongside our customers as we grow and expand into new markets over the next year and beyond.”

This acquisition comes on the heels of Whatfix’s most successful quarter to date, achieving quarterly growth of 100% on a YoY basis for the past 2 consecutive quarters. Other milestones include closing new partnerships and enterprise customers, securing series D funding, earning recognition from top analyst firms, and winning several industry awards.

“We’re excited to add Nittio Learn’s value proposition to Whatfix’s industry-leading digital adoption solution,” said Gagandeep Josan, CEO & Co-founder, Nittio Learn, a Upekkha backed start-up. “Nitto Learn has been helping Learning & Development teams build learning experiences that reduce training turn-around and ramp-up time for today’s digital workers. Whatfix, with their laser focus on helping customers overcome technology complexities is a perfect match for our product and our team.”

Nitto Learn is used by South Asia’s largest e-commerce and retail companies to train their employees. The co-founders Gagandeep and Aravindan along with their team have joined Whatfix, bringing in their rich expertise in the learning domain.

The recent $90 million Series D funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 also touted a 3X increase of Whatfix’s valuation over 15 months, along with a 3X of revenue and headcount increase over the last two years. With the opening of three new offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, Whatfix now has 500 employees across six offices globally.

The momentum has not gone unnoticed in the industry. Whatfix has grown its partner program by over 8 partners this year, announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft, and added notable new customers such as Red Cross Netherlands, Coca Cola Beverages Africa, Mr. Price Group, Messer Americas, Grant Thornton, and others including multiple Fortune 500 companies.

Prominent industry analysts have taken notice as well, featuring Whatfix in reports like the Constellation ShortList for Digital Adoption Platforms 2021. In addition, Whatfix garnered nine award wins so far in 2021, recognizing the company’s achievements in customer satisfaction and service, as well as technology innovation. Notably, Whatfix was honored as the Globee Disruptor Company of the year in the Information Technology Cloud/SaaS category and was named a Stevies Gold Winner for Achievement in Customer Satisfaction. Whatfix has again earned 12 Leader badges across the Digital Adoption Platforms and Customer Self-Service Sofware categories in G2’s Summer 2021 reports.

For more information on Whatfix, please visit https://www.whatfix.com.

 About Whatfix

Whatfix is a Digital Adoption Solution that disrupts Application Training, Learning, and Support content by providing Contextual, Interactive, Real-Time, and Autonomous user guidance – driving additional adoption and productivity gains. Whatfix has a proven record of increasing employee productivity by 35%, reducing training time and costs by 60%, reducing employee case tickets by 50%, and increasing application data accuracy by 20%. Whatfix is based in San Jose, San Francisco, London, Melbourne, Sydney, and Bangalore.

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India, 1^st July 2021: Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL), a leading emerging markets company and InnerHour, a digital mental health platform, have come together to offer a Mind Care+ programme for healthcare professionals. Supported by GCPL CSR, through this initiative InnerHour will reach out to a cross-section of over 5 million doctors, nurses and frontline healthcare professionals

(HCPs) to help them cope with the stress, anxiety and depression compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

HCPs have been at the forefront in the battle against COVID-19. The higher risks of infections amongst HCPs, coupled with a sense of duty towards patients and the need to protect loved ones, has resulted in increased susceptibility to mental health conditions. As per the Indian Medical Association, at least 40% of doctors were infected with COVID-19, with over 1,000 having succumbed since April 2020. In this context, HCPs are at increased risk of mental health disorders like addiction, insomnia, stress, anxiety and depression. To support HCPs in their efforts against the pandemic through effective management and counsel, Mind Care+ will provide pro-bono therapy sessions beginning July 2021.

India was struggling with a mental health crisis even prior to the pandemic. According to the WHO, 1 in 4 individuals across the globe suffers from mental disorders. In India, we have over 200 million individuals who are affected by mental health concerns of varying severity. The situation has been further aggravated due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. InnerHour fulfils the need-gap in an environment where expressing one’s emotional distress is looked down upon. Individuals can seek assistance through a set of self-help tools combined with on-call therapy in complete privacy.

Through its app-based platform, InnerHour offers free assessments, a range of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Tools (CBTs), personalized content, and 1-1 support to individuals. In addition to the digital self-help tools, users can access a network of 120+ highly qualified and experienced therapists across 150 cities in India.

Commenting on the initiative, Dr Amit Malik, Founder & CEO of, InnerHour said, “The platform is designed to bridge the access and treatment gap for Indians struggling with mental health challenges like stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. Due to the pandemic, healthcare professionals are working tirelessly and under tremendous pressure to provide critical care to COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients. With Mind Care+ we are committed to supporting our peer healthcare professionals with self-help tools and remote counselling services.”

Commenting on this collaboration, Sunil Kataria, CEO – India and SAARC, Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL) said, “At GCPL, we have been running the employee assistance programme for over two years. The initiative has been well received and has helped employees cope with present-day challenges. Healthcare professionals are the frontline heroes in our battle with COVID-19. Our hearts go out to professionals who have been affected directly. This initiative is extending our employee assistance programme to healthcare professionals in India to help them seek therapy to address burnout, post-traumatic stress, and anxiety.”

Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL) through its CSR efforts has been supporting the public healthcare system actively over the last year. GCPL has procured and delivered medical supplies, equipment, oxygen concentrators, sanitation supplies, and protective gear to hospitals across India. It has also contributed to set up hospital beds and supported ICU beds.

About InnerHour

Founded in 2016, InnerHour is a digital mental health platform meant for millions of people in India and globally, who are suffering from mental health difficulties. InnerHour’s superior interface has already helped position it as a leading global mental health app. It was recognised as the best app for good in 2020 on Play Store India and has previously been part of Google & Facebook’s India Accelerator Cohorts. With 1.3 mn downloads till May 2021, InnerHour has a footprint in 536 cities globally, including 150 cities across India. The organisation offers corporate programs, self-help assessments and access to a network of certified therapists through the InnerHour app. Co-founded by Dr Amit Malik and social entrepreneur Neha Kirpal, InnerHour is set to serve 200 million people suffering from mental health conditions across the world. In early 2021, InnerHour received funding of $5.2 Million led by Lightbox.

Website:  https://www.theinnerhour.com/

Twitter Handle: https://twitter.com/theInnerHour

About Godrej Consumer Products Limited

Godrej Consumer Products Limited Godrej Consumer Products is a leading emerging markets company. As part of the over 123-year young Godrej Group, we are fortunate to have a proud legacy built on the strong values of trust, integrity and respect for others. At the same time, we are growing fast and have exciting ambitious aspirations. Today, our Group enjoys the patronage of 1.15 billion consumers globally, across different businesses. In line with our 3 by 3 approach to international expansion at Godrej Consumer Products, we are building a presence in 3 emerging markets (Asia, Africa, Latin America) across 3 categories (home care, personal care, hair care). We rank among the largest household insecticide and hair care players in emerging markets. In household insecticides, we are the leader in India and Indonesia and are expanding our footprint in Africa. We are the leader in serving the hair care needs of women of African descent, the number one player in hair colour in India and SubSaharan Africa, and among the leading players in Latin America. We rank number two in soaps in India, are the number one player in air fresheners in India and Indonesia, and a leader in wet tissues in Indonesia.

But for us, it is very important that besides our strong financial performance and innovative, much-loved products, we remain a good company. Approximately 23 per cent of the promoter holding in the Godrej Group is held in trusts that invest in the environment, health and education. We are also bringing together our passion and purpose to make a difference through our ‘Good & Green’ approach to create a more inclusive and greener India. At the heart of all of this, is our talented team. We take much pride in fostering an inspiring workplace, with an agile and high-performance culture. We are also deeply committed to recognising and valuing diversity across our teams. www.godrejcp.com

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MUMBAI, India—June 29, 2021—Today, Amazon Web Services, (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that Axis Bank, India’s third-largest private sector bank, has selected AWS to accelerate its digital transformation program and meet the growing demand for its digital banking services. As part of a multi-year agreement, Axis Bank will draw on the breadth and depth of AWS services, including containers, database, and compute, to build a portfolio of new digital financial services to bring advanced banking experiences to customers, including online accounts that can be opened in under six minutes and instant digital payments, helping the bank increase customer satisfaction by 35% and lower costs by 24%. To date, Axis Bank has deployed over 25 mission-critical applications on AWS, including a Buy Now Pay Later product and a new loan management system to support it, Account Aggregator, Video-Know Your Customer (V-KYC), and WhatsApp Banking. Axis Bank also plans to migrate 70% of its on-premises data center infrastructure in the next 24 months to further reduce cost, improve agility, and improve customer experience.

Axis Bank has over 200 million customers who increasingly demand new and innovative digital banking services, including digital deposits, digital loans, and digital credit cards, to better manage their finances. To serve these consumers’ needs and provide new financial services digitally, Axis Bank relies on the scalability, resiliency, and agility of AWS to bring new services to market quickly while maintaining a seamless, excellent customer experience. Using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), which gives customers the flexibility to start, run, and scale Kubernetes applications on AWS or on-premises, Axis Bank built new digital banking products using microservices that support any application architecture, irrespective of scale, load, or complexity. For example, the bank has built fully digital offerings which include its LEAP savings account with a virtual debit card, its NOVA online current account, and OLIVE, its credit card engagement platform, which has serviced more than 3.5 million users since its launch less than two months ago. Using Amazon DocumentDB, a durable, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service, Axis Bank runs secure financial transaction processing across its digital bank accounts. Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud, Axis Bank will scale workloads on-demand to support 10 million daily real-time payments through India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), ensuring reliability and consistent performance. Last year, Axis Bank made the decision to deploy all new customer-facing applications on AWS. Today, 15% of the bank’s applications are already on the cloud, and the bank aims to take this number to 70% in three years.

Axis Bank believes building a cloud-native, design-centric engineering capability is critical to its success. To achieve this, the bank has dedicated over 800 people to its digital projects, built an in-house engineering and design team of more than 130 people, and established a cloud engineering practice centered on agile software development and DevOps principles. Working with AWS Professional Services, a global team of AWS experts who help customers achieve their desired outcomes with the cloud, Axis Bank has set up a cloud center of excellence to accelerate its cloud migration and set the digital foundation for innovating new services, while meeting strict governance, security, and regulatory compliance requirements.

Commenting on this alliance, Subrat Mohanty, Group Executive, Axis Bank said, “Axis Bank is designing new products, crafting digital journeys, and personalizing its services to address the financial needs of its customers better. We continue to anticipate future trends and make investments ahead of time within our technology stack. We believe AWS will enhance our agility and resilience to manage two key features that define our digital business – rapid scale and high velocity. We aim to transition 70% of our infrastructure and applications on the cloud.”

“Cloud is transforming the financial industry and we are delighted to help Axis Bank build and grow a suite of digital banking services that evolve with technology changes, introduce new payment modes, and support evolving consumer and business needs in India,” said Puneet Chandok, President, Commercial Business, AWS India and South Asia, AISPL. “By selecting AWS as their preferred cloud provider, Axis Bank gains access to the deepest and broadest suite of cloud services to rapidly innovate and introduce new financial services ranging from easy account opening, digital lending, and instant payments for customers and businesses.”

About Amazon Web Services

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for computing, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 21 more Availability Zones and seven more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

About Amazon Internet Services Private Limited

Amazon Internet Services Private Limited (“AISPL”) undertakes the resale and marketing of AWS Cloud services in India.

AWS Summit Online India is a 2-day online conference, held on June 29-30, 2021. Puneet Chandok, President, Commercial Business – AWS India & South Asia, AISPL in his keynote address on Day 1 shares why being at the helm of the cloud-led digital transformation in India, is both humbling and a privilege. Here is the link to the blog for your reference:  ‘The AWS mission is to empower builders & businesses to build a better India’

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NEW DELHI, 20 June 2021: The World Health Organization today called upon countries in WHO South-East Asia Region to scale up and rigorously implement public health and social measures, along with efforts to accelerate vaccination for COVID-19, to prevent another surge, as more countries confirmed the prevalence of highly transmissible variants of concerns.

“We need to continuously strengthen our efforts to test, trace and isolate. Societal interventions such as physical distancing, hand hygiene, and proper wearing of masks need to be stringently implemented. These measures should be in full force and for longer periods in areas reporting more transmissible variants of concerns,” said Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia.

The public health and social measures are a wide range of nonpharmaceutical interventions, both individual and societal, and are cost-effective measures to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2, and save lives.

In addition to personal protective measures, they include cleaning, disinfection, ventilation, surveillance. Contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine. Physical distancing measures such as limiting the size of gatherings, maintaining distance in public or workplaces, domestic movement restrictions; and international travel-related measures.

“These measures are critical for preventing infections, reducing transmission, and saving lives”, the Regional Director said.

Even as countries scale up vaccination against COVID-19, they need to implement public health and social measures in a tailored and agile way, she said.

A risk-based approach is needed for public health and social measures. These measures should be implemented by the lowest administrative level and continuously adjusted to the intensity of transmission and the capacity of health systems.

The capacity of the health systems includes both clinical care for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19, and public health services such as case detection, diagnostic testing, contact tracing. The risk assessment should measure both the actual ability to deliver services, and the performance of those services, Dr. Khetrapal Singh said.

“Where more transmissible Variants of Concern are spreading, these measures need to be applied more stringently and for longer periods,” the Regional Director said.

Earlier this week Maldives and Myanmar confirmed transmission of Variants of Concern. Earlier, Variants of Concern have been confirmed in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Timor-Leste.

The Variants of Concern, along with the opening of economies and societies, contributed to the recent surge in cases globally.

Countries across the world are currently at different phases in the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic and face varying epidemiological situations. Though the Region is now witnessing an overall decline in cases, mainly due to decreasing cases reported in India, in some other countries the cases are still increasing.

(https://www.who.int/southeastasia/outbreaks-and-emergencies/novel-coronavirus-2019/sear-weekly-situation-reports)

“We must not forget that the pandemic is still around. We must guard against complacency, at any level. We must continue to implement combinations of public health and social measures until globally there high COVID-19 vaccine coverage among health workers, and high-risk and vulnerable groups,” the Regional Director said.

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India, Pune, June 3, 2021 – FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world’s largest express transportation company, has announced it will donate $50,000 USD each to sustainability-focused projects in India and Africa.

As part of the FedEx Priority Earth Global Grant Program, thousands of FedEx team members selected 12 nonprofits from across the six international regions in which FedEx operates. Each is awarded a $50,000 USD grant, for a total FedEx investment of $600,000 USD toward green solutions:

“FedEx has set ambitious goals to reduce our footprint where we have the greatest environmental impact. Working alongside nonprofits and investing in their efforts is a critical part of the company’s strategy to drive the action and innovation needed to make a difference in our world,” said Jack Muhs, regional president for the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, and Africa.

United Way Mumbai supports multiple environmental sustainability projects, including urban afforestation, protecting mangroves, and watershed development. Their programs support the efforts of local civic bodies and involve community members in environmental protection.

“The support from FedEx will help United Way Mumbai plant and maintain mangrove saplings in degraded wetlands in Mumbai. It will also support efforts to clean and maintain our beaches and reduce marine pollution. We are grateful for this support and know that it will contribute to lasting change in our communities,” said George Aikara, CEO, United Way Mumbai.

Solar Sister supports the environment through the creation of green energy and women-driven businesses that provide power in areas that still do not have electricity. Funding will provide a comprehensive package of support, training, and services to create a larger network of women to bring clean energy technology to remote communities in rural Africa.

“We are so grateful to FedEx for sharing our values and our vision to create a lasting impact toward a sustainable future. Investing in women’s enterprise in off-grid communities is a key part of the solution to the clean energy challenge. The support from FedEx will help to scale our model to more communities in sub-Saharan Africa, multiplying the impact that we have on women entrepreneurs, their families, and their communities,” said Katherine Lucey, Founder, and CEO of Solar Sister, Inc.

This new investment as part of the Priority Earth Global Grant Program aligns with ongoing collaboration between FedEx and organizations that are leading the development of innovative solutions to address climate change. It follows the commitment FedEx made earlier this year to achieve carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040. 

To learn more about FedEx Cares, visit fedexcares.com.

About FedEx Corp.

FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce, and business services. With annual revenue of $79 billion, the company offers integrated business solutions through operating companies competing collectively, operating collaboratively, and innovating digitally under the respected FedEx brand. Consistently ranked among the world’s most admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires its more than 570,000 team members to remain focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards, and the needs of their customers and communities. FedEx is committed to connecting people and possibilities around the world responsibly and resourcefully, with a goal to achieve carbon-neutral operations by 2040. To learn more, please visit about.fedex.com

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