New India Journal

  Chandigarh : City’s young and dynamic entrepreneur brother duo – Akshay and Karan Grover – will be bringing a whiff of fresh air in tricity’s hospitality sector, with the formal unveiling of French hospitality behemoth Accor's Novotel Hotel, Tribune Chowk on October 1st. The hotel in all its grandeur  qualifies to be a landmark feather in the cap of City Beautiful, & the iconic  facility is going to offer better times for the hospitality sector, while providing many direct and indirect jobs to hospitality industry professionals. “A good hotel creates a chain of opportunities for everyone -- for owners, for employees and also for the people associated with the hotel as business partners. The hospitality sector was the first to get affected by the huge impact of pandemic following cancelled weddings, conferences and travel, we are hopeful that Novotel will have a role in providing impetus to growth of tricity's hospitality sector” reflect Akshay and Karan. “The ...

Mumbai: Pune-based Togethring Media Labs Private Limited has announced the launch of Togethring, a revolutionary Super App, a social entertainment and social commerce platform, where you can do everything online together. It’s an instantaneous, synchronous, real-time and collaborative socio-business platform, which requires no screen/ device sharing. It’s the first ever launch of an Indian communication Super App, that is far and beyond the offerings by the existing world majors. Right from watching media (video/ pictures), watching games, listening to music, shopping, socialising and ordering food to book tickets, study and read together – users can do all at the same time, while chatting or video chatting, but still maintaining privacy. The App is available for Android OS and web browsers. Togethring is the world's first and industry-first unique idea embedded into one application. It's a purely Indian platform, built by Indians for Indians and the world. The Togethring ...

  Chandigarh : Justice Ravi Shankar Jha, Chief Justice, Punjab & Haryana High Court accompanied by Justice Arun Palli, in the presence of Minderjeet Yadav, Chairman, Bar Council of Punjab & Haryana disbursed the financial assistance to the dependents of the deceased advocates at a function organised by Bar Council of Punjab & Haryana at Law Bhawan, Sector 37. The event was attended by functionaries of Bar Council of India (BCI) including Partap Singh, Raj Kumar Chauhaan, Baljinder Saini and others. While addressing the fraternity, Minderjeet Yadav said, “Apart from statutory, enrollment and disciplinary functions, the Bar Council has always worked for the welfare and betterment of the legal fraternity. Before the enactment and implementation of the “Advocates Welfare Fund Act” the Bar Council has so far from its own resources provided financial assistance to the families of approximately 700 deceased advocates. With the increasing inflation every year, the implementat...

New Delhi: Euler Motors, an automotive technology OEM focused on electric commercial vehicles (EVs) announced that BigBasket, Flipkart, Udaan, along with other ECommerce, Hyperlocal and B2B delivery players, have placed an order for 2,500 EVs for intra-city deliveries. The companies will deploy Euler Motors’ EV across Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai to transform and strengthen their first, mid and last mile operations. Deliveries of these vehicles are scheduled to take place in the next 6-8 months. Saurav Kumar, CEO & Founder - Euler Motors The Delhi-based OEM, is set to launch its first three-wheeler L5 cargo vehicle around festive season. Currently, the company is already plying 300+ vehicles as part of a pre-launch pilot with ecommerce, FMCG companies for intra-city delivery in Delhi-NCR. The company is confident that its vehicle will set a new benchmark in on-road performance and customer profitability. Hari Menon, Co-Founder, BigBasket said, “With the exponent...

Chennai : Aarrush Ashok, 8-year school boy from Rajapalayam (Tamil Nadu), has got his name featured for performing Silambam,  a traditional Tamil martial art, with fire burning on both the poles for 50 seconds, as confirmed by the India Book of Records (IBR). Expressing his happiness over getting the record in his name, Aarrush said, “I have always wanted to do our traditional martial art with a twist and have managed to perform it by doing Silambam with fire burning on both poles. When the World is running towards westernization I wanted to excel in one of India ’s famous martial arts 'Silambam', adding a bit of thrill with fire, accomplishing the task at ease and make India proud. I even hope that someday soon, Silambam would be introduced in the Olympics.” He practiced twice a week. Otherwise also, he had been learning the basic Silambam for the past two years at school, as an extra curricular activity. On asking what was the main challenge, he said, “We tried to do the...

Ludhiana: As part of the CSR initiative of Bharat Petroleum (BPCL), Bisnouli Sarvodaya Gramodyog Sewa Sansthan (BSGSS), an NGO mentored by former civil servants, Nandita Bakshi, and Vijay Kumar Jha, launched a new training session at its Skill Development Training Centre for Women. The NGO has been functional in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and UP for the past two decades.   The training centre conducts programmes for women in four disciplines, namely Cutting-Tailoring, Beauty Culture, Computer Operation and English Speaking. The programmes have enabled the beneficiaries to learn new skills and boost their confidence to realize their potential and explore new opportunities for employment and income generation.   B V Gokhale, Chief Manager-HR and Rajesh Kashyap, Executive (Ben-Admn) NR of BPCL, interacted with 30 beneficiaries from the  previous batches to evaluate the efficacy of the project being run at at Dorangla in Gurdapsur district. Ov...

Mumbai: The first and youngest Cerebral Palsy by Dr Pradeep V Mahajan has got appreciation by India Book of Records (IBR). Dr Mahajan is a surgeon and stem cells researcher. He along with his team of medical experts treated an eleven months old child of cerebral palsy. At stemRx, a successful attempt was made to treat cerebral palsy of an 11 months old baby boy. With a personalized and customized designed protocol which is known as ‘Sandwich protocol’ with a Regenerative Cellular Medicine including HBOT, MRT, TDS, FES for the baby. Dr Mahajan said, “I feel really happy and proud to treat this little child. I am honored. This particular case is important because the development of the brain scientifically takes place in the first one to one and a half years. This development is very fast and to match this development with the treatment using Regenerative Medicine to expedite the brain development to match with the normal child’s brain development, this whole thing was a big challe...

  GAIL (India) Limited celebrated International Yoga Day through a series of activities encouraging its employees and social media followers to adopt Yoga in their daily routines as it provides a perfect antidote to the pandemic induced stress and physical activity during testing times. The theme this year, "Yoga for Wellness", is very appropriate at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted lives across the world and Yoga can help cope with anxiety disorder. GAIL employees pledged to make Yoga an integral part of their lives for a better and calmer future. A digital engagement activity was carried out among employees and family members who shared pictures practicing Yoga. Online activities including lecture, workshop and quiz on wellness, healthy food habits and general awareness on Yoga have been organised on the occasion of International Yoga day GAIL also promoted the International Yoga Day related articles and contents through videos, posts and links on soc...

  Raiganj:  Biplab Kumar Mondal of Karnajora, Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal , has received appreciation from the India Book of Records (IBR) for spreading Covid awareness messages among the people. Mondal spread this awareness in the villages, markets, localities by distributing kites to the kids with awareness messages written on them, by providing masks and offering sanitizers. He also delivered medicines from door-to-door and organized awareness by displaying posters and banners on the motorcycle. Mondal, born on September 1, 1978, said, “I started my activities from the very beginning of the spread of Covid-19 in our country. I went out on my motorcycle, hanging few banners and posters on it to make people aware. I taught the passers-by how to make a mask with tissue paper and a rubber band. I also distributed handmade masks and sanitizers to the common people, frontline warriors, health workers and drivers.” The man with a big heart supplied essential medicin...

  Jalandhar: With spring wedding season around the corner, Punjab grown fashion label Jaamawar Minx (JM) founded by a famous fashion designer Rupam K. Grewal, unveiled a spacious and opulent store in Jalandhar's Model Town . The opening of the brand new store also saw the unveiling of a mesmerizing collection ‘Riyasat’. The beautiful collection has 'dupattas' which have been made painstakingly with real gold, pearls, and real Swarovski. The USP of the 'dupattas' is that these have been so richly crafted, that they are heirloom material, to be passed on from one generation to another. Rupam K Grewal who is mainly known for intricate bridal ensembles has experimented this wedding season to blend the vibrancy of the traditional 'phulkaris' with ‘zardozi dabka work’ to give a royal look to her ensembles.   Ace designer, Rupam Grewal who has worked with various types of embroidery for over 15 years said, “We had a lot of demand coming from Jalandhar and mainl...

  The record for the fastest world mapping by a group of girls was set by four students of Andhra Pradesh Tribal Welfare Residential School (APTWRS), Alur, Kurnool , at APTWREI Society, Gurukulam, Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) on December 30, 2020. The group included Banavath Gayathri Bai (Group leader), Sugali Roja Bai, Madiga Manjula and Thota Anu Vyshnavi Devi. They drew an outline of the world map marking the boundaries of all (195) countries of the world in a time span of 1 minute and 15 seconds only. The record has been certified by the India Book of Records (IBR). The attempt was inspired by the coach and principal of the school, K S Sai Kishore. The girls practiced for one year before attempting for the record. They used to give direct demos of in schools and to make the students aware of this unique learning style. The students and teachers stared on the black board with surprise. The group received a lot of appreciation and gifts for this art. It was not easy in the be...

  Hyderabad : The highly talented girl from East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh ( India ) - V L Sanvi has established a national record by remembering too much information at a tender age of seven years. Her name has been included in the India Book of Records (IBR). The young prodigy is appreciated for reciting the names of all Indian states with their capital city names, 30 countries with their capitals, scientific names of 24 body parts along with their English names, 19 denominations and 33 synonyms, at the young age of seven years and 11 months only. This feat was confirmed on November 21, 2020 by the India Book of Records team. The super girl, Sanvi was born on December 2 nd , 2012 in Andhra Pradesh. When the India Book of Records team asked Sanvi that from where she got inspired to set up this sort of records, she quipped, “I am highly influenced by my grand father, who encourages me to do something special in life. He was the force behind my record making journey....