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Shishuraksha Kamineni lifts the trophy of Doctors Cricket League, Season 7

Nov 30, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Doctors Cricket League, #Season 7, #Shishuraksha Kamineni

Hyderabad: Shishuraksha Kamineni wins the final at Doctors Cricket League, Season 7, and walks away with the trophy.

They defeated Medicover two times as well as defending champions. Dr. Neeraj Lal, Chief Guest  Dr. Mohan Guptha, MD of Aarogya Hospitals graced the inaugural of the final match and gave away the trophies.

In a fiercely fought 20-20 game held at MMR Grounds near Shamshabad, both the teams Medicover Hospital and Shishuraksha Kamineni gave a tough fight to each other. In the end, Shishuraksha Kamineni defeated Medicover. They made 123  runs just losing 2 wickets.

Dr. Shashidhar winning team captain said that they could win because of all-around performance by all the players. We could send back our opponent teams’  top batsmen cheaply for 29 for four wickets in just eight overs. In reply, we made quick scores without losing many wickets.

Dr. Krishna Kiran captain of the losing team, Medicover, the two-time champions, said, the best team won. The winning team exhibited all-around performance.

Earlier Dr. Krishna Kiran, Captain of Medicover Hospital, boys in Yellow Jersey won the toss elected to bat first.

Dr. Vikas Reddy and Dr. Parth Patel of the team Medicover started off well but lost few quick wickets. The middle order batsmen played a steady inning and slowly but steadily added runs to the score board. Their finally tally towards the end they put up a challenge of 122 runs for the loss of six wickets.  Dr Anand contributed much needed 49 runs to the team and remained at the crease by the time their inning ended.

In reply opening batsmen Dr. Siddharth and Dr. Karthik of  Shishuraksha Kamineni began their side with blazing shots pushing ball to boundaries and sixers and every possible unfielded sides. By the half time and end of 10 ten overs they put up 57 runs for the loss of just one wicket. The team took up challenge with exuberance right from the beginning. They ended their tour with 123 runs on the score board for the loss of 2 wickets in 17.5 overs.

Dr Chandu of the wining team was adjudged as the Man of the Match as well as the Best Bowler. Chandu knocked 31 out of 21 balls and remained not out. He bowled four overs, gave 33 runs and took one wicket. He picked up 3 catches. As a bowler he took 23 wickets in 9 matches he played.

Dr Siddhu of the winning team bagged the best batsman award. He accumulated 326 runs and scored two centuries.

Man of the series was shared jointly by Dr Anand of Medicover and Dr Chandu of Shishuraksha Kamineni.

“Doctors Cricket League”, 7th Season began in February. 16 teams participated in the league.  250 doctors from hospitals such as Apollo, Yashoda, KIMS, Pranam, Deccan, Omni, Medicover Hospital and Shishuraksha Kamineni. The participating doctors comprise of specialists, super specialists, post graduates from wide variety of disciplines. They are all above 28 years and consultants working with various hospitals. On the whole 45 matches were played before reaching the semi-finals held last week informed Ms Nanda Pandey, Director and Nikhil Sampath, Co-Founder of Mighty Sports.

Doctors life is a busy life and highly stress-prone. They have little spare time for their leisure activities. Sports are no exception. Only busy people can take time out.  Giving importance to fitness, Keeping themselves fit plays a spork like cricket in very inspiring for the general public.

This cricket league is being held for the past six years gives them another meeting ground where they have a chance to catch up and have fun,” said Nanda Pandey, Director of Mighty Sports.

The league matches were played on every Sunday in the last couple of months. The Doctors Cricket League Season 7 is organized by Mighty Sports.  The first match of this season was played between Yashoda Hospital & Rainbow Children’s Hospitals in February this year. Due to lockdown the league matches got disturbed and had to be rescheduled.

Mighty Sports has been organising the Doctors Cricket League every year for the Doctors of Hyderabad since 2013 and completed six seasons so far. Mighty Sports also organized the first-ever National Doctors Cricket League in the year 2017. It is a fun cricket league.

It also made for an offbeat gathering for the doctors to interact with each other and for their families as well. The umpires were selected among senior doctors.
Score:

Medicover: 122 / 8 in 20 overs
Dr Anand 49 off 50 balls and scored 4 boundaries
Dr Kannan,  40 off 31, scored one boundary and two sixes
Dr. Balakrishna, took 3 wickets in 4 overs and gave 17 runs
Shishuraksha Kamineni: 123/2 in 17.5 overs
Dr Siddharth, 20 in 12 balls, scored 3 boundaries
Dr. Karthik, 38 off 48
Dr. Hari, 17 off 27 balls
Dr. Chandu, 31 off 20 balls

The list of players
Medicover Hospitals
Dr Vikas Reddy, Dr Krishna Kiran, Dr. Anil Reddy, Dr. Kannadiga, Dr. Parth Patel, Dr. Suman Banik, Dr. Anand Agroya, Dr. Rahul Agarwal, Dr. Ghanshyam, Dr. Arshad, Dr Kaushik, Dr. Advaith and Dr. Vijay

Shishuraksha Kamineni
Dr. Shashidhar, Dr. Siddharth, Dr. Praneel, Dr. Shashi, Dr. Karthik, Dr. Dilip, Dr. Phanindra, Dr. Chandra Shekhar, Dr. Hari Kumar, Dr. Suresh, Dr. Kiran Reddy, Dr. Prem, Dr. Mahesh, Dr. Bala and Dr. Aditya

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India’s Leading CSR tech platform Goodera hosts successful Karma Summit themed ‘Co-creating a New Normal’

Nov 28, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Abhishek Humbad, #CSR platform Goodera, #Founder & CEO, #Goodera, #Susan Ferguson - UN Women Representative for India

Mumbai: The two-day virtual edition of the Karma Summit themed ‘’Co-creating a New Normal’, hosted by India’s leading CSR platform Goodera, successfully concluded today. The summit drew the participation of over 1150 participants including global visionaries, CXO’s and eminent media personalities from the CSR and volunteering community across India.

Featuring over 50 renowned speakers and jury members across the pharma, tech, auto, non-profit and health sectors, the summit brought to light key cross-cutting issues pertinent to the CSR community. The sessions included engaging and insightful conversations on topics such as changing boardroom discussions around CSR, risk management for resilient CSR programs, interdependent partnerships for inclusive impact and the crucial role of employees who are volunteering to drive action.

The keynote address was given by Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi who highlighted the situation of migrant workers who are unable to find work in their villages or resume their work in the cities. He further expressed the challenges their children face as many migrant workers have lost their livelihoods making their children more vulnerable to exploitation.

“Women make a huge contribution towards economic development globally and within India. The pandemic has hit women hard as many work in the unprotected, informal sector where job losses have been significant around the world. As transport systems stop, women are unable to access essential services such as maternal health services. Globally, domestic violence has surged, giving rise to the ‘shadow pandemic’. We need to fund policies and actions to end this shadow pandemic once and for all. In India, there are a plethora of innovative examples of preventing and responding to gender based violence. The Karma Summit is a welcome initiative to spread the work already happening, learning from each other about what helps women live lives free of violence.” – Susan Ferguson – UN Women Representative for India.

Participants facilitated a dialogue on ways to rebuild CSR strategies that will make the world a better place as it adapts to a new normal post the COVID-19 pandemic. Corporates, nonprofits and HR professionals shared new ways to motivate employers to generate meaningful employee engagement and resources for COVID relief. The summit also helped assess the expected impact of the pandemic on our ability to move towards the SDGs 2030.

“This summit brought under one roof some very critical conversations that impact how companies visualize and implement CSR and Volunteering initiatives for 2020 and beyond. From our panelists and speakers, we learnt how technology and practical solutions such as multi-stakeholder partnerships could transform a region impacted deeply by the pandemic, and help communities to quickly spring back to their feet. We would like to thank all participants of the summit who shared their invaluable insights that will go a long way in helping the world to successfully embrace doing good in the new normal,” said Abhishek Humbad, Founder & CEO, Goodera.

The 2-day summit concluded with the Karma Awards that facilitated individuals and organizations who have made meaningful social contributions to communities during the pandemic. The jury members included established and distinguished leaders in the CSR & Volunteering sectors of India.

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EBG Federation releases Annual Position Paper

Nov 28, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #EBG Federation, #European Business Group

New Delhi: The EBG Federation, formerly known as European Business Group, launched its 18th Annual Position Paper. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this year event-cum-launch-ceremony was virtually attended by all the principal guests and key speakers on the scheduled date. Mr Raman Sidhu, FCA, CEO, EBG Federation, India, said, “This is the first time that, in addition to the Central Government and the regulators, we will also be reaching out to the State Governments. We will start the dissemination of the Position Paper after its release to all the major states in India. It will start with the 9 states with whom we have already conducted webinars this year, and then we will move on to the other states which have not been covered by us so far but are very important in terms of investment by the European Union corporates, and from those states into the European Union countries. We also are planning, for the first time, to do a virtual release of the Position Paper 2020 in Brussels. We are endeavouring to do this in the end of January 2021 and we will be showcasing the Position Paper to the European Commission, and to all the major Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Europe, as well as to all relevant government departments of the European Countries – this is something that we have never done in the past.”

On the occasion, H.E. François Delhaye, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to India, said, “When we analyse the bilateral trade relations between Belgium and India in 2019, we can see that there has been a decline. Unsurprisingly, this persisted in the first half of 2020. This can largely be contributed to a decline in trade in the diamond sector which has historically been dominating trade relations between both countries. Nevertheless, it is important to note that, despite these recent trends, Belgium has maintained its position in the top 5 of EU importers and exporters of goods from and to India. The economic ties between both nations have remained strong and they provide a solid foundation for further enhancement.”

Talking about the need of diversification of Belgium and India trade flows, he said, “The issue of Brexit, the impact of COVID-19, crisis and changing geopolitical realities, can also push both Belgium and India to look beyond diamonds in their bilateral trade. There is an acknowledgement between both countries for the need of diversification of their trade flows. Promising sectors include pharmaceuticals, textiles, biotechnology, ICT, ports, dredging, construction, railways, electronics, food processing, chemicals, renewable energy and clean tech. These promising sectors offer ample potential to curb the current trend of declining trade relations and pivot it to usher in renewed growth.”

Appreciating the work done by the EBG Federation in compiling the 2020 position paper, H.E. Freddy Svane, Ambassador of Denmark to India, said, “Through extensive structural reforms, India has climbed from 142 to 63 in the World Bank ease of doing business index. This increase of 79 places is an extraordinary achievement. Today there are more than 100 Danish companies present in India. Between them, they employ over 200,000 people directly and provide livelihoods for many many more. Denmark is building a green strategic partnership with India. Denmark will work along with India to address climate change through the reduction of CO2 emissions, while at the same time meet the challenges of accelerating urbanisation. This means, balancing the need for infrastructural improvements with smart and sustainable energy solutions, through the development of a sustainable environmental policy. This cannot be done without the active involvement of industry and I am therefore very pleased to see how deeply involved Danish companies in India are in the green transformation. Danish solutions in the wind, bio energy and water, and logistics industries are in high demand and I am positive that they will contribute significantly to the successful achievement of our joint objectives in this area.”

The Position Paper also says that India Continues to attract high levels of Foreign Direct Investment. “The Government has taken many initiatives in recent years such as relaxing FDI norms across sectors such as defence, PSU oil refineries, telecom, power exchanges, and stock exchanges, among others. According to Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), FDI equity inflow in India stood at US$469.99 billion during April 2000 and March 2020, indicating that Government’s effort to improve ease of doing business and relaxing FDI norms has yield results. FDI equity inflow in India stood at US$49.97 billion in 2019-20. Data for 2019-20 indicates that service sector attracted the highest FDI equity inflow of US$7.85 billion, followed by computer software and hardware at US$7.67 billion, telecommunications sector at US$4.44 billion, and trading at US$4.57 billion,” the paper said.

“During 2019-20, India received the maximum FDI equity inflow from Singapore (US$14.67 billion), followed by Mauritius (US$8.24 billion), Netherlands (US$6.50 billion), USA (US$4.22 billion) and Japan (US$3.22 billion). India will continue to be an attractive emerging market for global partners (GP) investment for the coming 12 months as per a recent market attractiveness survey conducted by Emerging Market Private Equity Association (EMPEA). Annual FDI inflow in the country is expected to rise to US$75 billion over the next five years as per the report by UBS,” paper further said.

EGB areas of activities include — providing European businesses with opportunities to connect with the Indian Government and industry and connecting business at multilateral levels through business and social networking forums. Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog and Cabinet Minister; H.E. Hugo Astuto, Ambassador, Delegation of European Union to India; Mr. Tarun Kapoor, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Ms. Nidhi Mani Tripathi, Chief GoI FTA Negotiator, CEO at Price Stabilization Fund Trust and Joint Secretary at Department of Commerce, are expected to grace the occasion. On the other hand, Ms. Rekha Khanna, Director at bioMerieux India and Chairperson at EBG Federation and Mr. Raman Sidhu, CEO, EBG Federation, hosted the event.

The EBG Federation aims to promote Europe as India’s most preferred business partner thus creating an environment that allows European Business to flourish. In this realm, the Position Paper proposes key policy reforms conducive to the business climate which could further increase trade and investments between India and Europe. The Position Paper provides European Commission with views of European businesses operating in India and serves as a base reference document for its bilateral deliberations with the Government of India. The Paper is distributed to stakeholders in the Government of India, the European Commission, and to EU and EFTA Member States.

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GoZero Skellig E-bikes deliveries impacted due to the agricultural bill protests in Punjab

Nov 28, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Ankit Kumar, #British Electric Bike makers, #CEO, #GoZero Mobility

New Delhi: GoZero Mobility- a British Electric Bike makers, known for manufacturing premium electric performance bikes and signature lifestyle merchandise has recently announced a shift in delivery dates of its e-bikes from 25th November to 14th December.

Owing to the agricultural bill protests in Punjab, majority of the trains have been cancelled which has resulted in shortage of raw materials and component availability.

Commenting on the current situation in Punjab, GoZero Mobility’s CEO, Ankit Kumar, said “It’s unfortunate that due to the protests in Punjab, all form of logistics have been highly impacted resulting in high number of train cancellations thus impacting the movement of raw materials and components of the e-bikes.  Our vendors are working on priority to help us with the components and this shall soon be resolved. We deeply regret the inconvenience caused to our customers and dealer partners because of such circumstances. We are thankful to all our customers and dealer partners who have pre-booked Skellig series and have continued their trust in the Brand. We are working to begin Skellig deliveries from 14th December.”

GoZero made an entry into the Indian market in 2019 with two models – the One and the Mile, which has done extremely well. Overwhelmed by the demand and market sentiments, GoZero has recently launched its first series of performance wear e-bike Skellig Lite, Skelling, Skelling Pro. The new Skellig series by GoZero is available for pre-orders on GoZero website and the deliveries will begin from 14th December.

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Mimamsaa – India’s first-of-its-kind ‘premium Decorative Lighting’ brand launch by DITIPL

Nov 28, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Amit Seth, #DITIPL, #lighting sector, #Managing Director

New Delhi: While the world was battling against the Covid 19 pandemic since the month of April this year, four corporate executives were tirelessly working on launching their own company into the Decorative & Commercial Lighting segment in India.

Deepawali in India is known to be the “festival of lights”. Subsequently, it was an apt period to launch Mimamsaa – India’s first-of-its-kind premium Decorative Lighting brand by Decorative Innovation Technologies India Pvt Ltd (DITIPL).

DITIPL had to confine itself to launch the ‘Mimamsaa’ brand digitally by sharing the Product Portfolio having more than 5000+ products with 24 Franchisees, who are known as ‘Premium Project Associates’ in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune, Nashik, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kochi, Ludhiana amongst others.

DITIPL is positioned as a highly innovative decorative and technical Lighting company present in both formats – Online and through Outlets. Mimamsaa range is a ‘premium decorative lighting and artefacts’ brand that has the USP to deal in complete and complex range of materials from simple iron metal to high lustre crystal pieces.

On the organisational front, DITIPL’s mission is to build an organisation ignited with passion & domain expertise in providing premium designer lighting solutions in the Indian market. It wishes to create an enriching value proposition to its Distributors who will be professionally trained & equipped to deliver best-in-class service to satisfy the customers. Finally, it is going to be a technology-backed enterprise with state-of-the-art ERP and CRM solutions in place in order to meet the distributor & end customers’ requirements.

Amit Seth, Managing Director, DITIPL said, “The lighting sector has been still considered ‘unorganised’ because of a lot of pain points like – high dependence on imports from China, lack of product options and presence of strong Pan-India brand, limited availability of manufacturing capabilities to brand reliability and sustainability. At DITIPL, our vision is to create a complete product range from premium decorative lighting fixtures to technical and commercial lighting with impeccable capability to service art-effects to match the original design intent of our partners like Lighting Designers, Architects and Interior Designers etc.”

As a company, DITIPL has a strong emphasis on Customer Education through its ‘Training & Development’ initiative and plans to have highly trained team of Distributors across India to understand the client requirement and provide suitable and efficient solutions. DITIPL plans to grow its Distributor network to 100 in the next 12 -18 months.

Says Deepak Kanulkar who drives the Government Projects & Brand Initiatives of DITIPL, “India is witnessing ‘exponential growth’ in the various areas of public infrastructure ecosystem like Smart Cities, Museums, Sports Stadiums, River fronts, Parks, Airports etc. We at DITIPL are committed to contribute in this endeavour of ‘nation-building’ by supplying high quality international brands along with our own products that will help in beautifying the public infrastructure across all states and union territories of India.”

As a business strategy in premium decorative segment, DITIPL aims to promote Mimamsaa products in sectors like Commercial, Retail, Restaurant, Hospitality, Hi-end Residential, Outdoor & Public Spaces.

Meanwhile, the Company as mapped it target overall business segments very carefully and will focus on Airports, Sports infrastructure, Museums, Parks, River Fronts, Heritage Sites & Religious Structures, Roads & Bridges, Ports etc in addition to outdoor and indoor LED screens.

The management team at DITIPL is represented by two ex-financial services professionals Amit Seth and Harideep Salwan, who have represented financial services institutions like HSBC, AIG, HDFC, ICICI amongst others; Ashish Narang who comes with over 25 years of experience in Lighting having worked with brands like Clipsal, Crompton Greaves, Osram etc and Deepak Kanulkar who has spent over 27 years in Strategic Communications, PR & Public Affairs working for organisations like Bombay Chamber, Cipla, Hinduja, Coca-Cola India, Tata AIG, GRI etc.

DITIPL currently has its offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi.

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Housejoy launches its brand mascot ‘Joe’

Nov 28, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Founder and CEO, #Housejoy, #Sanchit Gaurav

Bangalore: Housejoy, a leading tech-driven Construction, Renovation, Interiors and Home Maintenance company catering to all home-related needs of Indian consumers, recently unveiled its brand mascot Joe. The mascot is a juxtaposition of human and technology – a superhero with super skills – as also an intelligent play on latter half of the brand name.

Joe will be Housejoy’s unifying factor across its two separate verticals and 20+ services and enable seamless and out-of-the-box communication and brand messaging, further resulting in better ROI. He embodies the common man who despite his unique and rare attributes is still perceived to be ordinary, just like the daily workers who are the true contributors to our economy. In a country like India, it is the workers including carpenters, plumbers, etc. who keep things moving and are no average Joe.

Speaking about this, Sanchit Gaurav, Founder and CEO, Housejoy, said, “Housejoy’s business is built on the expertise of working-class heroes like plumbers, construction workers, beauticians, and several others. We wanted a mascot who embodies their skills and eagerness to help on the one hand and Housejoy’s tech-enabled services on the other. This is how Joe came into being. With Joe as our mascot, not only will our messaging be more targeted but also enable a top-of-mind recall for our services. The mascot will also help improve engagement and make Housejoy the go-to brand for any maintenance or construction needs.”

Alongside the launch of Joe, Housejoy has also given its logo a new identity to represent the brand ideology of being ‘home of the experts.’ The home symbolizes all the services the brand undertakes including construction, renovation, interiors. The circle represents Housejoy’s constant presence. The logo also has derivatives of the color red which is considered powerful, energetic, and passionate, representing the pulse of the company.

With customer satisfaction at the core of its operations and fast turnaround times, Housejoy has catapulted to a preferred brand for IRC services in cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai. The brand’s Construction and Renovation business is growing at the rate of 20% MoM and its future plans include building 2000 homes in less than two years. Joe will now be a part of most of Housejoy’s communications, as is relevant and will become the brand’s face.

Housejoy’s team has so far delivered 100+ projects. The brand has also raised investment to the tune of $30.2 million from investors such as Amazon, Matrix Partners, Growth Story, Vertex Ventures, Qualcomm, and others. Going forward, Housejoy plans to scale up its construction business in the known cities across the country, apart from Bengaluru. The brand’s overall goal is to become the largest tech-enabled construction and home services platform in India.

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Recently a City based Karate Organisation Traditional Karate Do Okinawa Kubodo Indo Kyokai has hosted E Kata Championship

Nov 28, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #International E-Kata Karate Championship, #Shihan Ayan Chakraborty & Traditional Karate-Do Okinawa Kobudo Indo Kyokai

Recently an International E-Kata Karate Championship was organized by Shihan Ayan Chakraborty & Traditional Karate-Do Okinawa Kobudo Indo Kyokai. A total number of 352 students participated in this event from five countries: India , Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Grand Master Hanshi Masanabu Sato from Japan was the Supreme Judge and Grand Master Hanshi Eric Govinder was the Chief Judge, Sensei W.D Sarangga from Srilanka & Sensei Md Ali from Bangladesh were also in the judging panel of this E Kata Championship.
Despite the ongoing Pandemic ,it was such a grand successful event organised by Traditional Karate -Do Okinawa Kubodo Indo Kyokai.

Karate means empty hand and karate-do translates to “The way of Karate”. Shotokan Karate is a weapon less martial art that is founded on the basic techniques of punching, striking, kicking, blocking, pressure point and joint blocks, yet there is a dipper aspect to serious karate training which deals with character development. It’s a way for an individual to realize greater potential and expand the limits of those individual physical & mental capabilities. Karate is an excellent, time proven method of personal development. Shotokan Karate-do is a Traditional Japanese Martial Art founded by Master Gichin Funakoshi. Shotokan Karate remains firmly rooted in a strong martial art tradition, emphasizing life time training for a healthy mind & body, rather than strictly as a spot.
Traditional Karate-Do Okinawa Kobudo Indo Kyokai is directly affiliated with Okinawa Karate-Do KobudoTenbukan-Japan, Grand Master HanshiMasanabu Sato 9th Dan and International Federation of Funakoshi Shotokan Karate(South Africa),Grand Master Hanshi Eric Govender 8th Dan. Chief Instructor Shihan Ayan Chakraborty MBA, 6th Dan Black Belt Karate(South Africa) & 6th Dan Black Belt Kobudo(Japan).

Karate-Do is not for a rank, glory or for revenge, it is a way of life said Shihan Ayan Chakraborty The Chief Technical Director of Traditional Karate -Do Okinawa Kubodo Indo Kyokai.

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UP CM Yogi Adityanath received with a rousing welcome in Hyderabad

Nov 28, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday reached Hyderbad to a rousing welcome amid the slogans of ‘Ram Laxman Jaanki’, ‘Jai bolo Hanuman Ki’ and ‘Yogi-Yogi’, ‘Jai Shri Ram’, ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and ‘Vande Matram’.

‘Storming the citadel of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, UP CM took out a massive road show with all roads and buildings adorned with bhagwa colour banners and posters with people in large numbers showered flowers on Yogi who was aboard an open bus.

The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister was doing the road show in Jeedimetla of Hyderabad in support of the Bharatiya Janata Party candidates in local bodies (Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation) elections. The unprecedented welcome to Yogi was significant in the view that the area of road show was in the parliamentary constituency of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen President Owaisi.

The BJP workers and general public was carrying placards with ‘change Hyderabad’ in their hands and the women and children were waving hands atop buildings on the way.

UP CM Yogi embarked on his road show after paying floral homage to Baba Sahab Bhimrao Ambedkar. During his entire road show, CM Yogi reciprocated the welcome by showing victory sign.

It is the first time that the BJP is contesting GHMC polls with such optimism that the experts believe the Congress has slipped to third position after TRS. It is believed that BJP will do well this time and the prospects for the party are further enhanced with the presence of Yogi.

GHMC is spread over 24 assembly constituencies with annual budget of about Rs 5500 crore.

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Doctors Cricket League, Season 7 finals tomorrow

Nov 28, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Co-Founder of Mighty Sports, #Director and Nikhil Sampath, #Doctors Cricket League, #Ms. Nanda Pandey

Hyderabad: “Doctors Cricket League” Season -7 finals will be held on Sunday afternoon here in the city at Vardhaman Cricket ground near Shamshabad.

It will be played between Medicover Hospital and Shishuraksha Kamineni informed Ms. Nanda Pandey, Director and Nikhil Sampath, Co-Founder of Mighty Sports in a press note issued here in the city today.

Over 165 doctors from various hospitals divided into 15 teams participated in the cricket league over the period of last a couple of months.

Doctors life is a busy life and highly stress-prone. They have little spare time for their leisure activities. Sports are no exception. This cricket league happening for the past few years gives them another meeting ground where they have a chance to catch up and have fun,” said Nanda Pandey, Director of Mighty Sports.

The league matches were played on every Sunday in the last couple of months. The Doctors Cricket League Season 7 is organized by Mighty Sports. The first match of this season was played between Yashoda Hospital & Rainbow Children’s Hospitals in February this year. Due to lockdown the league matches got disturbed and had to be rescheduled.

Mighty Sports has been organising the Doctors Cricket League every year for the Doctors of Hyderabad since 2013 and completed six seasons so far. Mighty Sports also organized the first-ever National Doctors Cricket League in the year 2017. It is a fun cricket league. The doctors got into 15 teams from Yashoda Hospitals, Rainbow Children’s Hospitals, among other hospitals.

It also made for an offbeat gathering for the doctors to interact with each other and for their families as well. The umpires were selected among senior doctors

Toss will be done by Mr Venkat Ram Reddy, Director, and Signature Avenues.

Dr Manjula Anagani, Director Suyosha Medicover will be the Chief Guest. Dr. Mohan Gupta, MD, Kailash Hospital, Mr Chandrasen Reddy, Sr Advocate, High Court will be guests of honour. Mr Vasu Raju, MD Sri Vedatreya Developers, Founder Sri Mudundi Ranganathan Raju Foundation will also grace.

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LIBA Signs MoU with Mgm Healthcare

Nov 28, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #and Harish Manian, #CEO, #Director of LIBA, #Harish Manian, #MGM, #MGM Healthcare, #Rev Fr C Joe Arun SJ

Chennai: In a bid to bridge the gap between the medical and management sector, LIBA, Loyola College’s Institute of Business Administration, and MGM Healthcare signed a Memorandum of Understanding on November 28, 2020, at LIBA. The MoU was signed by Rev Fr C Joe Arun SJ, Director of LIBA, and Harish Manian, CEO, MGM Healthcare Pvt Ltd. It signifies an academic collaboration in the areas of teaching, training, curriculum development, research, internship and placements in the field of healthcare management.

LIBA is a private business school with its premises in the Loyola College campus. It is run by the Loyola College Society. It recently ranked 6th in India (Outlook-ICARE, 2020) among private management institutions. LIBA offers over 28 courses. MGM Healthcare, is a 400-bedded quaternary care hospital located in the heart of the city. This super-specialty hospital houses 30+ clinical departments, 12 Centres of Excellence, 24×7 Emergency Care and is equipped with an experienced medical staff and state-of-the-art technology and infrastructure.

The MoU seeks to create a new generation of medical and allied healthcare professionals to face the ever-growing demands of the healthcare industry. The partnership aims to ultimately create stronger healthcare systems that can face the current and future challenges such as pandemic management, quality of care, application of AI in healthcare and so on.

LIBA, with its motto ‘Excellence with Ethics’ recently launched a one-year Executive Diploma in Healthcare Management and will soon be introducing a two-year full-time Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Management and other short-term certificate courses. MGM Healthcare is a member of the Healthcare Advisory Board constituted in LIBA to give industry-based inputs to curriculum design of healthcare management programmes. Students enrolled in these programmes will benefit from industry visits, guest lectures, internships, joint conferences, research and placement in MGM Healthcare.

Speaking at the event, Rev Fr C Joe Arun SJ, Director, LIBA said,

“The two main areas crucial for our future are health and technology. I am delighted today to be a part of this strategic moment in LIBA. We already have started a one year Executive Diploma in Healthcare Management and will soon start a two year full time Post Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Management. With corporate health industry partners like MGM, LIBA will co-create syllabus and also co-teach courses to create future business leaders in health. MGM’s thrust on technology aligns with LIBA’s focus on applications of AI, ML, etc in all domains. In LIBA’s Teaching-Learning systems, courses are taught not only by faculty but industry experts, alumnus and others who together shape the students’ career. With such partnerships the students joining LIBA will be able to clearly see their career path leading to corporate hospitals”.

Harish Manian, CEO, MGM Healthcare — a management graduate himself — said, “We are extremely delighted to be partnering with LIBA. This collaboration will open new doors for both entities and ensure the much-needed industry exposure for students who are looking forward to building their careers in the area of healthcare management. This field requires a lot of dedication as it’s not just about career growth but also involves serving people with the best medical attention. While on one hand this MoU will help students and research scholars at LIBA with their research and thesis preparation, MGM will also benefit from it by getting exposed to younger and brighter minds who will lead the nation in the years to come. It’s a win-win situation.”

The event was presided by key officials from both MGM Healthcare and LIBA.