Route Mobile Partners with Sri Lanka’s Telco - Lanka Bell for PaaS & Firewall Solutions

Route Mobile Limited (“Route Mobile”), one of the global Cloud Communications Platform service providers offering Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) & SMS firewall solutions that caters to enterprises, MNO’s and OTT players is delighted to announce a partnership with Lanka Bell, Sri-Lanka's one of the leading telecommunications service provider to strengthen its position in Sri Lanka.

Lanka Bell is a world-class telecommunications operator that provides a full range of telecommunication services, including Internet, data and voice, to businesses and residential customers in Sri Lanka and wholesale bandwidth solutions to operators. With its agreement with Route Mobile, Lanka Bell will expand its portfolio to include a wide range of cloud communications solutions. For example, in addition to IaaS and PaaS services, the Route Mobile’s Cloud Platform as a Service infrastructure will enable Lanka Bell to offer clients A2P Messaging, New age Chatbot messaging.

Rajdipkumar Gupta, MD & Group CEO, Route Mobile said, "This partnership with Lanka Bell is built to combine the strength in domain & technological expertise of both the companies. We are confident that our cloud platform and offerings will enable enterprises in Sri Lanka to enhance user engagement & to deliver better customer experience."

"This partnership with Route Mobile demonstrates our vision of transforming Sri Lanka’s cloud communication sector and will help enterprise customers in the country to embrace cloud communications offerings like Messaging, Instant Messaging & Enterprise Voice quickly and easily," said Dr. Prasad Samarasinghe, Managing Director, Lanka Bell. "We anticipate customers will benefit from this collaboration and expansion of Lanka Bell's cloud communication offerings."

"With this partnership, Lanka Bell can now provide the enterprises the ability to leverage our Super Network and APIs to build out their digital communication service needs. Our suite of APIs provided for various communication channels, across multiple geographies  are scalable and flexible to fit the customers’ requirements. We have also recently launched Route Mobile API Developer Network – a program that enables developers to leverage capabilities of our platform and seamlessly deploy digital communication features within their applications/software," said Tushar Agnihotri, Executive Vice President – India and APAC region, Route Mobile.

Since its inception in the year 2004, Route Mobile has assisted enterprises in their digital communication strategy by enabling multiple channels of communication to deliver messages to their stakeholders – including customers, suppliers, and employees. Further, we provide a suite of APIs,  for various communication channels, across multiple geographies that are scalable and flexible to fit the customers’ requirements.

About Route Mobile Limited:

Established in 2004, Route Mobile is one of the cloud communications platform service provider, catering to enterprises, over-the-top players and mobile network operators. As of December 31, 2019, our portfolio comprises solutions in messaging, voice, email, SMS filtering, analytics and monetization. Route Mobile has a diverse enterprise client base across a broad range of industries including social media companies, banks and financial institutions and e-commerce entities..Route Mobile is headquartered in Mumbai, India, with a global presence in Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America.

About Lanka Bell

Based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Lanka Bell is a world-class telecommunications operator that provides a full range of telecommunication services to businesses and residential customers in Sri Lanka. Established in 1997, Lanka Bell pioneered the introduction of fixed wireless telephony through CDMA technology in Sri Lanka & thereby revolutionising the telecommunication landscape by providing all Sri Lankans the opportunity to enjoy the very best in telecommunication connectivity. The launch of Bell4G home broadband services via 4G LTE technology further enriched and enhanced Lanka Bell's offering and has taken it to the next level.  Among the company's other main offerings is BEST – Bell Enterprise Solutions Technology. This is a specialised suite of enterprise telecommunication solutions which offers voice and text, data, iDC (internet Data Centre) and international services. Lanka Bell is also the landing partner for the FLAG submarine cable network in Sri Lanka. With a significant investment, Lanka Bell owns and operates the totally independent cable landing station thus providing true diversity in international connectivity to Sri Lanka as a country.  

Shemford Group of Schools MD Suggests Measures and Steps that Schools Can Take to Tackle the Outbreak of COVID-19

Mr. Amol Arora, Vice Chairman & MD, Shemford Group of Futuristic Schools, "Preparedness and proper precautionary measures are the only ways to tackle the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. We need to protect our children, who are more susceptible to infection. There are various steps schools and teachers can take to make sure children are safe. Large gathering for students should be avoided on the school premises. In case any staff member or student has been found to be in contact with an infected person or been to an affected country, they should be directed to stay at home for at least 2 weeks. It is important for teachers to stay alert at all times of any possible symptoms a student might be showing. Fever, incessant cough and difficulty in breathing should be immediately reported to parents so that required tests can be done. Schools should also publicize routine hand-washing and hygiene procedures. Additionally, schools should also make available alcohol-based hand sanitisers at various points within the school campus. In washrooms, availability of soap and water must be ensured at all times. Surfaces that are frequently touched such as doorknobs and desktops should be cleaned and disinfected on a regular basis without fail. Schools can also get in touch with their local health departments, to keep themselves updated with the best practices to contain the spread of the virus. It is important for schools to have communication – not just with the health officials – but with students and their parents as well. All the Delhi primary schools have been shut until 31st March in the wake of this outbreak. But schools should assess their options for educating remotely by resorting to online learning.​"

Manipal Hospitals Bangalore Organises ‘Manipal Anveshana’ on World Kidney Day

Highlights

* Conducts Media Workshop on Transplants
* Felicitates Kidney Survivors
* Unveils ‘Wheel of Success - 8 Golden Rules for Keeping Kidneys Healthy and Fit

Manipal Hospitals Bengaluru in association with Karnataka Union Of Working Journalists organised ‘Manipal Anveshan’ - an informative media workshop on transplants with a hope of creating mass awareness on organ donation, transplants and kidney ailments. In line with the theme this year for World Kidney Day, ‘Kidney Health for Everyone, Everywhere’, the hospital also unveiled “Wheel of success” - 8 golden rules for keeping kidneys healthy and fit. Kidney survivors were also felicitated for showing courage and willpower in fighting various kidney ailments.

Ms. Anushree, Sandalwood actress & Indian television presenter in the presence of Mr. Shivananda Tagadur, President, Karnataka Union of Working Journalists, Dr. H Sudarshan Ballal, Chairman Manipal Health Enterprises and Dr. Vishwanath Siddini, HOD – Department of Nephrology at Manipal Hospitals unveiled the Kidney Day Campaign.Also present were Drs Sundar senior  Transplant Physician , Transplant Surgical experts Dr Ravi and Dr Dubey Ms Anuja Pandey, blogger and influencer also graced the occasion

Ms. Anushree, Sandalwood actress & Indian television presenter said, “I am glad to be part of this initiative and congratulate Manipal Hospitals for their efforts in creating awareness on kidney related ailments. I urge people to take their health seriously and incorporate exercise and good eating habits in their lifestyle. Prevention is always better than cure and therefore we must aim to invest on our health.”

Expressing his thoughts, Mr. Shivananda Tagadur, President Karnataka Union of Working Journalist’s, Bangalore said, “The workshop on organ transplant was an eye opener and quite insightful. Transplants are a boon to people suffering from end stage kidney ailment as it can improve quality of life. Me and my entire media fraternity is delighted to be part of this educative workshop and my best wishes to Manipal Hospitals in their endeavour to create mass awareness.”

Dr. Sudarshan Ballal, Chairman, Manipal Health Enterprises said, “We are happy to invite 16 year old Tejaswini who underwent a unique dual transplant of kidney and pancreas at Manipal Hospitals to share her story. Manipal Hospitals provides quaternary and comprehensive kidney care and has the expertise in both adult and pediatric kidney transplants which not many healthcare providers offer. We are able to successfully deal with complex cases with the best in class doctors and international quality equipment’s in kidney transplant. Infact our competent team of nephrologists and urologists have instilled hope among people with challenging cases and have set a benchmark in the medical fraternity. The case of Mr. Jahed Ziyad Moqbel Qaid Farea a 33 year old gentleman from Yemen is also extremely interesting as he underwent dual organ transplant where liver transplant is followed by kidney transplant which is also not very common. Therefore I congratulate the team for achieving medical feat and successfully performing dual transplants. Infact dual transplants are a boon to patients with serious illness and organ failure as it helps to restore quality of life.”

The case of 16-year-old Tejaswini is extremely heartwarming when the family discovered that the little girl had inherited Type 1 diabetes, which destroyed her pancreatic cells. She was suffering from this condition for the past two years and was on insulin. During the course of treatment, it was observed that her pancreases were affected and her kidneys were damaged due to which she was on dialysis. Later, she was referred to Dr. Goutham Kumar, Consultant HPB - Organ Transplant, Liver Transplant Surgery, Manipal Hospital Old Airport Road. The doctors considered her case as a top priority and with proper advice from team of doctors i.e Dr. Ravichand C Siddachari, Consultant HPB, Organ Transplant, Liver Transplant Surgery, Dr. Vishwanath S, HOD & Consultant - Nephrology, Dr. Deepak Dubey, Consultant – Surgical Urology and Transplant Surgeon and Dr. Sudarshan Ballal, Chairman, Manipal Health Enterprises she underwent a Kidney and Pancreas transplant. Now, she will be soon back to school and will lead a normal life.

Mr. Babu Reddy was suffering from kidney issues since 2017. Post a detailed health check at Manipal Hospitals, his kidney creatinine level was very high and was advised to undergo Kidney transplant under Dr. Sundar Sankaran, Consultant – Nephrology, Manipal Hospital Old Aiport Road. During the period of treatment it’s been observed that 50% of his liver functioning was facing issues.

Dr. Goutham Kumar, Consultant HPB - Organ Transplant, Liver Transplant Surgery, Manipal Hospital Old Airport Road and Dr. Ravichand C Siddachari, Consultant HPB, Organ Transplant, Liver Transplant Surgery strongly advised him to go for kidney transplant. Infact to he was lucky as within 2 weeks of time he got a donor who donated both liver and kidney. He finally underwent dual transplant of both kidney and liver. The surgery was challenging and it took 14 hours to finish both the transplants. Mr. Reddy got a new lease of life as his creatinine levels are now normal. Post-transplant, he had infection and was on ventilator and ICU care for nearly two months. At every point of time, he fought back and had a successful liver and kidney transplant. Now, after two and half years he is leading a normal life and is more active.

Dr. Vishwanath Siddini, HOD – Department of Nephrology at Manipal Hospitals said, “People must watch out for early symptoms of kidney failure like reduced urine, excessive fatigue, persistent nausea, fluid retention that leads to swelling. It is always better to be careful as kidney disease often has no symptoms, and it can go undetected until at a very advanced stage. Patients who are on dialysis, Kidney transplantation significantly improves their overall quality of life. “

Mr. MuJahed Ziyad Moqbel Qaid Farea a 33 year old gentleman from Yemen who had previously suffered from liver disease due to Hepatitis B (HBV) and underwent liver transplant in 2018 at Manipal Hospitals Old Airport Road was back with renal failure. The kidney biopsy test revealed kidney damage and the only option left for him was to undergo kidney transplant on January 2020. This case is unique as he is one of the only few patient who has undergone dual organ transplant where liver transplant is followed by kidney transplant. Fortunately, his liver and kidney function are normal. He is under care of Dr. Ravichand C Siddachari, Consultant HPB, Organ Transplant, Liver Transplant Surgery and Dr. Vishwanath S, HOD & Consultant – Nephrology, Manipal Hospital Old Airport Road.

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a non-communicable disease that affects 1 in 10 people worldwide. While its severity can vary, CKD is often progressive and needs lifelong medical care. Over 850 million people worldwide are now estimated to have kidney diseases from various causes. CKD causes at least 2.4 million deaths per year and is now the 6th most common cause of death. 9 out of 10 patients who have kidney disease don’t even know that they have it. Between 2 to 7 million premature deaths happen for lack of access to dialysis and transplantation.

Tata Motors Inaugurates Fifth Saarthi Aaram Kendra at Udaipur

Highlights

* First Saarthi Aaram Kendra in Rajasthan, in association with Pasco Motors
* The initiative provides comfortable rest stops to commercial vehicle drivers
* Fifth Saarthi Aaram Kendra launched in last one year after the first Kendra was launched in Haryana in May 2019

Driven by its mission to address the issues in the trucking industry, Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, in association with Pasco Motors, has launched Saarthi Aaram Kendra, at Madri, near Udaipur, Rajasthan. This is the fifth Saarthi Aaram Kendra in the country, for the truck drivers, launched by Tata Motors in the last ten months. The unique initiative is primarily aimed towards improving the working conditions of commercial vehicle drivers while promoting better quality of life and taking necessary steps to enhance their mental and physical wellbeing. The Saarthi Aaram Kendra was inaugurated by Mr. Rajib Ghosh – Regional Manager Customer Care, Tata Motors and Mr. Ashok Khandelwal – General Manager, Pasco Motors along with senior officials from Tata Motors, Pasco Motors, fleet owners, key customers, sales and service team, and more than 65 saarthis. During the launch, Tata Motors also conducted the Samarth health check-up camp and driver training on health, safety and environment for the truck drivers.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Rajesh Kaul, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Commercial Vehicle Business Unit, Tata Motors, said, “Truck drivers form an important cog in the wheel, keeping the economy of India moving. At Tata Motors, we appreciate their efforts and we want to prioritise their mental health and physical wellness through our initiatives. After receiving an overwhelming response from truck drivers at Saarthi Aaram Kendras across the country, we are excited to open more such centres to improve the working conditions of the drivers. We are pleased to partner with Pasco Motors to bring comfort and safety to the saarthis in Madri, an important hub for truck drivers in Rajasthan.”

The Saarthi Aaram Kendra at Pasco Motors, Udaipur is expected to benefit the saarthis in utilising the various amenities like driver rest area, canteen/dhaba, doctor’s facility, clean washrooms, vehicle servicing facility, secured parking and driver training room, amongst other things. This is a step forward in recognising the efforts of saarthis by providing them access to state-of-the-art amenities as well as address their medical requirements.

The Saarthi Aaram Kendra initiative is a part of a larger driver welfare program that Tata Motors runs and also includes the ‘Tata Motors Samarth’ initiative, which covers areas like accidental insurance, hospitalisation cover, financial counselling and educational assistance packages for their children, for the wellbeing of the saarthis and their families.

The first Saarthi Aaram Kendra was inaugurated by Mr. Girish Wagh (President, Commercial Vehicle Business Unit, Tata Motors) in May 2019, at an Indian Oil facility in Haryana. It has received healthy response with more than 50 drivers availing its facilities on a daily basis. Tata Motors has put a strategic plan to set-up more such facilities along major National Highways to serve the needs of more drivers in the future.

IIoT India 2020: Reimagining the Future' by SingEx Exhibitions Concluded at Hyatt Regency Gurugram

IIoT India 2020: Reimagining the Future' by SingEx Exhibitions concluded at Hyatt Regency Gurugram with powerful discussions. The conference tracks include engaging sessions, case studies, live demos & panels on Smart Manufacturing, Smart Infrastructure, Cyber Physical System, Big Data Analytics, Enablers. Over 35 speakers from renowned global MNCs participated in the event. The event was attended by many dignitaries including Ravi Agarwal, President, Automation Industry Association; Gaurav Sarup, Managing Director, Marshall Machines; Vivek Saha, Director and Head Digital transformation and industry 4.0; Anup Wadhwa, Director Automation Industry Association and Baldeep Singh Pahwa, General Manager & Country Head, SingEx India.

Expressing his happiness on the occasion Mr. Baldeep Singh Pahwa, General Manager & Country Head, SingEx India, said, "Manufacturing automation will lead to faster and more efficient production processes, increased efficiency, and reduction of complexity and downtime. As Industry 4.0 moves from vision to reality, it's evident that no single player can do it alone. Only with open collaboration and idea exchanges will 4.0 concepts find their way into practical implementations. It is with this thought in mind that we set out to form a collaborative environment between suppliers and manufacturers at IIoT India 2020"

The 2020 edition of IIoT India is a business platform dedicated towards reimagining the future by creating collaboration and knowledge sharing opportunities for professionals in the Smart Manufacturing & Smart Infrastructure value chain. The event aims to connects technology solution providers, enablers, end-users and potential IoT technology adopters. IIoT India 2020 focused on the development   and   the   future   growth   of   IoT adoption in Manufacturing & Infrastructure in India.

Speaking on Accelerating Innovation & Partnership within Industry; Ravi Agarwal, President, Automation Industry Association, said “The word Smart in India can be break down in Sansadhan, Manav, Rupaya and Technique. To me Smart is an amalgamation of these four words in the backdrop of India and anybody is able to balance these four, nobody can stop that enterprise or an individual from being a success story. It has been a thought process that do we actually absorb all the high technology stuff, copy it and paste it in the Indian manufacturing format; force our people and make them think certain ways. Our country has survived for thousands of years not by copy paste but by absorbing, evolving and making everything in India.”

Gaurav Sarup, Managing Director, Marshall Machines, shared his views on Empowering Industry with Smart Machines. He highlighted the importance of three low hanging fruits and encouraged the crowd to adopt them UMM-Universal Machine Monitoring, PDM- Predictive Maintenance and CLAP-Closed  loop autocorrected production. He added, “These three low hanging fruits in manufacturing are accessible, affordable, easily implementable, yielding good results in just few months of manufacturing.”

SingEx Exhibitions India, IIoT India has been a key industry platform for governments, industries, and technology leaders to foster closer partnerships and in turn, create opportunities for the public and private sectors to embrace Industrial Internet of Things. Co-located with IIoT India, Xelerate India is a platform for start- ups, corporates, government and support service providers to collaborate and advance innovation.

Simpliance Bespoke Audit Management Tool Streamlines Audit Process for Organisations

Simpliance Technologies, India's largest integrated digital Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platform helps organisations to fulfil their audit requirements with Simpliance Bespoke Audit Management tool. The cloud-based tool offered by Simpliance, a key subsidiary of India's leading business services provider Quess Corp (BSE: 539978, NSE: QUESS), can be customized as per multiple audit engagements and is simple and effective in implementation.

Ranging from financial audits (as per the international accounting standards), assets audit to ISO audits, Simpliance Bespoke Audit Management tool manages the auditing end-to-end. Its detailed automated auditing report with simplified work paper management and risk-based auditing processes help business meet their specific audit requirements in a most efficient method. Simpliance's intelligent engine with its flexible interface allows organizations to create their own auditing checkpoints, weightage, risk and arrive at the scoring on an intuitive dashboard. It also reduces 40% of overall cost with reduced manpower, logistics cost and management time.

Speaking on the innovative product, Anil Prem D’Souza, Founder and CEO, Simpliance Technologies said, “With Simpliance’s Bespoke Audit Management tool, the timeline required for scheduling and logistics reduces to almost zero with large no. of audits beings run with speedier turnaround. It also increases productivity by 75% for vendors, stakeholders and business rather than logistics, paperwork and resubmission of data repeatedly.”

With Bespoke Audit Management tool, organizations can identify and create pre-audit checkpoints which do not carry weightage, define process specific compliance checkpoints and create dynamic forms & fields to include other parameters of the audit. This flexibility allows organizations to conduct audits such as and ISO audit, check of financial assets, environmental health & safety, social audits or even simple internal company audits belonging to internal processes. The easy-to-use cloud-based tool allows online submission of evidences by auditees and online auditing by auditors. This ensures that the tracking, log, observation and recommendation are all visible to various stakeholders in the organization, without the need for manual requesting and reporting. Also, the advanced options enable sighting of Non-Compliance (NC) by auditors and allows tracking and updation by auditee until closure of NC.

"Simpliance has been conducting monthly vendors compliance audits for us in a diligent and organized manner. Their software also has required features that are aimed at reducing manual intervention. Periodic compliance updates shared by them also helps us stay updated,” said the spokesperson from Cushman & Wakefield.

Bespoke Audit Management tool recognizes and highlights global audit standards and principles of Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA) and ensures mitigation of risks during the audit process. The quality of audits is standardised with the online platform which has complete legal and statutory information from over 70,000 pages of digital data on the latest amended laws.

About Simpliance Technologies

Backed by India's leading business services provider Quess Corp (BSE: 539978, NSE: QUESS), Simpliance is a Bengaluru-based compliance technology firm incorporated in April 27, 2016. Simpliance provides an easy-to-install SaaS-based plug-and-play governance, risk and compliance solutions that simplifies labour compliance management to organisations varying from large corporates to start-ups. It lets the organizations manage the entire ecosystem of labour law compliance by automatically configuring applicable compliances as per state and industry. Also, it has a free e-library that has close to 70,000 pages of curated labour laws neatly catalogued and available for anyone who wants to learn and comply with the laws of the land.

Remote Working Technologies to Protect its Employees from the Coronavirus Outbreak'

“COVID-19 or Coronavirus, a global pandemic, has disrupted the day-to-day processes of businesses. Organizations are now focusing on the safety and well-being of their employees, and rightly so. Instead of halting operations, however, businesses can choose to shift towards remote working methods. According to a report by Gartner, 54% of HR leaders have cited that poor technology and/or infrastructure for remote working is the biggest barrier to effective remote working.  This is where the robust services of CloudConnect Communications come into the picture.

Mr. Gokul Tandon, Executive Chairman, CloudConnect Communications said, as India’s first licensed B2B Virtual Network Operator, CloudConnect Communications offers a collaborative platform that allows companies to overcome this threat while maintaining seamless business continuity and optimum employee productivity. We offer a secure, robust, reliable, scalable and trackable mobile-first unified communication infrastructure that aids remote teleworking so that businesses can continue operating even under any unforeseen circumstances. We are looking forward to helping your businesses thrive and emerge victorious from this unprecedented challenge.”