JK Tyre Partners With Delhi Traffic Police Road Safety Cell & SIAM For National Road Safety Month

Reinforcing its unwavering commitment towards safer mobility, JK Tyre & Industries Ltd announced  its  collaboration with the Delhi Traffic Police Road Safety Cell (the educational wing of Delhi Police) and Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) in their efforts to promote importance of safe roads under National Road Safety Month, being held  from 18th January to 17th February 2021 in New Delhi.

JK Tyre has been the torchbearer of promoting road safety awareness for the past three decades. In view of the importance of this activity this year, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has mandated that the previously held National Road Safety Week be hosted for a month this time as National Road Safety Month 2021.

This year, the focus is on pedestrian safety. Delhi Traffic Police has identified high accident spots in and around the city at high traffic density locations.  JK Tyre, in association with Delhi Traffic Police, has deployed a team of volunteers at strategic locations to further drive awareness about safer driving practices at these locations.     In addition, there are various ongoing activities, such as Walkathon, at high visibility locations.

Mr. Srinivasu Allaphan, Director - Sales & Marketing at JK Tyre & Industries Ltd., said, “As a responsible Corporate, JK Tyre has  been diligently working towards tyre safety through its unmatched technologies leading to road safety. Looking at the increasing numbers of road accidents due to bad tyre health diagnostics, JK Tyre introduced ‘SMART TYRE’ technology in India that will surely cut down on road accidents.  We are fully committed to our Government’s initiatives of road safety, and have been partnering with them to spread awareness across the nation on Safe Driving.”

JK Tyre has always been a proponent of safe driving on roads, and JK Tyre-Constitution Club Rally is a prominent initiative brought in by the Company. Introduced in 2010, the annual rally, held along with parliamentarians, promotes the cause of Road Safety and educates the masses on important aspect of safe driving.  As an ongoing activity, JK Tyre has also been providing road safety training to truckers, drivers, school children, and general public through several programs in collaboration with authorities.

JK Tyre & Industries Limited

The flagship company of JK Organisation, JK Tyre & Industries Ltd is amongst the top 25 manufacturers in the world. Pioneers of radial technology, the Company produced the first radial tyre in 1977 and is currently the market leader in Truck Bus Radial segment. The Company provides end-to-end solutions across segments of passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, farming, Off-the-Road and two & three-wheelers.

A global force, JK Tyre is present in 105 countries with over 180 Global distributors.  The Company has 12 globally benchmarked ‘sustainable’ manufacturing facilities - 9 in India and 3 in Mexico – that collectively produce around 35 million tyres annually. The Company also has a strong network of over 4000 dealers and 550+ dedicated Brand shops called as Steel Wheels and Xpress Wheels.

JK Tyre’s unwavering commitment towards innovation is reflected through its state-of-the-art global research and technology centre – the Raghupati Singhania Centre of Excellence - in Mysore, which houses some of the world’s finest technologies and techniques.

JK Tyre launched India’s first ever ‘Smart Tyre’ technology-and introduced Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) which monitors the tyre’s vital statistics, including pressure and temperature. The company recently rolled out its 20 millionth Truck/Bus Radial tyre becoming the first and the only Indian company to achieve this milestone.

It is the only Indian tyre manufacturer to be included in the list of Superbrands India in 2019 for the seventh consecutive year. JK Tyre has been conferred the Sword of Honour for Safety across its plants by the British Safety Council,UK. The company entered the Limca Book of Records with the country’s largest off-the-road tyre - VEM 04.

JK Tyre is also synonymous with motorsport in the country. For over three decades, the Company has relentlessly worked towards shaping India’s positioning as the motorsport hub of Asia, developing the right infrastructure for the sport and promoting young talent in the arena..

PhonePe Partners With Axis Bank On UPI Multi-Bank In Indian Market

* This partnership with Axis Bank will further enable quick and secure payments to over 265 million registered PhonePe users

PhonePe, India’s leading digital payments platform, today announced that it has partnered with India’s third largest bank, Axis Bank on UPI multi-bank model giving its users the option to create and use multiple UPI IDs with Axis Bank’s “@axl” handle.

In addition, PhonePe will also start acquiring merchants with Axis Bank  in addition to its partnership with YES Bank. This is inline with the company’s philosophy of offering users and merchant partners a seamless transaction flow. Collaborating with multiple banking partners will further strengthen the overall service reliability and uptime of PhonePe's offering.

Commenting on the announcement,  Hemant Gala, VP Financial Services & Payments, PhonePe said, “At PhonePe, our foremost priority is to provide the best in class payments experience to our users. We are excited to partner with Axis Bank to provide our users an option to create and transact using @axl handle on PhonePe. Our platform now enables the users to choose between multiple handles for their UPI transactions on the multi bank model. This partnership with Axis Bank will ensure greater business continuity for both our customers and merchant partners making their transaction experience seamless.”

Speaking on the partnership, Sanjeev Moghe, EVP & Head – Cards & Payments, Axis Bank said, “It is our constant endeavour at Axis Bank to build on strategic alliances and digital solutions that help us meet our customers’ ever-evolving needs. This collaboration with PhonePe strengthens our commitment towards digitization of the Indian payment ecosystem. It will help expand our reach to customers and the merchant community, while offering secure and seamless payment experiences. “

About PhonePe:

PhonePe is India’s largest digital payments platform with over 265 million registered users. Using PhonePe, users can send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, data cards, pay at stores, make utility payments, buy gold and make investments. PhonePe forayed into financial services in 2017 with the launch of Gold providing users with a safe and convenient option to buy 24-karat gold securely on its platform. PhonePe has since launched several Mutual Funds and Insurance products like tax-saving funds, liquid funds, international travel insurance and Corona Care, a dedicated insurance product for the COVID-19 pandemic among others. PhonePe also launched its Switch platform in 2018, and today its customers can place orders on over 300 apps including Ola, Swiggy, Myntra, IRCTC, Goibibo, RedBus, etc. directly from within the PhonePe mobile app. PhonePe is accepted at over 16 million merchant outlets across 500 cities nationally.

About Axis Bank:

Axis Bank is the third largest private sector bank in India. Axis Bank offers the entire spectrum of services to customer segments covering Large and Mid-Corporates, SME, Agriculture and Retail Businesses. With its 4,586 domestic branches (including extension counters) and 11,629 ATMs across the country as on 31st December 2020, the network of Axis Bank spreads across 2,586 centers, enabling the Bank to reach out to a large cross-section of customers with an array of products and services. The Axis Group includes Axis Mutual Fund, Axis Securities Ltd., Axis Finance, Axis Trustee, Axis Capital, A.TReDS Ltd., Freecharge and Axis Bank Foundation. 

FGII Introduces “Health Super Saver Offering 80% Discount” On Applicable Premium If The Initial Years Of Plan Tenure Is Claim Free

Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited (FGII), announced the launch of "Health Super Saver", a unique insurance product that offers a discount on the premium. The policy will provide a discount of 80% on the applicable premium in the consecutive year(s) of the plan tenure in case there is no claim in the first/ second year of the plan. 

FGII is offering this product in two variants i.e. 1X and 2X. The Health Super Saver 1X plan provides a discount of 80% on the applicable premium in the consecutive year of the plan in case the first year of the plan is claim-free. In the Health Super Saver 2X plan, the policyholder can get 80% discount on the premium for the next consecutive two years of the plan, in case first two years of the plan tenure are claim-free or up to first claim. Further, an additional family discount of 10% is available if two or more family members are covered on an individual sum insured basis. The product covers an infant who is one day old to a senior citizen up to 70 years of age. 

Anup Rau, MD & CEO, Future Generali India Insurance said, “This product is unique. The customer gets 80% off in the second year if there is no claim in the first year. No fine print, no ifs and buts. We hope to seed the importance of health insurance in the younger population where customers are reluctant to pay health premiums, looking at it as a ‘loss’ if there is no claim raised.  

The product also provides comprehensive coverage for mental illness and psychiatric intervention or consultation” 

The consumers can opt for paying the premium in instalments on a monthly, quarterly, or half-yearly basis. 

About Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited 

Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited is a joint venture between Future Group – the game changers in Retail Trade in India and Generali – a 189 years old global insurance group featuring among the world’s 60 largest companies*. The Company was incorporated in October 2006 and received the IRDAI license in September 2007 with the objective of providing retail, commercial, personal and rural insurance solutions to individuals and corporates to help them manage and mitigate risks. 

Future Generali India has been aptly benefitting from the global Insurance expertise in diverse classes of products of Generali Group and the Future Group. Having firmly established its credentials in this segment and effectively leveraging on the skill set of both its JV partners, Future Generali India has evolved to become a Total Insurance Solutions Company. 

*As per Fortune Global 500 Ranking (2017) 

*Future Generali India Insurance is certified ‘Great Place to Work’ (December2020-November 2021) 

About Generali Group 

Generali is an independent, Italian insurance Group, with a strong international presence. Established in 1831, it is one of the largest global insurance providers present in over 60 countries with total premium income exceeding €68 billion in 2017. With nearly 71,000 employees in the world and 57 million customers, the Group has a leading position in Western Europe and an increasingly significant presence in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in Asia. 

Anticipating Cyberattacks And Going Ahead Of Prediction For 2021

By Vijendra Katiyar, Director - Enterprise Business, India & SAARC, Trend Micro 

Imagine a scenario where we can anticipate crimes and stop it before it happens, ensuring a crime-free city. That’s the power of anticipation and prediction. In a popular American sci-fi movie ‘Minority Report’, there is a pre-crime unit – a specialized police department who apprehend criminals based on foreknowledge that they have acquired from the psychics called precogs. What’s interesting is that these precogs have visions that gets displayed on the screen and they come to know – where, when and how a crime is going to get committed. 

This is exactly what we need in the cybersecurity space – we need a precog. One that can help us anticipate cyberattacks. Talking about recent cyberattacks and major breaches there was one common thread, that of, missing information – either system error, misconfiguration, insider threat, vulnerability, or lack of visibility. To further validate this, the recent Data Breach Investigation Report of 2020 from Verizon confirms that in the last four to five years nothing has drastically changed when it comes to tactics and common methods adopted by hackers for data breaches. According to a research report by Ponemon Institute, the dwell time i.e. mean time to identify and contain the threat is still around 300 days. 

If you look from a CISO’s perspective, their onus is to protect data in the present and future times, irrespective of where, who or how it’s accessed. On one side they have the challenge of protecting the data, on the other side, they are haunted by the Cassandra syndrome, where the users are less aware of cybersecurity. There is also an executive board whose beliefs are closely tied to facts and figures, demanding evidence and ROI related to cybersecurity. Gartner talks about five board questions which the CISOs should be prepared to answer: 

Are we secure and compliant? 

Why is security so expensive? 

Why can't security move faster? 

Why can't we be a digital company? 

Why can't we have competitive edge from security? 

If we can anticipate infrastructure or business technology change, we can tell the board that these are the areas of investment whether its people, process or technology that can help us mitigate the risk. Hence, security can become a part of this business technology fabric which can help us move faster.  

In order to achieve this, we have to look at building a framework which can help us anticipate better. Two key aspects should be considered while building this framework – strategy and corresponding execution. 

Building anticipation using global cybersecurity trends and intelligence, for instance, with the help of leading industry cybersecurity analyst reports, looking at past & present cybersecurity incidents or breaches with relevance to the respective industry and using threat prediction report by cybersecurity experts. 

Anticipate technological change adopted by organizations to stay ahead of the curve considering business demands (cloud adoption, IT-OT integration, Work from Anywhere which is the new norm).  

Organizations have started implementing tools and have adopted a framework which can provide more visibility across all the different security layers – endpoint, email, cloud, network or IIOT. Adopting XDR helps to anticipate and respond better across all security layers, which in turn improves the MTTD and MTTR. 

We have heard about Gartner's Adaptive Security Architecture based on risk and trust. Apart from prevention, we also need to pay attention to other aspects – prediction, detection and response. We need to anticipate in order to respond effectively.The epitome of cybersecurity maturity comes with anticipation. 

In this context, let’s understand how XDR can help anticipate better, providing: 

Realtime contextual visibility across multiple security layers: Endpoint, email, network, cloud, mobile and IIOT. 

Timeline and attack visualization: To know what, when and how. 

Correlation: Events, alerts across multiple technologies (for e.g. email and endpoint and network), also low and high severity events. 

Threat modelling framework: Mapping with MITRE framework for Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) to learn more about adversaries/threat actors. 

Automation and integration: Automation (prioritization of triggers or workbench) in the environment and integration with security exchange and threat intelligence platforms, to complement SIEM/SOAR and send high fidelity alerts and eliminate the noise. 

Threat intelligence: Proactive sweeping of IOC discovered in global cyber-attacks.  

Remediation/mitigation: Remediate and respond with confidence. 

A recent report by ESG and commissioned by us, ‘The XDR Payoff: Better Security Posture, ESG Research, Sep 2020’, talks about the benefits of the organisations who have adopted XDR or organisations with XDR. It says that they are better protected and have suffered half as many successful attacks over the last 12 months. They can anticipate quickly – 2.2X more likely to detect a data breach/successful attack in a few days or less. They are also able to respond completely – 60% less likely to report that attack re-propagation has been an issue. When you have the bigger picture, you can understand the full impact and respond both faster and completely. There are fewer blind spots that allow for a resurgence of attacks.

Aurinko Academy Launches India’s First Career-Focused Junior College In Bangalore

Aurinko Academy, a progressive school based in Bangalore, India partnered with eminent educationist Dr. Manish Kothari, Founder, ISBR Group of Institutions, and Dr. Shivananda R Koteshwar, Founder, Belakoo Trust to launch the nation’s first Integrated Career Focussed Junior College in the city.

The Aurinko Academy’s Integrated Career Focussed Junior College offers a structured program to children in 10 career streams including Pure Sciences, Design, Architecture, Fine Arts, Law, Hospitality, Mass Communication, Psychology, Education, Engineering & Medicine.

Junior Colleges are a crucial stage of a student's life and this first of its kind program in India helps the students make the right career choice, understand the career stream he/she has chosen, participate in various internships, get mentored to evaluate/improve their skills and build a greater awareness and readiness to make the most of their Undergrad College and face the World of Work.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Chethana Keni, Founder, and Principal Aurinko Academy said, “Aurinko Academy believes in preparing students to transition successfully towards a future career path. Throughout their schooling days, at Aurinko Academy, from Kindergarten to Grade 12, children are provided with a hands-on curriculum opportunity to build general capabilities, support interests, and aspirations, and support them to make informed decisions about their subject choices and pathways.”

According to Manish Kothari, founder ISBR Bangalore, and the new trustee at Aurinko Academy, “We always wished to start programs that are meant for the real world and with real learning. The new junior college program is a game-changer in the Education space. Junior colleges just focus as a stop-gap to prepare for entrance coaching to get placed in select institutes, the Aurinko program provides an integrated and immersive experience for children to learn the tools of the trade, get skilled for the world of work while preparing for entrance exams and completing their Grade 12.”

Dr. Shivananda R. Koteshwar who is the new trustee of Aurinko Academy and will be working closely with the Aurinko team on building new courses and charting the next growth charter said, “The highlights of the Junior College program is – a 3 month Bridge Program at the start of Grade 11 to align children on a path of self-discovery, an intensive 2-year career toolkit for each stream to help them explore the tools of the trade and intensive Foundation Program on 21rst century skills to prepare them for the World of College and Work.”

By building a career focussed program from Grade 8 onwards focuses on helping students reflect on all their experiences, find passions that can be developed into a career, triangulate their attitudes, aptitude, and achievements to create a 10-year career path for themselves. 

Bellatrix, Skyroot Aerospace In Pact For Futuristic Orbital Transfer Vehicles On Vikram Launchers

Skyroot Aerospace and Bellatrix Aerospace, who had both won this year’s National Startup Award under launch vehicles and satellite categories respectively. After ISRO and Government of India promised its support to private space companies through creation of IN-SPACE and announcement of new space law, Indian space companies have started to take bold steps and this is among the first contracts between Indian space startups in that direction.

Skyroot and Bellatrix entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to use the Orbital Transfer Vehicle being developed by Bellatrix Aerospace in the upper stage of Vikram series of launch vehicles being developed by Skyroot. An Orbital Transfer Vehicle is a spacecraft that can perform various in-orbit operations including deployment of customer payload to precise orbits, thus allowing a launch vehicle to deliver satellites to more orbits than what was conventionally possible. In simple terms, it is like a taxi in space to take satellites to their operational orbits. Skyroot and Bellatrix plan to have the first mission of a Vikram launcher with an Orbital Transfer Vehicle by 2023.

Bellatrix Aerospace, an IP driven space tech company founded in 2015, is a full-suite solution provider of spacecraft propulsion systems based in Bangalore, India offering both chemical and electric propulsion technologies. Currently, Bellatrix is expanding its business towards developing Orbital Transfer Vehicles based on its advanced propulsion technologies for precise orbital insertion of satellites and also becoming prime contractor for developing and operating unconventional satellite platforms for highly demanding and complex mission requirements.

Skyroot Aerospace, founded in 2018, is a National Award winning startup building space launch vehicles. It is founded by former ISRO scientists and planning their first launch to Space in 2021. Last year Skyroot successfully tested their upper stage engine Raman and Solid fuel demonstrator Kalam-5.

Naga Bharath Daka, COO & Co-Founder at Skyroot Aerospace, said, “We are elated to partner with Bellatrix Aerospace, to use their Orbital Transfer Vehicle with our Vikram series of launch vehicles. This gives us additional boost to our launch capabilities to meet specialized customer requirements”

Pawan Kumar Chandana, CEO & Co-founder, said, “We believe collaboration among our own startups can offer very competitive solutions from India for the world. We have also partnered earlier with Dhruva Space”

Speaking about this partnership, Mr Rohan Muralidhar, CEO of Bellatrix Aerospace said, “We are confident that this partnership will help us serve complex mission requirements and at the same time reduce the cost of access to space. The increasing demand for timely satellite constellation deployment in different orbits and on rideshare missions has not only made Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTV) attractive, but also necessary. We are happy 

The Ultimate All-Electric Performance SUV, Jaguar I-Pace Set To Launch In India On March 9, 2021

●  Jaguar I-PACE, the world’s first Premium All-Electric Performance SUV, will be launched in India on 9th March, 2021

●  The launch of the I-PACE marks a significant milestone in the electrification journey for Jaguar Land Rover in India

●  An immersive and highly engaging digital launch event has been planned to mark the arrival of the highly anticipated Jaguar I-PACE in India

Jaguar Land Rover today announced that its first all-electric Performance SUV, the Jaguar I-PACE will be launched in India on 9th March, 2021, through a unique and immersive digital launch event. It will be open to members of the media, customers and fans and enthusiasts of the brand.

Rohit Suri, President & Managing Director, Jaguar Land Rover India said, “After the fabulous response to the digital launch of the Land Rover Defender, we are excited about curating yet another digital experience for the launch of Jaguar I-PACE in India. This immersive & engaging digital event will provide a peek into a future-facing urban metropolis that is practically designed from the perspective of a sustainable ecosystem, uses innovative technologies and supports efficient modes of mobility like electric vehicles. I am certain that members of the media, our esteemed customers and fans of the brand will thoroughly enjoy the virtual experience being offered through this unique, futuristic and eclectically designed launch event.”

Since its debut, the I-PACE has won more than 80 global awards. It was the first car ever to win all three World Car titles simultaneously in 2019; World Car Of The Year, World Green Car Of The Year and World Car Design Of The Year.

Bookings for the Jaguar I-PACE are open. For more information on All-Electric Jaguar I-PACE, kindly visit www.jaguar.in

Jaguar Product Portfolio in India

The Jaguar range in India includes XE (starting at ₹ 46.64 Lakh), XF (starting at ₹ 55.67 Lakh), F-PACE (starting at ₹ 66.07 Lakh) and F-TYPE (starting at ₹ 95.12 Lakh). All prices mentioned are ex-showroom prices in India.

Jaguar Land Rover Retailer Network in India

Jaguar Land Rover vehicles are available in India in 24 cities, through 28 authorized outlets in Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bengaluru (3), Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi (2), Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kochi, Karnal, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mangalore, Mumbai (2) , Noida, Pune, Raipur, Surat and Vijayawada.