Godrej Security Solutions Joins India Inc. To Urge Citizens To Secure Their Health And Homes By Taking The COVID-19 Vaccine

* Offers discounts to vaccinated customers on all Home Lockers and UV Case range

Godrej & Boyce, the flagship company of the Godrej Group, announced that its business Godrej Security Solutions (GSS) launched special offers for customers who have taken the first dose of the Covid 19 vaccine on their range of CSIR certified UV cases and Home Lockers. Vaccinated customers are entitled to a 10% discount on these products just by connecting with the company’s sales team on their WhatsApp no- 9820247847. They are required to share a picture of their vaccination certificate issued by the Government for validation. Post successful validation, the GSS team will share a coupon code which the customer can use on the e-commerce platform to purchase the products covered under the offer.

This comes at a time when the country is reeling under the impact of the second wave and is preparing to fight against the anticipated third wave. Mass vaccination is the need of the hour to fight the Covid battle and secure ourselves, our families and in turn, the nation from this deadly virus. As per the latest report from the Ministry of Health, India has administered over 32 crore vaccines to date, which is still a drop in the ocean considering our sizeable population. This is testimony to the hesitancy of Indians when it comes to taking the Covid vaccine.

Commenting on the same, Mehernosh Pithawalla, Vice- President, Godrej Security Solutions stated, “Mass vaccination is need of the hour to protect ourselves and our families from this deadly virus. At Godrej Security Solutions, the security of our customers be it physical health or peace of mind, has been our foremost priority and hence we urge the citizens to take the vaccine and avoid being hesitant towards it. As way to incentivize them towards making health security a priority, we came up with some special offers where our vaccinated customers are entitled to a 10% discount on our home lockers and UV case range of products, which have been in great demand during this pandemic. We can win this fight against Covid-19 one step at a time however, it is important for all of us to move the same direction, together.”

Godrej & Boyce has been in the forefront in the fight against this virus since last year with the introduction of various products across its 14 diverse businesses. Godrej Security Solutions launched the UV Case which is CSIR certified to curb the spread of the virus in homes and commercial spaces. GSS also launched a range of health security products for commercial spaces. These products come with a number of features like face recognition with and without masks, thermal screening, chemical free sanitization process, motion detection, etc. The Ministry of Home Affairs recently issued guidelines for ‘Touchless’ access control system in all offices to comply with Social Distancing norms, designed to fit in the current needs of the workplaces. Hence, these products are appropriate, keeping the current situation in mind.

About Godrej Security Solutions:

Godrej Security Solutions is a division of Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd and part of the USD 4.1 billion Godrej Group. A pioneer and leader in the business, Godrej Security Solutions Division is the largest manufacturer and marketer of Security Solutions in India. It is the largest supplier of security solutions to several prestigious banking, corporate and public institutions. For the first time in the category and the industry, Godrej Security Solutions Division has been awarded the Superbrand status. It has also won the “Most Preferred brand” award in the Home Segment. The Division currently exports its products to over 45 countries including Middle East Asia, South East Asia, Far East Asia, East Africa, the US, Europe and the SAARC Countries.

3i Infotech On A Hiring Spree To Fuel Its Growth Plans This Year

* Looks to expand its footprint to provide extended support to its global clients in new technology areas by hiring over 1000 next gen technologists 

3i Infotech Limited (BSE: 532628, NSE: 3IINFOTECH), a global Information Technology company, committed to accelerating business transformation, has announced its plans of recruiting over 1000 technical-functional professionals at their overseas and India based offices in Mumbai, Chennai, Noida, Bengaluru and Hyderabad this year, including 100 professionals for this quarter as part of a major recruitment drive. As part of its new growth journey, the company is hiring on a large scale to provide seamless support to its global clients. 

With deep domain expertise across BFSI, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail & Government sectors, the company is looking to hire experienced professionals for their Application, Automation & Analytics (AAA) business unit at offices. The current hiring positions include - Senior Developers in dot net and Angular, Technical Project Managers, Tech Leads, Senior Java developers, Team Leads, Technical Project Managers, Business Analysts, Mobile App Developers and Quality Analysts. They are also looking at hiring professionals in deep tech positions for their cloud-first business unit that include - Oracle cloud infrastructure certified engineers, edge-ready cloud services, digital IMS of micro data centers. 

COVID pandemic has opened the global access to talent across the world and has created the need to bring in more talent. India being their prime focus market this year, their concentration will be to build the foundation, cater to their people capabilities, processes, policies and be a global company. The company will be building transformational consulting capabilities into the organisation by hiring technologists with strong domain functional and industry experts to drive business transformation for its clients. The digital roadmap will be centred on combining the offerings with emerging technologies like - AI, Blockchain, Intelligent automation and no code to help clients add agility and innovation in their digital transformation initiatives. 3i Infotech will also hire experts in risk & compliance, GDPR, supply chain, telecom etc. 

“As part of our new growth phase, the company will change the entire model of working to be perimeter-less global offices with no physical and geographical boundaries. Our company will see developments in blockchain COE that will expand capabilities in building zero trust systems in the risk and compliance management. Seamless human and humanoids co-existence and collaborative working models is the way forward. The new telecom media, entertainment business units will focus on SD-WAN as services, SASE, edge computing, industrial IOT capabilities. In the near future we will be ramping up AI/ML engineers and data scientists for our 5G-powered cognitive services,” said Thompson P. Gnanam, Managing Director & Global CEO, 3i Infotech. 

The company had earlier announced that it aims to achieve an organic revenue growth of $1 billion by 2030. With over 4200 employees in 30 offices across 15 countries and over 1000+ clients in more than 50 countries across 4 continents, 3i Infotech has a very strong foothold and client base in geographies like North America, India, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and South Asia. Their approach of ‘Invent-Incubate-Innovate’ and their plan to Run, Grow and Build will help accelerate new business growth and drive business excellence and transformation. 

About 3i Infotech  

Headquartered in Mumbai, India, since inception in 1993, 3i Infotech has been committed to driving business value across multiple industry verticals. 3i Infotech, today, has emerged as a leading name in propelling the current wave of digital transformation initiatives, with deep domain expertise across BFSI, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail and Government sectors. The Company has over 4200 employees in 30 offices across 15 countries and over 1000+ clients in more than 50 countries across 4 continents. With a wide range of IT services, 3i Infotech has successfully transformed business operations of customers globally. The Company has a very strong foothold and client base in geographies like North America, India, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and South Asia.  

Range Rover Sport SVR Introduces In India: Luxury And Performance Taken To New Heights

* Range Rover Sport SVR features a 5.0 I supercharged V8 petrol engine that delivers a power of 423 kW and torque of 700 Nm that provides an acceleration from 0-100 km/h in 4.5 s

* Jaguar Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations produces the fastest and most powerful Range Rover ever, delivering heightened performance and commanding presence

* SVR Performance seats, Sports Command driving position and driver-focused cabin enhance the dynamic character of Range Rover Sport SVR

* The Range Rover Sport SVR pricing starts from ₹ 219.07 lakh, ex-showroom in India

Jaguar Land Rover India, today announced the introduction of Range Rover Sport SVR in India. The Range Rover Sport SVR is available with SVR’s range-topping 5.0 I supercharged V8 petrol engine that delivers a power of 423 kW and torque of 700 Nm and is capable of accelerating from 0-100 km/h in 4.5 s.

Rohit Suri, President and Managing Director, Jaguar Land Rover India said, “Range Rover SVR redefines & further elevates performance and luxury in an SUV by leveraging the best of bespoke British design and engineering. I am sure that Range Rover Sport SUV enthusiasts and fans will simply love this latest offering combining formidable British engineering craftsmanship with high end and refined luxury.”

Superior performance

The Range Rover Sport SVR is the fastest, most powerful and dynamic Land Rover ever produced. Designed, engineered and developed by Jaguar Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations, the luxury performance SUV is hand-finished in Coventry, UK. It unleashes the full potential of the Range Rover Sport’s lightweight and robust all-aluminium architecture, while retaining the refinement, luxury and off-road capability for which Range Rover is world-renowned.

Coupled with bespoke enhancements to the chassis, the SVR delivers more dynamic handling without compromising traditional Range Rover comfort or all-terrain capability. The brilliantly engineered design of the vehicle ensures a controlled pitch under heavy acceleration and braking, and the damping hardware is tuned to provide exceptional turn-in, mid-corner grip and body control.

Distinctive and powerful look

The reprofiled front bumper design lends the Range Rover Sport SVR an assertive appearance, with vents designed to improve brake cooling. The performance brake pads and discs provide enhanced performance at higher temperatures, ensuring the braking system is more resistant to fade during dynamic driving. Body-colored detailing at the rear and an SVR badge also help to identify the SVR.

Inside the Range Rover Sport SVR, the lightweight SVR Performance seats create an athletic silhouette and provide exceptional comfort on long journeys. Finished in high-quality perforated Windsor leather, the SVR Performance seats reflect the SVR’s status as the ultimate high-performance luxury SUV. Seat backs finished in satin black with an embossed SVR logo on the headrests also deliver heightened exclusivity. The supportive seats also create more rear legroom and the impression of a cosseting four-seat interior, while retaining flexible five-seat capability.

Continuing the high-performance theme, sound quality comes from a 19-speaker Meridian Surround Sound System, which combines 825 watts, a dual-channel subwoofer and Trifield technology for a thrilling personal sound experience in every seat.

To know more about the Range Rover Sport SVR, kindly visit www.landrover.in.

Land Rover Product Portfolio in India

The Land Rover range in India includes the 20MY Range Rover Evoque ( starting at ₹ 59.04 Lakh),  Discovery Sport (starting at ₹ 65.30 Lakh),  New Range Rover Velar (starting at ₹ 79.87 Lakh),  Defender 110 (starting at ₹ 83.38 Lakh), Range Rover Sport (starting at ₹ 91.27 Lakh) and Range Rover (starting at ₹ 210.82 Lakh). All prices mentioned are ex-showroom 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 (2), Coimbatore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kochi, Karnal, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mangalore, Mumbai (2) , Noida, Pune, Raipur, Surat and Vijayawada.

InMobi Collaborates With The Trade Desk To Expand Access To Pulse Brand Lift Solution For Marketers

* The partnership helps marketers across India to accurately measure the incremental impact of their advertising and drive real-time optimizations on The Trade Desk platform

InMobi, the world’s leading marketing cloud, announced the availability of the services of its mobile-first consumer intelligence platform – InMobi Pulse, on The Trade Desk’s demand side platform (DSP). Through this first-of-its-kind partnership, InMobi and The Trade Desk will provide brands with the ability to deterministically measure the incremental brand impact of their campaigns across digital media – mobile web, desktop, and in-app.

Using brand lift surveys that are delivered programmatically, brands can measure metrics such as brand awareness, favorability, intent to purchase and other metrics that determine campaign effectiveness. “Marketers are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate the impact of their advertising dollars. The Trade Desk is committed to giving advertisers more options to measure the value of their ad spend and prove their marketing investments are driving business results,” commented Vivek Misra, Senior Director, Data Partnerships, The Trade Desk. “We’re thrilled to partner with InMobi to make it easy for marketers to access reliable and affordable brand lift studies from within our platform.”

“This proposition by InMobi Pulse gives digital marketers an efficient, accurate and unbiased means to establish the efficacy of their campaigns. Marketers can accurately deliver in-app surveys to an exposed group which has seen the ads and to a control group which has not seen the ad. Through the difference in brand metrics between the two groups, the true impact of a campaign can be measured.” shared Vasuta Agarwal, Managing Director, Asia Pacific.

Talking about the partnership, Tejinder Gill, General Manager, India for The Trade Desk shared, “This partnership is another step in our constant endeavor to help modern marketers become future-ready. Programmatic advertising is seeing strong growth in India and the Pulse platform’s ability to leverage the programmatic ecosystem’s core technology to reach users on their primary screen – mobile - and capture feedback adds immense value. We are looking forward to more and more advertisers adopt and benefit from this new-age media effectiveness solution.”

InMobi Pulse’s AI-powered platform delivers ready-to-use analytics for marketers to drive in-flight optimizations such as:

Creative optimization within and across ad formats such as video

Spend optimization across various media, platforms or audiences 

Building and (re)designing the brand messaging.

The brand lift study can be deployed for a single creative or the entire campaign, based on the metrics the brand intends to measure. Advertisers can measure ad recall, awareness, consideration, favorability and purchase intent using the InMobi Pulse BLS on The Trade Desk’s platform.

InMobi Pulse was recently listed by Forrester as an Early-stage New Tech platform in New Tech: AI-Enabled Consumer Intelligence Solutions, Q2 2020 – its latest guide on consumer intelligence solutions powered by artificial intelligence. Getting actionable consumer insights at scale is one of the biggest challenges for marketers today and with access to 620 million unique users in Asia Pacific, InMobi Pulse empowers marketers to understand and identify their ideal customers. InMobi Pulse leverages over 50 mobile-first signals including location and demographics to help brands gather rich consumer intelligence in a privacy-compliant manner.

QuEST Global Acquires Synapse Design To Enhance Expertise In Semiconductor And Connected Engineering

* This acquisition will enable the company’s vision to grow its semiconductor business and add 2,000 engineers within the next four years.

QuEST Global, a global product engineering and lifecycle services company, has acquired Synapse Design, a Silicon Valley headquartered design and engineering services provider to top-tier semiconductor and systems companies worldwide. This addition will enhance QuEST’s capability in providing comprehensive design and consulting services and software development for the semiconductor industry. With this acquisition, the company will be able to offer end-to-end hardware-enabled software solutions to its customers across various industries, including semiconductor, automotive, consumer electronics, networking, and storage systems. Such solutions are especially critical now, as these industries accelerate their efforts to capitalize on the rise of digital technologies and the transformational opportunities arising.

This acquisition will enable QuEST’s vision to grow its semiconductor business, add at least 2,000 engineers in the next four years while enhancing their ability to leverage the convergence of electronics, software, and digital engineering services. This will also support QuEST to provide innovative, digital solutions to its customers, help improve their operational efficiency and solve the complex challenges in terms of cost and quality of products.

With its strong customer portfolio and domain capabilities in the semiconductor industry, Synapse Design is QuEST’s 14th acquisition in the last two decades. Each acquisition has added differentiated skills and enabled the company to create one of the broadest portfolio offerings of any engineering services company, enabling them to create the frontier by advancing the ways people live, work and engage with each other.

Founded in 2003 by Satish Bagalkotkar and Devesh Gautam, Synapse Design has built a strong reputation by providing end-to-end semiconductor design services to 95% of the world’s top fabless, Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) and Integrated Device Manufacturing (IDM) companies. Their services and solutions include low-power, mixed-signal Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and System-On-Chip (SOC) design services from architecture specifications to tape out, including system-level software and embedded firmware development. The company creates end-to-end hardware/software design solutions targeting Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Data Center/IoT, automotive/autonomous, multimedia, mobile, networking, and communications/storage applications.

Synapse Design has its design centers in India, China, Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam and employs more than 700 engineers. As a QuEST subsidiary, it will continue to operate under the leadership of Satish Bagalkotkar and Devesh Gautam.

Welcoming Synapse to the QuEST Global family, Ajit Prabhu, Chairman & CEO, QuEST Global said: "We are constantly looking for outstanding talent and capability that can help us provide innovative engineering services and solutions across our customer base. The acquisition of Synapse Design will enable us to provide comprehensive design services, consulting, and software development services to our semiconductor customers. We strongly believe that the investments we are making in enhancing our engineering capabilities will help customers solve complex engineering challenges in their respective industries. As their trusted thinking partner, we are committed to providing end-to-end engineering solutions that will help redefine their engineering strategy from a long-term perspective."

Sharing his excitement, Satish Bagalkotkar, President, CEO and Co-Founder, Synapse Design said: “We are excited to be part of the QuEST family as the combination of both companies brings great opportunities for our stakeholders, including customers, partners, and employees. This acquisition will combine our capabilities in providing design and consulting services with QuEST’s capabilities in providing embedded & software services and expertise in the convergence of electronics, software, and digital engineering innovations. This combination will help us to deliver world-class engineering services and solutions to customers across various industries.”

Devesh Gautam, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Synapse Design said: “The acquisition of Synapse Design by QuEST Global is an excellent next step for the customers and employees of both companies. Synapse and QuEST share an unrelenting passion to provide customers with excellent engineering talent and a best-in-class customer service experience. As a global organization, we will be able to serve new and larger customers across the globe, add value to existing customers and create more high-skilled engineering jobs in the region.”

UPL Ltd Launches New ‘NPP’ Business Unit To Enhance Biosolutions Capacity For Sustainable Agriculture Offering Worldwide

 

·  UPL is the largest manufacturer and distributor of biosolutions worldwide.

·  NPP will focus on  UPL’s global biosolutions operations, accounting for 7% of total revenues.

·  Biosolutions market set to grow to US$10bn by 2025 as consumers demand more sustainable food systems.

UPL Ltd. (NSE: UPL & BSE: 512070), a world leader in sustainable agriculture products and solutions, has announced the launch of ‘NPP’ – Natural Plant Protection – a new global business unit housing UPL’s comprehensive portfolio of natural and biologically derived agricultural inputs and technologies.

NPP will act as a stand-alone brand, consolidating UPL’s existing biosolutions portfolio, network of R&D laboratories and facilities worldwide, which currently accounts for 7% of UPL’s total revenues. 

NPP’s global offering will continue to benefit from UPL’s extensive global distribution footprint, drawing on innovation, research and development capabilities, and will be supported by UPL’s unique, proven ability to rapidly bring products to market on a global scale.

NPP’s extensive portfolio will play a vital role addressing farmers’ pain points – including abiotic stress, soil health, residues, and resistance management – in developed and developing agricultural markets alike.

Jai Shroff, Global CEO, UPL Ltd. said:

“For over two decades, UPL has been investing in the development and scaling of biosolutions. The strength of our current portfolio is testament not only to our progressive approach to sustainable agriculture, but also to the dedication of our teams across the world to meeting the innovation and technology needs of farmers, consumers, and the environment. Our OpenAg purpose places collaboration at the heart of progress, and NPP will work across UPL’s global footprint to shape and scale the biological technologies of the future.”

Fabio Torretta, Chief Operating Officer, NPP, UPL Ltd., said:

“NPP can change the world. It has the right capabilities, the right mindset, and the right technical skills and resources to drive a new era of positive, progressive change in agriculture. The biosolutions market is set for double-digit growth to US$10bn by 2025, compared to traditional agrochemicals, which are projected to experience single digit growth. NPP is well positioned to shape a more sustainable food future.”

One of NPP’s greatest strengths will be the company’s ability to cross-pollinate innovation across regions, understanding and learning from the needs of one market to increase the speed and depth of penetration into another market. NPP will be agile in adding products and platforms to its portfolio, creating global partnerships and training programs, contributing to environmental sustainability, farmer resilience, and improving food value chains worldwide.

Atmanirbhar Bharat: Grene Robotics Designs And Develops India’s 1st Autonomous Drone Defence Dome System: “Indrajaal”

Grene Robotics has designed and developed India's first 100% indigenous Unified, Distributed and wide-area Autonomous Drone Defence Dome called Indrajaal. Indrajaal will protect a large area of 1000-2000 sq. km per system against threats such as UAV's, Incoming Weapons, Loitering Munitions, Low-RCS targets autonomously.

Grene Robotics has developed extensive AC6ISRT capabilities in the form of Defence OS over an 8 year of R&D journey backed by decades of system development experience for the armed forces.  Grene Robotics advisory board consists of Retired Defence Scientific Advisor, Deputy Chief of Army Staff, BEL Director and Air Force veteran who was instrumental for designing India's most comprehensive command and control system for the Indian Air Force called IACCS.

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Why is this critical

India must stop adopting reactive measures and embark on responsive and autonomous systems to be prepared for modern warfare. Manual weapons and point based defence systems cannot fight modern warfare driven by AI and Robotics. For the first time in India and many times globally rogue forces have adopted cutting-edge technologies such as UAV's, Smart Swarms etc. Jammu Air Base on June 27th was attacked by such technologies to drop explosives next to Mi-17 hangar.

PLA is already toying with advanced weaponry in Western Theatre Command (WTC) tasked with military operations against India along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Drones are being used to train the infantry to conduct beyond Visual Line of Sight Targeting. The PLA also developed a high-altitude and high-speed armed drone, the WJ-700, in 2021. In 2020, it introduced armed robots, and in 2021, reconnaissance robots, in its military exercises.

Limitation of current deployments

Point defence Anti-UAV systems will not be able to counter and protect large defence bases, NCR and linear infrastructure like international borders and such sensitive areas against aforementioned threats. A minimum of 300 systems are required to be deployed to protect the entire western border and this is financially not a viable option. On the contrary 6-7 sectorally deployed Indrajaal systems with their seamless connectivity can protect the entire western border.

How does Indrajaal work

Autonomous Defence/Weapon Systems is the 3rd revolution of the warfare and Indrajaal's design principles are based on delivering such autonomy to the Defence Forces leveraging a combination of 9-10 modern technologies powered by Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Robotics that is capable of identifying, assessing, deciding, acting and evolving autonomously in real-time. Whether the threat is single or multiple or a combination of UAVs, Low-RCS, Loitering munitions and such, Indrajaal is capable of countering all such threats.

1. Real-time situational awareness

2. Distributed, Decentralised and Mobile

3. Integrated and Intelligent meshed network

4. Ability to integrate with all current weapons suite and infrastructure

5. Honeycombed cell structure seamlessly built over a combination of 9-10 technologies

6. 24x7x365 persistent and autonomous monitoring, tracking and action

Wg Cdr MVN Sai (Retd), CEO Defence, Grene Robotics said, “I urge the defence leadership to take an integrated and comprehensive approach against all the UAVs, loiter ammunition swarm drones and low RCS threats with indigenously developed Autonomous Defence Systems.   Conventional defences will be overwhelmed in a swarm attack scenario and an AI Enabled Autonomous Dome with its own ecosystem of sensors and processing is the way forward. The process of establishing a fully functional system is an evolutionary process and needs technology vision and user involvement.”

Earlier this year Grene Robotics announced their partnership with (BEL) to jointly develop first-of-its-kind Autonomous air defence technology, bringing India on par with the best autonomous defence systems of the world.

About Grene Robotics

We believe that technology augments human capability, not replace it. The answer to some of the greatest challenges faced by humanity can be found in nature. What is stopping us from learning from them is the lack of tools to transfer knowledge from nature to human design. 

At Grene Robotics we are leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing to building future autonomous technologies that can self-learn and self-adapt to foster mankind’s vision towards a better planet. We believe autonomy is the future and we are delivering it NOW.

We put in over 12 years of R&D to build Grene Robotics. Today, we are an innovation-led, robust, cutting-edge technology organisation that delivers Autonomy as a service, augmenting human capabilities. Our solutions are helping Governments and organisations across the globe to run efficiently.