Fanzart - Luxury Fan Brand Unveils 3,000 Sqft New Showroom At Sadashivnagar In Bengaluru; Unveils 6 New Fan Models

Fanzart, pioneers of luxury designer fans in India, has opened its 104th showroom in the country. The showroom is located on Bellary Road in the posh Sadashivnagar locality of Bengaluru.

Fanzart, that started operations in 2012 has completed 10 years of operation and already has one company-owned showroom and two franchised outlets in Bengaluru. This new showroom will be the flagship showroom of the company with the largest display of luxury designer fans in the country.

Speaking on the launch of the flagship showroom, Mr. Anil Lala, Founder and Managing Director, Fanzart said “It brings me immense pleasure to be able to scale to such heights and have a widespread display of the most outstanding quality of luxury fans under one roof. We have a great team who work hard towards bringing innovation and defining state-of-the-art technology in designer fans.”

The outstanding range of more than 100 luxury designer fans on display in the showroom with perfect detailing and the right amount of spacing with interiors makes the showroom stand out and promises to be a fan connoisseur's delight.

6 New Fan Models

The company has also unveiled 6 new fan models- HALO, ORBIT, JAZZ, MAPLE Sunset, CHERRY Plum, and CHERRY Night.

“We are very excited about our new flagship as well as the 6 new models we are launching. The first 3 are brand new designs - the HALO, the ORBIT and the JAZZ, based on design trends and modern minimalism. They are powered by power-saving BLDC motors, and offer Fanzart's Summer-Winter feature - allowing the fan to rotate anti clockwise for a cool breeze and clockwise for a cozy warm air effect - all with the convenience of a remote control. 

The other 3 are variants of our existing designs which introduce a new dimension, they tell a story between the sequences of colors and because they are conceptualized and customized, this particular collection is only limited by your imagination. There could be infinite models, and a customer can customize it themselves." explained Mr. Tarun Lala, Co-Founder & Director, Fanzart.

HALO: A contemporary fandelier, it presents a breathtaking design with multi color LED lighting that illuminates your space while rendering an elegant and luxurious look. Powered by a brushless DC motor, this sustainable fandelier is a modern minimalist addition to Fanzart's decorative fandelier collection.

ORBIT: Orbit fandelier is a piece of art on your ceiling. With multi-color LED options transforming your interiors at the touch of a button, the inconspicuous fan blades spin only when you need.

JAZZ: A contemporary fan design made with handcrafted wooden blades, that resembles a wavy triangular note, to add a touch of jazz .The blades are light beech color that could be customized into 3600 shades or wooden finish with a metallic centre making the fan look sturdy.  Powered by a brushless DC motor that absorbs 70% lesser power

MAPLE Sunset: A customized version of the original Maple, it draws an inspiration from the spectrum of the sunset, covering 6 unique colors of the sunset as though bringing sunset into the room. Powered by a DC motor, this fan is breezy & whisper quiet. 

CHERRY Plum: True to the name, this fan looks like Cherry dipped into fine wine to create a lovely gradient of rose. The wine colors are a refined version of the popular Cherry fan. The colors may hide the wooden finish, but the characteristics of the specially handcrafted wood still prevail.

CHERRY Night: The original Mini Cherry has been customized to create the various soothing colors of the night sky that make the fan a great addition to contemporary interiors.

Fanzart is also known for its unique fans that include fans with classic look, interesting fans for kids' rooms, elegant and stylish- fandeliers, humanoids, mini fans, fans with blue tooth and fans with customizable blades.

About Fanzart

In the 10 years of its entry into the market, Fanzart has risen to prominence as a pioneer and leader in the luxury designer fans segment. With over 100 showrooms across the country, Fanzart is a name to reckon with in the luxury interior segment with its niche offerings. The products are also shipped internationally and have made a mark for themselves.

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Toyota Kirloskar Motor Continues To Create ‘Green Wave Through Afforestation’

* Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) continues its strides to enhance afforestation activity through planation of over 750 saplings at its plant facility held recently

* To date, TKM has planted more than 3,23,000 saplings with 650 native species, creating rich biodiversity

* Toyota accelerates various eco activities towards realizing the carbon neutrality goals

In its journey of developing a strong sustainable culture in the company, Toyota Kirloskar Motor continues to make strides in creating a green campus through afforestation drive held at its plant in Bidadi (Karnataka). With the involvement of over 250 participation including students, NGO’s, Government officials from the Education Department and Directorate of Women & Child Development Department, and Anganawadi teachers, the project covered more than 2 acres  with the planting of over 750 fruit saplings to further stabilizing the biodiversity in the region.

This afforestation drive was graced by Mr. Ganganna Swamy, Deputy Director of Public Instructions, and Mr. A.R Shivakumar, Retd. IISC Scientist (popularly known as Bengaluru’s Rain Man), is one of the major contributors to developing Rainwater Harvesting programmes both in urban and rural homes of Karnataka. From TKM, Mr. Raju B Ketkale, Executive Vice President, Mr. R Vinaya Kumar, Vice President and Mr. G Shankara, Vice President – HR, were present at the occasion.

Thriving on the principle of living in harmony with nature, TKM over the years has extended unwavering support to the environment beyond just its sustainable product line-up. The announcement of Toyota's six aspirational global environmental challenges, in 2015, continues to strengthen the company's relentless efforts towards achieving ‘Carbon Neutrality by 2050’ & ‘Net Zero Carbon in Manufacturing Operations by 2035’. The afforestation drive which is inspired by the sixth challenge of ‘Establishing a Future Society in Harmony with Nature’, aims to conserve biodiversity, create awareness, and promote environmental education through collaboration with our internal and external stakeholders. Thus, in its journey of creating environment friendly premises, TKM to date has planted more than 3,23,000 saplings with 650 native species.

Talking about TKM’s continued focus on green initiatives, Mr. Raju B Ketkale, Executive Vice President, TKM said, “Sustainability is a way of life at TKM, which reflects in the environment-friendly practices across our entire value chain. All our initiatives are designed toward lowering our environmental impact and achieving the goal of ‘Living in Harmony with Nature’.

We believe that sustainable living is also important in reducing the carbon footprint and protecting our environment, and these initiatives are crucial to realizing these goals. As part of our water and environment conservation efforts, our focus is to co-create projects that not only showcase impact but bring about a behavioral change in society. Needless to mention, the students, teachers, and other government dignitaries play a major role in inspiring others to join the mission, and thereby continuously engaging with them in a variety of activities to support in inculcating eco mindset towards creating a society living in harmony with nature.  We are extremely grateful for their participation.”

TKM considers that it is critical to implement nature conservation activities beyond the Toyota Group and its business partners among communities, with the world, to the future generation towards creating a sustainable future. Therefore, the company has focused on creating interventions that bring about behavioral change by motivating various stakeholders to incorporate eco-friendly habits into their day-to-day lives. The idea is to help individuals understand how adopting a simple change in one’s life can make a huge positive impact on the environment.

In this journey of sustainable development, TKM has made significant achievements on the path of carbon neutrality and net positivity, with the help of strategic five-year action plans. Currently, TKM is using 100% Renewable Energy for our grid electricity needs. On water conservation initiatives, there have been outstanding results with reduced freshwater usage by 90% in manufacturing. The company not only focuses on eco initiatives to mitigate the impact on the environment but also proactively contributed to the betterment of it, by creating awareness & enabling a good understanding on the topic of sustainable development in Toyota’s one-of-a-kind experiential learning center – Ecozone, covering more than 27,100 people so far.

The novel mega project - Ecozone is also guided by the Environmental Challenge 2050. As part of TKM’s efforts to raise awareness about critical environmental issues, along with afforestation drives, the company has also been conducting webinars, eco-lifestyle campaigns, clean-up drives, and virtual tours. of. Set up inside TKM’s plant premises, the Ecozone is an outdoor environmental learning center, specially designed to provide experiential learning to stakeholders. Spread over 25 acres, Ecozone comprises 17 theme parks (to name a few - value theme parks covering 3Rs, medicinal garden, conservation of natural resources/energy, evolution timeline, climate change, and so forth) representing the five modules of Water, Waste, Climate Change, Biodiversity and Energy. This is an eco-effort to introduce and share deep insights about the crucial elements of mother nature, by creating native ecosystems, working models, audio-visual, and other sensory experiences including hands-on activities and experiments.

Sanjeevini - KSRLPS And Meesho Sign MOU For The Empowerment of 2500 Self-Help Groups

* The world will know the 'potential' of women from Karnataka: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Sanjeevini - KSRLPS and e-commerce firm Meesho for the empowerment of 2,500 self-help groups in the state was signed in the presence of Hon’ble Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.

Speaking at the event, the Chief Minister said that the world will know the women's 'potential' from Karnataka. The state government has launched the `Saamarthya’ and the project will be taken up on an end-to-end route. He welcomed the efforts of Meesho and Canara Bank for joining hands with the government's initiative to empower rural women.

The Department of Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood is providing assistance for self-employment to self-help groups under the `Elevate Scheme’ with the support of the Government of India's `Livelihood’ programmes.  He said these programmes need to be scaled up and managed at the micro level.

“Belief in the power of women”

The Chief Minister further said that it is commendable that self-help groups in the state have been selected for the Canara Bank scheme and women should be involved in economic activities. An economy is not money, but rather it is the economic activities of the people. Women have immense power and are always engaged in these activities. I believe in the power of women and that is why I decided to implement a scheme called `Saamarthya.’  Women, who make up half of the society, should be involved in economic activities.  For this, the products they produce need to be introduced to the global level by providing branding, marketing facilities in collaboration with online commercial entities like Meesho, he added.

“Big change in women's lives”

Specific schemes for self-employment of women should be identified in each Gram Panchayat and the DPR should be prepared. This can make a huge difference in the lives of thousands of women. Self-reliance is necessary to live a life of self-respect. The government will provide necessary assistance and cooperation in this regard, the Chief Minister said.  

Vidit Aatrey, Founder and CEO, Meesho said, “We are honoured to join hands with Sanjeevini and the Govt. of Karnataka to further our mission of democratising internet commerce for everyone. Over the years, Meesho has supported and empowered millions of women entrepreneurs and the partnership will take our efforts forward in that direction. Karnataka is home to several MSMEs who have the potential to grow their business online. We will provide these self-help groups with all the tools and guidance they need to succeed in the digital world.”

Minister for IT-BT, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Dr. C.N. Ashwath Narayan, Ministers Araga Jnanendra, B.A. Basavaraj, B. Sriramulu, Chief Secretary Vandita Sharma, Chief Minister's Principal Secretary Manjunath Prasad; Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Department Principal Secretary Selvakumar, National Livelihood Mission Director Manjushree. N, Meesho Founder Vidit Athreya, CFO Dhiresh Bansal and Devender Sahu of Canara Bank were also present.

Manipal Hospitals Transforms ICU Care Services With Advanced Technology Mechanism

* A dedicated team of Manipal Hospitals tirelessly served more than 35,000 patients since their inception

On the occasion of completing 25 years of critical care unit, Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, organized a press conference to showcase the growth and expansion of the unit, since its inception. The hospital brought in a team of experts including Dr. Sunil Karanth, Chairman, HOD & Consultant – Critical Care Medicine, Manipal Hospitals, Old Airport Road, Dr. Rajesh Mohan Shetty, Lead Consultant – Department of Critical Care Medicine, Chief of Clinical Services, Manipal Hospitals, Whitefield, Dr. Justin A Gopaldas, Consultant – Critical Care Medicine, Manipal Hospitals, Jayanagar, and Dr. Ajith Kumar A K, Senior Consultant & HOD - Critical Care medicine, Manipal  Hospital, Sarjapur to talk about the state-of-the-art infrastructure, the advancement of technologies, and the hospital's ability to deliver clinical excellence in high-end Intensive Care services.

Since 1997, the ICU team of Manipal Hospitals, Old Airport Road, has provided treatment to 35,000 patients with utmost care. The expert team has provided robust care and has handled many critical cases with meticulous planning and execution. As high-end Intensive care services were their focus, they crafted different types of ICUs for patients who undergo kidney, heart, and liver transplants. Patients who suffer from multi-organ dysfunction, severe neuro diseases, and pregnancy-related complications are also treated in high-end digitized ICU with the support of skilled and experienced staff and doctors.

These ICUs provide a range of services including multichannel monitoring, complex modes of mechanical ventilation, different forms of acute dialysis, hemodynamic support and management, high-end neuro-critical care and neuromonitoring, and Extracorporeal services including Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

Dr. Justin A Gopaldas, Consultant – Critical Care Medicine, Manipal Hospitals, Jayanagar said, said, “In these 25 years, the department has grown from a small 11-bed unit to a 50-bed unit with 4 zones. The ICU has also evolved and adapted to provide outreach services to acutely ill patients. To treat such critically ill patients, the staff must be skilled and experienced. In Manipal Hospitals, the nurses and staff are provided adequate training to treat patients efficiently, leaving no space for errors.

“Manipal ICU is one of the first centers in the country to be recognized for national level training program in critical care medicine. At present, the department caters to over 3,000 patients annually which makes this ICU one of the busiest units in the country. The efforts and dedication put in by our ICU team have resulted in the successful and quick recovery of 5,000 critically ill patients.”

Since its inception, the department and the management had adopted a far-sighted vision of providing better quality care, which is in sync with advanced innovative technologies. The aim of digitization in healthcare is to reduce human errors and provide more robust care for patients by skilled doctors and nurses. Artificial

Intelligence (AI) in healthcare has transformed the entire operations of the healthcare system, including emergency treatment procedures, techniques used in monitoring patients, and securing accurate data to provide correct diagnosis.   

Dr. Sunil Karanth, Chairman, HOD & Consultant – Critical Care Medicine, Manipal Hospitals, Old Airport Road, said, “The department has always believed in constant improvement and embracing new technologies to provide better quality clinical care. Work is being done to combine AI and IT with patient care. Digitization will slowly make it easy for medical experts to diagnose the patient without delay, monitor the patient's vitals sitting at home, capture accurate data, and access digital reports on any device.”

With the increase in critical cases among the younger and older population segments, the demand for ICU rooms has increased exponentially. Lifestyle changes, COVID virus, and severe infections are causing acute illness among the younger population. The demand for ICU admissions reached its peak during the second COVID wave, and the majority of the cases were seen among the younger population. With an increase in demand for ICU rooms, Manipal Hospitals equipped themselves with better infrastructure, including rooms, advanced technologies, and a better monitoring system to treat both contagious and deadly diseases.

In Manipal, there are two types of Anterooms used to treat critically ill patients. These are termed Positive and Negative pressure ICU. In the negative pressure ICU or isolation rooms, the air handling unit sucks contaminated air from the room, filters it, and is pushed out into the atmosphere. Patients suffering from COVID or respiratory illnesses are given appropriate medication and care in this room. In the positive pressure ICU, fresh and filtered air from outside is blown into the room. This room is designed to treat post-transplant patients who are under immunosuppressants and need constant monitoring of their vitals to avoid any infection.

Dr. Ajith Kumar A K, Senior Consultant & HOD - Critical Care Medicine, Manipal Hospitals, Sarjapur, said, “The department has always been agile in making decisions when it comes to saving lives. We, at Manipal Hospitals, have gone beyond the walls to shorten the distance to provide advanced care to patients with the help of Airlift ICU and green corridors.

“Airlift transfers require a team that is qualified to enable smooth transfer of patients from one region to another. The plane has a suitable monitoring system to keep a close eye on the patient's vital signs, such as heart rate, pulse, and oxygen saturation.”

Dr. Rajesh Mohan Shetty, Lead Consultant – Department of Critical Care Medicine, Chief of Clinical Services, Manipal Hospitals, Whitefield said, "The department have an advanced scoring system which is used to evaluate several health parameters of patients. These scoring systems takes into account the physiological scores of the patients into statistical algorithms that provides a single score. These scores help the clinical experts to predict how a patient’s condition will progress or how they will react to certain clinical interventions.”

The ICU team has shown exponential development in terms of services, technology, and medicines. The team continues its commitment to providing high-end world-class care to both minor to critically ill patients.

L&T Sets New Benchmark. Builds A 12-Storey Residential Tower With 96 Flats In Just 96 Days

Larsen & Toubro today announced the achievement of ‘Mission 96’, a plan to build a 12-storey residential tower for their client, CIDCO (City and Industrial Development Corporation), with 96 flats in just 96 days using the Company’s Precast Large Concrete Panel System for ultra-rapid construction of public housing. The tower is a part of about 23,432 EWS and LIG houses being constructed by CIDCO under Package IV of the PMAY in Navi Mumbai at Bamandongri, Kharkopar and Taloja.

L&T’s ‘Mission 96’ was achieved by using Precast Technology that is touted as the future of construction of residential towers for mechanized rapid construction with superior quality based on controlled manufacturing in a factory environment. Mission 96 involved the production and installation of 1,985 precast elements of the superstructure along with architectural finishes and MEP works over a built-up area of 64,000 sq ft.

Speaking on the sidelines of an event held to showcase the completed tower Mr. Ashwin Mudgal IAS, Joint Managing Director, CIDCO, said, “Great to see the record making process by L&T, which will pave the way for use of such technologies and excellent shop floor management in future.” Padma Bhushan Architect, Mr. Hafeez Contractor added, “L&T, that pioneered Aluminium formwork construction in the country and changed the face of the residential sector, has been instrumental in driving Precast Technology to further achieve material sustainability and speedy construction,” adding that the Company’s focus on Prefabricated Pre-finished Volumetric Construction would help it to meet the growing demand for housing in India.

“At Buildings & Factories, we have always sought ways and means to speed up the pace of construction and this project is another successful effort to dramatically reduce construction cycle time,” remarked Mr. M V Satish, Whole Time Director & Senior Executive Vice President (Buildings), L&T. He mentioned about the formation of a special unit, B&F Fast, to focus on evolving methods & deploying technology to build to speed & scale that had recently completed a 7-storey, state-of-the-art Flight Control System Integration Centre for DRDO in just 45 days. “Apart from construction technology, digital technology also helped us achieve this rapid pace of construction. We adopted the Concrete Maturity method to monitor the development of concrete strength in real time with digital meters for seamless construction and monitored progress using the Digital Twin approach with a BIM model developed for the project.”

Flagged off on April 4th, 2022, L&T reached their first milestone of 12 floors in 36 days achieving an unprecedented 3-day floor construction cycle against the industry norm of 8 to 12 days per floor. Due to precast construction, it was possible to initiate internal finishing work in 10 days as soon as the 3rd floor was completed that helped to achieve their target on Day 96, July 9, 2022.

Birlasoft Adopts RISE With SAP To Migrate Their Digital Core To Cloud

* Increases focus on cloud adoption to help enterprises in their digital transformation journeys

Birlasoft Ltd [BSE: 532400, NSE: BSOFT], part of the USD 2.8 billion diversified CK Birla Group, and a global enterprise digital and IT services company, has strengthened its relationship with SAP, by leveraging RISE with SAP to transform its digital landscape onto the cloud. With enterprises adopting a ‘Cloud-First’ strategy, this move will enable Birlasoft to accelerate their clients’ transformation journeys substantially.

A global SAP Partner, Birlasoft has successfully completed the entire migration from its SAP S/4HANA on-premises instance to SAP S/4HANA® Cloud, within six months, across more than 20 countries where it has business operations. With the implementation of RISE with SAP, the company has streamlined and modernized its operations, to drive innovation across its business functions including chosen HR, Total Records, Cash management, Data services, integration services, and services for SAP deployment, in addition to the cloud edition of RISE with SAP.

Shreeranganath Kulkarni (SK), Chief Delivery Officer, Birlasoft, said, “Birlasoft has relentlessly evolved with the times and need to steer enterprises towards digitizing themselves. The changing IT landscape over the past two years have provided ample motivation for enterprises to move on to the cloud faster. RISE with SAP has been the best way forward in that regard. I’m confident that this extended partnership will lead our business transformation journey and enable us to serve our stakeholders better.”

“RISE with SAP is core to our strategy as we accelerate our growth in the cloud. Partners like Birlasoft play a crucial role of change agents who create momentum by transforming businesses across industry and size,” said Anand Raisinghani, Vice President & Head - Professional Services, BFSI, Telecom & Media, SAP Indian Subcontinent. “The joint alignment between Birlasoft and SAP will help our customers embrace agility, flexibility and productivity in their day-to-day operations and performance on the cloud.”

Cloud adoption and acceleration are an integral part of Birlasoft’s Digitalization Strategy and RISE with SAP provides better operational efficiencies, including seamless multi-cloud connectivity.

Birlasoft helps enterprises globally to increase their speed-to-market, grow their revenue and reduce the total cost of operations. It also helps benchmark business performance with best-in-class KPIs, templatized industry solutions aligned with RISE with SAP for focused industry verticals and Proprietary Intelligent Automation Platform tailored to outcome-based support and services. In addition, it helps focus on program execution following the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control approach to stay lean and ensure fast and agile implementations.

Celebrating Success of FOCUS, New Scheme “FOCUS+ Launched To Benefit All Households of Meghalaya”

* Initiative to provide financial aid of Rs 5000/- per household to boost agri value chain development activities 

The Chief Minister of Meghalaya Shri. Conrad Sangma launched FOCUS+ as an expansion to his flagship initiative FOCUS today to benefit all households across Meghalaya. In its new format, FOCUS+ will provide an opportunity to families to take up additional activities and contribute towards agriculture value chain development. Under this scheme, a financial aid of Rs 5,000/- per household will be provided directly to the beneficiary’s bank account. 

The scheme launched at an event in Resubelpara, North Garo Hills, is likely to provide aid to large sections of Meghalaya’s rural population and will look to transform lives of the people of the State.  Meghalaya, a state that is progressing fast on various parameters including getting a top rating in NITI Aayog’s Innovation Index, ranked among the best in Startup ecosystem, global awards, and recognition, looks to be on course to realizing its vision of being among the top 10 states in 10 years. 

Speaking at the event, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Mr. Conrad K Sangma said, “Over the past four and half years Meghalaya is making constant progress on various fronts, one of our key priority areas is our farmers. Our farmers’ support initiative FOCUS has provided much needed impetus for upscaling of farming activities, results of which are for everyone to see. Initiatives like mission mode projects in Lakadong, Piggery, Milk, Spice, Ginger, Aroma and others are providing necessary means to build a support system for our farmers with interventions from farm to market.” 

“FOCUS is very close to my heart, because it helped a large section of our farming community! And FOCUS+ will provide much needed aid to ensure every family in rural Meghalaya is empowered to realize their true potential. The scheme will provide Rs.5,000/- cash benefits to households across the State. This is part of our vision to bring all our farmers under collectivization theme and help them through various interventions, in turn doubling their income,” added Mr. Conrad K Sangma. 

FOCUS originally launched on March 2021, have benefitted 2.45 lakh farmers till date. It was launched to boost agri economic activities by collectivization of Producer Groups to farm and non-farm produce. 

Under FOCUS+, households would be provided with a FOCUS+ card as an Identification and cash transfer of Rs.5,000/- as family benefit. Individuals would need to get registered under a producer group to avail the benefit. This is an additional benefit over Rs.5,000/- to producer group account from FOCUS scheme.