Airtel 5G Plus Now Announces Live In Jammu And Srinagar

* Promises to offer massive speeds, best voice experience, will work on all 5G smart phones and be kinder to the environment

* No SIM change needed; existing Airtel 4G SIM is 5G enabled

* Existing data plans will work on 5G until roll-out is complete

* Airtel 5G Plus now works on all Android and Apple supported 5G devices

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s leading telecommunications services provider today announced the launch of its cutting edge 5G services in Jammu and Srinagar.

Airtel 5G Plus services will be available to customers in a phased manner as the company continues to construct its network and complete the roll out. Customers with 5G enabled devices will enjoy high speed Airtel 5G Plus network at no extra cost until the roll out is more widespread. Currently operational at Raghunath Bazar, Gandhi Nagar, Channi Himmat, Panjthirthi, Jammu secretariat, Bahu fort, Bahu plaza, Jammu railway station, Govt medical college, Canal Road in Jammu and Lal Chowk, Dal lake, Rajbagh, Kashmir University, Karan Nagar, Channpora, Sringar secretariat, Nishat Garden, Chashma shahi, Old city in Kashmir and few other select locations. Airtel will augment its network making its services available in the Union territories of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh in due course of time.

Commenting on the launch, Adarsh Verma, COO, Bharti Airtel, Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh said, “I am thrilled to announce the launch of Airtel 5G Plus in Jammu and Srinagar. Airtel customers can now experience ultrafast network and enjoy speeds upto 20-30 times faster than the current 4G speeds. We are in the process of lighting up the Union territories of J&K and Ladakh which will allow customers to enjoy superfast access to High-definition video streaming, gaming, multiple chatting, instant uploading of photos and more.”

Airtel 5G Plus will bolster the entire portfolio of services that Airtel offers. In addition, it will allow superfast access to High Definition video streaming, gaming, multiple chatting, instant uploading of photos and more. With this launch, India will get a fillip to economic growth as Airtel 5G Plus revolutionizes education, healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture, mobility and logistics.

In the last one year, Airtel has demonstrated the power of 5G with a host of powerful use cases that will change the way we lead our lives and do business. From India’s first live 5G network in Hyderabad to India’s first 5G powered hologram to India’s first recreation of a game changing world cup match played at a time when there was no TV coverage to India’s first 5G connected ambulance to India’s first private 5G network with Bosch for boosting manufacturing productivity, Airtel has been at the forefront of 5G innovation.

About Bharti Airtel Limited

Headquartered in India, Airtel is a global communications solutions provider with over 500 Mn customers in 17 countries across South Asia and Africa. The company ranks amongst the top three mobile operators globally and its networks cover over two billion people. Airtel is India’s largest integrated communications solutions provider and the second largest mobile operator in Africa. Airtel’s retail portfolio includes high speed 4G/5G mobile broadband, Airtel Xstream Fiber that promises speeds up to 1 Gbps with convergence across linear and on-demand entertainment, streaming services spanning music and video, digital payments and financial services. For enterprise customers, Airtel offers a gamut of solutions that includes secure connectivity, cloud and data centre services, cyber security, IoT, Ad Tech and CPaaS (Airtel IQ). For more details visit www.airtel.com

MIT xPRO Launches Programs With Simplilearn In Executive Leadership Principles And Machine Learning

* MIT xPRO launches two new programs in Leadership and Machine learning through Simplilearn

* The programs, spanning for a period of 4 months, will be hosted using a blended format including masterclasses

MIT xPRO has announced two new upskilling programs in Executive Leadership Principles and Machine Learning for Business, Engineering, and Science. Delivered through digital skills training platform Simplilearn, these programs leverage MIT xPRO's thought leadership in engineering and management developed over years of research, teaching, and practice as well as Simplilearn’s dynamic, interactive, digital learning platform.

The Executive Leadership Principles program is designed to enable learners to understand an array of organizational and leadership aspects. Some of the focus areas include organizational strategies and capabilities, applying influence, negotiation, conflict resolution, change management, problem solving, navigating culture and networks, as well as discovering and implementing leadership strengths. This Executive Program offers masterclasses taught by MIT faculty and instructors, assessments, case studies, and tools. It is best suited for early and mid-career professionals looking to advance their leadership and capabilities while on the job. Through this program, learners can benefit from an executive certificate of completion from MIT xPRO, 5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from MIT xPRO, scope to connect with an international community of professionals, as well as an opportunity to work on real-world projects. Eligibility criteria requires learners to have a graduate degree; they could be working professionals with technical or non-technical backgrounds. 

The Machine Learning for Business, Engineering and Science program is designed to demystify machine learning through computational engineering principles and applications. It provides the opportunity to learn from MIT faculty, while connecting with an international community of professionals and working on projects based on real-world examples. Learners will gain the skills to apply their knowledge to various aspects of work using simulations, assessments, case studies, and tools. Learners get a chance to earn a Professional Certificate of completion and 10 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from MIT xPRO. The program is best suited for professionals with bachelor’s degrees in engineering, business or physical science who are interested in knowing about the application of Machine Learning across various domains.

Mr. Anand Narayanan, Chief Product Officer, Simplilearn, said, “The need to upskill remains consistent and relevant for professionals across the board. In the dynamic workplace of today, it is imperative for professionals to be able to effectively complete tasks and solve problems strategically. Ensuring to map skills and constantly upgrading oneself to match industry requirements will ensure consistent professional growth. We are pleased to work with MIT xPRO to offer these programs in new-age skills enabling employees to upskill and achieve high-quality results in their workspace.”

Announcing the launch, MIT xPRO says, “Students and professionals today are keen to regularly upskill and up their game when it comes to strengthening their careers. There is a need to stay abreast with industry developments and be open and agile to change. In this regard, we are pleased to work with Simplilearn to curate programs that are sure to provide in-depth and comprehensive knowledge, relevant to the dynamic industry shifts. We are confident that they will assist learners in achieving their career objectives.”

About MIT xPRO

Technology is accelerating at an unprecedented pace causing disruption across all levels of business. Tomorrow’s leaders must demonstrate technical expertise as well as leadership acumen in order to maintain a technical edge over the competition while driving innovation in an ever-changing environment.

MIT uniquely understands this challenge and how to solve it with decades of experience developing technical professionals. MIT xPRO’s online learning programs leverage vetted content from world-renowned experts to make learning accessible anytime, anywhere. Designed using cutting-edge research in the neuroscience of learning, MIT xPRO programs are application focused, helping professionals build their skills on the job.

About Simplilearn

Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, California, and Bangalore, India, Simplilearn, a Blackstone company is the world's #1 online Bootcamp for digital economy skills training. Simplilearn offers access to world-class work-ready training to individuals and businesses around the world. The Bootcamps are designed and delivered with world-renowned universities, top corporations, and leading industry bodies via live online classes featuring top industry practitioners, sought-after trainers, and global leaders. From college students and early career professionals to managers, executives, small businesses, and big corporations, Simplilearn’s role-based, skill-focused, industry-recognized, and globally relevant training programs are ideal upskilling solutions for diverse career or/and business goals.

For more information, visit www.simplilearn.com/

Sattva Group Residential Sector Done Phenomenally Well During 2022

“The real estate sector performed exceptionally well in 2022, a momentum it carried forward from 2021. The residential sector in particular has done phenomenally well with developers registering good sales figures throughout the year,  including SATTVA Group. To further establish this fact, one of the top performing Indian cities, Bangalore, witnessed a steady upsurge in demand,  in many parts of the city, particularly North Bangalore. One of our recent ventures, Sattva Aeropolis met with tremendous success,  when we opened bookings in the first phase at the start of 2022. Talking about the industry at large, “Robust” would summarize the residential real estate in the past year. Despite climbing prices and loan rates, there has been a consistent demand for mid-range and premium housing in major cities. The numbers are optimistic enough in the face of a relatively steady economy: With nearly 4 lakh tier-1 units expected to be sold before the year ends, supply and absorption are rising, while the inventory overhang reduces substantially.  As ready-to-occupy inventory has expanded for most players, there is also a growing demand among active home seekers,  looking for an additional space of 100-150 sq. ft  for  workspaces in residences.

To our delight, the Bengaluru market stayed competitive the whole of 2022; unsold inventory has fallen amidst buyers lining up for houses in the central and inner parts of the city. In Hyderabad, buyers jostled for a limited number of ready units, but we expect further activity to offset the pressure on the market. The third quarter has seen nearly 17,000 new launches, and we predict similar headwinds to uplift the region in the months ahead. Taking into account the aforementioned factors, we foresee steady demand prevailing alongside resilient supply,  as we step into 2023. The post-pandemic period and increase in rental rates have also elevated home ownership beyond its aspirational definition, with more people seeking long-term investments.” – Mr. Bijay Agarwal, MD, Sattva Group

About Sattva Group

With 3 decades of expertise, the Sattva Group has grown into one of the most trusted builders in the country today. Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, it is also a well-known name in Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Coimbatore, and Goa. The Group will soon be expanding its presence in Mumbai. With 66 million sq.ft spaces completed, 28 million sq.ft under construction, and 39 million sq.ft in the planning stage, the Group is one of the most premium builders in India today. The Group’s cutting-edge marquee projects in Hyderabad include Knowledge City, Knowledge Capital, Knowledge Park, and Image Towers (Innovation in Animation, Multimedia, Gaming, and Entertainment), a PPP-based model with the Telangana State Government. By further expanding into various verticals such as co-working, co-living, education, hotels, facilities management, and warehousing, the Group today stands tall as a frontrunner, shaping India’s growth story. The Group’s unwavering adherence to quality has given it the “trusted” tag among builders in the country, renowned for its “A Stable” CRISIL rating for over a decade. 

Kirloskar System Announces Appointment of Manasi Tata As Director On The Board of Kirloskar Joint Venture Companies

Kirloskar Systems Pvt. Ltd. (KSPL) today announced the appointment of Ms. Manasi Tata as Director on the board of KSPL’s joint-venture companies, including Toyota Industries Engine India Pvt. Ltd. (TIEI), Kirloskar Toyota Textile Machinery Pvt. Ltd. (KTTM), Toyota Material Handling India Pvt. Ltd. (TMHIN), and Denso Kirloskar Industries Pvt. Ltd. (DNKI).

To take effect immediately, Ms. Manasi Tata’s appointment as Director, comes after the untimely passing of her father, Late. Mr. Vikram S. Kirloskar, former Chairman & Managing Director, KSPL. His wife, Mrs. Geetanjali Kirloskar, has already taken charge as the new Chairman & Managing Director at KSPL.

Ms. Manasi Tata, a graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design in the US, is trained in Toyota manufacturing processes and the Japanese work culture.

A fifth-generation scion of the Kirloskar empire, Ms. Manasi Tata holds art very close to her heart and her NGO, “Caring with Colour” leverages this passion of hers, works with government schools in 3 districts of Karnataka.

Deeply intertwined with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns, Ms. Manasi Tata is truly committed to take forward her father’s vision and dream, contributing towards accomplishing national goals and remains dedicated towards keeping up the strength of partnership with various stakeholders, and the relationships that have grown stronger over the years.

Magniflex India Plays Santa To Children Living In NGOs

- The mattress major distributes toys and other goodies to these little ones through the ‘Share the Magic This Christmas’

To capture and spread the magic of Christmas, this year Magniflex India organized a donation drive to celebrate Christmas with children at NGOs across the country. Magniflex India came up with a campaign 'Share the Magic This Christmas’ where all its franchise stores hung out a red Christmas bag, encouraging people to donate toys for the underprivileged children. Each gift had a personalized message attached to it. And on December 23rd Mr. Anand Nichani, MD, Magniflex India, donated all these toys to the NGOs named Madilu Sevashram that shelters children.

Through the campaign, Magniflex India appealed to its customers, as well as the general public, through social media and banners across its franchise stores to donate goodies for children. The collected toys were distributed to NGOs in different cities, including Bangalore, Delhi and Ahmedabad on December 23rd to make it a memorable experience for children. Magniflex India collected more than 100 toys and shared the gifts with the NGOs named Shishu Gruh in Ahmedabad and Sarbat Da Bhala Charitable Trust in Delhi that shelters above 100 children.

Mr. Anand Nichani asked each child to express their joy and share memories associated with the celebration after the gifts were distributed. To make their day more fun and joyful, they played a few Christmas-themed games, including Pictionary, and sang Christmas carols. The children unwrapped their Christmas presents and expressed gratitude to the Magniflex team as well as all those who contributed to the effort in helping bring smiles on their faces.

Speaking on the initiative, Mr. Anand Nichani, MD, Magniflex India, said, "Christmas is the festival of gifting. Every child deserves to experience the joy of receiving Christmas gifts. We hope to bring joy to every child and are dedicated to creating a more compassionate world. Magniflex is all about making people feel at ease. So, we've decided to be Santa for the kids this year. We want to thank everyone who took the time out from their daily schedule to donate and make these kids feel special this Christmas. It gave me a great sense of satisfaction on distributing the gifts to the children at the NGOs."

Mrs. Maithili, a customer who contributed to the campaign by Magniflex India, said, “Every year we celebrate Christmas within the family circle. This year, we decided to celebrate the festival a little differently by sharing the joy of Christmas with others. I am thankful to Magniflex India for coming up with this initiative, because through them I was able to bring some joy to the underprivileged children.”

Milind Soman Successfully Completes First Phase Of Green Ride 2.0 With The Lifelong Freeride Cycle

* 1000 kms from Mumbai to Bengaluru spreading the message of fight lazy and pollution free environment

India’s supermodel and fitness icon Milind Soman successfully completed the “Green Ride” – a Multi-city campaign with the Lifelong Freeride cycle today at Bengaluru. The Green Ride 2.0 was kicked off on 19th December 2022 at Mumbai. This is the second edition of the Green Ride initiative launched by leading consumer durables firm, Lifelong Online Retail Private Limited. Milind Soman solo cycled the Green Ride to Bengaluru covering a total distance of over 1000 kms across 8 cities in 8 days. The cities covered enroute are; Mumbai, Pune, Karad, Kolhapur, Belgaon, Shegaon, Hirebennur and Tumkuru.

Milind Soman is on a fitness mission spreading the message of fitness for all through his various initiatives; be it running or cycling. He has been associated with the Lifelong campaign earlier urging people to “Fight Lazy”, a movement urging everyone to fight their lazy selves and push themselves to be their fittest versions. The Green Ride is an initiative to create an awareness amongst people and to encourage them to keep our environment healthy and pollution free. Lifelong Freeride Cycle is a Shimano 21 speed geared cycle. The features include Disc Brakes and suspension for effortless Braking system built for ease of use and maintenance, and excellent braking power. Specially designed to provide proper braking control on all terrains.

Speaking on the completion of 2nd edition of Green Ride, Fitness icon Milind Soman said, “I urge everyone to choose their commuting mode very wisely as air pollution in India is on the rise causing a huge concern for anyone especially those who regularly exercise outdoors to lead a fit and healthy lifestyle. Keeping our moral duty in our mind we need to keep our environment pollution free and more such initiatives should be organized and I would love to be part of those. Moreover, it was a good motivation to fight our lazy selves.”

Bharat Kalia, Co-Founder, Lifelong Online Retail Pvt. Ltd., said. “We are so happy to announce the successful completion of the second edition of the Green ride once again with Milind Soman. He is a great inspiration for all of us to stay healthy and active every day. This green ride initiative was a small step towards encouraging everyone to be conscious about our daily choices to reduce pollution. Also, the fight lazy campaign with Milind was a small push to be a fitter version of ourselves.”

Lifelong Online along with Milind are trying to create a movement that makes fitness mainstream. The multi-city cycling trail is a seamless fit for the whole movement with a message to keep your country pollution free by opting cleaner modes of transport. Fight lazy is simply about starting in the right direction and pushing yourself to be the fitter you.

Metaverse Partnership: Interality Collaborates To Launch A Movie On Its Virtual World

Interality, an engine for Mixed Reality Worlds, has announced the release of ‘Made in Bengaluru’, a Kannada drama film, inside interality’s Metaverse Bengaluru where movie fans are meeting and taking selfies with the film cast avatars, exploring famous spots in Bengaluru, playing games and quests to win exciting real-life rewards.

Made in Bengaluru is a Kannada drama film written and directed by Pradeep Sastry starring Madhusudan Govind in the lead role with Anant Nag, Saikumar and Prakash Belawadi in pivotal roles. The story follows the journey of three dreamy-eyed middle class boys who venture into setting up their startup.

Inside Metaverse Bengaluru platform, powered by interality, fans are visiting and experiencing the movie Made in Bengaluru where you can go to the Movie Quiz Room and play to win tickets to the exclusive Film Premiere happening on 29th December in Bengaluru. You can meet the Film cast on the Metaverse stage and take selfies with the selfie drone camera. You need to complete a quest to win a chance to take real-life selfies with the film cast in person in Bengaluru. You can also go for some treasure hunting to win passes to the prelaunch event of the movie. Overall 50 people can win rewards in the Metaverse Bengaluru.

“We’re thrilled to power the launch of Made in Bengaluru film in Metaverse Bengaluru. Metaverse has massive opportunities for the Cinema and Entertainment industry as the future of content distribution. The fans can enter and explore the film themed Virtual Worlds, understand the theme and story of the film through immersive mediums, engage and interact with the movie through play games and win film collectibles, memorabilia and claim real-life rewards such as meet-&-greet with the film stars. This helps build greater fandom for the film!”, says Farheen Ahmad, CEO, interality.

Movie Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4S6DhBXoO8

interality link of the movie: https://interality.io/UrPXpCJ/made-in-bengaluru

B S Balkrishna, Producer of Made In Bengaluru, shares, “Always was amused whenever I heard about metaverse, the way its future in community building is unpredictable. For sure Bangalore Metaverse of interality was one benchmark setting metaverse we experienced in India, we are happy and excited to have our movie promotion in Bangalore Meatverse of interality. I would thank FanStreet for making this happen.”

“First of all, I would like to thank interality and FanStreet for having Made In Bengaluru promotions in Bangalore Metaverse. Bangalore is home for thousands of startups and this metaverse for sure is throwing more impact over it, we are pleased to get placed and be a part.”, adds Pradeep Sastry, Director of Made In Bengaluru.

“Being a techie, was always taken away with the scope of 3D virtual worlds. I am pleased to have my debut film promotions in Bangalore Metaverse.”, says Madhusudan Govind, Lead of Made In Bengaluru.

In the past, interality has successfully launched  ‘Memeverse’ , a virtual world for MemeChat and ‘Tubbiverse’, an Apocalypse-themed, Token Gated platform, created & launched by a Solana NFT Community Tubbies. The startup has also launched GM BLR Cafe in Metaverse Bangalore. It is a Virtual Reality world launched by the popular Web3 community, GM BLR.

About interality:

interality is an engine for Mixed Reality Worlds. It offers an infrastructure to build and launch XR-enabled Metaverse ecosystems where users can explore, connect, shop and play.

About Metaverse Bengaluru:

Metaverse Bengaluru is a multi-player virtual world with spatial audio and chat features. The Metaverse can be entered through a link on any device such as smartphone, desktop and VR headsets like Meta Quest 2 or Quest Pro.

For more information,  visit: https://interality.io/#/