Tata Motors Celebrates 1 Millionth Car Roll-Out From Its Sanand Facility

Tata Motors, India's leading automotive manufacturer, is proud to announce a significant milestone in its manufacturing history of rolling out the 1 millionth car from its state-of-the-art facility in Sanand, Gujarat. This landmark achievement emphasizes Tata Motors’ commitment to continuously innovate, for delivering superior products that elevate consumer delight. It also reflects the hard work and dedication of the team at the Sanand facility, who have played a crucial role in achieving this milestone.

The Sanand plant was established in 2010 spread across 1100 acres – 741 acres (TML) and 359 acres (Vendor Park) with over 6000 direct and indirect employees, has been instrumental in Tata Motors’ growth and success. Being one of the youngest plant of Tata Motors, the Sanand facility boasts of having an up-to-the-minute technology across all its processes. The highly mechanised plant has incorporated a lean process management system. The plant houses press line, the weld shop, paint shop, assembly line and powertrain shop. This facility has a flexible assembly line and is known for producing various models of passenger vehicles like Tiago, Tiago AMT, Tiago.ev, Tiago iCNG, Tigor, Tigor AMT, Tigor EV, Tigor iCNG and XPRES-T EV. A single model plant has been successfully converted into multi-model plant churning out three models with 100% assets management and utilization.

Commenting on the momentous occasion, Mr. Shailesh Chandra, Managing Director, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd., and Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Ltd. said, “We are extremely proud to roll out the 1 millionth car from our Sanand plant. This facility has been pivotal in bolstering our growth story in India by responding to market needs promptly. This achievement is a testament to the high standards we set for ourselves and the commitment we have to our customers. Our efforts have led to higher consideration for our products and this milestone certainly reiterates the popularity of our products among consumers. We are confident to carry forward our momentum in providing safer, smarter, and greener mobility solutions. We owe this milestone. We acknowledge and thank our employees, suppliers, channel partners, and most importantly the Government of Gujarat for their unwavering support, which has been integral to achieving this milestone.”

Tata Motors has always believed in social upgradation of individuals and communities. The Sanand plant has adopted more than 68 villages in and around Sanand, Bavla & Viramgam. Setting up of toilets, skill development of women to increase their employability and health and education of girl child are the key initiatives with which the plant began its CSR activities in Sanand. In last 13 years, the CSR initiatives of Tata Motors has touched over 3 lakh lives in and around Sanand.

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Air India Group Marks International Women's Day With Various Activities, Operates 15 All-Women Flights

Reiterating its commitment to uphold gender equality, Air India group today announced a slew of activities celebrating International Women's Day.

A total of 15 all-women crew flights were operated in the domestic and international sectors today. Over 15% of the cockpit crew of Air India are women - making it an airline with one of the largest number of women pilots.

Women employees constitute as much as 51% of Air India’s workforce. In the last two years since the homecoming of Air India to the Tata group, there has been a sharp rise in the number of women employees in every sphere of the airline’s activities. At Air India Express, over 13% of pilots are women and close to 50% of the workforce comprises women employees.

Air India group has organised week-long programmes to inspire women employees across the network through webinars and live sessions with experts in various fields and role models for wider awareness and inspiration.

As a special gesture to customers, Air India Express is offering free seat selection and priority boarding services to all women passengers today through its mobile app and website. Air India Loyalty Programme Flying Returns is offering its women members a fast-track limited-time opportunity to skip the queue and upgrade to Silver Edge Club, which will offer them exclusive benefits like 15% more reward points, complimentary upgrades, and priority check-in services.

This year’s Women’s Day theme 'Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress' reiterates the importance of achieving gender equality and well-being of women in all aspects of life, which resonates with the Tata group and Air India’s ethos of offering equal opportunities to all employees acknowledging that diversity and inclusion results in driving innovation and growth.

While Air India will operate flights to five destinations, including three flights to international destinations, Air India Express will fly to two international destinations and eight domestic destinations. 

Samsung Inaugurates Its Second Premium Experience Store In The Mall of Asia In Bengaluru

·       Equipped with the latest Samsung premium store design, it showcases smartphones, laptops and tablets along with new zones such as SmartThings, Gaming zone, an audio visual zone alongside a service center and an all new phygital experience via Store+

·       Consumers will get assured early bird giveaways, 2X loyalty points (on all transactions above INR 15000) and Galaxy Buds FE at INR 2999 when buying select Galaxy devices for a limited period

Samsung, India’s largest consumer electronics company, has inaugurated another new Premium Experience Store at The Mall of Asia in Bengaluru. Designed to be a one-stop shop for sales and service, the store will offer captivating experiences to consumers, including showcasing its connected device ecosystem – Samsung SmartThings – and also host a variety of engaging activities.

The new premium experience store, spread across 1200 sq. ft. in The Mall of Asia caters to the needs of customers in the Northern parts of Bengaluru while offering a comprehensive range of Samsung products and services.

Consumers coming into the store will get assured gifts, 2X loyalty points (on all transactions above INR 15000) and Galaxy Buds FE at INR 2999 with select Galaxy devices as a limited period offer. On purchase of Samsung products worth INR 20000, the first 200 customers will get early bird giveaways. In addition, consumers can also avail always-on special benefits such as student discounts of up to 10% on smartphones, laptops, and smart watches up to 22.5% cashback and INR 22000 in additional benefits on select items.

At the store, Samsung will host a variety of Galaxy workshops as part of its ‘Learn @ Samsung’ programme designed for tech-savvy consumers, especially Gen Z and millennials. This will include workshops around AI education focusing on consumer passion points.

“Following six years of fantastic response to our flagship experience center in the city, the Samsung Opera House, we are delighted to introduce another Premium Experience Store in the Mall of Asia, Bengaluru. We aim to captivate local shoppers with immersive and uniquely tailored premium product experiences. Our newest store is dedicated to engaging Bengaluru’s diverse consumer base by hosting ‘Learn @ Samsung’ workshops including productivity masterclass, portrait photography, nightography, and photo editing sessions that cater to various passion points. The dynamic retail market of the city provides an ideal backdrop for us to connect with our consumers and create memorable engagements,” said Sumit Walia, Vice President, D2C Business, Samsung India.

The newly launched store offers a next-generation larger-than-life experience of Samsung products alongside a SmartThings station, Gaming zone, an audio-visual zone, and a smartphone and wearables section that displays the recently launched flagship smartphone series – Galaxy S24, Galaxy Z Fold5 and Galaxy Z Flip5.

At the Mall of Asia store, consumers will get a phygital experience through Samsung’s Store+ endless aisle platform. With Store+, consumers will be able to browse Samsung products with over 1,200 options across its portfolio, whether available online or in store, using a digital Kiosk. Consumers can also order online from the store and have the products delivered home directly.

They can also access Samsung’s digital lending platform Samsung Finance+ and Samsung’s device care plan Samsung Care+ for Galaxy smartphones, tablets and smartwatches at the store.

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung inspires the world and shapes the future with transformative ideas and technologies. The company is redefining the worlds of TVs, smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, home appliances, network systems, and memory, system LSI, foundry and LED solutions, and delivering a seamless connected experience through its SmartThings ecosystem and open collaboration with partners. For latest news on Samsung India, please visit Samsung India Newsroom at http://news.samsung.com/in. For Hindi, log on to Samsung Newsroom Bharat at https://news.samsung.com/bharat. You can also follow us on Twitter @SamsungNewsIN.

Charged By Thums Up Unveils Its New Campaign Featuring Aamir Khan And Darsheel Safary

- Charged by Thums Up introduces a new Strawberry flavor

- The new campaign ‘Mind Charged, Body Charged’ features Aamir Khan and Darsheel Safary

- Aamir Khan reunites with the Coca-Cola family after 17 years to ignite the spirit of youth by partnering with Charged by Thums Up

Link to the TVC: https://youtu.be/-F9Wc7iHSUs?si=PJ0APF1awAcBGS_X

Charged by Thums Up, the all-new beverage brand from The Coca-Cola Company, has unveiled its new campaign "Mind Charged, Body Charged," featuring Aamir Khan and Darsheel Safary.

Along with its new packaging and flavour, new Charged promises to deliver an unmatched drinking experience that leaves consumers invigorated, both in mind and body.

Conceptualized by Ogilvy, the new Charged film features Aamir Khan and Darsheel Safary in a visually appealing narrative, with Aamir portraying various avatars throughout the film in larger-than-life situations. The creative is meant to show how Charged acts as the enabler to accomplish impossible, big achievements which require both physical agility & mental alertness. The campaign highlights the product’s invigorating effects, empowering Gen-Z to embrace and overcome life's challenges.

Talking about the campaign, Tish Condeno, Senior Category Director, Sparkling Flavors, Coca-Cola India and South-West Asia said, “With the introduction of the new Strawberry variant of Charged by Thums Up, our aim is to continuously innovate, providing invigorating experiences to consumers. With this campaign, we are thrilled to welcome the legendary Aamir Khan back to the Coca-Cola family after 17 years, embodying the essence of Charged alongside Darsheel Safary, evoking a sense of nostalgia and excitement.”

Aamir Khan, commenting on his association with the campaign, said, “It’s a really fun script, and I was really ‘charged’ by the concept, and I really enjoyed doing it. I’m happy to be a part of the Thums Up/Coke family. I am looking forward to the campaign going public and the audience response.”

Darsheel Safary, commenting on the association said, “It’s an absolute honour to be associated with the legendary Aamir Khan and reuniting on the screen with him after 17 years post Taare Zameen Par. As a young individual, I’m thrilled to embody the spirit of Charged, inspiring others to embrace life with vigor and passion, just like the beverage itself."

Sukesh Nayak, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy India said, “Mind charged, Body Charged is an anthem of possibilities. Aamir Khan and Darsheel reunite after 17 years to ignite a passion of being able to do anything and everything. Aamir was a delight to partner with and he truly pushed the team to go beyond the obvious. He has personally sat through each and every role and crafted them to perfection. Hat tip to Adavit Chandan, the director who made this vision come to life with such class and passion. Big thanks to the entire team who pushed all boundaries to make mind charged and body charged happen.”

Charged by Thums Up continues to push boundaries, ensuring that its offerings resonate with evolving consumer preferences. The campaign will be rolled out on TV, digital and social.

About The Coca-Cola Company 

Coca-Cola in India is one of the country’s leading beverage companies, offering a range of high-quality and refreshing beverage options to consumers. The company, in line with its vision of ‘Beverages For Life’, offers a wide portfolio of products which includes hydration, sports, sparkling, coffee, tea, nutrition, juice and dairy based products. In India its beverage range includes Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, Thums Up, Charged by Thums Up, Fanta, Limca, Sprite, Maaza, Minute Maid range of juices and juice beverages. The Company also offers hydration beverages including Limca Sportz, Smartwater, Kinley, Dasani and Bonaqua packaged drinking water and Kinley Club Soda. Premium products constitute Schweppes range and Smartwater. In addition, it offers Costa Coffee and organic green tea based beverage- Honest Tea amongst its range of coffee and Tea. The Company is constantly transforming its portfolio, from reducing sugar in its drinks to bringing innovative new products to market. 

The Company along with its owned bottling operations and franchise bottling partners has a strong network of close to 4 million retail outlets through which it refreshes millions of consumers across the country. It seeks to positively impact people’s lives, communities and the planet through water replenishment, packaging recycling, sustainable agriculture initiatives and carbon emission reductions across its value chain. 

Globally together with its bottling partners, The Coca-Cola Company employs more than 700,000 people, helping to bring economic opportunity to local communities worldwide. Learn more at www.cocacolacompany.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. 

Will AI Replace A Technology Professional Across The Globe?

By Dr Abhinanda Sarkar, Director Academics, Great Learning

 Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for a while now. In the last decade, Deep Learning revolutionized computer vision and natural language processing among other things. But in the last year or so, Generative AI has taken the world by storm. AI is advancing beyond classification and prediction, actively creating and impacting various industries with immediate applications. The IT industry itself has been central to it all, raising concerns about job displacement. Let us take a brief look at five kinds of IT professionals and the likely impact of AI on their roles.

The Changing Landscape for Data Scientists

Generative AI and Deep Learning rely on extensive amounts of data. This data can be in structured, numeric, form. It can also be unstructured, as in text, speech, images, video, etc. This is therefore a time of change for Data Scientists. Those who adapt well to working with unstructured data are poised to thrive. AI is no threat to them; it is a major opportunity. 

Business Analysts: Storytelling in the Age of AI

An increasingly important part of the technologist’s job in this particular age of AI is story-telling. In a business context, this is the primary role of Business Analysts. Generative AI has created new ways to tell stories, with automatically generated graphics and summarizations. The Business Analyst's role is therefore not to merely create such output, but to interpret it in valuable and intuitive ways.

Full-Stack Developers: Enhancing Efficiency Through AI

Full-Stack Developers build products. They work on the back end, where data is collected, stored, and retrieved. They create the front end, often in the form of web pages or mobile apps. A lot of this is coding. Generating starter code through, for example, GitHub Copilot simplifies and speeds up coding. AI will not replace programmers, it will make them faster, more efficient, and overall better.

System Engineers: Leveraging AI for Reliability

AI relies on computer systems that are reliable and scalable. The job of ensuring this is the domain of System Engineers. As this is a broad role, it is usually staffed by experienced technologists. AI can directly support some tasks like fault identification and test case generation. The System Engineer can, in turn, focus on organization-specific aspects of system architecture and program management.

Cybersecurity Experts: An AI-proof Role

Some tech roles are relatively immune to the direct impact of AI. One such role is that of Cybersecurity Experts. Computer security is a never-ending and constantly evolving need. Like technologies before it, AI is adding to the mix and the complexity. Computation is done largely on the cloud and access to AI is often through edge devices. Therefore, cybersecurity experts have more to do and skills to acquire. 

One specific aspect of the question of “Will AI replace a tech professional” lies in what defines an IT professional in the age of Generative AI. Much of routine coding will be automated and the expertise required will be more in algorithm design. Number-crunching will be replaced by information extraction in a broad-sense view of unstructured information. At least in the immediate future, businesses will want efficiency gains from AI, and problem-solving and risk-taking from trained professionals. Tech professionals will not be replaced by AI; they will be upgraded. 

Tata Motors Announces Price Increase Of Its Commercial Vehicles From April 2024

Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, announced that it will increase the price of its commercial vehicles effective 1st April 2024, up to 2%. The price increase is to offset the residual impact of the past input costs. While the price increase will vary as per individual model and variant, it will be applicable across the entire range of commercial vehicles.

About Tata Motors

Part of the USD 128 billion Tata group, Tata Motors Limited (BSE: 500570 and 570001; NSE: TATAMOTORS and TATAMTRDVR), a USD 42 billion organization, is a leading global automobile manufacturer of cars, utility vehicles, pick-ups,  trucks, and buses, offering an extensive range of integrated, smart, and e-mobility solutions. With ‘Connecting Aspirations’ at the core of its brand promise, Tata Motors is India’s market leader in commercial vehicles and ranks among the top three in the passenger vehicles market.

Tata Motors strives to bring new products that captivate the imagination of GenNext customers, fueled by state-of-the-art design and R&D centres located in India, the UK, the US, Italy, and South Korea. By focusing on engineering and tech- enabled automotive solutions catering to the future of mobility, the company’s innovation efforts are focused on developing pioneering technologies that are both sustainable and suited to the evolving market and customer aspirations. The company is pioneering India's Electric Vehicle (EV) transition and driving the shift towards sustainable mobility solutions by developing a tailored product strategy, leveraging the synergy between Group companies and playing an active role in liaising with the Government of India in developing the policy framework.

With operations in India, the UK, South Korea, Thailand, South Africa and Indonesia, Tata Motors markets its vehicles in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the SAARC countries. As of March 31, 2023, Tata Motors’ operations include 88 consolidated subsidiaries, two joint operations, three joint ventures, and numerous equity-accounted associates, including their subsidiaries, over which the company exercises significant influence.

OnMobile Global Announces Change in New Top-End Leadership

OnMobile, a leader in cutting-edge mobile gaming entertainment, has announced a new leadership structure. As a pioneer in the mobile entertainment industry the company further strengthens its focus towards being a gaming first organisation.

Sanjay Baweja, MD & Global CEO has decided to move on due to personal reasons and obligations. In his long & illustrious career, Sanjay has been associated with OnMobile Global Limited for 9 years, starting as an Independent Director on the Board from September’15. He stepped up as Managing Director & Global Chief Executive Officer from October’21 and has been instrumental in growing the mobile gaming business which is now live with 99 operators across the globe. During his tenure OnMobile was also certified as a Great Place to Work.

Commenting on the decision, Sanjay said, “It has been an honour to be associated with OnMobile during this period of transition & help it grow into an ever-evolving mobile gaming organisation. I thank all employees, partners & investors in their continued support in this journey.”

François-Charles Sirois, Executive Chairman will be doubling up as Chief Executive Officer and will be based at the company’s offices in Madrid, Spain, which is the biggest revenue contributing geography. A passionate gamer himself, François-Charles is the President and CEO of Telesystem, a global media and technology holding company. He is also the President and Chief Executive Officer of OnMobile Systems Inc., the largest shareholder of OnMobile and has decades of experience in corporate mergers, acquisitions, and financing. His entrepreneurship expertise and talent for developing successful joint ventures with innovative partners have enabled him to leverage the momentum in building the mobile gaming arm of the company. 

Commenting on the change, François-Charles said, “I sincerely want to thank Sanjay who has been an integral part of OnMobile for close to a decade, I wish him the very best for the future. The progress the company has made in the gaming space is only a start. During the next 18 months our leadership will be on revenue growth and profitability, with the support of key industry partners. OnMobile is a fantastic global platform, we will ensure it is recognized in markets worldwide.”

About OnMobile

OnMobile Global [NSE India: ONMOBILE] [BSE Ltd: 532944], the leader in cutting-edge mobile gaming and entertainment, is headquartered in Bangalore, India, with its presence in over 65 countries across the globe. OnMobile is focused on building customer-first Mobile Gaming products while offering a wide array of digital products such as Videos, Tones, & Contests. Based on current deployments, OnMobile has over 70.5 million monthly users globally. For further information, visit www.onmobile.com.