Kolkata Startup is All Set to Change the Meat Buying Experience

Kolkata’s Diverse Non-Veg Menu Makes it a Meat Lovers Food City. However, Meat procured from butcher shops, local vendors & supermarkets is often from animals raised under the unhygienic and inhumane condition of common feedlots, and grossly overburdened slaughterhouses.

Finding fresh and chemical free meat has now become a challenging task. Those who don’t have secret local butchers or nearby delis who sell cold cuts and special cuts of meat, have to make do with frozen packaged goods. However, there’s a new service in town called Kolkata Meat, which can deliver the 100% fresh meat right to your doorstep.

With a mission and aim to change the meat buying experience for the meat lovers, Kolkata Meat has come up with a technology integrated platform to solve all the issues of finding safe and 100% halal meat. The startup aims at delivering the best quality of meat through an E-commerce based platform, making it convenient for the customers to get quality meat in any place.

From the past 2 years, the team of Kolkata Meat was indulged in their research and analysis on how to deliver the best quality meat to their customers. Therefore, they are confident that their products will be fresh and preservative free and also free from all kinds of antibiotics and hormones, which are sourced from the farms daily.

Kolkata Meat’s products include fresh chicken in a variety of forms, mutton chops and cuts, kebabs, seafood, sausages and cold cuts.

How the service is Impeccable?

Kolkata Meat partners with high quality farms to bring the freshest meat from only the best breeds, bypassing local mandis, wholesalers and butcher shops. Meats are delivered hygienically through a unique end-to-end cold chain supply that ensures consistent freshness from farm to table without freezing or exposing meats to any preservatives or water. Kolkata meat guarantees same day stock delivery within 2 hours or on prescribed schedule.

“With the strong ties to a network of expertise, we are able to distribute the higher level of value and freshness. Therefore, our products that arrive at your doorstep are the best quality and most delicious obtainable, where every product of ours are being examined, tasted, and then screened by our teams having a couple of years of experiences. So when it comes to your dining plate you enjoy each bite of it with great satisfaction.” says Sharik Alam, Founder of Kolkata Meat.

The distinguishing factor about Kolkata Meat is, it will deliver the meat in a vacuum pack where the meat will remain fresh and in a hygienic form. Kolkata Meat is the first exclusive online meat delivery company in Kolkata which is having an android and iOS for the convenient consumers, who can order meat on their fingertip.

Startup founders Alam Brothers built their business using hard-won survival skills not only in Indian railway water projects but is all set for the Kolkata meat with their different strategy and business tactics. As an entrepreneur you have to stay focused no matter who so ever comes on your way as it says success comes to those who get too busy on making it into reality says, Alam Brothers.

Canon India Adds to the Festivities in the Country with Customer-Centric Initiatives and Offers

With the entire nation reveling in the festivities, one of the leaders in the imaging space, Canon IndiaaAnnounces multiple offers and initiatives across the country, to add fervor to the celebrations

Canon India continues to delight its customers with its comprehensive ‘Input to Output’ approach, offering an entire gamut of imaging solutions. Canon’s camera technology is designed to click and capture true-to-life emotions and experiences and likewise, its print technology converts and preserves those memories into beautiful, frame-worthy pictures. This festive season, the organisation has announced a ‘Print & Play’ offer, through which customers will get a Bluetooth Speaker free on purchase of its PIXMA G 2010 & PIXMA G 3010, two of its highest selling models in the inkjet category. The printers are aimed at making printing hassle free with features like wireless connectivity and integrated ink tank. This offer will be valid till the December 31, 2018.

Along with the festive offer, the organization has also announced dedicated nationwide initiatives and activities to engage with customers during this season.

Sharing his thoughts, Kazutada Kobayashi, President and CEO, Canon India said, “Festivals are occasions which create life time memories and we at Canon are proud to have played an instrumental role over the last two decades in helping our customers capture and preserve these memories. With customer delight as a pivotal element to everything we do at Canon, we are glad to enable our customers with more reasons to rejoice. Through pan-India initiatives and customized offers, users can avail festive benefits on their favorite Canon products and participate in initiatives specially curated for them.”

“At Canon, we believe that joy is doubled when shared. Like every initiative, we would also like to extend the festivities to our communities. Our CSR activities will ensure that our adopted villages also enjoy the festivities in full spirit,” added Kobayashi.

On its social media channels, the organization is running a campaign called #SpreadTheFestivity, encouraging users to multiply their celebrations, by spreading the joy of festivity and giving back to the community. Through an influencer engagement on its social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, users are being encouraged to share their moments of spreading happiness to their near ones and the community at large, be it gifting your parents or donating food to the needy. The winners will be gratified in the second week of November. This activity is being organized as part of the organizations community driven initiative on digital media, called #ShiftYourFocus, wherein the social media users are encouraged to participate in issues that require their attention.

In Northern part of the country, Canon has lined up photography workshops across select schools and colleges in cities like New Delhi, Dehradun, Haridwar and Jaipur, with an objective to reach out to maximum photography enthusiasts and further strengthen the photography culture in the country. The company would also be participating in the famous Rajasthan Photo Fair to be held in Jaipur to contribute towards encouraging aspiring photographers with the marvels of imaging. Alongside, roadshows have also been lined up in New Delhi, Jaipur and Noida, to exhibit Canon products to customers and enhance their understanding about imaging solutions.

In Southern region of the country, Canon would be organizing dedicated EOS R workshops across Tier-II and III cities, encouraging participants to relive the joy of special moments by capturing them on Canon’s latest full frame mirror less innovation. A series of demonstrations on wheels activity is also planned in Tier-III and IV cities to showcase the entire consumer printer portfolio to remote cities. In Mysore, where Dussehra has an added significance as a festival, citizens witnessed exclusive Dussehra branding by Canon, further raising the spirit of festivities.

In the Eastern end of the nation, with Durga Puja festivities being one of the main reasons for celebrations, Canon initiated a huge drive to increase brand visibility with an outdoor media campaign, targeting one of the biggest transit media in Kolkata. The company also participated in photo and video expos such as Phototech and Imagecraft to showcase the marvels of photography through the lens of Canon.

In the Western region of the country, the imaging player will be organizing exclusive advanced and wedding photography workshops for photographers, along with organizing live demonstration sessions of full frame DSLR cameras for users at key Multi brand outlets in the region.

In addition to the offers and workshops, to further spread the ambience and joy of festivity, gate Arches will be deployed and decorated at select Canon Imaging Stores and Canon Authorized Reseller outlets across the country. They will be lit up with the festive mood, displaying creative and eccentric festive greetings by the organisation.

Hitachi Vantara Completes REAN Cloud Global Acquisition

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. has announced the completion of its acquisition of REAN Cloud LLC, a global cloud systems integrator, managed services provider and solutions developer of cloud-native applications across big data, machine learning and emerging internet of things (IoT) spaces. Through this acquisition, Hitachi Vantara gains critical capabilities and industry-leading expertise in cloud migration and modernization, instantly elevating its cloud offering portfolio and managed services capabilities.

Directly complementing the strength of its Hitachi Enterprise Cloud (HEC) and on-premises deployments, Hitachi Vantara’s solutions offer unified cloud management for workloads across public, private and hybrid cloud environments. By combining REAN Cloud’s expertise in public cloud and intelligent data governance with its robust global delivery ecosystem, Hitachi Vantara will now be better positioned to meet the growing infrastructure and analytics-based needs of its customers.

According to Gartner Inc.: “Most Gartner clients are facing the challenge of adopting public cloud services while maintaining existing IT responsibilities for on-premises infrastructure and private clouds. To meet this challenge, the IT department must evolve into a broker of IT-based services by blending traditional services with both public and private cloud services. Gartner calls this evolution ‘hybrid IT.’” 

Hitachi Vantara aims to address this gap with its new offerings, providing cloud migration and managed services that enable customers to operate across hybrid and multicloud infrastructure. Additionally, 47Lining, acquired by REAN Cloud last year, provides deep capabilities in cloud-based analytics and machine learning that powerfully expand Hitachi Vantara’s ability to maximize data-driven value for its customers focused on vertical IoT solutions.

“In the last year, we have expanded our investment in agile and flexible infrastructure as an engine for driving our customers’ digital transformations,” said Brian Householder, chief executive officer of Hitachi Vantara. “This acquisition underscores our commitment to meeting the ever-changing needs of the digital enterprise, as well as pioneering offerings that set the standard for excellence within intelligent analytics.”

“We are thrilled to welcome REAN Cloud into our Global Services organization,” said Bobby Soni, chief solutions and services officer at Hitachi Vantara. “Adding REAN Cloud to our portfolio strengthens the value we bring to transformation projects through advanced multicloud and analytics capabilities, and also extends our fully managed offerings targeting deep domain use cases.”

OPPO Unveils the First Ever PUBG Themed Store in Bangalore

OPPO, The Selfie Expert, recently partnered with Tencent Games, the world’s largest gaming company for India’s biggest eSports Championship, ‘Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds MOBILE Campus Championship 2018’ in India. After receiving multiple entries and a total of 10,000 teams from over 2000 colleges, a month-long action-packed tournament finally culminated on October 21st at the first ever PUBG themed OPPO store in Bangalore. Today, the winners were commemorated with a prize money of INR 50 Lakhs.

Keeping in mind the growing trend of PUBG, the OPPO brand showroom has been designed like the real battleground. Along with the combat feel, consumers can now move away from the virtual world and step into the real word of PUBG by experiencing the adrenaline of the game in the store with the new OPPO F9 Pro.

Speaking on the announcement, Mr. Will Yang, Brand Director, OPPO India, said, “With PUBG’s massive success amongst the youngster, we are delighted to announce the revamp of our brand showroom based on PUBG. Our unique showroom has been designed to cater to the youth of India who are continuously following new and interesting trends in the market. By leveraging this partnership with Tencent Games, OPPO wants to strengthen its relationship with the youngsters as the F9 Pro is the perfect combination for unified and unique experience.”

Packed with extraordinary features, OPPO F9 Pro acted like the perfect gear for all the gamers in this championship. The 6.3-inch bezel-less, 1080*2340 resolution and a super-high screen-to-body ratio of 90.8% ‘’waterdrop screen’’ helped participants achieve maximum kills to get to the finale. After intense rounds and some amazing performances leading to ‘’winner winner chicken dinner’’, a total of 20 teams competed at the grand finale and the ultimate winner was awarded a prize money of INR 50 lakhs.

Along with the mega prize pool, participants were commemorated with the following awards at the revamped PUBG themed store.

MVP - Overall Best Player with maximum number of MVP awards
The Executioner - Awarded for maximum kills overall
The Medic – Awarded for highest number of revives
The Redeemer – Awarded to the player with highest amount of health restored
The Rampage Freak - Awarded for maximum kills in one lobby
The Lone ranger - Awarded for Maximum Time Survived in game

Syska Group Partners with Tuya Smart to Bring Smart Home Capabilities in India

Syska Group, a leading FMEG brand in India today announced its partnership with Tuya Smart, a leading global AI IoT platform. Syska has introduced a bouquet of smart home products that will be enabled on Tuya’s IoT platform. With this partnership with Syska, Tuya Smart marks its entry in the Indian market to offer IoT based solutions.

Syska Group for the first time has partnered with a global IoT company to bring smart home products in the Indian market. The smart home market in India is on a booming stage and Statista report predicts Indian smart home market to hit 7.2% by 2022. To transform every Indian household into a smart home, Syska has introduced wide range of smart home products that include ‘Smart Door Bells, Smart Switches, Smart IR, Smart Down Light/ Ceiling Light, Smart IP Camera, Smart Wall-Light, Smart Door Sensors, Smart Plug, Smart Spike Buster, Smart Weighing Scale and Bluetooth Bulb Array’. All the products will be launched in December 2018.

As an endeavor towards providing the best customer experience through innovative product solutions, SYSKA has proactively introduced WiFi enabled home appliances which will be voice controlled. Syska aims to enter two million homes in the next 1 year and plans to grow steadily year on year. The company is targeting revenue of 200 crores in next financial year. Syska Group will be investing 25 crores in Marketing and R&D in the upcoming year to build the smart home category in India.

Commenting on the partnership with Tuya Smart, Rajesh Uttamchandani, Director, Syska Group said, “Upgrading of wireless Internet, emergence of cloud based services and convergence based technologies including Internet of Things (IoT), has brought about a new era in smart home automation. As the demand for smart home automation is increasing, we believe that this is the right time for Syska to introduce innovative smart home solutions for its Indian consumers. Through this partnership with Tuya who is a leading global IoT player, Syska aims to be the leader in developing next-generation smart home products backed by superior technology and at competitive pricing.”

Talking about the partnership, Mengda Zhao, Chief Strategic Investment Officer of Tuya Smart said “It’s a stride forward for both Tuya and Syska by partnering with each other in IoT, and it’s a big moment for us to seize the booming trend of IoT development. To have everything connected and intelligent inside is the future, and Tuya is very delighted to witness this with our partner Syska, who is one of the leading and reputable player in India markets. By leveraging the strengths from each party, we are excited to announce our partnership with Syska.”

Dilip R.S., Country Manager for Alexa Skills, Amazon India, added “Voice-first experiences are driving growth in the smart home category in India. With the option of hands-free voice-control of Syska and Tuya’s smart home devices with Amazon Echo and Alexa, customers can now experience that setting up a smart home isn’t as complicated as many people once thought.”

“India’s deep desire to establish a global and robust electronics industry will necessarily stand on building strong champion companies from India. Syska is emerging as one of the potential champion companies. The expansion into these important smart home products vertical is timely. With Syska’s stellar record of excellent trade and consumer relationship we are confident that this will emerge as a very strong vertical for Syska and will deliver great customer satisfaction” say Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman, India Cellular and Electronics Association.

Syska Group is rapidly expanding and diversifying into various categories. Last month, Syska made an announcement about its partnership with Suyin Optronics and Biometronics to set up a first of its kind camera modules factory in India. In the month of July, Syska entered in the wires and cables business and roped in Amitabh Bachchan as the brand ambassador.  SYSKA is in line with government’s mission of Make in India and has made a total investment of over 350 crores to set up manufacturing units in various parts of the country.

Bentley Systems Announces Winners of Year in Infrastructure 2018 Awards Globally

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, has announced the winners of the Year in Infrastructure 2018 Awards. The annual awards program honors the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing design, construction, and operations of infrastructure throughout the world.

Twelve independent jury panels of distinguished industry experts selected the 57 finalists from 420 nominations submitted by more than 340 user organizations around the world.

At a ceremony and gala at the conclusion of Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference, Bentley acknowledged 19 Year in Infrastructure Awards winners and nine Special Recognition Awards winners.

Year in Infrastructure 2018 Special Recognition Awards winners:

Advancing Collaborative Digital Workflows in Rail and Transit

China Railway Engineering Consulting Group Co., Ltd. – BIM Project for the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway – Beijing, China

Advancing Digital Twins for Airports

Infraero Empresa Brasileira de Infraestrutura Aeroportuária – Digital Airport-Londrina – Paraná, Brazil

Advancing Digital Twins for Bridges

Composite Structures Lab, Chung-Ang University – Innovative Bridge Maintenance System Using Digital Twin Model – Seoul, South Korea

Advancing Digital Twins for Roads and Highways

Guangxi Communications Design Group Co., Ltd. – BIM-based Collaborative Design and Construction Management of All Elements and Objects in the Lipu-Yulin Expressway Project – Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

Advancing Digital Twins for Tunnels

AECOM – Tideway Tunnels C410 Central Contract – London, United Kingdom

Advancing Digital Twins for Utilities Transmission and Distribution

POWERCHINA Hubei Electric Engineering Corporation Limited – Cha’anling-Xiaojiazhou 
220-kV Electric Transmission Line Project – Xianning City, Hubei, China

Advancing Industrialization through Digital Components for Urban Infrastructure

CCCC Water Transportation Consultants Co., Ltd. – BIM Technology Application in the Municipal Infrastructure Phase 1 Project of Zhong-Guan-Cun Science and Technology Town – Baodi District, Tianjin City, China

Advancing Digital Workflows for Asset Performance Modeling of Transit Systems

Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. – Nagpur Metro Asset Information Management System – Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Continuous Surveying in Constructioneering

Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC and Eye-bot Aerial Solutions – Pennsylvania Chemicals Project – Monaca, Pennsylvania, United States

The winners of Year in Infrastructure 2018 Awards for going digital advancements in infrastructure are:

Bridges

PT. WIJAYA KARYA (Persero) Tbk – Design and Build of Road Bridge at Teluk Lamong Port Project – Gresik-Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia

Buildings and Campuses

Shalom Baranes Associates – Cannon House Office Building Renewal – Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Communications Networks

iForte Solusi Infotek – iForte Fiber Management System – Jakarta, Indonesia

Construction

AAEngineering Group, LLP – Phase II of Pustynnoe Gold Plant: Modernization and Capacity Increase – Balkhash, Karaganda region, Kazakhstan

Digital Cities

Yunnan Yunling Engineering Cost Consultation Co., Ltd. – New Municipal Road Construction PPP Project of the Municipal Public Facility Construction Project of Guandu Culture New City – Kunming, Yunnan, China

Environmental Engineering

PT. WIJAYA KARYA (Persero) Tbk – Landslide Disaster Protection Project on the National Road Network – Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia

Manufacturing

Digital Engineering (BIM) Center of Shenyang Aluminum & Magnesium Engineering & Research Institute Co., Ltd. – Alumina Refinery Project Cooperated between CHALCO and Indonesia – Bukit Batu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
            
Mining and Offshore Engineering

Northern Engineering & Technology Corporation, MCC – SINO Iron Ore Mine – Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Power Generation

Sacyr Somague – Hydroelectric Use of the Foz Tua Dam – Foz Tua, Alijó- Vila Real, Portugal

Project Delivery

AECOM – Gaining New Perspective through ProjectWise Project Insights – United Kingdom

Rail and Transit

Skanska Costain STRABAG Joint Venture (SCS) – HS2 Main Works Lots S1 and S2 – London, United Kingdom

Reality Modeling

Skand Pty Ltd – Building Envelope Inspection Powered by Machine Learning and Reality Modeling for RMIT University Brunswick Campus – Victoria, Australia

Road and Rail Asset Performance

CSX Transportation – Annual Patch Rail Capital Planning – Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Roads and Highways

Lebuhraya Borneo Utara – Pan Borneo Highway Sarawak – Sarawak, Malaysia

Structural Engineering

Shilp Consulting Engineers – Alambagh Bus Terminal – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Utilities and Industrial Asset Performance

Oman Gas Company S.A.O.C. – Asset Performance Solution for Reliability Management – Al-Khuwair, Muscat, Oman

Utilities Transmission and Distribution

Pestech International Berhad – Substation Design & Automation for Olak Lempit Substation Project – Banting, Selangor, Malaysia

Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants

MCC Capital Engineering & Research Incorporation Limited – 400,000 ton/day Water Supply Project of Wenjiang District, Chengdu City – Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Networks

DTK Hydronet Solutions – Conceptioneering and Master Planning of Bankura Multi Village Bulk Water Supply Scheme – Bankura, West Bengal, India

Bentley Systems has posted highlights of this year’s winning projects on its website. Detailed descriptions of all nominated projects are in the print and digital versions of its 2018 Infrastructure Yearbook, which will be published in early 2019. To review the past editions of this publication, which together feature more than 3,500 world-class projects recognized in the Year in Infrastructure Awards program since 2004, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks.

BHEL Deploys Trend Micro’s Endpoint Security Solutions to Protect Nearly 23,000 Endpoints

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, provides endpoint security solutions to state-run BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited), securing nearly 23,000 endpoints of theirs’ across 35 locations. Partnering with CMS IT Services, BHEL implemented the Trend Micro Endpoint Security solution in phases, helping protect them against advanced threats and attacks. With Trend Micro’s state-of-the-art anti-malware techniques, BHEL further gained multiple layers of threat protection and data security for their endpoints and servers.

BHEL, having multiple units across several geographical locations in India and worldwide required a unified security posture for its endpoints and management servers—because each business unit managed its own IT procurement for endpoints. This distributed architecture made BHEL vulnerable to security threats. After exploring the offerings from several major security providers, BHEL chose Trend Micro to address their complex requirements. The consolidation across 35 locations also resulted in reducing the number of management servers to six.

Speaking on the deployment, Nilesh Jain, Vice President – Southeast Asia and India, Trend Micro, said “BHEL wanted to work with single security provider to consolidate their security posture with a centralized architecture to bring all endpoints and servers under a single umbrella with a unified cybersecurity operations center (SOC) assurance level.”

“BHEL gained a strengthened security environment with Trend Micro’s OfficeScan, which enabled anti-malware and advanced threat protection. They also integrated Trend Micro’s Control Manager into their cyber-SOC which resulted in greater visibility of the endpoints and servers located across all locations,” he further added.

Sridhar Namachivayan, Enterprise Business Head, Trend Micro said, “The business benefits for BHEL were manifold. The centralized, user-based security management dashboard of Trend Micro, enabled BHEL to ensure their multiple endpoints are protected with a cost-effective solution, while securing them from the next generation of advanced attacks.”

“Trend Micro’s Endpoint Security solution provides complete visibility at a centralized level, giving a unified level of cybersecurity awareness across BHEL,” said Sandeep Kumar, Dy. General Manager, BHEL.

Trend Micro has been identified as an endpoint protection leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms since 2002, is a leader in the IDC MarketScape, and was recognized for the “most effective recommended breach detection system” for two years running by NSS Labs.