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Fashinza, the AI-driven B2B marketplace and real-time global supply chain for fashion brands and retailers, today announced the appointment of Sumit Saxena as President – Revenue and Strategy . At Fashinza, Sumit’s role will be on scaling-up business in the Europe and UK markets, which are among the biggest markets for Fashinza . Sumit would also focus on predictable revenue functions with world-class processes and standards to scale up globally. Sumit will contribute towards helping Fashinza build the future of the fashion manufacturing industry in a sustainable, ethical, inclusive, fast, and efficient and through the use of technology, data, the cloud and more. Sumit is a seasoned business leader with extensive exposure and experience in building and scaling startups. An entrepreneur at heart, in the past Sumit worked with companies whom he could scale to successful business ventures. Commenting on Sumit Saxena’s appointm...

Wearable healthcare devices, used to improve care, and the lives of old people, could be risking their basic human rights, according to new research report – ‘A Digital Cage is still a Cage’ – by UK-based University of Essex   Many wearable healthcare technologies pose acute risks to the right to privacy, which is particularly serious given that these technologies are used in people’s homes, including in bedrooms and bathrooms   Human Rights and privacy risks may increase as technologies become more sophisticated Researchers at UK-based University of Essex have warned that Digital technology used to improve care, and the lives, of old people could be risking their basic human rights. According to new research, although digital technologies can be used to improve social care, it can also adversely impact human rights and contribute to the segregation and isolation of old people. The report, ‘A Digital Cage is Still a Cage’, argues that emerging technologies us...

Credgenics ranked #1 Market Leader in India Retail Lending and #2 Regional Leader in APAC with a stellar record of new order wins Credgenics ranked #1 Star Performer SLT New Entrant in APAC in its first ever participation with inclusion in Industry Leader Special listing Credgenics , the leading provider of loan collections and debt resolution SaaS-based technology solutions to banks, non-banking finance companies and FinTech lenders worldwide, today announced that the platform is ranked #1 leader in India in Retail Lending Systems category by the UK-based research and advisory analyst firm, IBS Intelligence, in their Annual Sales League Table 2022. Credgenics bagged the top spot as the Best Selling Retail Loan Collections Platform in Retail Lending category in India Sales League Table 2022, a reflection of its rapidly increasing market share. Credgenics is also the #2 Regional Leader in APAC based on its large number of new sales orders and the #1 Star Performer SLT New Entr...

Naradha Gana Saba witnessed a magical evening on Sunday "Celebrating SPB" a program sponsored by Apollo Hospitals. World's renowned Veena Maestro Rajhesh Vaidhya brought back the famous tracks sung by the legend Dr.S.P.Balasubrahmanyam through his mesmerising veena notes. Music lovers rejoiced, remembered and honoured the legend. Ms. Suganthy.S, PRO, Apollo Hospitals Chennai felicitated Mastro Rajhesh Vaidhya and renowned playback singer Mr.SPB. Charan during the event. Mr. Parthiban and Mr. K.S. Ravikumar were present on the occasion. The swarm of audience who attended the evening music concert and expressed their love for Dr. SP. Balasubramanyam.

 • Consilio expands its India footprint with new, expanded facilities in Bangalore, Hyderabad & Gurgaon as a key component of its global legal services delivery platform Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announced the launch of new facilities in Gurgaon, Bangalore, and Hyderabad, expanding its global footprint to meet client demand for its legal technologies and services and firmly establishing India as a key talent hub for its growing eDiscovery, risk management, and legal consulting business lines. Consilio builds on an established history of operating global teams with select IT and engineering functions established in India 15 years ago with the more recent expansion supporting all company functions, including service delivery. To accommodate the next stage of expected growth, the company re-envisioned the newly expanded facilities to safely enhance the employee experience and increase opportunities f...

Velammal Main School, Mogappair Campus observed the International Yoga Day on 21st  June, 2022 at the school premises on the theme 'Yoga for Humanity'. The programme commenced seeking the divine grace through the Lord's prayer and  was presided in the auspice presence of our honourable Chief Guest Ms. Yoga Vaishnavi, International Gold Medallist and a Multiple Guinness World Record Holder in Yoga. The unique day featured innumerable benefits of yoga and the significance of celebrating International Yoga Day, 2022 , with the theme being briefed. Several hundreds of students geared up to perform various Yoga asanas with great enthusiasm depicting Yoga as an important tool for promotion of good health and wellbeing. Finally, the Chief Guest addressed the students and  emphasized to enhance the soundness of the mind and the body through yoga. The day concluded on a healthy note. An initiative by Velammal setting a reminder to all to incorporate yoga in every day routine to en...

A staggering nine of 10 consumers in India (91%) would select an offer that includes a metal payment card if all rewards and benefits were equal, which is up 6% from a prior Edgar, Dunn survey done for Composecure in 2019. This was the highest percentage of all regions surveyed and much higher than the global average of 70%. Other Asia Pacific regions also showed a strong preference for metal cards: 82% of Indonesia, 82% of China, 76% of Hong Kong and 71% of Singapore. The Asia Pacific region consistently ranked highest among the countries for awareness, interest and importance of metal cards. The survey identified India and Indonesia as two of the top nations with awareness and affinity toward metal payment cards. Both countries had the highest percentage of customers who would feel positive about their banks because they offered metal cards, significantly higher than the average survey respondent (89% vs. 58%). Metal payment cards offer financial institutions and other card issuers...

The Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram, which is part of the Apollo Hospitals group, recently held a citizens' cycling rally to raise awareness about vertigo and balance issues. Balance disorders (including vertigo) affect around 35% of people over the age of 40 and 85% of people over the age of 80 for a variety of reasons. The Vertigo and Balance Clinic at Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram collaborated with Annanagar Cycles to organise a cycle rally from the Lighthouse at Marina Beach to the Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram, in order to raise much-needed awareness about this issue. Flag off was done by Mr. Velu, MLA, Mylapore constituency, Mr. Shivakumar, CEO Apollo Hospitals, and Dr. Rahul Raghavan  Menon, COO, Apollo Hospitals Cluster 2, Mr.Vkumara manikandan, TN marketing manager from ACT Fibernet, G. Shankaranarayanan, Business Development Head, TN, Nippon Paints India, Mr. Velu Balasubramaniam, Founder and CEO, Maiyam55. The rally attracted around 250 riders, i...

TANKER (Tamilnad Kidney Research) Foundation is a registered non-profit charitable organization started in June 1993 with the aim of helping under-privileged patients with kidney disease by giving free and subsidized dialysis and one-time financial help for medication, investigation and transplantation and also spread awareness about kidney disease. Dr. K. Jayanth Murali IPS, Director General of Police, graciously consented to the request of the TANKER Foundation to run a full Marathon held on Sunday, 12th June 2022 at IIT Madras to enable the Foundation to raise funds for BP Machines for all Tamilnadu Police Stations so that Police Personnel can check their BP regularly and take corrective action to avoid kidney disease. DGP Dr.Jayanth Murali ran 50 kms and said that when he was approached by TANKER Foundation, he felt the need to do this for his fellow Police personnel as they were under a lot of stress and prone to high BP. He appreciated TANKER for doing this project and said that ...

 • Indian organizations seem to have a better clarity on various supply chain security gaps compared to other responding nations • 55% expressed highest concern in ransomware threats among all potential supply chain risks • 83% identified he need for better governance in the organization’s supply chain ISACA® has just launched new global research results, Supply Chain Security Gaps: A 2022 Global Research Report that has divulged interesting threats and security gaps in the supply chain ecosystem globally. In India, just like many other developing economies, supply chain challenges have rocked both enterprises and consumers alike, making it harder to access certain goods and maintain business continuity. Increasing security threats have only heightened these concerns, and this ISACA survey report illuminates IT professionals’ key concerns around security challenges and how their organizations are responding to them.  It received responses from more than 1,300 IT professi...