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Empowering women with birth choices and ensuring they have a positive birthing experience, in my opinion, should be our main priority. Pregnancy and birthing are natural but significant life-changing events in a woman’s life and should not be treated as medical events. C-sections are increasingly becoming the norm, even in the case of healthy pregnant women with no medical complications. The current healthcare system needs to change its perspective and childbirth practices radically. The question is, what do women want? … Continue reading “Women’s Day quote from Dr Evita Fernandez, FRCOG, Chairperson, Fernandez Foundation”

Simpl, the market leader in 1-tap checkout, announced its hiring plans for the financial year 2022. The fintech start-up expects to hire over 250 employees this year across different verticals. The leading BNPL platform plans to expand its engineering team heavily and is looking to hire from top-tier colleges across the country. As a part of its commitment to gender- diversity, Simpl is also proactively putting efforts to bridge the male to female ratio in its engineering department. With women … Continue reading “Simpl to recruit over 250 employees in 2022”

Loungewear for both Genders, focused on softness, quality & comfort 1st ever Modal fabric Loungewear range in India  Aims to disrupt market with colourful patterns and designs   Bummer, the new-age essential wear company, today announced that it has launched it’s loungewear range. Targeted at both genders, the loungewear range is the 1st in India to be made with Modal fabric. The company is a new-age, essential wear firm focussed on providing the softest innerwear solutions & loungewear designed to make India’s 40 … Continue reading “BUMMER LAUNCHES LOUNGEWEAR RANGE FOR MILLENIALS”

The experience design and engineering team of Concentrix, a global leader in CX solutions and technology, expands tech talent in India to drive continued growth and innovation Concentrix, a leading global solutions company that reimagines everything customer experience (CX) through strategy, talent and technology, today announced its intent to double its Catalyst team in India, leveraging the area’s high tech and engineering talent pool. Concentrix Catalyst is the newly created experience design and engineering team of Concentrix that combines human-centered design, powerful … Continue reading “CONCENTRIX CATALYST DOUBLES TECH TALENT IN INDIA”

An exciting journey of discovery and collaboration has just begun for the brightest startups in India – the third largest startup ecosystem in the world. AkzoNobel’s Paint the Future India startup challenge officially opens today for submission of solutions!  In partnership with NASSCOM Industry Partnership Program (NIPP), the India startup challenge will explore solutions on ‘Digital Consumer Experience’. Startups in India can sign-up and submit their solutions until May 31, 2022.    “The Indian paint industry estimated at over INR 55,000 crores … Continue reading “AkzoNobel’s India challenge opens for solutions on Digital Consumer Experience”

Launches its top-selling portfolio in the Nepalese Market Imagine Marketing Limited, India’s #1 ranking wireless hearables brands (in terms of volume over multiple quarters from 2019 to the second quarter of the financial year 2022 under its flagship brand “boAt”) announced a partnership with TeleTalk Pvt. Ltd., a part of Ramesh Corp (a company based out of Nepal), as the national distributor of Imagine’s  products in Nepal. The association will enable the companies to meet the evolving needs of customers … Continue reading “BoAt sets sail for Nepal”

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world’s largest express transportation company, launches the fifth edition of ‘SME Connect’, as a part of its ongoing commitment to support the growth of small and medium enterprises (SME) in India. The virtual ‘SME Connect’ series is a thought leadership and knowledge sharing platform for SMEs to interact with industry and subject matter experts for solution-oriented discussions that benefit their business. According to a Morgan Stanley report, the Indian … Continue reading “FedEx ‘SME Connect’ Empowers Small Businesses to Leverage Global E-commerce Opportunities”

ACC Limited, a member company of Holcim India, announced successful commissioning of 1.6 MTPA Grinding Unit (GU) at Tikaria in the State of Uttar Pradesh. The additional capacity will add 1.6 MTPA of cement to the existing capacity of 2.31 MTPA, taking the total capacity at Tikaria GU at 3.91 MTPA. The foundation stone of Tikaria GU was laid in January 2021 with an aim to contribute significantly in servicing the growing market, strengthening ACC’s presence in the center region … Continue reading “ACC expands capacity by 1.6 MTPA at Tikaria grinding unit in the state of Uttar Pradesh”

~70% of all eligible former and current employees liquidated their ESOPs~ ~The soonicorn offered employees ESOP at different stages of their tenure with the company~ B2B e-commerce and supply chain enablement platform Bizongo has announced the completion of its first Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) monetization program worth $3.7 million. While 102 of Bizongo’s former and current employees were eligible for the buyback, only 70% of employees opted to liquidate ESOPs from the pool worth $4.8 million. Through this move, … Continue reading “Bizongo concludes maiden buyback, liquidates ESOP worth $3.7 million”

The options trading protocol inches one step closer to a multi-chain future with the launch on the Avalanche mainnet network Oddz Finance, a crypto derivatives trading platform today announced its mainnet launch on Avalanche, an open, programmable smart contracts platform for decentralized applications. This significant milestone and collaboration for both companies will aim to increase the adoption of derivatives trading on the network, massively aiding the users of the Avalanche network. The Oddz Mainnet launch on Avalanche will see the … Continue reading “Oddz Finance live on the Avalanche Mainnet”