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Rs.18,000 Crore Investmne Proposals For Digital India Programme

PRESS RELEASE Rs.18,000 Crore Investmne Proposals For Digital India Programme Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, recently said that Rs. 18,000 crore worth investment pro-posals have been received till now for the Digital India Programme, of which Rs. 4000 crore have been approved and more are in the pipeline. Speaking at the session on ‘The role of ICT and ‘Digital India’ initiative in India’s growth’ at the 87th AGM of FICCI, Prasad said while there are issues of spectrum to provide high speed con-nectivity and regulatory control, India will become an exciting place as far as Digital India is concerned. E-commerce, he said, was worth billions of dollars and will help increase India’s GDP in a big way.

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Cairn India Brings The Gift Of Light For Barmer Village

SNIPPETS Cairn India Brings The Gift Of Light For Barmer Village Meghwalon ki Dhani is a village situated at the border of Barmer district in middle of the Thar Desert, Rajasthan. The village with a population of around 600 had no access to electricity. Children used to study in light of lantern and women had to cook food in dark or dim light. Households paid a high price for kerosene. All this changed as the village got an unexpected gift on this New Year – the gift of light- when Cairn India presented the villagers a 27 KW solar mini-grid project. With this, for the first time, the village found itself connected to a solar-powered grid. The villagers are elated,

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Sarthak Educational Trust Celebrates Annual Day

PRESS RELEASE Sarthak Educational Trust  Celebrates Annual Day SARTHAK Educational Trust recently celebrated its Annual Day. The purpose was to bring all the stakeholders like the corporate sector, government sector, NGOs, people with disability, families of people with disabilities, friends, mentors and supporters on the same platform and celebrate the end of the year by thanking the supporters and acknowledging its partners with some cultural performances by people with disability, showcasing their talents. Along with various participants and stakeholders, some of the distinguished personalities at the Annual Day were Prof M.B. Athreya – Management Guru and a guide to SARTHAK, Kiran Mehra-Kerpelman, Director, UNIC, Lt Gen Dr. S.P. Kochhar – CEO, Telecom Skill Sector Council, Avnish Awasthi – Joint Secretary,

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nikesh arora

A Banker with a Soft Corner for India

Nikesh Arora occupied top positions at Google joining SoftBank as President and COO. The frenetic pace of investing has earned Arora and SoftBank a special place in the hearts of Indian entrepreneurs. Arora is considered by his colleagues as a team person. A globetrotter, Arora is, however, an Indian at heart. He has Indian food at home, his family speaks in Hindi. Nikesh Arora has a penchant for making news. When he left Google, one of the fastest growing companies in the world, in mid-2014, to join Japan’s SoftBank Corp as Vice Chairman of the group and CEO of SoftBank Internet and Media Inc, it definitely made news. Arora left Google, resigning from the post of Senior Vice President and

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Reaching for the Star, Always

SUCCESS STORIES Bobby Jindal was appointed Assistant Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services under the George W. Bush administration. He is the first Indian-American to be elected Governor in the United States. “We should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.”— Bobby Jindal Born in 1971, Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal started out in politics while attending Brown University from where he graduated with honours. He then worked as an intern for Congressman Jim McCrery. In 1991, Jindal went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar to study health-care systems. In 1996, he landed his first job in public service, becoming the secretary

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Cricket Taught Him Nuances of Leadership

SUCCESS STORIES Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined the company in 1992 and quickly became known as a leader who could span the breadth of technology and business to transform some of the company’s biggest product offerings. “Nadella is Microsoft’s cloud master and has a firm handle on what it takes to run Bing, Office365, Skype and Xbox Live. He’s liked and respected throughout the industry.” — Ashlee Vance  Indian-American Satya Narayana Nadella, 49, who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft, was born in Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh in 1967. His father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandher, was a senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, and was with the Prime Minister’s Office while P.V. Narasimha Rao was the Prime Minister.Growing up,

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An Iconic Person in Corporate World

SUCCESS STORIES The India-born Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business chain in the world, has consistently figured among the world’s 100 most powerful women. “One of the world’s biggest public health challenges, a challenge fundamentally linked to our industry: obesity.” Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, the India-born American business executive and the current Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business in the world, has consistently figured in the world’s 100 most powerful women. In 2004, she was ranked 13 in the list of Forbes world’s 100 Most Powerful Women. Nooyi was born in Madras in 1955, and was educated in Holy Angels Anglo Indian School. She got her bachelor’s degree from

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norah jones

The Jones Saga — A Near Fantasy

The child of American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, Jones has won nine Grammy Awards and was 60th on Billboard’s Artists of the 2000-09 Decade chart. “People keep asking me, ‘Aren’t you nervous that people are gonna read [her own life] into all your lyrics?’ I’m like, no, because I know what’s real and what’s not. It’s mostly fantasy.” —Norah Jones Norah Jones, the child of American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, who made her illustrious parents proud by striking out on her own, was born Geetali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979, at Brooklyn, New York. Anoushka Shankar is her half-sister. Her parents separated in 1986,

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