Sep 30, 2020 | Entertainment
OTT platform’s created a space and environment where talent from small towns and suburban Indian can showcase their talent and earn the accolades and appreciation they deserves. One such talented creative powerhouse is director Vijay Bute.
Vijay Bute is a very well known name in the digital space. He has crafted his own space and name with sheer dedication towards craft and quality work. When the world was struggling during the lockdown, the filmmaker rose to fame with back to back shooting spree. He is the only filmmaker in Tinsel-town who actually shot for 15 different projects during lockdown.
Vijay Bute hails from small Town of Buldhana, Maharashtra. After his initial struggle, he rose to fame rather quickly, with hit music videos and web-series under his belt. Now he is all geared up with the second instalment of Kamini series.
Talking about the series, Vijay said, “I am excited about the second season, as our first season was incredibly successful. Fans are eagerly waiting for the second season. Kamini Return, will features Gehna Vasisth and comedian actor Rajkumar Kanojia. We are also excited about releasing our series with a new OTT streaming service, Balloons App. The series will release very soon. I cannot wait for fans to enjoy our hard-work”
Further adding Vijay praised the senior comedian star Kanojia. He said, “Working with Rajkumar Kanojia was great. He is also part of Salman Khan Starrer Radhe and Varun Dhawan starrer Coolie No 1. I had fun working with Kanojia”
Director Vijay Bute has created a niche for himself within a short span of time. He is one the most sought-after and noted director in digital world. He is probably the only filmmaker whose most projects are trending currently in OTT world.
Vijay has also lined-up an ensemble cast series, which features some of the biggest names in Bollywood.
Sharing a sneak-peek into the forthcoming mega-series, Bute said, “We’re working on something big. It is a massive undertaking featuring some of the leading names in Bollywood. All the preparations are in order, we will make the official announcement really soon.”
Sep 30, 2020 | Lifestyle
More than 52,000 Students Participated in travelogue, painting and tourism quiz competitions
National, 30th September 2020: Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board on the occasion of Paryatan Parv (27th September to 30th September 2020) organised various competitions and activities in the State to promote State tourism and make people aware of the state’s rich history, traditions, historical heritage, possibilities, tourism importance etc. and to enhance their tourism knowledge.
Travelogue, Painting and Online Quiz competitions in cooperation and coordination with School Education Department and State Education Centre are organized from 27th September 2020 to 30th September 2020 for State’s School Students. These competitions are based on recent World Tourism Day Theme ‘Dekho Apna Desh’. Keeping in mind recent Covid-19 pandemic situation all these Competitions are conducted online in all the 52 Districts of the State.
Over 52,000 Students participated in Online Quiz Competitions, Painting and Travelogue writing competitions, and exhibited their art and knowledge. In the painting competition Garima Rawat stood first, Aryan Rajput second and Nikhil Yadav scored 3rd Position. All the participants are awarded with certificates; Winners are awarded with Medals, Trophies and prizes by Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board.
Shri Sheo Shekhar Shukla, IAS, Principal Secretary, Government of Madhya Pradesh, Department of Tourism and Managing Director, Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board said “Tourism does not just help bring back the happy moments in our lives. It rather plays an important role in the social, cultural, political and economic development of any country. In today’s time, the first need of every country is to strengthen the economy, Madhya Pradesh tourism Board is also making its efforts to make people familiar with the State’s tourism culture and can invite more and more tourists to Madhya Pradesh.”
Additional Managing Director, Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board, Ms. Sonia Meena, IAS said “The main objective of this competition is to make students aware of the Tourism prosperity, culture and history of the state and to develop confidence in the students to participate in different completions as a team”
All the participating candidates will receive the certificate of Participation from Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board; Winners will be awarded with attractive Prizes and Certificates.
Along with this, People will be exposed to the Tourism Culture and possibilities in the State by various Experts every day from 28th to 30th September 2020 on Radio and Television through Storytelling and discussions on State’s Tourism. Also there will be online discussions of Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board official’s with the Stakeholders to Promote tourism in the State.
Sep 30, 2020 | Business, Education, Finance
Policy makers should consider level of shareholding and terms structure and then formulate the regulations. Said Prof. Dr. M. Thenmozi (Professor of Finance, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, while delivering opening Keynote address in a Seventh Technical Session, at IIF International Research Conference and awards summit 2020 on 29th September 2020 in a session on “Concentrated Ownership and Related party Transactions”. According to her, higher the promoter ownership higher are the related party transactions showing a positive significance association between related party transactions and the promoter ownership.
The keynote speech was followed by three research paper presentations by researchers. While making the First presentation titled Predicting the Probability of Failure of Central Public Sector Enterprises : A Statistical Machine Learning Approach, Dr. Bhushan Pardeshi; Dr. Padmalochana Bisoyi and Dr. Pranita Burbure (S B Patil Institute of Management, Maharashtra, INDIA) said that The Statistical method shows 83.9 % accuracy in predicting the financial failures as well as the two machine learning methods were applied by them in the study shows the accuracy of predicting the failure of Central Public Sector Enterprises is 93.5% and 97.3 % respectively. The outcome of study represents that Return on Assets, Retained profit to Total Assets, EBIT, Sales to Total Assets, Net Profit Margin, Sales to Labour cost, Gross Value added to Capital Employed and capital output ratio are the main factors causing the failures of CPSEs.
Research paper titled Impact of Merger on the Financial Position of Banking Sector with reference to State Bank of India (SBI) was presented by Ms. Sreedevi Chunchu (Bhavan’s Vivekananda College of Science, Humanities & Commerce, Telengana, INDIA) and Dr. K.S. Sekhara Rao (Koneru Lakshmaiah Edu Foundation KL University, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA). The paper examines the financial performance of SBI pre and post merger of SBI. The study suggested SBI to reduce the NPAs and focus on Capital Adequacy Ratio. It also suggested the bank to maintain liquidity to fulfil the needs of working capital and long term requirements.
Third research paper titled A Comparative Study of Family and Non-Family Run Business Financial Performance with Reference to Select Indian Companies by Ms. Sreemathi Raghunandan and Dr. K.S. Sekhara Rao (Koneru Lakshmaiah Edu Foundation KL University, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA) examined the relationship of ownership ratio with the financial performance indicators of family run business and suggests that the family run businesses entities should create wealth to the shareholders. The study also suggest to the family run businesses entities to setup clear standards, goals, aspirations and practice transparency in the organisation so Family run business will also compete with the professionally managed non family run businesses.
The Closing Keynote Address on “Liquidity and Market Risk: Proposal for Definition and Quantification Methodology” was delivered by Prof. Dr. María Coronado (Professor of Finance, Universidad Pontificia Comillas-ICADE, Madrid, SPAIN) and Mr. César Yeboles ( Research Fellow, Universidad Pontificia Comillas-ICADE, Madrid, SPAIN).
The Referee Address on the three research papers was given by Dr. Sadar Abdul Rasheed (Head (Risk Management), Al Guhar Group, UAE and IIF MBF 2003-05 Alumni, Indian Institute of Finance, INDIA)
The Conference was chaired and moderated by Prof. Aman Agarwal, Professor of Finance & Dean (IR) Indian Institute of Finance (www.iif.edu) and Executive Editor, Finance India- the quarterly journal of Finance (www.financeindia.org).
The Third day of the conference was attended by over 250 global participants on Zoom, Facebook and Youtube from USA, UK, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Canada, Indonesia, France, Germany, UAE, Singapore, India and others.
The conference hosted over 198 speakers from 41+ countries 78+ Cities, 85+ research Papers, 101+ Universities. The Three day Conference also hosted a Doctoral Colloquium, Book Release Ceremony, Summit Addresses and IIF Research Professor Award 2020.
IIF, research based Non-profit educational institution, is very well known internationally. It is unique, emerging centre of excellence, a base for scholarship and high quality professionally oriented education, research and training. Its Alumni holds senior positions in Banks, Financial Institutions, Corporate, Governments & Academia. IIF has Signed 37+ MOUs with Universities Worldwide.
Sep 30, 2020 | Lifestyle
Bringing to you a range of new sushi options infused with tempting flavours and lot’s of gusto
Sushi and More has always believed in serving the best of the best and improvising their menu with a touch of the most unique and delightful twists to their sushi options. With an assortment of variants to choose from, they definitely know how to satisfy their customers with the right kind of vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian delicacies. A culmination of dishes with palate pleasing ingredients, all the sushi on their menu are significantly healthy and light with extremely delicious immune boosting properties too.
Keeping in mind the current circumstances as well as looking at the bigger picture, their dishes are safely served and delivered in eco-friendly packages, following complete hygiene protocols and maintaining impeccable sanitization habits. A treat for all sushi lovers, some of the newest additions to their menu include everything from a double avocado roll to a teriyaki tofu roll and a double salmon roll to a tuna mayo roll! With paradise in each grain of rice, they are definitely jammin’ with the salmons and dancing to a different tuna with these mouthwatering additions to their menu. As an accessory to these newest rolls, they have also introduced an appetizing range of delish salads and interesting sides on their menu.
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Sep 30, 2020 | Education
Sommet Education appoints high-caliber Digital Board
to stimulate 3.0 hospitality studying experience
September 30, New Delhi – Sommet Education, leading worldwide network of first-class higher education hospitality and culinary art schools Les Roches, Glion Institute of Higher Education and Ecole Ducasse, appoints a Digital Board composed of high-caliber experts in order to speed up and nourish digital hospitality studying experience and generate a direct impact on its curriculum worldwide.
For a sustainable approach of digital learning
Sommet Education has been successfully accelerating its digitalization as a response to the pandemic situation.
The digital transformation of the company has been led by a dedicated taskforce including digital and academic members to ensure solutions developed respond with utmost flexibility and academic rigor to the situation and new student’s needs.
A wide range of solutions has been developed in the past months:
– Broadening the scope of learning with contextual and tailor-made courses: from specific academic series focusing on the crisis management “Leading Hospitality Through Turbulent Times” to the 5 000 on-line Certificates delivered and developed on Future Learn on-line learning platform.
– Offering new learning experiences: first phygital and one of a kind Bachelor semester Glion-Les Roches Connect,
– Flexibility in learning methods: implementing Live broadcasting and replay of courses on on-line learning platform to adapt to each individual situation (transport issue, late arrivals, willingness to review course material…),
– Smart technological and innovation investments with virtual enrolment tours, state-of-the art Innovation hubs dedicated on new technologies development in Les Roches Crans-Montana and Marbella Campuses.
– Academic developments of technology-driven programs: Master’s in hospitality strategy and Digital transformation program at Les Roches.
Sommet Education wishes to accelerate this movement and further take the lead on the Future of Hospitality Education and the sustainable integration of Digital learning solutions and new technologies in the curriculums.
The Digital Board
The aim of the Digital Board is to support Sommet Education with digital expertise and propose fresh ideas, services, products and solutions leveraging on digitalization to be implemented in campuses and courses and further integrate digitalization in the learning experiences of the students.
The board is based on the member expertise and worldwide recognition in their field. The first members joining are Roberto Eggs, Chief Marketing and Operating Officer, Executive Board Member at Moncler, Mathieu Lhomme, Strategic Transformation Officer at Danone, Rajay Naik, CEO of Skilled Education, as well as Olivier Younès, PhD, Founding CEO of EXPEN (www.expen.com) & Professor at HEC Paris. The board aims at integrating new members and expertise throughout the development of its reflections.
The Digital Board members will share their expertise and experience in the business applications of new technologies and bring a disruptive and unconventional approach to the education sector supporting its development and talents growth. Their observations, opinions, proposals or recommendations will transform concretely into digital services and products to be experimented and implemented in the group institutions’ campuses and curriculums.
On the appointment of the Digital Board, Benoît-Etienne Domenget, the CEO of Sommet Education said“Over the past months, Sommet Education has proven its ability to adjust to the needs of its students and accelerate its digital transformation. I am very proud and excited to welcome such highly recognized experts to further provide additional stimulus and bring fresh ideas to the existing curriculum thus taking the hospitality studying experience to the third-generation level.”
About Sommet Education
Sommet Education is a unique education group specialized in hospitality management and the culinary arts, committed to delivering an exceptional student experience and developing future talent for the experience industry.
Its hospitality management institutions Glion and Les Roches, with campuses in Switzerland, Spain, China and the UK, provide undergraduate and graduate students from more than 100 countries with an education built on the Swiss model of academic rigor, skills-based learning and dynamic multicultural exposure. The culinary and pastry schools of École Ducasse offer bachelor’s degrees, courses for career changers and continuous professional training, as well as private courses for food enthusiasts, across three campuses in France and through partnerships with overseas universities.
Sommet Education is the only education network with two hospitality institutions ranked among the world’s top three for hospitality education and among the world’s top three for employer reputation (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020).
For more information, visit http://www.sommet-education.com
